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LONDON (AP) — US Olympic gold medalist Hannah Kearney has won some potentially influential support in her bid to have a Ben & Jerry's icecream flavour named after her — from no less than Ben and Jerry themselves.
The pair, who are in the British capi...
DATE: Feb 18, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock market index finished higher for a sixth straight session yesterday as rosy US economic data and retreating worries about European debt lifted bank shares.
Shares of Royal Bank of Canada, the country's biggest...
DATE: Feb 18, 2010
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LONDON - Britain's top share index rose for the third consecutive day, led by financials and miners on bullish corporate results and economic data, and adding to growing optimism over the health of the global economy. The FTSE 100 ended up 32.58 poin...
DATE: Feb 18, 2010
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LONDON (AP) — The British subsidiary of Reader's Digest Association Inc. has filed for administration, a form a bankruptcy protection, freeing the parent company to complete restructuring in the United States. Following the decision by the board of t...
DATE: Feb 18, 2010
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FRANKFURT (Bloomberg) — More than 2,000 taxpayers in Germany have declared their holdings voluntarily in the days since the government said it would buy illicit data on Swiss accounts, rushing to escape punishment before a tax-evasion probe begins. T...
DATE: Feb 18, 2010
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LONDON (Reuters) - The number of Britons claiming jobless benefit jumped unexpectedly in January and at its fastest rate in six months, raising fears that an improvement at the end of last year may have been little more than a blip.
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DATE: Feb 18, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) - A stream of good news has the stock market back on an upward path.
Encouraging corporate and economic reports yesterday added to hopes that a recovery is taking hold even as big concerns remain about unemployment and bursting budgets ...
DATE: Feb 18, 2010
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - A US client of London-based HSBC pleaded guilty to conspiracy in connection with assets stashed abroad to evade taxes, part of a widening crackdown on foreign banks and their customers.
The plea is the first among the...
DATE: Feb 18, 2010
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ROME (Bloomberg) — Italy's amnesty on tax evasion yielded 85.1 billion euros through February 15, the central bank said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.
The figure differs from a December 29 estimate by the Economy Ministry that showed the amnesty...
DATE: Feb 18, 2010
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Man Group Plc jumped the most in four months after a filing showed Blackrock Inc. owns a 10 percent stake in the largest publicly traded hedge-fund manager, and a newspaper said Man Group may be a takeover target.
The UK's Daily ...
DATE: Feb 18, 2010
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