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An employee walks by electronic panels which flash the Japanese yen against the U.S. dollars at a foreign exchange office in Tokyo, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011. Japan intervened in the foreign currency market Thursday to stem the yen's rise against the dollar. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

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PLAYERS: Emmanuel S. Bailey formed a company that would get the lucrative D.C. Lottery contract. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Jim Caruso, chief executive officer of Flying Dog Brewery, selects a beer to pour from a tap at the brewery's headquarters. **FILE**

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Specialist Patrick King, second from right, and others watch President Barack Obama's remarks on a television monitor the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011. The stock market stumbled again Tuesday and is on pace for its longest losing streak in two years.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Assembly-line worker Edward Houie moves a door into position for a 2012 Chevrolet Volt at the General Motors Hamtramck Assembly plant in Hamtramck, Mich., last month. General Motors says its U.S. sales rose nearly 8 percent last month, led by fuel-efficient vehicles such as the Chevrolet Cruze car. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this photo from June 23, 2011, Billy Garlin (left), a sales and leasing consultant at the Big Two Toyota Scion of Chandler car dealership in Chandler, Ariz., shows Lacey Rivera (right) and her sister Shelbey Kearns a new car Rivera had just purchased. (Associated Press)

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Trader Sal Saurino works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. There had been hope for a rally based on news of a debt-ceiling agreement on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

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Zimbabwe's finance minister, Tendai Biti, says that the nation's economy will grow by 9.3 percent this year, a rate that would make it one of the fastest-growing economies on the continent. But the IMF's estimate is significantly lower. (Associated Press)

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A man works in the ruins of a building in Port-au-Prince damaged by an earthquake. The government is giving wage earners access to credit at a preferential rate for 10 years to enable them to buy or construct a home. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this photo from June 13, 2011, HSBC Group Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver speaks at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Associated Press)

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In this June 21, 2011 photo, Shell gas worker Toke Fusi changes gas prices down at a Shell gas station in Menlo Park, Calif. The economy slowed in the first six months of 2011 to its weakest pace since the recession ended. High gas prices and scant income gains forced Americans to sharply pull back on spending. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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Trader Warren Meyers works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on July 29, 2011. (Associated Press)

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President Obama announces a new fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks on July 29, 2011, at the Washington Convention Center in Washington. (Associated Press)

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House Speaker John A. Boehner discusses the debt bill on Capitol Hill on Thursday. House Republicans' plan would cut future spending by $915 billion while instantly raising the government's borrowing authority by $900 billion. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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In this photo from June 9, 2011, a bank-owned lot in Seattle is chained and locked but advertised for sale. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** This is a Thursday, May 26, 2011, file photo of people walking by Sony Building in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district in Tokyo. The Japanese electronics and entertainment company reports fiscal first quarter earnings Thursday, July 28, that are expected to reflect a gradual recovery, despite the damage from the March earthquake and an embarrassing online security breach. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

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Fiat's chic but affordable 500 model (above, at a dealership in Michigan) will get its U.S. launch soon. The company, now the majority shareholder in Chrysler, plans to open 130 dealerships across the country in the next year in an appeal to both Euro flair and home-spun frugality. (Associated Press)