Thursday's Scoreboard

Thursday's Games (All Times Eastern) NBA Minnesota 32 Oklahoma City 18 (in 2nd) Miami at Dallas, 9:30 p.m. Denver at Portland, 10 p.m. -- AHL Peoria at Charlotte Houston at Lake Erie -- U.S. College Football Poinsettia Bowl at San Diego Brigham Young vs San Diego State, 8 p...

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It's official, Andersen is new Wisconsin coach

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Several schools tried to lure Gary Andersen away from Utah State.Wisconsin finally got him.Andersen was officially hired as the Badgers' new coach Thursday, and will be formally introduced at a news conference Friday morning. He replaces Bret Bielema, who left the Badgers for Arkansas this month."I don't know if I can really have a word for how excited I am to be at Wisconsin...

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U.S. slaps duties on China wind towers, high-level talks begin

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday pressed forward with plans to slap steep punitive duties on wind turbine towers imported from China at prices deemed unfairly low, even as officials welcomed a high-level Chinese delegation for trade and economic talks.The U.S. Commerce Department set final anti-dumping duties ranging from 44.99 to 70.63 percent on utility-scale towers manufactured...

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Republicans put squeeze on Obama in "fiscal cliff" talks

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans tried to wring more tax-rate concessions out of the White House  on Tuesday as political maneuvering intensified over an agreement to keep the U.S. economy from tumbling off the "fiscal cliff" next year. Markets rallied on hopes for a deal.After important concessions in recent days from both President Barack Obama and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner,...

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Insight: The booming Philippines' missing link - foreigner investors

MANILA (Reuters) - The gathering had the air of a post-mortem. About 100 executives and government officials listened quietly as Guillermo Luz poked holes in the Philippines' fairytale economic revival.Luz, head of the Philippines' National Competitiveness Council, projected a deck of slides onto two pull-down screens that showed the fast-growing Philippine economy slipping in the World's Bank's "Ease...

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Asia stocks rise over US budget deal optimism

BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets  rose Wednesday after U.S. political leaders appeared to be closing in on a budget deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" by the year-end deadline. Economists have been warning the U.S. economy could be thrown back into recession without a deal.Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.1 percent to 10,034.45. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index rose 0.7 percent to 22,640.25. Australia's...

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Smooth ANC vote keeps S.Africa's rand near 2-month high

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The rand traded near a two-month high early on Wednesday and looked to further those gains in an upbeat market after an internal ANC election passed off smoothly and U.S. officials appeared to make progress in talks about the fiscal cliff.The unit held firm on Tuesday after President Jacob Zuma won a second term as party leader, almost certainly giving him a second five-year...

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