[at MarketWatch] – The U.S. financial sector climbs Wednesday after a key manufacturing index unexpectedly rises for the first time in four months.

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Financial Stocks: Financial sector jumps nearly 4% in rally

[at MarketWatch] – The U.S. financial sector builds on early gains after a key manufacturing index rose for the first time in four months, defying expectations and sparking a rally of more than 200 points in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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Financial Stocks: Financial sector jumps 3% in rally

[at MarketWatch] – Federal regulators won’t sue Moody’s Investors Service for alleged securities violations, letting the credit-rating agency off with a stern warning.

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SEC won’t sue Moody’s over credit-rating snafu

[AP] – The economy is weakening, home sales are plunging and stocks are on a long slide. Now comes something even scarier for investors — the beginning of what is traditionally the worst month in the market.

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Stock investors brace for another ugly September

Treasury prices soared and yields tumbled as institutional investors plowed into the market to get their portfolios squared away before the month comes to a close.

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Demand for Treasurys surges at month end

Credit card interest rates soared in the second quarter to a nine-year spike, according to the market research company Synovate.

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Credit card interest rates are through the roof

The X Prize Foundation is like the X Games of prizes. It’s all about paying big bucks to entrepreneurs who develop flashy, disruptive products that push the market, such as commercial spacecrafts and hydrogen cars.

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X Prize goes corporate

After investigating allegations that Intel used its dominant position to illegally squeeze chipmaking rivals out of the market, European regulators slapped the company with a record fine of more than $1 billion. U.S. regulators are concluding their own Intel probe with a slap on the wrist

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Intel settles antitrust suit with wrist slap

Q: I’m 37, married, and have four kids ages 2 to 13. I’m in the market for term life insurance

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How much life insurance do I need?

HAMILTON, Bermuda—-Primus Guaranty, Ltd.

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Primus Guaranty, Ltd. Announces Second Quarter 2010 Earnings Release Date (Business Wire)