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UPDATE 1-New US $100 note aims to deter counterfeiters Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:39pm EDT By David Lawder WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - A newly designed $100 note aims to thwart counterfeiters with advanced security features, top U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve officials said on Wednesday. The "new Benjamins" to be released in February 2011 retain the traditional look of the U.S. currency, with Benjamin Franklin's portrait. They aim to foil counterfeiters with difficult and costly to reproduce features such as a blue three-dimensional security ribbon with alternating images of bells and the number 100 that move and change as...

Oil Retreats After Closing Above $100 Wednesday February 20, 1:55 am ET By Thomas Hogue, AP Business Writer Oil Prices Retreat After Closing Above $100 a Barrel; Asian Stock Markets Rattled BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Oil prices retreated Wednesday in Asia after closing above $100 a barrel for the first time overnight as investors seized on a refinery explosion and the possibility that OPEC may cut its output. The spike in crude prices Tuesday rattled Asian financial markets, with Tokyo's benchmark stock index falling more than 3 percent. Other factors lifting oil above the $100 mark were concerns about a...