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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil has stopped spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, but BP remains unusually vulnerable to the prospect of US gas stations defecting to other brands.
In interviews with The Associated Press, station owners from Wisconsin to Virginia s...
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The Department of E-Commerce within the Ministry of Energy, Telecommunications and E-Commerce yesterday announced the creation of an Internet Policy Advisory Board (PAB).
The move comes at a time of transition for the worldwide web, particularly invo...
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DALLAS (Bloomberg) — Southwest Airlines Co. and leaders of its pilots union have agreed on tentative contract terms that would allow the largest low-fare carrier to bring the Boeing Co. 737-800 into its fleet.
The 5,800 members of the Southwest Airli...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Banks led US stocks lower yesterday as investors fretted a widening foreclosure crisis could undermine the market's strength over the last five weeks.
The S&P 500 has rallied 11.9 percent since September 1 and volume has picked u...
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The annual rate of inflation fell for the fourth successive month in August to two percent.
But significant increases in the prices of food and electricity during the month kept the cost of living moving higher.
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GENEVA (Reuters)–- The strong recovery in air travel is slowing as the force of the economic upswing moderates, with growth in business travel continuing to outpace that in economy class, airline industry association IATA said yesterday.
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Bermuda-based Allied World Assurance Company is to start writing long-term care facilities insurance in the US from the start of next year.
The company's Allied World Healthcare unit will write the business directly and through approved brokers and w...
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – India's economic growth is on track to accelerate in 2010/11 on the back of monsoon rains, but expectations for growth in the following year have moderated slightly, a quarterly Reuters poll shows.
Analysts raised their expectation...
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LONDON (AP) — GlaxoSmithKline will donate 400 million doses of medicine to protect children against intestinal parasites in a programme beginning in 2012, the company said yesterday.
Combined with programmes already established, the donation of 400 m...
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is to abolish, merge or reform 481 semi-independent state agencies to cut spending and help reduce its deficit, under a plan that will cost thousands of jobs and change the way many services are delivered.
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