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Dow inches to record as earnings reports wind down 05/10/2014 09:38pm • BERNARD CONDON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- The Dow Jones industrial average hit a record on Friday, but without much conviction after a choppy day of trading during which investors couldn't make up their minds whether to buy or sell.The blue-chip index flitted between small gains and losses Republicans highlight jobs bills in weekly address 05/10/2014 06:14am • WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans say President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats should match their focus on bills designed to promote jobs.In the weekly Republican radio and Internet address, House Republicans list more than a dozen bills that have passed the GOP-controlled House with the goal At least 7 dead in southeastern Ukraine port city 05/10/2014 03:02am • PETER LEONARD Associated Press MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) -- Fierce fighting between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russia protesters Friday in Mariupol killed seven people, turned police headquarters into a smoldering ruin and left the city center blocked off after residents built barricades of ti First lady to deliver president's weekly address 05/09/2014 05:30pm • DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michelle Obama is delivering the president's weekly address this week.The White House says she will focus the radio and Internet address on Mother's Day and the nearly 300 girls who remain missing after being kidnapped more than three weeks ago Omnicom, Publicis merger fell over 'equal' terms 05/09/2014 12:16pm • LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) -- A day after Publicis and Omnicom called off their $35 billion combination, the two CEOs said it came down to a question of balance.The deal to combine France's Publicis Groupe and Omnicom Group on the United States collapsed due to clashes over how to impl Stocks little changed...Wholesale stockpiles, sales increase...Postal service loses $1.9 billion 05/09/2014 11:38am • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks aren't moving much in early trading on Wall Street, with corporate earnings winding down. Ralph Lauren sank 5 percent after its revenue forecast disappointed investors. CBS fell 3 percent after its first-quarter revenue fell short of analysts' projections. Advertising sales a Duncan Does First TV Ad In Front Of Silver Spring Transit Center 05/09/2014 11:25am • Doug Duncan came out with the first television ad of the Montgomery County executive race on Friday. He’s standing in a familiar place, in front of the stalled Silver Spring Transit Center. The over-budget and still unopened facility has been a constant topic for Duncan, who has pointed to th As Alibaba prepares for IPO, tech stocks retreat 05/09/2014 10:36am • KEN SWEET AP Markets Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- It's a tough time for a tech debut.As e-commerce giant Alibaba gets ready for a blockbuster stock sale in the next few months, technology shares are retreating. For two years, investors bid up biotechnology and internet companies, enticed by their strong Windfall means 'moment of reckoning' for Yahoo CEO 05/09/2014 08:36am • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer faces a $10 billion decision in a few months.The pivotal moment will come when the Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba Group completes its initial public offering of stock -- an enormous deal that triggers a provision r Alibaba expands beyond e-commerce 05/09/2014 06:00am • KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) -- China's Alibaba Group, which is readying for a big U.S. initial public offering, is known as an e-commerce titan but it's been busily expanding into other rising industries. Here's a closer look at those businesses, which include cloud computing, mobi Obama popular in tech world, policies less so 05/09/2014 05:54am • JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Silicon Valley recoils at the government's cyber data-gathering done in the name of national security. It bristles at new potential Internet rules. Its fast-paced ethos doesn't understand Washington's gridlock.Yet, President Barack Obama remains a po Behind Alibaba IPO is unlikely China success story 05/09/2014 04:10am • KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) -- The mammoth IPO planned by e-commerce giant Alibaba Group highlights founder Jack Ma's improbable rise to China's entrepreneur-in-chief.Ma, a former English teacher who flunked his college entrance exam twice, founded Alibaba in his apartment in 1999 CBS 1Q earnings rise despite lower ad sales 05/09/2014 03:52am • NEW YORK (AP) -- CBS's first-quarter earnings rose 6 percent as higher licensing fees from the company's Showtime network helped overcome an advertising downturn caused by less sports programming.The owner of television's top-rated network has been reducing its reliance on the volatile advertising m Vermont law requires labeling of GMO foods 05/09/2014 03:10am • DAVE GRAM Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- As hundreds cheered, Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a law Thursday that puts Vermont on the path to be the first state to require labeling of genetically modified foods and promptly announced an online fundraiser to battle expected legal challenges from Stocks end mostly lower; Energy, utilities fade 05/08/2014 09:54pm • STEVE ROTHWELL AP Markets Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market finished mostly lower on Thursday as investors assessed the latest batch of company earnings and sold utility and energy stocks.Tesla, a maker of electric cars, fell after reporting a first-quarter loss and saying it would need to in