World - Thursday      (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Austria's chancellor and Slovakia's prime minister sawed through a red and white border barrier in a symbolic extension of the EU's passport-free zone to former Eastern Bloc nations: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Support for the move is mixed, with the head of the EU's border watchdog agency warning that it will fuel illegal immigration.
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Investor's Business Daily - Europe might be a good place to focus if you want to go global with exchange traded funds.
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Investor's Business Daily - Nymex near-month oil rose 41 cents to $71.09 a barrel amid a Kansas refinery shutdown and tensions over Iran&#39;s alleged meddling in Lebanon and Iraq. In London, Brent crude rose $1.22 to $72.63. U.S. gasoline futures rose 0.59 cent to $2.2487 a gallon. But retail prices fell 2.3 cents last week to $2.959, the Energy Dept. said. The Int&#39;l Energy Agency urged OPEC to lift output.
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Investor's Business Daily - At first, nothing seemed amiss at last month's LinuxWorld trade show in San Francisco.
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Investor's Business Daily - The president said he was disappointed that this week&#39;s economic talks failed to reopen the Chinese market to U.S. beef. China &quot;attaches importance&quot; to the resumption of U.S. beef imports, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said. But the World Organization for Animal Health classifies the U.S. as a &quot;controlled risk&quot; country for mad cow disease.
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Investor's Business Daily - Could Russia's hypergrowth in cellular subscribers start slowing?
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Investor's Business Daily - If you have doubts about how mutual fund managers reacted to news that insurance broker Marsh &amp; McLennan was the target of a lawsuit by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, you need look only at the share price.
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Investor's Business Daily - 1 China&#39;s leading stock index tumbled 6.5% after Beijing tripled a tax on stock trading to cool its booming market. Investors have been skittish on China since ex-Fed chief Alan Greenspan warned that its bubble could bust. But unlike in Feb., when a Shanghai swoon sparked a worldwide selloff, U.S. stocks rallied.
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Investor's Business Daily - The ABC News/Washington Post Consumer Comfort Index shot up 5 points over the last week to -7, the best in several weeks. Some 39% of respondents said now&#39;s a good time to buy, a big rise from 33% last week. Americans also were more upbeat about the economy and their own finances. Gasoline prices, which have fallen back below $3 a gallon, likely are a big factor.
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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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Investor's Business Daily - Domestic stock funds had a rough June, but managed to hold on to solid performance for the second quarter and year to date. Growth beat value for the month, quarter and year to date.
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Shares for Google slip for the first time since its public offering.  Also: FDA under fire for its slow Vioxx reaction & hellip;. Yahoo and SBC stay friends through new deal & hellip;. and more.
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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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Investor's Business Daily - These are good times for owners of mutual funds that go short.
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roundup Plus: WebSideStory cuts IPO to 4.4 million shares...BMC looks to simplify network operations...Data center firms settle cookie suit.
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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 - Foreign Threats: While we fret over our 401(k)s and whose fault it is that we bought houses we couldn't afford, the once-hibernating Russian bear is awake and up to some mischief.