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Facebook has started an online gift service, hoping that the moneymaking potential of social gift giving will please its Wall Street investors.
A survey suggested that companies were likely to buy more of their own shares after this year because taxes on those gains were expected to grow less than a proposed tax increase on dividends.
American consumer confidence rose to the highest level in five years in November, according to preliminary figures, but two families’ holiday shopping illustrates how regional differences persist.
After nearly five years of brutal economic decline, government retrenchment and a widespread loss of confidence in its future, California is showing the first signs of a rebound.
The United States is left somewhat wary about the rising Sunni Muslim alliance of Egypt, Qatar and Turkey and its potential for anti-Western sentiment.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 28, 2012, covering November 28, 2012.
One Direction
Taylor Swift
Soundtrack
The Weeknd
Soundgarden
2012Knut Ahnlund, Swedish historian, author, and academic (born 1923)[†]
Knut Emil Ahnlund was a Swedish literary historian, writer, and member of the Swedish Academy, the body that chooses the laureates for the annual Nobel Prize in Literature.
2012Spain Rodriguez, American illustrator (born 1940)[†]
Manuel Rodriguez, better known as Spain or Spain Rodriguez, was an American underground cartoonist who created the character Trashman.
2012Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer (born 1922)[†]
Franco Ventriglia was an opera singer who sang bass in every major European opera house during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He returned to the U.S. in 1978, where he continued to perform at venues including Carnegie Hall, and traveled to perform in southeast Asia, until his retirement in 2001 at age 79.
2012Zig Ziglar, American soldier and author (born 1926)[†]
Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar /zɪg 'zɪglər/ was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]