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Reported by: Sonya Kullmann Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009 @06:12am CST If you're keeping on top of the stock markets this morning...Wednesday, November 4, 2009... The Nikkei gained 41 points today. The Dow slipped 17 points Tuesday. And the Nasdaq gained eight. The Walt Disney Company now has permission from the Chinese government to build a Disneyland-style theme park within its borders. The New York Times reports the announcement was made late Tuesday. The Shanghai Disneyland is expected to cost $3.5 -billion. That would make it one of the largest foreign investments ever made in China. Plans call for a mixture of a Magic Kingdom-style theme park plus shopping areas and hotels spread across 1,000 acres. Airlines are tacking on more surcharges for holiday travel. Most of the largest U.S airlines have increased a surcharge for travel on the busiest travel days to $20 each way. That's up from $10. The surcharges apply to a large number of flights within the U.S. on more than a dozen peak days around holidays. That includes Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's. Delta, American, United, U.S. Airways and Northwest have all boosted their surcharge on some routes. |
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