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LONDON (Reuters) The British gas market could be caught short this winter as an early cold snap sees suppliers tapping into storage a month earlier than last year, eating into stocks needed for when demand usually peaks early in the year.
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DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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BRUSSELS (Bloomberg) Google Inc. is being probed by European Union anti-trust regulators for allegedly discriminating against competing services in its search results and for stopping some websites accepting rival ads.
The European Commission said it...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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NEW YORK (Reuters) US consumer confidence rose in November to its highest in five months and US Midwest business activity grew faster than expected, providing further evidence of economic recovery.
Still, a faster-than-expected fall in prices of US s...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) Motorola Inc. will split into two companies effective January 4, finalising the break-up of one of the founders of the US electronics industry.
Motorola is splitting its consumer-oriented side, which makes cell phones and cable set-top ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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LONDON (AP) - Worries that Portugal or even Spain will have to seek outside help for their debts continued to unsettle financial markets yesterday though buoyant US consumer confidence figures helped to contain the damage.
In Europe, the FTSE 100 ind...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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LONDON A levy on Britain’s banks will be set at a level that raises no more than £2.5 billion ($3.9 billion) annually, a British government minister said yesterday.
“The levy will raise about £2.5 billion,” Mark Hoban, UK financial services minister,...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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LONDON (AP) Shares in British homebuilder Taylor Wimpey PLC were up slightly yesterday on reports the company is preparing to sell its North American business.
Taylor Wimpey’s US and Canadian businesses include the Mirasol development in Palm Beach G...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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LONDON (AP) British regional airline Flybe says it plans to raise £60 million ($93.2 million) in new shares in a float on the London Stock Exchange.
Flybe Britain’s largest domestic airline said yesterday that half the net proceeds will be used to ex...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER?1: Four of Bermuda’s leading lights in the business community have been inducted into the Bermuda Employers’ Council (BEC)?inaugural Bermuda Business Hall of Fame today.
Sir Henry Tucker was selected from the 1960s, Sir David Gibb...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) Jacob (Kobi) Alexander, the former chairman and CEO of voicemail software maker Comverse Technology Inc. who fled to Namibia in 2006 to avoid prosecution over stock option backdating, has agreed to pay nearly $54 million to settle a civ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2010
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