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This Year’s Super Bowl Commercials…Anticlimactic?
Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Everyone knows the best part of the Super Bowl - the commercials. One day a year Americans skip the fast-forward button on their DVRs and direct their gaze on the television, assiduously watching every second of these highly-anticipated commercials. The annual ritual of watching Super Bowl ads [...]

Facebook's IPO: What Will Change and What Won't
Once Facebook goes public, the party's over, right?

Report: Monti says Italy a 'safe place'
Premier Mario Monti says he considers Italy a "safe place" amid market turbulence after his government embarked on a reform drive.Monti was quoted in an interview Saturday with German daily Sueddeutsche ...

Greek debt talks to stretch into weekend
A long anticipated bond swap deal was now the easier part of the process in securing continued funding for the country, Evangelos Venizelos said after marathon talks with debt inspectors from the European ...

Canadian PM to visit China next week
Canada's prime minister heads to China next week where he'll discuss Canada's vast oil reserves in a visit that's being viewed as an "open warning" to the United States, which rejected a pipeline ...

Shareholders sue Hecla Mining Co. after deaths
Some shareholders have sued Hecla Mining Co. for stock losses they endured after the federal government shut down the Lucky Friday Mine for safety violations.The Bricklayers of Western Pennsylvania Pension ...

Hiring surges in January; jobless rate at 8.3 pct.
In a long-awaited surge of hiring, companies added 243,000 jobs in January — across the economy, up and down the pay scale and far more than just about anyone expected. Unemployment fell to 8.3 percent, ...

Ex-Stanford exec tells jurors bank's profits faked
Texas financier R. Allen Stanford helped fake profits for his Caribbean bank and funnel millions of depositors' dollars to a secret Swiss bank account used for personal expenses, bribes to regulators and ...

Jobs report lifts Dow to highest mark since '08
A drop in the unemployment rate to its lowest level in three years propelled the Dow Jones industrial average Friday to its highest close since May 2008, before the financial meltdown later that year. ...