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...Available from Friday in the UK, the £160 Android smartphone boasts two-day battery life, a 6.4in display and a 48-megapixel quad camera....
...The stock market wobble comes after a prolonged steady period in which the S&P 500 traded in a tight range between about 2,160 and its record close of 2,190, touched in mid August....
...The Federal Reserve was widely expected to raise rates at this month’s meeting, until a disappointing reading in May’s employment figures, of 38,000 jobs added against an expected 160,000, all but killed...
...Mr O’Brien, 57, founded Digicel in 2000 after selling his Irish mobile business, Esat, to BT, and launched its first service in Jamaica in 2001....
...The battle to take Steinway Musical Instruments private took a new turn after it emerged US hedge fund manager, John Paulson, was forced to raise his cash offer for the 160-year-old piano maker after a late...
...In 2012, Steinway revenues grew to $353m from $346m the year before, while its earnings rose to $13.5m from $1.6m....
...Nasdaq down -7.00 (-0.23%) at 3,092 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -1.37 (-0.12%) at 1,160 FTSE100 down -10.95 (-0.18%) at 6,054 CAC 40 up +1.24 (+0.03%) at 3,706 Dax down -36.83 (-0.48%) at 7,696...
...The acquisition includes upstream facilities in Jamaica including sugar cane fields, two distilleries, a sugar factory, nine farms and 18 warehouses....
...Mr Montgomery is forecasting that BlackRock’s full-year earnings per share will increase 10.1 per cent to $13.05 in 2012 and by a further 8.9 per cent in 2013 to $14.21....
...The benchmark S&P 500 swung more than 3 per cent during the session, before closing 0.8 per cent up at 1,160.38....
...Leading up to the market’s 2007 peak, 160 property companies listed on London’s Aim market raised more than £9bn of equity between them....
...REC rose 4.2 per cent to NKr141.75 and R&R gained 3.3 per cent to €160. Also in Germany, Solarworld ticked 3.6 per cent higher to €31.15 and Conergy advanced 0.6 per cent to €14.44....
...But US farmers will enjoy a record corn harvest of 13.3bn bushels this year as heavy rainfall in August provided much-needed moisture for the crop....
...The Bank of Jamaica (www.boj.org.jm) has one of the most impressive, while the Bank of Japan’s site (www.boj.or.jp) does not....
...In the mid-caps, John Wood Group added 3.2 per cent to 160.8p after JP Morgan raised its rating to ‘overweight’ from ‘underweight’....
...See Lombard on M&S The FTSE 100 ended 0.2 per cent or 13.7 points higher at 5,215.2, after rising as high as 48 points earlier the day before a weak start to trading on Wall Street dragged it lower....
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