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Dozens of Web sites can help you save money they saved 

By Doreen Hemlock

Sun Sentinel

Thinking of making a New Year's resolution to save money in 2009 ?

Help may be...

Sales lose footing amid higher prices 

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Americans love their shoes. On average, every woman, man and child in the country buys eight pairs a year.

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Express to China: two partners blend Wall Street savvy with Asian connections to invest in smaller companies in untapped Chinese cities 

THEY MAKE AN UNUSUAL management team: a soft-spoken scientist from China and a fast-talking financier from New York. But together, China Direct...

Job market turns green as environmental concerns rise 

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.

When Broward County sought proposals in 2004 to build a new laboratory, the fine print said the project must...

Puerto Rico Libre: not a port, not rich and not really free 

Drive down a dusty, rutted road through sugarcane fields, past the yellowed Borinquen movie theatre that has not shown films in years. Pull in by...

Trinidad's old sugar mills fascinate visitors 

In its heyday in the early 1800s, when sugar was king in the Caribbean, the sugar mill valley in central Cuba boomed with wealth, dazzling visitors...

Time to go global: more foreign companies are investing in operations in South Florida—looking beyond the region's proximity to Latin America and hoping to capture the domestic market 

Foreign-based companies have invested $26 billion in the State of Florida to-date, most of that in South Florida. That investment accounts for more...

Outbound investment: beyond the shore: the region adds real estate to its list of exports as local companies in every industry ride the wave of globalization 

The margaritas and mariachi music flowed at the Icon Brickell sales center in downtown Miami recently, when South Florida luxury condo developer...

Video shows recovering Castro 

HAVANA -- Cuban TV late Friday showed a recovering Fidel Castro sitting up, writing a note and bantering with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in...

A permanent engagement? Negotiations for a hemisphere-wide free trade area are in limbo, even as Florida continues its campaign to have Miami chosen as the Free Trade Area of the Americas' permanent headquarters. An FTAA update 

By spring 2006, the free-trade landscape across the Americas was supposed to look less patchy. A free-trade area spanning 34 nations was due to be...