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PRICE WARS: Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery? Maybe, but businesses should think twice before they try to match the prices of their competitors.
Cost-cutting can erode and destroy brands and can render companies unable to survive, says Ric...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Hopes that global manufacturing activity is heating up lifted industrial stocks yesterday ahead of an earnings report from Alcoa Inc.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 46 points, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose ...
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese bank lending surged in the first week of 2010, industry sources said yesterday, adding to the concerns fuelled by blockbuster trade data for December that the world's third-largest economy is overheating.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The White House and a top US regulator attacked excessive Wall Street bonuses, as the nation's biggest banks prepare to hand out awards that critics say were made possible only by taxpayer bailouts.
Amid reports of pay...
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Hats off: NFL apparel fight could have big impact
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A hat can be a small thing.
Then there's the Supreme Court battle over who gets to make official NFL headgear. It could end up having a very large effect not o...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Frontline Ltd., Overseas Shipholding Group and Nordic American Tanker Shipping Ltd. were raised to "buy" by Jefferies & Co.
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US outlook better
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US economy will resume expansion this year and continue in 2011 after shrinking in 2009, according to a survey of top economists who forecast the strongest growth next year since 2004.
Private economists p...
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LONDON - Britain's leading share index ended flat with strength in energy issues countered a sell-off in miners, weak financial issues and uncertain progress on Wall Street. The FTSE 100 closed at 5,538.07 points, up 3.83 or 0.07 percent.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Heineken NV will buy the beer business of Mexico's FEMSA for more than $5 billion in stock, in a deal that gives the Dutch brewer a strong position in the Mexican and Brazilian markets.
Here are five facts about the deal:
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XL Insurance, the global underwriting operations of XL Capital Ltd., and American Wholesalers Underwriting Ltd., a specialised program administrator, have announced a new joint underwriting agreement to provide the Wholesalers' Insurance Program(R) t...
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