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Standard & Poor’s latest list finds 16 top-ranked names that represent the best of both worlds

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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Asian markets were unsettled Friday, with Japanese stocks coming off their early highs as financials such as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and exporters such as Honda Motor Co. turned volatile, while Australian stocks were lifted by resource stocks such as BHP Billiton on high crude-oil and metal prices.

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Maybe if the IRS had published its list of top tax scams earlier, Eliot Spitzer would have realized the error of his ways. No. 10 on the latest list of ”dirty dozen” tax scams is ”disguised corporate ownership.”

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According to an adage in this business, there should be no cheering in the press box. Journalists should always remain impartial and unsentimental while working. But Jon Friedman’s rooting for this trio of magazines.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Corporate leaders gathered here Thursday for the Wall Street Journal’s Eco:nomics conference have made it abundantly clear that the federal government’s failure to hammer out cohesive energy or carbon emissions plans has left a vacuum they have had to fill themselves.

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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Asian markets mostly advanced Friday, encouraged by an overnight pullback on Wall Street, with Japanese shares lifted by a recovery in financials such as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group as well as exporters such as Canon Inc.

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