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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — British Airways chief executive officer Willie Walsh said carriers must continue to raise ticket prices to pass on fuel costs if they're to ride out one of the toughest years in the industry's history.
"We've seen oil prices ri...
DATE: May 22, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, fell the most in three months in Nasdaq trading after rival Microsoft Corp. unveiled a plan to give cash to people who shop online using its search engine.
Users wh...
DATE: May 22, 2008
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MADRID (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Warren Buffett, speaking in Madrid during his four-day European tour, said he missed an opportunity by not visiting the continent 10 years ago to seek acquisitions for his Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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DATE: May 22, 2008
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LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England made a near unanimous decision to keep interest rates steady this month, according to minutes of the meeting released yesterday, dampening the prospect of imminent rate cuts.
Minutes from the central bank's Monetary ...
DATE: May 22, 2008
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index ended a volatile session more than 250 points lower yesterday, as profit-taking hit energy issues, sparking a broad late-day sell-off following recent record highs.
After pushing higher earl...
DATE: May 22, 2008
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Despite the trading of 11,471 shares throughout the day, there was no change in any share price on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange.
Argus Group Holdings Ltd. traded 4,600 shares, Belco Holdings Ltd. traded 4,000 shares, and Bank of NT Butter...
DATE: May 22, 2008
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of patients taking Pfizer Inc.'s anti-smoking drug Chantix have reported serious accidents, vision problems and heart trouble, researchers said yesterday, sending shares of the world's largest drugmaker to their lowest...
DATE: May 22, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - British house prices will drop seven percent this year and there is likely to be a 35-percent slump in property market transactions, according to revised forecasts from a leading mortgage body.
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML)...
DATE: May 22, 2008
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HERZLIYA, Israel (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. is not looking to bid to buy all of Yahoo Inc. but is in talks about other types of deals with the US No. 2 search engine, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said yesterday.
"We are not bidding to buy Yahoo," Bal...
DATE: May 22, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — A UK unit of American International Group Inc., the world's largest insurer by assets, was fined £640,000 ($1.26 million) by the Financial Services Authority for poor oversight of its call centres.
AIG's UNAT Direct unit didn't c...
DATE: May 22, 2008
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