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The federal government issues a ban on prerecorded sales calls.
The former chief executive of Refco Inc. was sentenced Thursday to 16 years in prison for a financial cover-up that brought down one of the world's largest commodities brokerages.
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A Texas lawmaker is promising to make tougher rules as energy customers say they are seeing record electric bills even after they switched to companies that promised lower rates, NBC 5 reports.
Hedge funds and big Wall Street banks are taking advantage of loopholes to buy massive amounts of oil contracts, with some critics blaming the practice for pushing oil prices to record highs.
The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Friday he wants to regulate fees charged to cell phone users who cancel their wireless contracts early.
- Despite his public-relations blitz over the past two weeks to promote his plans to reform the nation's health-care system — including holding two town halls on Wednesday — President Barack Obama has lost ground on this issue with the American public, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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