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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Australia's jobless rate fell to 5.2 percent in May as full-time employment increased for the ninth straight month, evidence of a rapid rebound from the global downturn that could pressure the central bank to keep raising i...
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LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England made no change to interest rates or its bond purchase programme yesterday, as it waits for Britain's new government to reveal the extent of its fiscal austerity measures in a June 22 budget.
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LONDON - A rally by miners on a report Australia will soon announce major changes to a planned tax on the sector and firmer banks, helped by improved economic sentiment, lifted Britain's top shares by the close. However gains were limited by another ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators yesterday put in place new rules aimed at preventing a repeat of last month's harrowing "flash crash" in the stock market.
Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission approved the rules, which call for US st...
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ANALYSIS-SEC presses Goldman to 'cry uncle'
+ SEC inquiries expand to other CDOs
+ Goldman could settle to avoid more litigation
+ FINRA conducting its own probe of CDOs
NEW YORK/MONTREAL (Reuters) – US securities regulators are hunting for fresh dir...
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Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. announced yesterday that total losses arising from the ongoing BP oil spill are unlikely to exceed $25 million.
In a statement, the Bermuda-based re/insurer said it had "evaluated a range of scenarios", most of which pro...
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US puts in new 'circuit breaker' rules
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators have put in place new rules aimed at preventing a repeat of last month's harrowing "flash crash" in the stock market.
Members of the Securities and Exchange Commissio...
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BC-US--Apple-iPad Data Breach, 1st Ld-Writethru,0448
AT&T security hole exposes iPad users' e-mails
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- AT&T Inc. on Wednesday acknowledged a security weak spot that exposed the e-mail addresses of apparently more than 100,000 users...
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The CEO of US Airways says his airline will turn a profit during this quarter and has no plans to look for a merger partner right now.
United Airlines and Continental airlines are seeking government approval to combine into what wou...
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FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) –- The European Central Bank, Germany's constitutional court and China's pension fund gave a triple boost to efforts to stabilise the euro zone yesterday, lifting the single currency and European stocks.
The ECB said it wou...
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