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9 Sep 2010 | 5:04 am
The United Steelworkers union plans to file a legal case that accuses China of violating World Trade Organization rules by subsidizing exports of clean energy equipment.
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9 Sep 2010 | 5:01 am
LONDON (Reuters) - Bullish comments on the European recovery helped Britain's top shares rebounded on Thursday as investors bought such cyclical stocks as banks and commodities, while the Bank of England held interest rates at a record low.
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9 Sep 2010 | 4:59 am
LONDON (AP) -- The global economic recovery could be slower than previously anticipated but a return to recession is unlikely, a leading international economic body said Thursday.
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9 Sep 2010 | 4:53 am
The measures are designed to shake up a listless economy and help slash a bloated deficit that has prompted European-wide worries of another Greek-style debt crisis.
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9 Sep 2010 | 4:50 am
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England kept interest rates at 0.5 percent for the 18th month in a row and announced no new quantitative easing purchases, in a widely expected decision on Thursday.
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9 Sep 2010 | 4:49 am
ReutersBritain Keeps Interest Rates on Hold Amid Worries About Global RecoveryNew York TimesPARIS — The British central bank held steady on its benchmark interest rate Thursday amid fresh warnings that the pace of recovery among major economies appears to be[…]
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9 Sep 2010 | 4:30 am
The Bank of England held steady on its benchmark interest rate amid warnings that the pace of recovery among major economies appears to be slowing faster than anticipated.
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9 Sep 2010 | 4:22 am
Reuters (press release)US slips two places in WEF surveyBBC NewsThe United States has been overtaken by Sweden and Singapore in the World Economic Forum's (WEF) competitiveness survey for 2010-11. The change meant that the US slipped two places to fourth[…]
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9 Sep 2010 | 4:17 am
Reuters UKAnglo Irish Subordinated Bonds Jump on Buyback Request, SplitBusinessWeekSept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Bonds of Anglo Irish Bank Corp., the nationalized lender, jumped after an official said the bank asked for approval to buy back subordinated debt and the government[…]
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9 Sep 2010 | 3:57 am
RTE.ieOECD Says Slowdown `More Pronounced' Than AnticipatedBloombergThe OECD's chief economist Pier Carlo Padoan, said, “Recent high-frequency indicators point to a slowdown in the pace of recovery of the world economy that is somewhat more pronounced ...Conditions could warrant delaying withdrawal[…]
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9 Sep 2010 | 3:55 am
Daily MailBAE Systems to cut 740 British jobsReutersLONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - BAE Systems (BAES.L) plans to shed 740 jobs in its military aerospace business in Britain, it announced on Thursday, ahead of the government's defence spending review. "We have[…]
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9 Sep 2010 | 3:49 am
ReutersGLOBAL MARKETS: European Stocks Turn HigherWall Street JournalBy Michele Maatouk & Andrea Tryphonides Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)--European stocks rose Thursday, erasing early losses as basic resources and bank shares advanced, while upbeat US futures also lent support.[…]
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9 Sep 2010 | 3:21 am
Telegraph.co.ukYen Rises Against DollarWall Street JournalLONDON—The yen rose on Thursday amid increased speculation that Japan won't consider intervention to halt the currency's advance until after leadership elections are held by the ruling Democratic Party of Japan. ...Japan Keeps Up Threat[…]
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9 Sep 2010 | 3:20 am
The bank was fined about $27 million for failing to disclose the U.S. investigation into the sale of securities known as Abacus.
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9 Sep 2010 | 2:55 am
Daily MailUK FSA Fines Goldman GBP17.5M For Not Disclosing On TourreWall Street JournalLONDON (Dow Jones)--The UK financial regulator confirmed Thursday that it fined Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS) GBP17.5 million--one of the biggest fines in the UK banking industry--for failing[…]
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9 Sep 2010 | 1:23 am
The first Japanese low-cost carrier will fly both international and domestic routes out of Osaka.
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9 Sep 2010 | 1:01 am
The Australian group said a private equity firm had made an unsolicited bid for the wine business, which Foster’s plans to spin off from its beer operations.
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9 Sep 2010 | 12:16 am
MiamiHerald.comDemocrats attack GOP in speechesWashington PostCLEVELAND - President Obama and other leading Democrats lashed out at Republicans on Wednesday in a pair of tough-talking speeches intended to energize their party's base and frame the fall elections. ...Obama takes aim at[…]
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8 Sep 2010 | 11:00 pm
Google’s change may save users time, but may also affect the many businesses that have been built around placing search ads on the site.
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8 Sep 2010 | 10:40 pm
Known mostly as a judge on “America’s Got Talent,” the 45-year-old will seek a mix of hard and soft news guests.
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8 Sep 2010 | 10:30 pm
BP released the results of an internal investigation that heaped some of the blame on itself, but mostly pointed at other companies.
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8 Sep 2010 | 10:20 pm
The reception that the Chevrolet Cruze receives from consumers could play a large role in wooing investors.
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8 Sep 2010 | 10:10 pm
The convenience store chain 7-Eleven is the unnamed third party that has bid $2 billion for Casey’s General Stores, topping an offer from Alimentation Couche-Tard, said a person briefed on the matter.
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8 Sep 2010 | 10:00 pm
The increasing burden of Anglo Irish Bank’s losses has become a millstone for the government, which is seeking to avoid a Greek-style bank bailout.
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8 Sep 2010 | 7:30 pm
The highest court in the European Union ruled that German efforts to protect state-run gambling monopolies violated E.U. laws.
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7 Sep 2010 | 10:30 pm
A country generally not known for labor strife now hears of squalid housing and low wages, partly because collective bargaining rules are hard to enforce.
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25 Jul 2010 | 6:49 pm
America's Senate ponders whether the Lockerbie bomber was set free on grounds of compassion or commerce• AMERICA'S Senate is set to open hearings on July 29th addressing the possibility that lobbying by BP played a pivotal role in the decision[…]
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4 Jul 2010 | 9:38 am
Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, visits Barack Obama in Washington• ISRAEL'S prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, is set to travel to Washington for a meeting with Barack Obama on Tuesday July 6th. Mr Netanyahu’s previous date with America’s president at the[…]
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2 Jul 2010 | 5:48 am
A sinister and deadly new twist in Pakistan’s dreadful saga of terrorist atrocitiesOn the night of July 1st, when the throng of worshippers in the shrine of Lahore's patron saint, Ali Hajvery Data Ganj Bakhsh, was at its peak, two[…]
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27 Jun 2010 | 10:55 am
A trade pact will draw China and Taiwan closer togther• IMPROVING relations between China and Taiwan will get another boost with the signing of a groundbreaking free-trade pact by the end of June. Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan’s president, was elected in[…]
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