Tag: business
group name: news
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November 24, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
NEW YORK (AP) — BMO Financial Group says it will buy the Diners Club North American franchise from Citigroup, which will more than double its corporate card business.
BMO says the deal will add . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
TOKYO (AP) — Japan Airlines said Tuesday it obtained government approval to receive up to $1.1 billion in emergency loans aimed at preventing the money-losing company from grounding flights.
JAL . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — General Motors Co. will present to unions on Wednesday its restructuring plan for the Opel unit, expected to include up to 9,500 job cuts, the carmaker's top official . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
Oil slipped towards $77 a barrel Tuesday as markets awaited data expected to show that the pace of U.S. economic recovery is slower than previously estimated.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
STUART, Fla. (AP) — Former French intelligence officer Herve Jaubert believed he was essentially being held captive in Dubai when his passport was confiscated by authorities amid a dispute with . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
LONDON (AP) — World stock markets fell Tuesday following big gains on Monday, with China's main index posting its biggest drop in three months after the country's central bank warned commercial . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — Big banks are roaring back.
At crisis' edge last year, they are repaying billions of dollars dumped into their vaults to rescue them. Dividend checks are accumulating at the . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
SINGAPORE (AP) — Oil slipped to near $77 a barrel Tuesday in Asia amid mixed signs about the global economy and crude demand.
Benchmark crude for January delivery was down 11 cents to $77.45 a . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:01 AM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans love to get their hands on the Democrats' health care legislation. They show it to the cameras at every opportunity, even piling one version on top of another to make . . .
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November 24, 2009 02:01 AM EST --
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets were mostly lower Tuesday despite gains on Wall Street as China's warning to banks to control lending dragged down financial stocks in Hong Kong.
The region . . .
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November 24, 2009 01:02 AM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans don't expect a health care overhaul to affect their lives directly, but those who worry about the fallout outnumber those expecting to come out ahead, a poll out . . .
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November 24, 2009 01:02 AM EST --
NEW YORK (AP) — After showing signs of improvement in early fall, sales of clothing and luxury goods weakened a bit the first half of November, compared with a year ago, when stores pulled shoppers . . .
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November 24, 2009 01:02 AM EST --
SINGAPORE (AP) — Oil hovered below $78 a barrel Tuesday in Asia amid mixed signs about the global economy and crude demand.
Benchmark crude for January delivery was up 16 cents to $77.72 a barrel . . .
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November 24, 2009 12:33 AM EST --
Here is an amendment to the Constitution who’s time has come I think. It should have been in there from the beginning. Of course with our government’s talent for ignoring the Constitution . . .
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November 24, 2009 12:07 AM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — Remember the economy's return to growth last quarter? Well, it probably wasn't as energetic as first thought.
A government report due out Tuesday morning is expected to show . . .
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November 24, 2009 12:04 AM EST --
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cost-cutting and push into new markets is helping soften the blow from weakness in the company's mainstay businesses.
HP on Monday reported big revenue . . .
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November 24, 2009 12:02 AM EST --
DENVER (AP) — Newmont Mining has agreed to sell a 14 percent stake in an Indonesian gold mine for $494 million, ending a years-long dispute with the Indonesian government over how the mining company . . .
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November 24, 2009 12:02 AM EST --
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fitch Ratings downgraded Mexico's credit rating Monday, saying dependence on a flagging oil sector has weakened the country's ability to weather financial problems.
Mexico's . . .
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November 24, 2009 12:01 AM EST --
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A leading climate change scientist said hackers breaking into a university's computer server and then posting documents online show the nasty politics of global warming.
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November 23, 2009 11:02 PM EST --
DENVER (AP) — Newmont Mining Corp. says its Indonesian joint venture has agreed to transfer a 14 percent stake to a private company and to a consortium of regional and local Indonesian governments, . . .
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