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Wild rocket ride ends in a sputter

Wild rocket ride ends in a sputter

Wall Street capped its worst week ever with a wild session Friday that saw the Dow Jones industrials rocket within a 1,000 point range before closing with a relatively mild loss.

Real Estate »

Fewer homes on market, but sales up

The number of unsold homes on the market in September dropped to the lowest level since December 2005 and the number of homes placed under contract jumped almost 22 percent from September 2007, the best September for sales in three years.

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Money & Markets »

Wild rocket ride ends in a sputter

Wall Street capped its worst week ever with a wild session Friday that saw the Dow Jones industrials rocket within a 1,000 point range before closing with a relatively mild loss.

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Retail »

Retailers brace for austere holidays

It's beginning to look a lot like a nail-biting Christmas for retailers, who are facing what some analysts predict could be the worst sales season since the 1991 recession.

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Tech & Telecom »

EBags CEO leaving post after 10 years

EBags co-founder Jon Nordmark is stepping down from his role as chief executive officer after a 10-year tenure overseeing one of the most successful Colorado Internet firms.

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Skiing & Tourism »

Vail Resorts promotes three execs

Vail Resorts Inc. today elevated three senior-level executives.
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Health Care »

Health insurance costs squeeze families, businesses

Family health insurance premiums soared nearly five times faster than wages for Colorado workers from 2000 to 2007, according to a study released Tuesday.

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Unusual partners defuse ballot battle

In a conference room more than a dozen floors up Denver's Tabor Center tower, Ted Trimpa consumed Rock Star energy drinks one after another last week as he hosted a meeting that dragged on for 10 hours. It was crunch time for a group of business and labor leaders facing a crucial deadline the next day. They weren't going home until they agreed how to pull four union-backed measures from Colorado's ballot in return for a business pledge to donate time and money to help defeat three anti-labor initiatives.
Just a couple of weeks before, the Hogan & Hartson attorney helped set in motion what would become an unusual partnership. But the path was full of obstacles.

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Airlines & Aerospace »

Demand for air travel down

Consumers already have cut back on the $4 lattes, the expensive steak dinners and the Friday-night movie outings.

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Energy »

Future bright for new solar research facility

Aurora will be home to one of the world's biggest solar energy research sites.

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Business Columns & Blogs »

REUTEMAN: Now's the time for action: Buy on way down

I woke up at 5 a.m. on Friday, went straight to my computer and bought stock for an hour before the market opened. It's a good thing - I think - that I was finished before trading began, since the Dow dropped 700 points in the first few minutes.

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