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...We are sitting on a large, U-shaped sofa in his house in the pristine Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles, having just watched an episode of The Defiant Ones....
...(Bloomberg) GM “must turn over documents related to its subprime auto-lending under a subpoena issued by the U.S....
...The buyback plan is Northfield, Illinois-based Kraft Foods’ first since it became an independent company in October 2012. ” (Bloomberg) “AT&T, the biggest U.S. phone company, said on Tuesday that it would...
...(Financial Times) “GlaxoSmithKline is nearing a deal to acquire Human Genome Sciences for about $2.8 billion in cash after pursuing the U.S. biotech company for three months, two sources familiar with the...
.../intl/cms/s/0/41439542-6b8c-11e1-8337-00144feab49a.html#axzz1orwAqtHW Glencore said to express an interest in Canada’s Viterra Glencore International, the world’s largest listed commodities trader, has...
...The mortgage finance companies were lowered one step from AAA to AA+, S&P said in a statement Monday. The downgrade reflects their "direct reliance on the U.S. government," S&P said....
...figures have joined the three party leaders in agreeing to give one-10th of their estates to charity when they die - British American Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco have failed to beat the FTSE 100’s...
...Russia loses contact with $265m satellite The $265m Express AM-4 satellite, described by its makers as the most powerful satellite ever built in Europe, launched late on Wednesday aboard a Proton-M rocket...
...new target price of 843.00p - Atkins (W S) Plc: Numis upgraded its rating on the stock to “Buy” with a new target price of 728.00p - Centrica Plc: Cheuvreux reiterated its rating on the stock...
...* Russia loses contact with $265m satellite The $265m Express AM-4 satellite, described by its makers as the most powerful satellite ever built in Europe, launched late on Wednesday aboard a Proton-M rocket...
...document from CME Group Inc said....
...The Dow was also hurt by American Express, which was lower by 2.5 per cent at $27.68 in the wake of a brokerage downgrade....
...Standard & Poor’s rating actions follow MBIA Inc.’s announced restructuring, in which MBIA Ill. has become a sister company of MBIA....
...Illinois Tool Works lost 7.5 per cent to $36.15 after the manufacturer lowered third quarter and full-year forecasts as a result, in part, of weakness in North American industrial production....
...In financials, which stood 2.4 per cent lower by the close, American Express fell 6.6 per cent to $22.40 even though analysts broadly welcomed the credit card group’s move to become a bank holding company...
...Regional Express jumped 12 per cent to A$1.18 after it announced an increase in profits for the third quarter....
..., other than to express the hope that the social conservatives will - is “mature” quite the right word?...
...By way of introduction, I ran a Web 1.0 development company in the 90s, developing sites for HBO, Sony, Disney, Miramax, American Express, and dozens of others....
...“The increased reit weighting in the S&P 500 means fund managers(both in the U.S. and abroad) have to pay additional attention to this once overlooked sector, which should expand valuations in the short-term...
...BlackBerry maker Research In Motion was dealt another legal setback in a key patent infringement case on Wednesday, raising pressure to settle or face a possible shutdown of its U.S. mobile e-mail service...
...In 1996, the top company on the FT Global 500 was Nippon Telegraph Telephone....
...The S&P/ASX 200 index rose 0.3 per cent to a new closing high of 4,205.2, after hitting an intraday record of 4,218.8....
...Nippon Express reported a 4.4 per cent rise in August revenues, year on year, due to greater import volumes from China....
...Morgan Securities Roger Altman, Co-Founder and Chairman, Evercore Partners, Inc. Omar S....
...(*Kerry platform song update: after a run of solid Bruce Springsteen tracks - “Land of Hope and Dreams”, “Glory Days” etc.. - U2’s “Beautiful Day” gets a run-out….)...
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