World - Monday      (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has canceled Africa entirely from an overseas trip this week to focus on Iraq and Middle East peace efforts, the State Dept. said. Rice will travel only to Portugal, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, for a meeting of the international diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East.
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Investor's Business Daily - 1 Big M&amp;A deals kicked off the shortened week as a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland launched a $96 bil bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro  , and Archstone-Smith  , a REIT, agreed to a $22.2 bil buyout by 2 equity groups. RBS&#39; offer for ABN topped Barclays  &#39; earlier $86.6 bil bid, but analysts said ABN&#39;s previous decision to sell LaSalle to Bank of America   clouded the deal.
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Plus: AT&#38;T posts $7.1 billion loss...Lucent sees first profitable year since 2000...EMC issues sunny report...IBM net income inches higher, despite legal bill.
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Investor's Business Daily - Fund managers have to pick stocks, but fund firms have to pick the stock pickers.
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Investor's Business Daily - Amid a shaky market, investors put just &#36;1.09 billion into stock funds in August. The total reflects &#36;1.21 billion that shareholders pulled from stock funds investing in just the U.S.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Internet's 800-pound gorilla, Google, slipped on economic and social-networking banana peels, reporting fourth-quarter results that missed analyst views.
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Investor's Business Daily - Iran: Sanctions alone will not stop Tehran's Islamofascist regime from building a nuclear weapon -- so warns a new European Union report. Why in the world did it take them so long to face up to the obvious?
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Investor's Business Daily - These are good times for owners of mutual funds that go short.
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Investor's Business Daily - If you're looking for a hot sector, you can't get much hotter than the sun.
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Plus: Amazon margins a concern...AT&T profit rises...Samsung SDI swings to loss...Outstanding earnings for Apple.
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Plus: Alcatel outlook weak...Cisco profit climbs...Time Warner lowers earnings target...Electronic Arts lowers outlook, shares fall.
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Investor's Business Daily - Market News' retail trade index bounced 3.7 points to a still-weak 41.5 in the Oct. 27 week. Readings below 50 signal more chains are reporting slowing conditions. Same-store year-on-year sales growth is very weak at 0.7%, with total sales growth at 4.1%. Income is also weak, with 43% of the sample reporting declines vs. 40% reporting gains. Retailers blamed housing woes.
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Investor's Business Daily - All those long lines of first-day Apple iPhone buyers didn&#39;t immediately pay off as expected for the device&#39;s service provider, AT&amp;T, but the company on Tuesday still reported better-than-expected earnings, aided by strong wireless growth.
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Investor's Business Daily - While rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM struggle with change, computer giant Dell showed its consistency Thursday.
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Investor's Business Daily - John Chambers may lead one of the largest tech firms in the world -- networking gear maker Cisco Systems -- but the West Virginia native couldn&#39;t even keep up with classmates as an elementary student.
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Investor's Business Daily - German blue chip stocks have outperformed the global stock market and major U.S. indexes since the market's bottom in February 2003. Going into Monday, the Frankfurt Dax index had sprung 150% since then vs. 103% for the FTSE World index and 71% for the S&amp;P 500.
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Investor's Business Daily - For the week ended Aug. 31, the Economic Cycle Research Institute&#39;s Weekly Leading Index rose to 140.4 from 139.2 the prior week after declining for 6 straight weeks. Higher stocks, better housing activity and jobless claims helped weekly numbers. But the index&#39;s annualized growth rate fell to 0.6% from 1.3% the prior week. That&#39;s a 43-week low, but not yet a signal that recession is on the way, the ECRI said.