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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai's government, under pressure to repay billions of dollars in debt, said yesterday it has discovered a new offshore oil field — the first such find by the city-state in decades.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fast-food chain operator Burger King Holdings Inc posted quarterly results that topped analysts' view, helped by its $1 double cheeseburger offer, more restaurants, lower taxes and deflated food costs.
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TOKYO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp expects costs and lost sales from its massive safety recall to total $2 billion by the end of March, keeping it in the red for the year despite its strongest profit in six quarters.
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote to India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in December on concerns that it may be applying a tax law retrospectively on Vodafone Group Plc's acquisition of Hutchison Essar Ltd. shares, Brown's offi...
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — The US House of Representatives will clear legislation next week that will revoke the insurance industry's antitrust exemption, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday.
Pelosi, a California Democrat, said there is enough su...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Home and auto lender GMAC Financial Services said yesterday it lost $5 billion in the last three months of 2009, as losses from its mortgage operations kept the company in the red for another quarter.
GMAC, which is owned by the feder...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. was stripped of its last AAA credit rating by Standard & Poor's after the billionaire investor agreed to buy railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
Berkshire, which is taking on deb...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index notched its steepest percentage drop since early October yesterday as investor confidence was shaken by intensifying concerns about sovereign debt in some euro zone countries.
Investors flocked to the sa...
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Brian and Scott Lines have filed a motion seeking to dismiss civil charges they are facing from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)which alleged they manipulated the stock price of Sedona Software Solutions Inc. and dates back to an inves...
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BC-EU--Britain-Vodafone, 1st Ld-Writethru,0314
Vodafone Q3 revenue up 10 pct
LONDON (AP) -- Telecommunications company Vodafone Group PLC on Thursday reported that revenue rose more than 10 percent in the third quarter, supported by strong gains in i...
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