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. >> for more on downsizing log on nbr.com and tomorrow sharon will wrap up the series whether starting an encore career is a smart way to not out live your money. >>> amazon wants to be a major player in the big business of grocery delivery. how does it measure up? we put the service to the test, but first how the commodities, treasuries and currencies faired today. >>> the tunnel that connects the city to canada followed the m i municipmun municipality into bans resukrup. they said it's not the result of the recent detroit bankruptcy filing but the decline in population contributed to the tunnel's unmanageable debt burden. >>> one thing working for detroit is the auto industry and today consumer reports is calling the 2014 chevy impala the best new said dan and one of the best it tested two. cars have a better score than general motors newly designed impala, the hatch back and bmw 135 i coup. >>> earlier in the program we told you about amazon's quarterly results and a few weeks ago about the online retailers move into the big business of fresh groceries. tonight jane wells puts all t

. >> if you want to learn more, log on nbr.com. >>> tennis, bridge and options trading? find out why baby boomers are do it yourself option investors and what they may risk in the process but first, let's look how the international markets finished today. >>> soaring would prices trickled down to higher prices at the pump. aaa reports the average price for a gallon of unleaded is 3.55, up 3 cents from yesterday. that's the largest one-day spike since february and expects say the pain at the pump is likely to get even worse this weekend. >>> toyota's popular rav4 small sized suv scored a score of good for highway safety but in one demanding crash test they received the worst possible score. in the so-called small over lap test which involves crashing a vehicle at 40 miles an hour into a 5-foot high barrier on the driver's side over lapping a quarter of the vehicle's entire width. the top-rated, subaru forester and mitsubishi out lander. >>> alwian rocketed today to an all-time high. they make so-called orphan drugs to treat rare disorders. they gained 12.5%. >>> also in h

. >>> for more, log on nbr.com and you can read my blog about it. >>> you're golder years may have lost a lot of luster after a troubling report about under funded pensions at some of the nation's biggest companiecompan. the report out today shows a record amount of underfunded pensions for the 2012 fiscal year at s&p 500 firms. data shows a combined short fall of more than $450 billion, that's nearly $100 billion less than a year ago despite mass sir gains in the stock market. >>> a staggering 1.2 trillion in corporate profits from america's biggest companies being held in offshore accounts to avoid taxes. a study from the watchdog research group that analyzes regulatory filings of the top 100 publicly traded companies found 82 of them have subsid yardries in shelters like hong kong. topping the list general electric, apple, microsoft. >>> with all that money parked overseas, it looks like investors are putting more money into bond funds. a new report from the investment company institute shows that last week more than 4 billion flowed into long-term taxable bond funds, the first time

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well for more on the story you can log on to our website nbr.com and tomorrow, we'll continue the special series on how to not out live your money. the look will be on the benefit of downsizing as a way to stretch your retirement budget. >>> still ahead, team starbucks or team duncan. americans are loyal to their coffee but which is winning customers over. but first how treasuries, commodities and currencies did today. >>> a natural gas rig continues to burn in the gulf of mexico. a blowout occurred last night, all 44 workers were evacuated before the fire started. the owner of the well, hurk lease said they may have to grill a relief well. the blowout is not expected to be as bad as the b.p. oil spill. >>> from one commodity to another, this one, coffee, starbucks and dunkin donuts report earnings tomorrow. the competition is fierce and it comes when it's a wash. jane wells goes inside the java warps. >> reporter: americans take their cup of joe seriously. >> i prefer dunkin donuts because the price is reasonable and the taste is great. >> i don't like dunkin donuts at all, i like starbu

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. >>> for more on rising impact rates, log on to our website nbr.com. >>> a big set back for apple today. a federal judge in new york ruled that apple conspired to raise the prices of e books. she came down hard on apple saying the company not only colluded with five major publishing houses to take on the lock on electronic book sales but master minded the strategy. according to the ruling, apple encouraged publishers to jack up prices 50% or more overnight to break the $9.99 book prices. apple insists it did nothing wrong and will appeal the ruling. >>> apple is facing a ban of top-selling bad ggadgets on aug 5th. they are asking the trade commission to lift the band pending the appeal of another case thecently lost. last month they halted the sales of iphone 4 and ipad 23 g in a ruling apple infringed on a patent owned by rival samsung electronics with technology on those two devices. >>> the tribune company wants to split into two. it plans to separate the newspaper publishing businesses that includes big dailies like the los angeles times from the more profitable broadcasting divisio

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. >> for more on the manhattan real estate market, log on to our website nbr.com. >>> it's not just the housing market seeing big gains this year. auto sales are also in high gear, and show no sign of letting up. they are on pace for sales of nearly 16 million units. this is the most since the year 2007. detroit's big three each reported strong gains in sales last month led by smaller fuel efficient carps, pickup trucks, and crossover utility vehicles. chrysler sales rose 8%. a chevy dealership we've been tracking. we hear so much about demand that's driving sales. everyone says because the average car on the road is so old. but really, how much more demand is left out there? >> quite a bit, susie. i talked to economists looking at numbers. the average age for a vehicle on the road for the united states is under 11 years, and not dropping any time soon there are a lot of people driving old vehicles and think about this, susie, 20%, 20% of the vehicles in the united states are at least 16 years old. so that demand is out there. >> mortgage rates are rising, what about auto rates? are the

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log on to our website nbr.com for the complete list. >>> we told you that foreclosures continue to drop and with housing prices recovering and confidence returning, the thought was that more renters would become buyers but mortgage rates closing in on 5% may turn that theory on it's head. diana olick has more. >> reporter: in cities across america, apartment buildings are going up. rental demand took off after the housing crash, some called it rental nation as homeownership went from 69% in 2004 to 65% to the beginning of this year. the reasons were simple, financing and fear. >> i can't afford to buy a house now. >> i'm scared in part due to the fact that my father and mother had a lot of problems with mortgage. >> reporter: just as housing was starting to recover and more renters were considering buying, mortgage rates jumped over a pull percentage point in the past two months. that has some potential buyers more nervous than they were. >> we're actually looking for a place to buy, and right now it seems that the -- from what we understand, the mortgage market was topping. >> reporter

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. >>> log on to our website, nbr.com to submit your question and include where you're from. >>> that's nightly business report. thanks so much for watching. >> thanks. have a great evening, everyone, we'll see you here tomorrow night. >>> welcome to "newsline." it's tuesday, july 9th. i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. egypt's president is calling for calm after days of unrest. 51 people are killed when troops opened fire. investigators will look into the killings and set out a time frame for