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**FILE** Knight Capital specialists work Aug. 3, 2012, at their posts on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Associated Press)
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Visitors walk through the visitation room, including taking a look at one of the private visitation rooms, at the Maryland House of Corrections in Jessup, Md. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Nexen has an oil sands facility near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Nexen is being acquired by China National Offshore Oil Co. in a $15-billion deal that, if successful, will be China’s largest ever overseas acquisition. For Canadians, more drilling means more jobs and tax revenue. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 photo, trader Steven Kaplan, center, checks prices as he waits for shares of AIG to resume trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The rating agency Standard & Poor’s stunned the world a year ago by stripping the U.S. government of its prized AAA bond rating. A year later, S&P’s historic move looks like a non-event. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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Richard Wolk buys fresh produce from Ching Thao at the Vineyard Farmers Market in California, a state that is leading the way in direct-sales markets. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, file photo, trader Steven Kaplan, center, checks prices as he waits for shares of AIG to resume trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The rating agency Standard & Poor’s stunned the world a year ago by stripping the U.S. government of its prized AAA bond rating. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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The Washington Nationals traded for Oakland A's catcher Kurt Suzuki on Friday afternoon, adding a veteran piece to their catching corps. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, photo, New York Stock Exchange Senior Compliance Associate Matthew Pizzo, an Air Force veteran who has law and business degrees, works in his office at the New York Stock Exchange. Pizzo had gone two years without work, until recently, as he is now finishing his first week of work at the exchange. U.S. employers added 163,000 jobs in July, a hopeful sign after three months of sluggish hiring. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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** FILE ** In this July 25, 2012, file photo, people looking for work talk at a Primerica job booth at a job fair in San Jose, Calif. U.S. hiring was likely sluggish in July for a fourth straight month, held back by slower economic growth and an uncertain outlook. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, addresses the media in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday after a meeting of the ECB governing council concerning the further strategies in the European financial crisis. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this April 12, 2012 photo, Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson speaks at a news conference for the Sands Cotai Central in Macau. Adelson is firing back at his former Macau casino executive’s claim that Adelson approved prostitution at company properties in the Chinese gambling enclave. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
