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LONDON (AP) — Confectionery and soft drinks maker Cadbury Schweppes PLC said yesterday it agreed to buy Intergum, a privately owned Turkish gum business, from the Amram family.The company said the deal was for $450 million in cash and debt, and decli...
DATE: Jun 08, 2007
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EUROPE (Bloomberg) — Peter Hoeppe, the chief scientist at Munich Re, saw nature's destructive power up close.He found himself in hip-deep water during the tsunami that left 229,000 people dead or missing in December 2004.
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DATE: Jun 08, 2007
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) — Madame Zheng, a 44-year-old accountant at a state-owned company, put 100,000 yuan ($13,000), about a year's salary, into China's stock market in the hope of making enough money to move into a better Shanghai apartment.But two day...
DATE: Jun 08, 2007
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It is referred to as the "granddaddy of all insurance class actions" and over the past three years the still-incomplete legal action has sucked up $100 million in fees and a further $20m for out-of-pocket expenses just on the plaintiff side of the co...
DATE: Jun 08, 2007
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BEIJING (AP) — Three months ago, a brief reverse for China's sizzling stock markets that saw prices tumble nearly 9 percent in a day set off a global shock wave, dragging down markets from Hong Kong to New York before they all bounced back.But over t...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of members of Congress are urging women's magazines like Cosmopolitan, Vogue and Glamour to stop accepting tobacco ads, saying such ads threaten the health of the teenagers and young women who form a large part of their readers...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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LONDON - The FTSE 100 index of Britain's leading shares ended down 1.7 percent as inflationary concerns dragged stocks down ahead of the Bank of England's interest rate verdict on Thursday.
The FTSE 100 ended 110.1 points lower at 6,522.7, but was ba...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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HOUSTON (Bloomberg) — A former Enron Corp. lawyer asked a US judge to throw out a suit by the Securities and Exchange Commission accusing him of helping former chairman Kenneth Lay mislead investors by approving false financial statements.Rex Rogers,...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — The euro slipped against the dollar yesterday after the European Central Bank gave no clear signs that it would continue raising interest rates beyond 2007.The ECB lifted euro-zone rates to four percent, but the hike had been wel...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — UBS AG will pay Enron Corp. $115 million to settle a lawsuit over claims the bank received preferential treatment as the energy trader moved toward bankruptcy in 2001, Enron said.The agreement was announced yesterday by the Enr...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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