Business_Finance

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Trader Jason Harper works June 1, 2012, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Associated Press)

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Mitt Romney campaigns at the shuttered Solyndra plant in Fremont, Calif., on Thursday. "It's a symbol not of success, but of failure," he said of the company lauded by President Obama that received $535 million in government-backed loan guarantees. (Associated Press)

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A woman casts her vote at a polling station in North Dublin, Ireland, on Thursday. Irish voters went to the polls to vote on ratification of the European Union's Fiscal Treaty, a deficit-fighting pact designed to bind debt-ridden eurozone members to much tighter spending limits. (Associated Press)

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SunTrust Mortgage, a subsidiary of SunTrust Bank, has agreed to pay $21 million to resolve a suit in which the Justice Department claimed it increased interest rates and fees for qualified black and Hispanic borrowers. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** John Edwards speaks May 31, 2012, outside a federal courthouse as his daughter Cate Edwards (left) and parents Wallace Edwards (second from right) and Bobbie Edwards look on after the jury's verdict in his trial on charges of campaign corruption in Greensboro, N.C. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** John Edwards arrives at a federal courthouse during the eighth day of jury deliberations in his trial on charges of campaign corruption in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, May 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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John Edwards arrives at a federal courthouse during the eighth day of jury deliberations in his trial on charges of campaign corruption in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, May 30, 2012. The jury declared it was deadlocked on five of the six counts related to campaign finance violations. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)