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Trader Michael Zicchinolfi (center) works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Maksim Bakiyev, the son of Kyrgyzstan’s deposed president, is being held in Britain on suspicion of insider trading. (Associated Press)

FILE - In this Monday, June 18, 2012, file photo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer comments on the Windows 8 operating system. The PC industry is in a slump, as consumers show more interest in tablet computers and smartphones. Officially, PC makers say they expect Windows 8, which launches Oct. 26, 2012, to get buyers to open their wallets, but industry watchers and analysts are skeptical. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

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**FILE** Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin are joined by state and local officials March 22, 2011, as they announce the next phase of high-speed rail construction during a news conference at an Amtrak maintenance building in Chicago. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Pedestrians walk past the Federal Reserve Bank in New York on Oct. 18, 2012. (Associated Press)

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People attend a workshop called “New York Get Your Business Online” at Google offices in the city. (Associated Press)

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This Oct. 3, 2012 photo shows shelves stocked with Jim Beam products at the central Kentucky distillery’s new visitors center in Clermont, Ky. Bourbon distilleries are drawing flocks of fans, and the whiskey makers are building new visitors centers to promote their brands. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner)

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That's one giant leap for all U.S. taxpayers! (Illustration by Dick Locher of the Tribune Media Services)

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RST Development is building 46 condominium homes at the Orion in Silver Spring. The homes have up to 1,132 square feet and are priced from the mid $200,000s.

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A Federal Reserve police officer stands in front of the Federal Reserve Building Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, in New York. Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a Bangladeshi man they said was plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, just blocks from the World Trade Center site. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested in a sting operation Wednesday morning after he parked a van filled with what he believed were explosives outside the building and tried to detonate it in a suicide mission, authorities said. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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Pedestrians pass the Federal Reserve Building Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, in New York. Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a Bangladeshi man they said was plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, just blocks from the World Trade Center site. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested in a sting operation Wednesday morning after he parked a van filled with what he believed were explosives outside the building and tried to detonate it in a suicide mission, authorities said. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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Law enforcement officials remove boxes of potential evidence from the New York home where Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was staying, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. Nafis was arrested in an FBI sting operation earlier in the day after attempting to blow up a fake car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, authorities said. (AP Photo/Newsday, Howard Schnapp) NYC OUT; NO SALES