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Louis Meeks, a burly 59-year-old alfalfa farmer, fills a metal trough with water from his well and watches an oily sheen form on the surface which gives off a faint odor of paint.

Duke Energy said on Thursday it brought two new wind power projects on line and said it would use Siemens Energy wind turbines as well as General Electric turbines at a planned Wyoming wind farm.

Penn National Gaming Inc is considering acquiring the unfinished Fontainebleau resort, which sits toward the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip, the U.S. casino and racetrack operator's chief financial officer said on Wednesday.

Exelon Corp's 1,043-megawatt Clinton nuclear power station in Illinois shut by early Wednesday from 96 percent early Tuesday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report. Clinton, which entered service in 1987, is located in Clinton in DeWitt County about 160 miles southwest of Chicago.

The Federal Reserve will have to act quickly, and perhaps aggressively when the time comes to pull back its extraordinary support for markets in order to avoid stoking inflation, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said on Tuesday.

U.S. house prices rose for a third month in July, but consumer confidence fell unexpectedly in September as the worst job market in 26 years fueled worries about personal finances, private reports showed on Tuesday.

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U.S. stocks rallied on Monday after three straight days of losses as several mergers lifted investor confidence.

The rally in U.S. stocks, which stumbled in recent days on worries about the economic recovery and continued government stimulus, will be tested this week by crucial data on growth and jobs.

Pennsylvania regulators said on Friday they ordered Cabot Oil & Gas Corp (COG.N) to stop all hydraulic fracturing operations at company natural gas wells in Susquehanna County following three recent chemical spills.

Vanguard Group Inc wants to help investors watch their money while they're on the go, even as it wonders how much interest its long-term oriented customers have in minute-by-minute updates.

Airgas Inc is not yet out of the woods brought on by the recession, the specialty gases supplier's chief executive said on Friday.

The Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania has kicked off a new program where visitors can spend a full day and two evenings at the masterpiece residence.

Major world central banks announced on Thursday that they planned to scale back massive injections of U.S. dollars into their banking systems as financial markets stabilize after a devastating crisis.

International leaders representing the Group of 20 leading industrial nations and the European Union are gathering at Pittsburgh in the north eastern U.S. for the next two days to focus on the task of ensuring that the world emerges from the economic crisis as soon as sustainably possible.

A slew of state and local home foreclosure mediation programs have enormous potential to help homeowners, but most suffer from lack of industry accountability, according to a study released on Wednesday.

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The worst U.S. economic recession in 70 years is forcing senior citizens out of retirement, leaving them fighting for jobs in a weak labor market or risk homelessness, according to a private study.

U.S. mortgage applications jumped last week to their highest since late May as interest rates tumbled below 5 percent, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would push world leaders this week for a reshaping of the global economy in response to the deepest financial crisis in decades.

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would push world leaders this week for a reshaping of the global economy in response to the deepest financial crisis in decades.