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• Stocks end mixed after a day of trading lower
Unofficial closing numbers showed the Dow Jones industrial average rose 12.78, or 0.11 percent, to 11,430.21. The Dow managed a moderate gain on Wednesday after heavy losses the first two days of the week.
• McCain hopes to turn tide in Great Lakes area
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Democratic dominance in presidential elections has been the norm for decades throughout much of the country's union-strong industrial Great Lakes region.
• Trace arsenic in water may be tied to diabetes
It is also an industrial pollutant from coal burning and copper smelting. Utilities use filtration systems to get it out of drinking water. Seafood also contains nontoxic organic arsenic.
• A few speculators dominate vast oil market
Regulators had long classified a private Swiss energy conglomerate called Vitol as a trader that primarily helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission examined Vitol's books last ...
• Mid-Caps: The Global Sweet Spot
Investors have paid extra attention in recent years to outfits in the industrial, material, and energy sectors -- beneficiaries of a global infrastructure boom.