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By Evan Applegate

October 18, 2012 at 8:41 PM UTC

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This article is part of the October 22, 2012 issue of businessweek.

The final presidential debate; the Fed’s interest rate meeting; Apple’s earnings report; Microsoft releases its Surface tablet and Windows 8; and more.