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By Evan Applegate

October 25, 2012 at 11:56 PM UTC

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This article is part of the October 29, 2012 issue of businessweek.

South Korea industrial production; Germany retail sales; the NBA season opener; ExxonMobil, AIG, LinkedIn earnings, Day of the Dead music festival; Kickstarter in the U.K.; the jobs number; and more.