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(Reuters) – Knight Capital Group Inc is in talks about possibly selling its market-making operation, its largest and most profitable business, but it is not known if a deal will happen, a source said on Saturday. The securities firm has been approached by at least two rivals about its market-making operation, which uses complicated computer models to match buy and sell orders in stocks and options, another source familiar with the matter said. . . .

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CHICAGO/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Online shopping has grown sharply so far this holiday shopping season after U. S. retailers pushed out a slew of mobile and Internet deals that lured consumers before Cyber Monday, traditionally the biggest day for e-commerce in America. While it remains to be seen if the gains over Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday can be sustained, the latest estimates show shoppers scooping up early special offers via their smart phones and tablets, the way they used to hunt for bargains in brick-and-mortar stores. Online sales increased 17. 4 percent on Thanksgiving and 20. . . .

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CHICAGO/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Next week’s Cyber Monday should still be the top online shopping day of the year but it may pack less of a punch because online sales, a growing number involving mobile devices, soared on Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Meanwhile, on Saturday, shoppers continued to visit stores though the burst that began on Thanksgiving night had subsided. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, had traditionally been the kickoff to the holiday season for stores. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Volatility is the name of this game. With the S&P 500 above 1,400 following five days of gains, traders will be hard pressed not to cash in on the advance at the first sign of trouble during negotiations over tax hikes and spending cuts that resume next week in Washington. President Barack Obama and U. S. congressional leaders are expected to discuss ways to reduce the budget deficit and avoid the "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax increases and spending cuts in 2013 that could tip the economy into recession. As politicians make their case, markets could react with wild . . .

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NEW YORK/BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota (Reuters) – Retailers declared their experiment with earlier store openings to kick off the holiday shopping season a success on Friday, with those new hours expected to be a Thanksgiving night staple for more retailers next year. Stores such as Target Corp opened hours before midnight on Thursday to try to capture a bigger piece of the retail pie. The move seemed to bring out a different type of shopper than the usual one who grabs the "Black Friday" deals, analysts said. That meant by Friday morning, some shoppers, like Christian Alcantara, 18, at a J. C. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Volatility is the name of this game. With the S&P 500 above 1,400 following five days of gains, traders will be hard pressed not to cash in on the advance at the first sign of trouble during negotiations over tax hikes and spending cuts that resume next week in Washington. President Barack Obama and U. S. congressional leaders are expected to discuss ways to reduce the budget deficit and avoid the "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax increases and spending cuts in 2013 that could tip the economy into recession. As politicians make their case, markets could react with wild . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street rose on Friday on signs of progress in talks about releasing aid to Greece and as investors bid up retail shares on hopes consumers will scoop up bargains on Black Friday, which heralds the start of the holiday shopping season. U. S. equity market trading will end early at 1:00 pm ET (1800 GMT) after closing Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday. With many investors on holiday, trade volume got off to a slow start. . . .

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – The Australian government was granted permission by a court on Friday to prepare legal action against coal baron Nathan Tinkler as creditors close in on the former billionaire, threatening to end a rags-to-riches story built on the nation’s mining boom. The New South Wales Supreme Court gave the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation leave to prepare a case against Tinkler’s holding company, the latest of a series of legal actions over unpaid bills and commercial disputes. . . .

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NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) – The shopping frenzy known as "Black Friday" kicked off at a more civilized hour welcomed by some shoppers this year, with retailers like Target Corp and Toys R Us moving their openings earlier into Thursday night. While the shift was denounced by some store employees and traditionalists as pulling people away from families on Thanksgiving, many shoppers welcomed the chance to shop before midnight or in the wee hours of the morning. "I think it’s better earlier. People are crazier later at midnight. . . .

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LONDON (Reuters) – European shares rose and the single currency hit a three-week high on Friday after progress was reported in talks to help Greece manage its huge debt and secure much needed aid payments. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union are at odds on setting a target for Greece’s debt by 2020, and the two sides are now 10 billion euros ($12. 9 billion) apart, a Greek government official told Reuters. In the wake of the report the euro rose past $1. 29 to hit a fresh three-week high of $1. 2908 in early European trade. . . .

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