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Tupperware Brands is seeing bullish forecasts after delivering strong results.

Nu Skin is beating the market and seeing higher forecasts ahead of reporting later this week.

Colombia's oil and gas company Ecopetrol S.A. announced a sharp fall in second quarter profit on huge non-operating loss resulting from revaluation of portfolio investments, lower domestic sales and reduced crude oil and natural gas prices, notwithstanding higher production.

The economic data this week pointed to an economy at its bottom; growth should materialize in the back half of the year.

Luxury retailers' secret sales, once reserved for the stores' best customers, have become more widespread as the recession drags on.

Growth in its education and cable television divisions helped offset declines in newspaper, magazine and broadcast revenue.

Analysts said the jump in July vehicle sales will be significant, but perhaps temporary.

Massachusetts regulators sent subpoenas to UBS, LPL, Ameriprise and Edward Jones about sales of leveraged and inverse ETFS.

Pressure mounts at GM Not a good day to be GM CEO Rick Wagoner. His company reported a second-quarter loss of $15.5 billion, the third biggest in its 100-year history. Culprits range from plunging U.S. sales to the declining value of truck leases. In his ninth year at the helm, Wagoner is trying to raise $17 billion in cash and push fuel-saving cars to replace the out of favor SUV. (For more on this news, click here.) Unemployment Hits 5.7% The great job drain continues as employers cut their payrolls for the seventh consecutive month, this time by 51,000 jobs. 463,000 jobs have been lost since January. The unemployment rate for July was 5.7 percent, the highest in four years. While losses cut across nearly every sector, things were particularly bad for teens 16 to 19. Their unemployment rate was 20.3 percent, the highest since 1992. (For more on this news, click here.) Chrysler Seeks to Reassure Is Chrylser in trouble? The auto maker says not, and to prove it, released limited fi

The nation's economic decline is moderating, laying the groundwork for growth in the months ahead, according to new government numbers. But the fine print in Friday's report on the gross domestic product also shows a key threat to that expansion.