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LONDON (AP) — Britain's financial regulator launched a full-blown investigation into Goldman Sachs International on Tuesday after US authorities filed civil fraud charges against its parent bank.
The announcement from the Financial Services Authority...
DATE: Apr 21, 2010
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Microsoft is surprising me by seeming to get more customer friendly these days. The latest concession to XP diehards and hapless victims of Vista is the offer of a new self-support service based on Windows 7.
Now before you cynically counter with a ...
DATE: Apr 21, 2010
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HONG KONG (Bloomberg) - HSBC Holdings plc. plans to recruit more than 300 relationship managers and sales staff in Hong Kong as more affluent customers from mainland China seek to invest in or through the city.
The majority of new hires will join the...
DATE: Apr 21, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Companies across the technology industry - from Internet access providers to social networking sites to video-sharing services - are bracing for this week's release of a draft of a trade agreement that they fear could undermine all ...
DATE: Apr 21, 2010
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Tesco plc., Britain's largest retailer, said annual profit rose 9.1 percent as sales increased in the UK and at the Homeplus unit in Korea.
Net income climbed to £2.33 billion ($3.56 billion) in the year ended February 27, from £...
DATE: Apr 21, 2010
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Butterfield Bank traded 476,402 rights issue shares on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The bank's shares rose two cents (100 percent) to finish the day at six cents, with 3,476,402 shares traded.
Butterfield also transacted 30,000 common ...
DATE: Apr 21, 2010
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Group of 20 nations should adopt a levy on banks even if the plan fails to get unanimous backing from all countries, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said.
"The more people in the better, but you could never get a ...
DATE: Apr 21, 2010
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc posted slightly lower-than-expected quarterly revenue and indicated that current-quarter sales could again miss Wall Street estimates, as it struggles to compete in web search against Google Inc.
Shares of Yahoo fe...
DATE: Apr 21, 2010
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TOKYO (AP) - Nissan Motor Co. said yesterday it will suspend vehicle production at two factories in Japan after a parts shipment was halted by volcanic ash disrupting international flights.
Nissan's production at a line at its Oppama plant near Tokyo...
DATE: Apr 21, 2010
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks rose, as financial shares rallied after Citigroup Inc.'s first quarter profit beat estimates and as two people with knowledge of the vote said the US Securities and Exchange Commission didn't unanimously approve ...
DATE: Apr 20, 2010
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