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Friday, August 19, 2005 5:16 PM PDT | Fuel Wars CBS News Fri, 19 Aug 2005 4:40 PM PDT Discount gas sometimes costs up to 20 cents a gallon less than name-brand gas, and these days that's a plus. But is there a big difference in quality? Sandra Hughes has the story. | Discounters barred from buying stores Guardian Unlimited Fri, 19 Aug 2005 4:16 PM PDT The competition regulator is restricting discount supermarkets such as Netto and Aldi from buying stores from the big five supermarkets, which critics say is helping to keep the large supermarket chains in their powerful, dominant positions. | Rate Your Need For Flood Insurance Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News Fri, 19 Aug 2005 4:00 PM PDT Batten down the hatches. Parts of the country are in for another wild and wet year. | It's Music To Retailers' Ears Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News Fri, 19 Aug 2005 4:00 PM PDT Average American consumers can usually hum an advertising jingle or two. Now they can pick up a whole soundtrack carefully crafted to remind them of a specific brand. | TSX jumps more than 100 points as oil price, energy stocks revive Canadian Press via Yahoo! News Fri, 19 Aug 2005 3:37 PM PDT TORONTO (CP) - The Toronto stock market moved sharply higher at the end of a volatile week that featured two triple-digit drops after a slide in oil prices spurred profit taking on concerns the energy sector was overbought. | Ray Flowers: Fantasy Mailbag Sports Illustrated Fri, 19 Aug 2005 2:13 PM PDT I was offered Mark Teixeira, Aubrey Huff, Andy Pettitte, and Braden Looper for Carlos Zambrano, A.J. Burnett, Travis Hafner, and B.J. Ryan. Is this a good trade for me? I have Jon Garland, Matt Clement, Chris Reitsma, Tyler Walker, Barry Zito, and Carlos Silva on my pitching staff already. -- Ryan, Tallahassee, Fla. | Latin American Stock Roundup AP via Yahoo! Finance Fri, 19 Aug 2005 3:06 PM PDT Mexican stocks edged higher Friday, led by gains in blue-chip telecoms and a handful of second-tier shares. The market's key IPC index closed up 58.18 points, or 0.4 percent, to 14,678.16. | Treasury Bonds End Nearly Unchanged AP via Yahoo! Finance Fri, 19 Aug 2005 2:38 PM PDT Prices for U.S. Treasury bonds moved through a very tight range Friday in quiet trading. The tepid action came in a market where there were virtually no factors to catalyze traders into action. | | |
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