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Car buyers will likely pay more for new and used cars this year as the economy improves.

The automaker says most of its 4,400 U.S. dealers have agreed to upgrade their showrooms over the next several years.

The Bloomington, Ill.-based company says the hiring will replace positions it has left open as the country's economy struggled the past few years.

A federal appeals court says a former in-house lawyer for the Japanese automaker must pay $2.6 million for disclosing confidential information.

Shares of the cosmetics company fell after the beauty products company issued a fiscal third-quarter earnings forecast well below Wall Street's expectations.