Once you factor in the U-6 measure of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers and part-time workers seeking full time employment, the real unemployment rate is at a sky high 14.9%.

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Carole Therelaut of Naked Security points out that the data breach comes after the X-Factor changed its rules in the U.S. to allow children as young as 12 to enter its competition, unnervingly putting personal data on pre-teens in the hands of faceless hackers.

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While U.S. economic data has been weak recently, which is U.S. dollar-bearish, the one factor that could work to support the dollar and pressure the Euro currency in the near term would be a significant deterioration in the EU sovereign debt situation that EU and IMF officials are working hard to contain.

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The staggered LTE offerings by U.S. carriers are another factor affecting the supply-side of the equation.

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The Clinton team has argued that such steps are justified since an end to U.S. underground testing is an essential factor in dissuading would-be nuclear powers to give up their ambitions.

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The most important factor is that the yield on the 30-Year U.S. Treasury bond, which ended September at 2.913 versus 4.510 at the end of the first quarter and 4.377 at the end of the second quarter.

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Blancpain had pretty much stopped making watches in the 1970s--it had once supplied diving watches to the U.S. Navy--and hadn't been much of a factor in the industry for a long time before that.

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But unlike the U.S. and Germany -- where childcare is cited as the major factor for why women leave work -- in Japan, uncompromising work environments, which demand face-time and offer little career mobility for women, persuade most mothers to give up corporate life.

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The U.S. dollar index moving to a four-week high Tuesday is also a bearish underlying factor for the gold and silver markets.

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After all, foreign private-portfolio investments in the U.S. ebb and flow with the emotional current, no easy factor to predict.

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