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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Cisco Systems Inc., General Electric Co. and Emcor Group Inc. may be winners as President-elect Barack Obama seeks to revive the US economy by rewiring classrooms and libraries for high-speed Internet service and repairing brid...
DATE: Dec 10, 2008
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SEATTLE (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. said it wants Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. to agree to European demands to cut the time they keep users' search-engine records before it does the same.
While Microsoft is able to meet the requirements, it wants to...
DATE: Dec 10, 2008
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders must show US President-elect Barack Obama they are serious about tackling economic slowdown and climate change by agreeing firm action on both this week, the bloc's executive said yesterday.
European Commis...
DATE: Dec 10, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — MetLife Inc., the biggest US life insurer, led rivals higher in New York trading yesterday after a boost in its cash investments helped to ease concerns that losses could trigger a liquidity crunch.
MetLife climbed $1.97, or 6....
DATE: Dec 10, 2008
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Bermuda-based insurer Ironshore has lured a long-serving American International Group executive to be its new chief executive officer.
Kevin Kelley has left the role of CEO at Lexington Insurance Company, to take over as CEO of Ironshore. Mr. Kelley ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2008
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress and the White House pushed to clear the final obstacles to a $15 billion bailout of the auto industry yesterday, seeking agreement by day's end followed by swift passage.
The unresolved issues included the precise extent of...
DATE: Dec 10, 2008
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HOUSTON (AP) — Oil prices dipped to near $42 a barrel yesterday amid new reports the anemic global economy will lead to an even sharper falloff in energy consumption through 2009.
There also were indications that internal divisions continue at Opec, ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street turned cautious yesterday after a two-day rally and as downbeat corporate news reminded investors that the economy's troubles will not soon ease. Stocks tumbled while demand for the safety of government debt spiked.
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DATE: Dec 10, 2008
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LONDON (AP) — Britain's Tesco PLC will overtake France's Carrefour SA to become the world's second-largest retailer by turnover behind US-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. by 2012, according to an industry report released yesterday.
The report by internatio...
DATE: Dec 10, 2008
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philadelphia (Bloomberg) — A unit of Aon Corp., the world's largest insurance broker, was ordered to pay $24 million to United National Insurance Company for misrepresenting reinsurance risks.
Aon Ltd., a division of Chicago-based Aon, acted as Unite...
DATE: Dec 10, 2008
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