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A busy trading week kicks off with Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) posting its fiscal-first-quarter results. Apple routinely tops Wall Street guesstimates, so even though analysts are banking on a 16% rise in earnings, to $2.07 a share, it's likely that the actual numbers will be even higher.

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New York -- U.S. stocks plunged for a third straight day Friday following a variety of factors from oversized expectations to the future of Fed chief Ben Bernanke.

Newton -- Travel Web site TripAdvisor said San Francisco's Heritage Marina Hotel topped this year's list of the 10 dirtiest U.S. hotels.

Washington -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of Johnson Health Tech elliptical fitness trainers due to a fall hazard.

New York -- U.S. stock markets extended a downward streak into the third straight session Friday, a day after White House bank proposals shook financial firms.

Boston-- A private study said 31 percent of the growth in the automobile industry through 2014 will be in Brazil, Russia, India and China, called the BRIC countries.

Washington -- First-time claims for U.S. unemployment insurance benefits rose by 36,000 in the week ending Jan. 16, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday.