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Midlands area gas prices, May 23
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Fired for refusing flu shot, SC hospital employee eligible for unemployment
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Bernanke: Stimulus still needed
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Midlands People & Achievements: Lorie Gardner
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SC business notebook, May 23
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VIDEO: Microsoft announces 'Halo' TV series
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Say on pay: Shareholders rarely reject CEO pay
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Low gas prices fueling Memorial Day travel along SC coast
Prepare for busy roads and beaches this weekend along the Grand Strand as bikers, those celebrating Memorial Day and others just looking to get away...
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Grant program offers low-income Columbia residents $3,000 for job training
The city’s Work It Up job training program is making the money available to city residents who meet certain criteria. See if you qualify inside.
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NATIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
CEO raises, pay cuts; What a change 1 year makes
Here's a look at the CEOs that received the biggest raises and the biggest pay cuts in 2012 compared with 2011, as calculated by the executive pay research firm Equilar and The Associated Press.
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NATIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
CEO Pay: It's good to be in health care
Here's a look at median CEO pay by industry last year, as calculated by executive pay research firm Equilar. For the fourth time in five years, health care CEOs got the most pay and utilities CEOs got the least.
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NATIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
With great power comes great perks
Here's a look at what companies spent in 2012 on CEOs' country club and business club memberships, private jet travel and home security.
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NATIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
Top 50 highest-paid CEOs
A look at the 50 highest-paid CEOs of 2012, as calculated by executive pay research firm Equilar.
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NATIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
Rue21 agrees to go private in nearly $1B deal
Clothing and accessories company Rue21 has agreed to be taken private in nearly $1 billion deal with private equity firm Apax Partners.
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NATIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
Sales gains lift Dollar Tree's 1Q profit 15 pct
Discount retailer Dollar Tree Inc. said Thursday that its net income increased 15 percent in the first quarter as consumers spent more at its stores, which sell goods for $1 or less.
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NATIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
ECB official: New bank authority 'indispensable'
A top European Central Bank official is calling for quick creation of an agency with powers to restructure and wind down busted banks, in an apparent pushback against Germany's insistence that such fundamental changes should take time.
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NATIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
Marathon Oil says talks end on possible stake sale
Marathon Oil said Thursday that talks on a potential sale of part of its stake in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project in Canada have ended.
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NATIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
US rate on 30-year mortgages rises to 3.59 pct.
Average rates on fixed mortgage rose for the third straight week, hitting their highest levels since mid-March. Still, mortgage rates remained close to historic lows, a trend that should help sustain the housing recovery.
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NATIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
Stocks fall on Fed, weak Chinese manufacturing
Stocks fell in early trading, extending a sell-off that began Wednesday afternoon, after Chinese manufacturing unexpectedly contracted and on concern that the Federal Reserve may ease back on its stimulus program.








