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Companies are continuing to cut back on employee travel plans amid uncertainty surrounding the health of the economy.

Americans are expected to take 438.1 million business trips this year, down 2 percent from last year, the Global Business Travel Association said Tuesday. Overall business travel spending is expected to be up 2.6 percent, but that's only because trips are more expensive.

The group cites a lack of significant job creation in the sectors that would spur business travel and worries about whether a package of steep tax increases and sharp government spending cuts can be avoided as major factors hurting business travel plans.

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3. UPMC will cut 100 transcribers’ jobs
4. Profit drops 29 percent in first quarter at American Eagle Outfitters
5. Hershey tapping into ‘milk candy’ market in China
6. Retired UPMC surgeon sues surgical device maker over patents
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9. PPG Corning bankruptcy plan receives preliminary approval
10. Dick’s earnings rise 13 percent, but sales disappoint
11. Union members picket at FirstEnergy meeting in W.Va.

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