U.S. stocks end lower after a week of records for the Dow

Quotes & News:
4:30 pm ET Oct 6, 2006

DJIA

11,850

-16.48
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S&P

1,349

-3.64
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NASDAQ

2,299

-6.35
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10Yr

4.70%

+0.088
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U.S. stocks end lower after a week of records for the Dow

NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks fell Friday after a mixed jobs report prompted
some investors to lock in profits in a week where a slide in oil prices
and increasing optimism over the economy propelled the Dow Jones
Industrial Average to a new all-time high.
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Google reportedly in talks to acquire video site YouTube

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is reportedly in talks to buy the video-
sharing Web site YouTube Inc. for around $1.6 billion, a transaction
that would combine two of the top 10 Web-video providers and raise the
stakes against News Corp.'s MySpace.com.
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Groupe Danone cultivating U.S. yogurt market

LONDON -- In the 1900s, a Russian biologist theorized that Bulgarian
peasants lived longer because of their yogurt consumption. A century
later, the sales pitch for what has become a staple of supermarket
shelves borrows from that sentiment.
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Micron Tech's diversification strategy hits speed bump

SAN FRANCISCO -- Micron Technology Inc. shares sank more than 13%
Friday as a move to diversify its memory-chip operations hit a bump in
the road. S
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Economic Report: September nonfarm payrolls' rise is lowest in 11
months

WASHINGTON -- U.S. firms cut back their hiring in September to the
slowest pace since last year's damaging hurricane season, but stronger
job growth in July and August took much of the sting out of the
weakness, government data show.