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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — An internal watchdog sharply criticised the International Monetary Fund yesterday for failures in its core duty of foreign exchange market surveillance, but the IMF said that steps were being taken.The report by the Independent...
DATE: May 18, 2007
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CHICAGO (Bloomberg) — JetBlue Airways Corp.'s credit rating was cut further into junk status by Moody's Investors Service, after the low-cost carrier posted losses for all of 2006 and this year's first quarter.The corporate rating was lowered one ste...
DATE: May 18, 2007
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — US airlines may be forced to increase public disclosure of instances when passengers get stuck in planes on runways, after a rash of those incidents.The disclosure would include delays that occur after a plane leaves a gate a...
DATE: May 18, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — British interest rates will probably need to rise one more time in the next few months if inflation is to hit the Bank of England's 2 percent target in two years, the central bank signalled yesterday.In its quarterly Inflation Repo...
DATE: May 17, 2007
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The panache of the city that never sleeps is coming to Sin City.The owner of The Plaza hotel in New York announced plans yesterday to buy the New Frontier hotel-casino and develop a $5 billion multi-use complex on what it called "the...
DATE: May 17, 2007
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LONDON - The FTSE 100 index of Britain's leading shares ended down after fluctuating in and out of positive territory, supported by M&A activity but weighed on by property shares and retailer Next.
The FTSE 100 closed at 6,559.5 points, down 9.1 or 0...
DATE: May 17, 2007
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MUMBAI, India (AP) — India's UB Group, the world's third-largest maker of spirits, said yesterday it is buying Scottish distiller Whyte & Mackay Ltd. for $595 million ($1.2 billion).The all-cash acquisition will help expand the market for Whyte and M...
DATE: May 17, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street shot higher after investors shrugged off a mixed reading on the housing sector and focused on the positives: a jump in industrial output, a retreat in crude oil prices and new cash pouring into the stock market. The Dow Jo...
DATE: May 17, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — British copyright laws on sound recordings must be extended beyond 50 years to prevent veteran musicians such as Cliff Richard and Paul McCartney from losing royalties in later life, a report said yesterday.The issue over copyright...
DATE: May 17, 2007
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Here are Bermuda's $100 million dollar men. Eighteen of the highest ranking officers within the Island's insurance and reinsurance market who received salaries, bonuses, perks and other compensation in 2006 collectively worth a staggering $108m.
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DATE: May 17, 2007
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