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  • WHAT A MONTH: The Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's had their best month since July 2009 and their first winning month since this past April. Strong earnings were behind the big gains.... Stocks are mixed but had best month since July '09
  • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks had a fitting end to a choppy July as prices seesawed their way to a narrowly mixed finish. The market still had its best month in a year.... Stocks end July with big gain; Dow gains 7.1 pct
  • Stocks had a fitting end to a choppy July as prices seesawed their way to a narrowly mixed finish. Dspite the turbulence, it was the market's best month in a year. Investors had an ambivalent response to the government's gross domestic product report, which showed that economic growth slowed in the April-June quarter. The Dow Jones industrial average fell almost 120 points in early trading, then ratcheted up and down until the close. The Dow ended down just a point, and the other big indexe... How the major stock indexes fared on Friday

Industry News

  • DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors said Friday that it is boosting production capacity for its new Chevrolet Volt due to strong public interest in the electric car that goes on sale this year.... GM hikes production capacity for Volt by 50 pct
  • DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors Co. will file paperwork in mid-August to start the process of selling stock to the public, the head of the United Auto Workers union said Thursday.... UAW head: GM to file paperwork in August for IPO
  • KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) -- A company spokesman says General Motors Co. is reassessing operations at a plant in Kokomo.... Kokomo GM plant reassessing business operations
  • WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) -- Workers at General Motors Canada in Windsor, Ontario, rolled their final transmission off the line Wednesday as the automaker's last plant in the former capital of Canada's automotive industry prepared to shut down operations.... GM Canada transmission plant to close
  • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- MGM Resorts International has sold its land under Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa to Vornado Realty Trust and Geyser Holdings for $73 million.... MGM Resorts sells land under AC's Borgata

Investigative Reports

  • KENNER, La. (AP) -- An alarm system was partially shut down the day the ill-fated oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and setting off the massive spill, an electronics technician who was aboard told an investigative panel on Friday.... Rig alarm system partly disabled at time of blast
  • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Several environmental groups are crying foul over the recent hire of a former Bureau of Land Management official as the president of New Mexico's leading oil and natural gas industry group.... Groups seek investigation over oil industry hire

News about the Economy

  • WHAT A MONTH: The Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's had their best month since July 2009 and their first winning month since this past April. Strong earnings were behind the big gains.... Stocks are mixed but had best month since July '09
  • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks had a fitting end to a choppy July as prices seesawed their way to a narrowly mixed finish. The market still had its best month in a year.... Stocks end July with big gain; Dow gains 7.1 pct
  • Stocks had a fitting end to a choppy July as prices seesawed their way to a narrowly mixed finish. Dspite the turbulence, it was the market's best month in a year. Investors had an ambivalent response to the government's gross domestic product report, which showed that economic growth slowed in the April-June quarter. The Dow Jones industrial average fell almost 120 points in early trading, then ratcheted up and down until the close. The Dow ended down just a point, and the other big indexe... How the major stock indexes fared on Friday
  • WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy is still growing, just not by much. And until that changes, don't look for the jobs to come back.... Bleak outlook for economy as growth slows
  • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:... Alcatel-Lucent, Arch Coal among big movers
  • RECOVERY LOSES SPEED: The economy grew at a 2.4 percent pace this spring, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year. Growth is probably even slower now, economists said.... Summary Box: Recovery loses traction in the spring
  • TOKYO (AP) -- Japan received a sobering reminder Friday of its fragile recovery: The jobless rate rose, deflation deepened, and factories made fewer cars and mobile phones.... More Japan workers lose jobs, factory output falls
  • WHAT TO DO? Debate is intensifying at the Federal Reserve over how best to cope with a weakening recovery.... Summary Box: Fed mulls ways to rev up growth
  • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Debate is intensifying at the Federal Reserve over how best to cope with a weakening recovery, with momentum growing for a concrete plan to prevent a backslide into recession.... Debate intensifies in Fed over economy
  • A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Thursday:... A look at global economic developments