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CBS MarketWatch.com has signed up veteran business journalist Marshall Loeb as a daily columnist, luring him away from the post of editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. It was the latest coup for up-and-coming Web sites that have been recruiting prominent members of the journalistic community. This month, Lou Dobbs resigned as CNN’s top business news executive to work at a Web site focusing on outer space, and former Newsweek Business Editor Mark Vamos is moving to SmartMoney.com.