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LONDON (AP) — British Airways said yesterday that January traffic fell 2.8 percent compared with the same month in 2006, with the threat of strikes from cabin crews particularly affecting higher-prices ticket sales.Traffic was measured in terms of re...
DATE: Feb 06, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior officials from the European Union and the US plan to restart stalled talks today aimed at expanding air travel between the two.EU Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot and German Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee, whose c...
DATE: Feb 06, 2007
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ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurance companies, said yesterday it agreed to sell its London headquarters, a 40-story glass skyscraper known as “The Gherkin.”The company said it would sell the office building at ...
DATE: Feb 06, 2007
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SAN JOSE, California — For the third time in nearly three decades, iPod maker Apple Inc. has resolved a bitter trademark dispute with The Beatles’ guardian Apple Corps Ltd. over use of the iconic apple logo and name.But while the truce appeared to fi...
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Four more UK banks with an offshore presence outside mainland Great Britain — including Bank of Bermuda parent company HSBC — have found themselves caught in the expanding net of EU tax inspections.
EU citizens who have money in the banks, which have...
DATE: Feb 06, 2007
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index set a record high close yesterday as energy issues climbed amid a cold snap across North America and financial stocks provided buoyancy.The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 55.12 points, or...
DATE: Feb 06, 2007
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Members of the public will be invited to have their say on Government’s proposals for the future of the telecommunications industry in a public meeting on Thursday evening.
But some telecommunications companies have asked for the meeting to be put ba...
DATE: Feb 06, 2007
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BEIJING (AP) — US drug maker Pfizer has lost a round in its legal battles with Chinese rivals over rights to names for its popular anti-impotence drug Viagra, a court employee reported yesterday.Pfizer and local drug makers are struggling over the Ch...
DATE: Feb 06, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Wary US employers slowed hiring in January, pushing the unemployment rate to a four-month high of 4.6 percent and giving jobseekers a bumpy start to the year.Still, the Labour Department’s employment report on Friday suggested the j...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — The uncertainty that has at times waylaid Wall Street in the new year might be less of a factor in the coming week now that investors have been placated by generally good corporate earnings and upbeat comments from the Federal Reserve...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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