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  • Job seekers meet with prospective employers at a job fair in Sunrise, Fla., on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)

    Survey: Americans felt more secure in jobs in 2012

    Confidence in the U.S. job market has rebounded to roughly a normal level from its record low after the Great Recession, a trend that could help boost the economy.

  • Thomas Minder, the initiator of the "Rip-off Initiative," which is designed to prevent bosses from receiving huge bonuses even when their companies do badly, reacts at a hotel in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, on Sunday, March 3, 2013, as he follows the exit poll results of a vote on a measure to boost shareholders' say about executive pay. (AP Photo/Keystone, Walter Bieri)

    Swiss vote to impose world's strictest rules on executive pay

    Swiss vote to impose world's strictest rules on executive pay Inbox

  • **FILE** A sign marks Wall Street in New York. (Associated Press)

    Stocks edge lower; Apple sinks 4 percent

    Apple, the most valuable company in the U.S., slumped Friday, helping to drag down the stock market. A lack of progress in federal budget talks also discouraged investors.

  • Swiss banks have come under pressure from governments around the world for their reputation for banking secrecy. Swiss banking giant UBS AG announced massive layoffs last week, along with huge losses in its third-quarter results, saying it aims to trim as many as 10,000 employees, or some 15 percent of its staff. (Associated Press)

    Global crisis squeezes Swiss banks

    One of Switzerland's signature industries, Swiss banking no longer has the same allure it once did and could be in for tough times in the years ahead, analysts say, as it struggles to cope with a changing regulatory environment in the wake of the global financial crisis.

  • Bond movies have beat do-or-die odds for 50 years

    Over the last 50 years, the owners of the James Bond movie franchise have had heart-stopping crises as thrilling as the ones that face their fictional secret agent.

  • AT&T to goes on spectrum shopping binge

    AT&T Inc. has gone on a shopping spree for wireless spectrum, striking three separate deals that should let it increase its capacity for wireless broadband.

  • RadioShack reports 2Q loss

    Shares of RadioShack Corp. slumped to an all-time low on Wednesday after the struggling electronics retailer reported an unexpected $21 million loss for its second quarter. Its shift toward selling smartphones and their accessories was not enough to offset a decline in demand in other consumer electronics.

  • RadioShack posts loss, suspends dividend

    Shares of RadioShack Corp. slumped to an all-time low on Wednesday after the struggling electronics retailer reported an unexpected $21 million loss for its second quarter. Its shift toward selling smartphones and their accessories was not enough to offset a decline in demand in other consumer electronics.

  • Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and others went on offense on Sunday news shows against the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. (Associated Press)

    Democrats sync attacks on Romney's tax returns, bank accounts

    Prominent Democrats on Sunday, including the governor of Maryland, a former White House press secretary and the head of the Democratic National Committee, launched a coordinated attack on Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's finances.

  • Economy Briefs: Big banks submit "living wills" to regulators

    Nine of the largest U.S. banks have submitted plans to the federal regulators that show how they would break up and sell off their assets if they are in danger of failing.

  • **FILE** Bank of America's corporate headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. (Associated Press)

    Big U.S. banks submit 'living wills' to regulators

    Nine of the largest U.S. banks have submitted plans to the federal regulators that show how they would break up and sell off their assets if they are in danger of failing.

  • A sign advertises a Bank of America branch in Charlotte, N.C. (Associated Press)

    Moody's may cut ratings on some of biggest banks

    Moody's Investors Service may lower the ratings of some of the world's largest banks, as well as those of some securities firms, because their long-term prospects for profitability and growth are shrinking.

  • Humbled Netflix CEO still thinking, talking big

    To hear Netflix CEO Reed Hastings tell it, the bone-headed decisions that have dragged down the Internet's leading video subscription service during the past five months eventually will be forgotten like a bad movie made by a great film director.

  • SANDERS: China may soon become the problem

    Creeping in at the outer edges of the soothsayers' economic crystal balls on Wall Street and London's City, until now dominated by American and European crises, is growing concern about China.

  • Goldman Sachs reports quarterly loss

    Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reported a third-quarter loss of $428 million Tuesday as revenue from underwriting stocks and bonds plunged. It was only the second quarterly loss for the investment bank since it went public in 1999.

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