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  • StuyTown tenant leaders to residents: Sign here

    The Tenants Association at beleaguered Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village is is handing out...  

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  • Madoff whistleblower needs anger management: Jon Stewart

    We’ve heard the angry rants of famed Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos too many times to count...  

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  • Facebook CEO named Cannes Media Person of the Year

    Madison Avenue is bestowing an honor on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that is usually reserved for...  

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  • Morgan Stanley hires Citigroup's Shedlin

    Morgan Stanley has hired investment banking veteran Gary Shedlin from Citigroup, The Post has...  

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  • Barney Frank backtracks on Fannie/Freddie foot-in-mouth

    Bondholders of quasi-government mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got jittery this...  

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Real Estate Blog

  • This week's calendar: March 11 to 17

    Thursday, March 11 Urban Land Institute Panel This panel will address the current status of...  

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  • The weekly wrap-up, March 5

    This week we learned that… … An inch of Detroit sounds like just about the amount we’d be into...  

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  • Air to ground

    Matthew Daimler, founder of popular travel site Seatguru.com , knows his way around an airplane....  

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  • Buses taking over 34th Street

      Big changes for the hellish, traffic-clotted thoroughfare known as 34th Street. Yesterday the...  

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  • This week's calendar, March 4 to 10

    Thursday, March 4 RED Nite: 9inety North 5th The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce's Real Estate &...  

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Portugal's Socrates rethinking debt

Portugal's Socrates rethinking debt

A man named Socrates is trying to keep Greece's debt-bubble tragedy from spreading into Portugal. Portugal's Socialist prime minister, Jose Socrates -- named after the Greek philosopher who espoused, "He is richest who is content with...  Read Full Story

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Latest Business News

  • Class-action lawsuit could cost Toyota $3 billion

    MIAMI — Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action...   2:27 PM

  • Google dish-in' tv ads

    Google dish-in' tv ads

    Google wants to bring its search expertise to the boob tube. The tech giant is reportedly testing a search service with Dish Network, the No. 2 satellite-TV provider, that would allow viewers to surf for TV shows as well as Web content on sites...   9:41 AM

  • Sex.com $ells

    Sex.com $ells

    The question of how much is someone willing to pay for sex during a recession is about to be answered. After coughing up a reported $14 million for the sexy Web site sex.com back in 2006 -- a record for a domain name -- Boston-based Escom has...   10:17 AM

  • Studio splices IPO

    Studio splices IPO

    The Film Department attempts to go public: take three. The struggling independent movie studio founded by Warner Bros. and Miramax veterans Mark Gill and Neil Sacker is slashing the amount of money it hopes to raise in an IPO by $25 million....   10:19 AM

  • Greenberg testifies to Cuomo about AIG

    Former American International Group boss Hank Greenberg hopes to toss out his last bag of rubble remaining from his five-year war with Eliot Spitzer....   9:41 AM

  • 'ABC' of TV battle: Time Warner Cable

    In the long run, Disney's feud with Cablevision over what the Long Island-based cable operator pays to carry ABC's signal may have less to do with...   9:41 AM

  • Madoff case claims sped

    The judge overseeing the bankruptcy of Bernard Madoff's defunct business is allowing investors to immediately appeal his order that lets the liquidator...   9:58 AM

  • Ad firms face problems on 'guarantees'

    Ad firms desperate to win business are making promises to clients that could come back to haunt them. Media shops, already reeling from cost...   9:41 AM

  • 'Stake' house view a Benihana riddle

    Apparently price is no object for the management of Japanese steakhouse Benihana. The restaurant chain recently rejected an offer from a New York...   9:41 AM

  • Business briefs

    MetLife buy MetLife pursued AIG's foreign life insurance business, Alico, for two years before finally clinching a $15.5 billion purchase yesterday...   1:38 AM

  • Blockbuster hits

    Blockbuster hits

    Depending on whom you ask, beleaguered video-rental chain Blockbuster needs a strategic partner -- or a lifeline. A large bank has started to hit up private-equity firms to help the once-popular retailer, saying it is on the verge of running out...  

  • Family ties bind analyst to NBC's Zucker

    Family ties bind analyst to NBC's Zucker

    Sanford Bernstein analyst Michael Nathanson has been quite bullish in research notes and press reports about NBC Universal's competitive position against its peers -- but he hasn't disclosed lately that his brother-in-law is NBCU boss Jeff Zucker....  

  • Citi's Gary Shedlin goes to Morgan Stanley

    Morgan Stanley has hired investment banking veteran Gary Shedlin from Citigroup, The Post has learned. Shedlin, currently chairman of Citigroup’s...  

  • Greece gains backing from France

    Speculators beware: The eurozone's biggest powers will back Greece through the debt crisis that has jeopardized all 16 nations in the common currency,...  

  • AIG sets MetLife deal

    AIG is close to selling its foreign life insurance unit to MetLife for about $15 billion in cash and stock, ultimately giving it more than 20 percent...  

  • Teen tween scene

    It may not yet be spring, but it is spring vacation season -- a good time to see exactly what the younger generation is up to. In the model of its...  

  • Chill factor

    Chill factor

    Top music downloads 1. Money to Blow, Birdman 2. Bad Romance, Lady Gaga 3. TiK ToK, Kesha 4. How Low Can You Go, Ludacris 5. Hard, Rihanna 6. Tie Me Down, New Boyz 7. Empire State of Mind, Jay-Z 8. Invented Sex, Trey Songz 9. The Leak, Lil...  

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