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• Futures soar after U.S. takes over GSEs
I expect there will be a powerful knee-jerk rally but we won't be heading into a full-blown bull market," said Jim Awad, chairman of W.P. Stewart & Co Ltd in New York.
• Hurricane Ike weakens, but still threatens Gulf
A sattelite image taken at 11:45 p.m. ET on Saturday shows Hurricane Ike over the Turks and Caicos. Ike is an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm according to forecasters. KEY WEST, Fla. - Powerful Hurricane Ike rolled down an uncertain path Sunday ...
• View from the VMAs: A Miley Cyrus bottleneck
4:08 p.m.: The doors to Paramount Studios have opened. At first, audience members with cameras are turned away, but there are so many people with cameras that security relents and lets them through anyway.
• Morry Gash / AP
The Packers play the Vikings, the team Favre tried unsuccessfully to get traded to after he and the Pack agreed to the divorce. Subplot: You can be reasonably sure that Favre will be watching. Wonder who he’ll root for? (ESPN, Monday, 7 p.m.
• Online colleges earning respect — to a degree
Nearly 3.5 million students were taking online courses in the fall of 2006, the most recent data available, according to an online learning report by the Alfred P.