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Reuters Business Week
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June 1 - Stocks closed out the holiday-shortened week with overall gains.
*The S&P 500 breaks a seven-year record.
*GDP weakest in four years.
*Jobs market surprisingly strong.
*Wal-Mart eases up on expansion plans.
*Dow Jones & Co. owners to talk to News Corp.
*Tech firms launch new products.
Jeanne Yurman reports from New York.

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Bush unveils billion dollar resuce plan
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Jan. 18 - President Bush unveiled a $140 billion stimulus package of tax cuts and other measures to shore up the fragile U.S. economy. While there is a political consensus that the economy needs help, there are still questions whether consensus will translate into policy. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

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Dow surges to new record high
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May 9 - Wall Street rallies after Federal Reserve policymakers keep interest rates unchanged.The Dow Industrials gained 54 points to 13362.The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also gained ground. Oil prices fell, boosting shares in manufacturing companies.Walt Disney reported weaker revenues than Wall Street had expected. And Cisco disappointed with its profit forecast.Sasha Salama reports.

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Countrywide talk lifts Wall Street
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Jan. 10 - U.S. stocks enjoyed their strongest two-day rally of 2008 after reports Bank of America is in serious talks to buy Countrywide Financial. The Dow jumped 117 points to 12,853. The S&P 500 rose 11 points to 1,420. The Nasdaq gained 13 points to 2,488.
Conway Gittens reports from New York.

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Virgin Galactic unveils spaceship
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Jan 23 - Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic showed off models of a spaceship it hopes will take spacetravel mainstream. Trips will initially cost about $200,000 and will eventually go down in price. That's far less than the $20 million reported cost of businessman Dennis Tito's trip on a Russian spacecraft in 2001, considered the first space tourist. Bobbi Rebell reports.

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Timeline: Subprime crisis
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Jan 23 - What began as a US housing problem mushroomed into a crisis that shook stock markets around the world.The global nature of this week's stock market plunge debunks the theory that foreign investors are immune because the U.S. economy is "decoupled" from Europe and Asia. Quite the contrary, says Goldman Sachs International vice chairman Robert Hormats: "It's a recoupling of sorts."

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Microsoft's surface computer
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May 30 - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates unveils the Microsoft Surface, a tabletop computer that reacts to touch.The 30-inch display screen is mounted under a plastic tabletop and will initially cost $5,000 to $10,000. It will, at first, only be available in select hotels, casinos, and T-Mobile stores in November.

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Alleged Spitzer call girl revealed
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Mar. 13 - The woman who reportedly forced the resignation of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer now has a face. The New York Times story about the woman who reportedly forced the resignation of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was the among the most popular articles on the newspaper's website Thursday reflecting the public's interest in the woman's identity. Jon Decker reports.

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$World\$	World's largest swimming pool Posted by: ReutersVideo Video duration: 60 seconds Jan. 28 - The world's largest swimming pool has been built in Chile.The pool is a kilometer long and is as deep as 35 meters. Related: chile, largest, pool, swimming, worlds

	Phelps versus Spitz Posted by: ReutersVideo Video duration: 117 seconds US Swimmer Michael Phelps has shot at breaking Mark Spitz's record for most gold medals won by an American in a single Olympics. Mark Spitz who won seven gold medals at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972. Michael Phelps has won six Olympic gold medals. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. Related: olympics, reuters, swimming

	A furry bundle of awww! Posted by: ReutersVideo Video duration: 133 seconds Jan 9 - Nuremberg zoo's last surviving polar bear cub is spending some time away from its mother Vera, after one of the zoo's female polar bears ate her own cub.The German zoo bowed to media and public pressure and decided to hand rear the polar bear cub. Related: animals, bear, cub, cute, nuremberg, polar, video, zoo

$Devil\$	Devil's Advocate View of iPhone Posted by: ReutersVideo Video duration: 207 seconds Jun. 27 - Early reviews reveal that the iPhone has more features than many popular U.S. handsets, and reveal some of its weaknesses.iPhone testers complain about the relatively slow AT&T Edge network. But the list of issues didn't stop there.Laura Wells reports. Related: iphone, reviews

	Flocke on the prowl Posted by: ReutersVideo Video duration: 114 seconds Feb. 22 - At ten weeks of age, little polar bear "Flocke" (Snowflake) is starting to grow into the the predator she was born to be. Zoo keepers looking after her stated the 16-pound bear was trying to shred everything in reach, using her teeth and claws. Related: bear, flocke, germany, polar, reuters, snowflake, zoo

	Marketing Michael Phelps Posted by: ReutersVideo Video duration: 150 seconds Aug 15 - Thanks to his record-setting winning ways in the Beijing Olympics, American swimmer Michael Phelps has become a marketer's dream Related: michael, phelps, reuters

Financial meltdown timeline
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Sep 30 - What began as a housing problem has mushroomed into what may be the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression.In September, the titans topple like dominos, then the Federal Reserve and the Treasury respond with a $700 billion bailout plan. Fred Katayama reports from New York.

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