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From today's Tribune

• Burst of optimism and a record rally

• All but alone, Pickens soldiers on in his oil-habit quest

• Neel Kashkari's actions speak loudly at first public speech

• Financial muscle moves to Washington

• Chicago firm Ennis Knupp to oversee bailout portfolio

• A rally for the ages: Dow leaps 936 points

• Best increases ever

• Jon Yates: Special-needs student gets runaround from CPS

• Moody's lowers Walgreens' rating on Longs bid, CEO exit

• Wirtz buys out venture partner

• Jenner & Block's work weighs in Connecticut same-sex marriage ruling

• Fuel surcharges to Europe shrink

• End is near for Janesville GM plant

• Monday's market movers

• United Technologies ends Diebold bid

• Many factors curbing oil

• Abbott OKs $5 billion stock buyback

• Waste Management scraps $6.73 billion bid for rival

• CFO to exit in ongoing Sears shuffle

• Microsoft exec ready to battle Google, others

• Boeing union talks fail; strike costing $4 billion

From the business wire

• China trade surplus with US holds steady at $17.5 billion for month of September

• Daimler to drop Sterling truck brand; end truck production at 2 US, Canada plants

• German think tanks cut 2009 economic growth forecast to 0.2 percent; warn of recession

• Report dampens optimism over size of Kansas corn crop, but soybeans may set record

• Study funded by Merck shows Vioxx risk lingered after use of painkiller; company disputes it

• Gamble's global growth at a glance

• Rewards and risks: US companies rely on volatile emerging markets for growth lacking at home

• Summary: Business challenges for US companies in emerging markets

• Spain's Banco Santander takes expansion northward, buying rest of Sovereign Bancorp for $1.9B

• Payless ShoeSource to begin selling line of eco-friendly, affordable shoes and handbags

• Iraq lays out rules for 1st round of oil bids since U.S.-led invasion

• How the Dow Jones industrials have fared each trading day since fall of Lehman Brothers

• Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wins Nobel Prize in economics

• Morgan Stanley gets $9B from Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ, CEO ready to make deals of his own

• Meltdown 101: How the Dow Jones industrial average is calculated, and what it means

• For Campbell, selling soup in China, Russia means persuading cooks to take shortcuts

• Sean "Diddy" Combs' launches new ad for vodka Ciroc, throwback to 50s era, times at home

• Waste hauler Waste Management drops bid to buy rival Republic after 3-month takeover struggle

• Attorneys general from 3 states ask baby product manufacturers to avoid using chemical BPA

• Britain to inject up to 37 billion pounds ($63 billion) into some of country's biggest banks

• Survey: Helped by exports and new orders, service sector grew slightly in September

Top tech stories

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From the tech wire

• When loose lips crash cars: New service aims to keep drivers from talking on their cell phones

• Germany's Qimonda sells stake in Inotera to Micron for $400 million; cuts 3,000 jobs

• In bid for small-business ads, MySpace launches self-service advertising platform

• Silicon Valley startup beats out low-cost laptop concept for 50,000-PC contract in India