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Home Depot Profit Increase
CBJ - May 21 - Home Depot has posted higher quarterly sales and earnings in large part due to a recent recovery in the American housing market. The somewhat surprising figures have led the world's largest home improvement chain to modify its sales outlook for the year with a rosier outlook. Net earnings came in at $1.2 billion U.S., or 83 cents

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ConocoPhillips Keeping Oil Sands
CBJ - May 21 - It turns out ConocoPhillips has taken down the For Sale sign on its Canadian oil sands properties thanks to the company managing to far exceed its target for raising additional capital by divesting itself of other international energy properties.The Houston-based oil and gas giant had been looking to find buyers for 50 per cent of its undeveloped oil sands holdings

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Yahoo! Purchasing Tumblr
May 20 - In her boldest move yet since taking over as CEO last July, Marissa Mayer has confirmed Yahoo! Inc. is acquiring blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. It's a bold move for Mayer's business reputation as she tries to revitalize the struggling Internet pioneer by co-opting a Web property with monthly traffic of about 300 million users - but little

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