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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve Banks on Monday set an accelerated schedule to streamline its check-processing system as more consumers and businesses shift to electronic payments from paper checks.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc said on Monday it plans to save $3 billion annually over the next three years by closing its Austin, Texas desktop computer manufacturing plant and cutting thousands of jobs.

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AP - Victor and Borislav Chouchkov were satisfied. Co-owners of a family recording company in Sofia, the brothers had completed — in just 48 hours — recording a score for a movie starring Ethan Hawke.
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Treasury chief proposes a massive overhaul of the country’s financial oversight. Here’s what experts and politicians are saying about the plan.

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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is expected Monday to propose a set of sweeping changes to the nation’s financial system, including a broad expansion of the powers to the Federal Reserve, in what could herald the biggest regulatory change for the financial markets since the Great Depression.

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