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Q. I'd like your opinion of Honda Motor Co. stock, in light of all that has gone on in the auto industry? - BR, via the Internet
A. The latest indication that green technology is key to the company's future is the new EV-neo electric motorbike that w...
DATE: Apr 24, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks rose yesterday after a strong report on new home sales offset mixed news from corporate earnings reports. The market was held in check for much of the day after Greece decided to tap a bailout programme.
The Dow Jones industria...
DATE: Apr 24, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar rebounded to finish just above parity with the U.S. currency on Friday, lifted by a weaker greenback and firmness in commodity and equity markets.
The currency fought back from a low of C$1.0066 to the U.S. dol...
DATE: Apr 24, 2010
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For a generation or more, no one ever gave a second thought to Iceland. Now it has shaken up the world twice in a couple of years.
First its banks collapsed in the most dramatic illustration of the fragility of our financial system. Now an Icelandic ...
DATE: Apr 24, 2010
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LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bahn sealed a takeover of Britain's Arriva yesterday and predicted a Europe-wide transport sector consolidation wave would follow.
Deutsche Bahn chief executive Ruediger Grube said the combined group would become...
DATE: Apr 23, 2010
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LONDON (AP) — British politics has come down to this — legal battles over a jar of Marmite.
The intensely salty yeast spread loved or hated by millions of Britons is in an unsavory quarrel with a far-right political party.
Marmite's owner, Unilever N...
DATE: Apr 23, 2010
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LONDON (AP) — Britain's competition watchdog detailed allegations yesterday that Cathay Pacific Airways and Virgin Atlantic colluded over fare pricing.
In a formal "statement of objections" yesterday, the Office of Fair Trading said that employees of...
DATE: Apr 23, 2010
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chubb Corp, a property and casualty insurer, said first quarter earnings rose, buoyed by better results from its investments.
Excluding investment gains, earnings fell because of catastrophes in the Northeastern United States. Bu...
DATE: Apr 23, 2010
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DUBLIN (AP) - Penny-pinching airline Ryanair did a surprise U-turn, yesterday, and agreed to pay the hotel and food bills of tens of thousands of customers left stranded during Europe's volcano-ash crisis.
Chief executive Michael O'Leary had initiall...
DATE: Apr 23, 2010
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Bermuda yesterday signed its first ever full double-taxation agreement (DTA) with the Kingdom of Bahrain.
The agreement is a reciprocal arrangement between the Middle Eastern country and Bermuda not to tax the repatriated income that a firm or a nati...
DATE: Apr 23, 2010
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