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By Helaine Olen John Halko was halfway through renovating an expanded space for Comfort, his mostly organic eatery in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., when the credit crisis

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By Mark Morford So far ahead in weapons sales to the world are we, it’s not even a contest. We own the game. According to

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By Cameron French Barrick Gold (ABX.TO) will issue $3 billion in stock to eliminate all of its fixed-price gold hedges and a portion of its

By Robert Cookson in Hong Kong China will issue sovereign bonds denominated in its own currency to offshore investors for the first time this month

By Sven Egenter Switzerland knocked the United States off the position as the world’s most competitive economy as the crash of the U.S. banking system