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They know where you live
NEW YORK -- Type ''dentist'' into Google from New York, and you'll get ads for dentists in the city. Try watching a Cubs baseball game from a computer in Chicago, and you'll be stymied. Pre-existing local TV rights block the Webcast.

Study shows again that higher fund fees hardly ensure better returns
NEW YORK -- In a review of fees charged by stock mutual funds, Standard & Poor's found that those with lower-than-average expense ratios consistently outperformed their more expensive peers over time.

Workers told: Longer week or your job goes abroad
BOCHOLT, Germany -- The decision the workers had to make was elementary: extend your workweek from 35 to 40 hours for no extra pay or your job goes to Hungary.

Internet opens new avenue for penny stock fraud
NEW YORK-- Most investors take e-mails advertising a 300 percent return on penny stocks and relegate them to the trash bin. But those Internet promotions are still irresistible for some beginners lured by the promise of making a killing.

Branson fears nearby casino would hurt wholesome image
ROCKAWAY BEACH, Mo. -- Branson's main industry is wholesome, family entertainment. Think Andy Williams and the Osmonds.

Some jobseekers go where the openings are
On a recent afternoon, Chris Marquis finished work early to get home for his daughter's graduation party-- so he checked out of the Cincinnati hotel he's lived in since January, and set off on what has become an all-too-familiar six-hour commute.