Those purchases appear to have set off a national wave of front-running as other enterprises, rich with easy bank loans, bought commodities with hopes of selling them at a higher price.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is joining Citigroup and Mastercard to set up a mobile payment system that would let Android users wave their phones in front of a small reader at a checkout counter to pay for something.

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