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NEW YORK (AP) — The first MacBook Air laptop hit the catwalk in 2008 as an elegant but somewhat impractical statement about how far Apple would go to make the thinnest laptop ever. It wasn't very powerful, had a short battery life and started ...
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XL Group plc last night announced a new $1 billion share buyback programme, as it swung to a $77.5 million profit for the third quarter.
The global business insurer, which moved its domicile from the Cayman Islands to Ireland earlier this year and ha...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Major stock indexes rose yesterday as investors awaited the results of Congressional elections, putting the Dow Jones industrial average near its highest point of the year.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose more than 60 points. Th...
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LONDON (AP) - World stocks mostly rose yesterday as investors awaited the outcome of the US midterm elections and the Federal Reserve's decision on how much it will pump into the US economy to shore up the recovery.
In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of l...
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BATTLE CREEK, Michigan (AP) — Kellogg Co.'s third-quarter net income fell six percent as cereal sales softened, competition intensified and the effects of a cereal recall lingered.
The world's largest cereal maker had warned investors it would be a w...
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NEW YORK (AP) — MasterCard Inc. yesterday said increased use of credit and debit cards outside the US helped lift its third-quarter profit by 15 percent.
The payments processor recorded a net income of $518 million, or $3.94 per share for the three m...
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Stocks that have been smacked around often make the best buys. I regularly compile a casualty list of stocks that have been beaten up in the previous quarter, and that I think have excellent recovery potential. This fits with my favorite investment t...
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TORONTO, (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index edged higher yesterday as commodity prices rose as the US dollar weakened on expectations the US Federal Reserve is set to inject more money into the economy.
The index's energy group gained 0.9 percent...
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A Bermuda-based company has hit the headlines in Switzerland following the handing over of the Swiss Federal Council's Department of Economic Affairs by President Doris Leuthard to the newly-elected Bundesrat, Johann Schneider-Amman.
QuoVadis' Suisse...
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LONDON (AP) - Lloyds Banking Group, Britain's largest retail banker, yesterday reported "good" income growth in the third quarter thanks to fewer bad loan charges, and said it expects to achieve its full-year targets.
In a trading update which did no...
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