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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - IBM Corp. said yesterday that its net income rose 12 percent as it wrung more out of its services and software divisions and gets a lift from a new mainframe computer.
The technology company also raised its profit forecast slight...
DATE: Oct 19, 2010
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Role: President and Senior Consultant, Performance Solutions Ltd.
What is your job? Providing human resource and immigration advice to small/medium size businesses.
What is your favourite part of the job? Helping clients solve...
DATE: Oct 19, 2010
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US banks will be in the limelight this week as several household names report earnings and investors worry a forced halt to foreclosure proceedings could hit the sector and end the recent rally.
Bank shares fell sharply on Friday...
DATE: Oct 18, 2010
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Sheila Bair, chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said she doesn't support a national freeze on foreclosures.
Bair said on C-Span's "Newsmakers" programme that the processing of foreclosures needed to be reviewe...
DATE: Oct 18, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) — General Electric's return to its roots as an industrial company continues to proceed unevenly.
The industrial and financial giant said on Friday that sales of industrial equipment - everything from wind turbines to jet engines to loco...
DATE: Oct 18, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Retail sales in the US climbed more than forecast in September, easing concern consumer spending will weaken and endanger the recovery.
Purchases rose 0.6 percent following a 0.7 percent gain in August that was larger than prev...
DATE: Oct 18, 2010
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LONDON (Reuters) - The British government will provide £1.5 billion to compensate policyholders of Equitable Life for their losses since the mutual insurer almost collapsed in 2000, the Daily Mail newspaper reported on Saturday.
If confirmed, the com...
DATE: Oct 18, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is prepared to take further steps to rejuvenate the US economy by buying Treasury bonds but is wrestling with how big the programme should be, Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday.
Bernanke also indicated that Fed p...
DATE: Oct 18, 2010
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The Department of Statistics reissued the August 2010 Consumer Price Index after a mistake related to Belco's fuel adjustment charge.
Valerie Robinson-James, the Director of Statistics, said in an e-mailed statement: "There was an error in quoting th...
DATE: Oct 18, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Rising profits at Canada's biggest companies may not be enough to shake the Toronto stock market free of the vertigo that has accompanied its rapid recent rise to two-year highs.
Fuelled by rallying commodity prices and the prospe...
DATE: Oct 18, 2010
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