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Ready, Set, Retire!

Retirement requires investors to ask a whole new set of questions. We have the answers. TWO WEEKS INTO retirement, Steve Furste of Zionsville, Ind., started looking for work. Like many recent retirees, the 59-year-old former manager of community affairs and charitable contributions for Dow AgroSciences, who retired in July 2004, …

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'Prison Break' Kicks Off Fall TV Season

There’s nothing confining about “Prison Break.” (search) Michael Scofield’s brother Lincoln Burrows is on death row and scheduled to die for a murder he did not commit — or so Michael believes when he holds up a bank to get himself jailed alongside Lincoln and plot their breakout. And that’s …

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Morgan Stanley Earnings Beat Expectations

NEW YORK – Morgan Stanley on Tuesday said its fourth-quarter earnings rose 49 percent, exceeding expectations, as rising investment banking and trading income and a one-time tax benefit outpaced higher credit card losses and expenses related to management turmoil earlier this year. New York-based Morgan Stanley said net income rose …

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