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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Dow and S&P 500 edged higher on Tuesday after stronger-than-expected retail data, though tech heavyweight Apple dragged on the market for a third day. Apple was the biggest weight on both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 after reports on Monday of cuts to orders for iPhone parts. Shares declined 3. 2 percent to $485. 92 and closed below $500 for the first time since February. Retail stocks advanced after a government report showing retail sales rose more than expected in December was seen as a favorable sign for fourth-quarter growth. . . .

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NEW YORK – Stocks cut earlier declines on Tuesday, with the Dow turning positive as shares of retail companies rose. The Dow Jones industrial average edged up 2. 44 points, or 0. 02 percent, at 13,509. 76. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index slipped 0. 12 point, or 0. 01 percent, to 1,470. 56. The Nasdaq Composite Index was off 5. 69 points, or 0. 18 percent, to 3,111. 82. (Reporting by Leah Schnurr; Editing by Kenneth Barry)

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Anglo American Platinum , the world’s top platinum producer, said it will mothball two South African mines, sell another and cut 14,000 jobs in moves to restore profits that may provoke a repeat of last year’s strikes when about 50 people died. In a long-awaited review announced on Tuesday that is seen as crucial to the flagging fortunes of Anglo American , which owns about 80 percent of Amplats, the platinum producer said it aimed to cut output by around a fifth or 400,000 ounces. The price of platinum rose 1. . . .

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PARIS (Reuters) – Stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0. 04 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0. 17 percent at 4. 55 a. m. ET. World shares stalled near 18-month highs and safe-haven Treasuries traded higher on Tuesday after U. S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned the economic recovery was at risk from the battle to raise the nation’s borrowing limit. Data showing the German economy contracted by a larger-than-expected 0. . . .

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(Reuters) – For 17 years, Tom Ward and Aubrey McClendon teamed up to build Chesapeake Energy Corp into the second-largest natural gas producer in the United States. The two Oklahoma City energy men were a study in contrasts. CEO McClendon was brash and aggressive; company president Ward came across as steady and soft-spoken. When Ward left in 2006 to start his own natural-gas company a few miles away, however, he borrowed from the Chesapeake playbook. At SandRidge Energy Inc, Ward adopted some of the same idiosyncratic business practices deployed by McClendon. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended lower on Monday as worries over demand for Apple products drove down its shares and as investors braced for earnings disappointments. But Dell Inc’s stock jumped 13 percent to about a five-month high at $12. 29, offsetting some of the tech-sector weakness, after Bloomberg reported the No. 3 personal computer maker is in talks with private equity firms to go private. Tech heavyweight Apple lost 3. 6 percent to $501. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks edged lower at the open on Monday as shares of Apple were weighed down by demand concerns, while investors faced a busy week for corporate earnings. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 0. 39 point to 13,488. 04. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index shed 1. 89 points, or 0. 13 percent, to 1,470. 16. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 11. 34 points, or 0. 36 percent, to 3,114. 30. (Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Kenneth Barry)

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – The yen plumbed a 2-1/2 year low against the dollar on Monday, grabbing the Asian spotlight amid subdued trading for the region’s stock markets, with Japan’s central bank in focus as it faced unrelenting political pressure to deliver bold stimulus. The euro also notched up handsome gains against the dollar and the yen, helped by waning expectations of any further monetary easing from the European Central Bank. . . .

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – The yen plumbed a 2-1/2 year low against the dollar on Monday as Japan’s central bank faced relentless political pressure to deliver bold stimulus, while Asian stocks got off to subdued start with Tokyo closed for a public holiday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday said the Bank of Japan (BOJ) must set a 2 percent inflation target and make it a medium-term, not long-term, goal to show markets it was determined to pursue bold monetary easing to end nearly two decades of deflation. His comments emboldened yen-bears, who took a fresh swipe at the currency. That saw the U. S. . . .

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CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (Reuters) – Hopes for overhauling the federal tax system are fading in Washington, but in some state capitals, tax reform experiments – some far-reaching – are fast taking shape. Across the South and Midwest, Republicans have consolidated control of state legislatures and governorships, giving them the power to test long-debated tax ideas. Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, for instance, called on Thursday for ending the state’s income tax and corporate taxes, with sales taxes compensating for lost revenue. . . .

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