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Wall Street's New Year's resolution...
4:19PM ET
Stocks rallied Friday afternoon, at the end of a stellar first week of 2006 for the markets, as a mild December jobs report seemed to suggest the hot, but not too hot economic middle ground that investors like.
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 Meet the new bond king
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Think Legg Mason and the first name that pops to mind is Bill Miller, the ace equity-fund manager whose Value Trust fund just beat the S&P 500 for the 15th consecutive year. Or maybe Bruce Sherman, the Legg money manager who recently forced Knight Ridder to put itself up for sale. But Legg Mason has another star in its ranks, only this one doesn't like seeing his name in the paper.
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Professor Paychecks: Latest in teacher pay
4:39PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - A study released by the U.S. Department of Education this week found that full professors at four-year public colleges and universities earned an average of $89,001 in the academic year 2004-05.
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Job growth sagged in December
10:34AM ET
Hiring slumped in December though the economy created 2 million jobs for the second straight year, the government said Friday, in a reading that was mostly weaker than Wall Street had expected.
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Martha Stewart's conviction upheld
4:20PM ET
A federal appeals court Friday upheld the conviction of celebrity style setter Martha Stewart for lying about a stock sale.
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Risky home loan standards tightening
2:52PM ET
Attention homebuyers: getting approved for those popular non-traditional mortgages may be a lot more difficult in the near future.
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Media's musical chairs
12:41PM ET
Viacom has done it. Carl Icahn wants Time Warner to do it. And some think it could make sense for Disney, Sony and General Electric to do it too.
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