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S&P closes at record high

Late day momentum driving stocks on Friday. The Dow closing above 18,000, the S&P 500 hit an all-time high, and the Nasdaq another at a 15-year high, an all around good week for the equity markets. Feb 14, 2015
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Can art keep drawing in investors?

Visitors to a Swiss art gallery say their fond farewells. To a long-time resident - now global star. Gauguin's masterpiece When Will You Marry is moving on to shows in Madrid and Washington. Then Feb 11, 2015

Textile industry expects tax cuts in upcoming budget

Surat, Feb 11 (ANI): Manufacturers in textile industry in Gujarat expect tax cuts from the Central government in upcoming budget to help the industry come out of crisis. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will on February 28 present his first full-year budget, seeking to put Asia's third-largest economy on a path of 7-8 percent growth over the next two years. In Surat, industrialists said they were facing crisis due to rise in prices of raw materials like yarn and colour chemicals. A favourable budget will being relief for one-and-a-half million people associated with the industry, he added. Vakharia also hoped for relaxation in prices of acquiring land. Investors and manufacturers have long advocated the GST as a way to simplify taxes while broadening the tax base, adding as much as 2 percentage points to economic growth in India. Feb 11, 2015
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UBS pain after Swiss franc warning

Shares tumbled three percent despite a promise of the biggest payout to shareholders since the financial crisis. What's rattling UBS investors is a warning from the bank over the surging Swiss franc Feb 10, 2015
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Stocks start week in a slump

U.S. investors looked overseas Monday and got worried as China's imports tumbled, signaling economic weakness, and about heightened tensions between Greece and the European Union over Athens' debt Feb 10, 2015