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PHILADELPHIA — For more than a year, the US housing market has had nothing but bad news. Rising interest rates, falling prices and a slowing economy sucked the life out of the once-booming industry.Yesterday, the housing market got a whisper of good ...
DATE: Dec 06, 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Refco Inc. said yesterday they could begin hearings as soon as December 15 to determine how creditors will be paid, effectively entering the final stage before it could exit from court protection.US Bankruptcy Court Judge ...
DATE: Dec 06, 2006
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Sharp-eyed Earthlings will have spotted a brief gap in publication! Well, this turns out to be an interesting Earthling story that I am now going to share with you.
Before that, please note that we're back and will continue from where we left off ( w...
DATE: Dec 06, 2006
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Exhausted and triumphant from what was surely a ten-mile run through the neighbourhood, you get into your car to retrace your route and clock the distance.You check the car's odometer. Eight miles, it reads. Only eight miles? How...
DATE: Dec 06, 2006
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Richard Branson’s bid to start an American airline may help Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., the UK carrier he controls, regardless of the decision by US authorities on his proposal.US approval of Virgin America, the...
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NEW YORK (AP) ? American International Group Inc., one of the world?s largest insurers, and a company headed by its former chairman announced yesterday they had settled disputes involving specialised insurance agencies that handle marine, energy and ...
DATE: Dec 06, 2006
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ATHENS (Bloomberg) — Tsakos Shipping and Trading SA, the closely held arm of Athens-based Tsakos Group, may have ordered six ships from Sino Pacific Heavy Industries Group's Zhejiang Shipyard for about $210 million, Optima Shipbrokers Ltd. said.Tsako...
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DALLAS — Carlos Penate went into a RadioShack store looking for a memory card for his cell phone. He left with a new job.When an assistant manager found out that Penate, 18, was looking for some extra holiday cash, it was suggested he go from shopper...
DATE: Dec 06, 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street rallied for a second session yesterday after easing wage pressures and stronger-than-expected service sector activity raised prospects that the economy could cool gradually and leave room for the Federal Reserve to lower i...
DATE: Dec 06, 2006
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LONDON (Reuters) — Europe’s biggest bank, HSBC Holdings, said its growth has slowed since the first half of the year due to a weak US housing market and a slowdown at its investment bank arm, sending its shares to a six-month low.London-based HSBC, w...
DATE: Dec 06, 2006
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