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Restructuring on course as Best Buy reports dip in sales
WASHINGTON - Best Buy Co Inc, the largest U.S. specialty retailer of consumer electronics, Tuesday reported a 4 percent dip in quarterly sales to $8.9 billion the 10th straight quarterly drop, ...
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E-cigarettes pollute air and harm bystanders says WHO
NEW YORK - The World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday called for a ban on the use of e-cigarettes indoors saying they can be as toxic to bystanders as normal cigarettes. Despite releasing vapour ...
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KKR to acquire China chicken developer for $400 mn
FUJIAN, China - Global investment firm KKR has agreed to buy 18 percent stake in Chinese chicken meat producer Fujian Sunner Development for $400 million, making yet another foray in food ...
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Arbitration claim against Indonesian government withdrawn by Newmont JV
JAKARTA - Newmont Mining Corp., the largest U.S. gold producer, has withdrawn arbitration claim filed with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) relating to the ...
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Salaries in UK show upward trend after several years
LONDON - The average salaries of UK workers showed upward movement during July 2014 for the first time since the start of the recession, newly-released data by recruitment specialist Adzuna ...
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The Matrix Revolutions
Released just six months after The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions has been labeled a failure, both at the U.S. box office (where its opening weekend numbers were about half of Reloadeds) and in the esteem of most critics. The grumbling has been growing ever since many found themselves at a loss to comprehend Reloadeds admittedly awkward shuffle between bravura ... ...
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Berlin Packaging being acquired in $1.4 bn deal
NEW YORK - Equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners Monday said it will buy packaging products maker Berlin Packaging for $1.43 billion from Bahrain-based investment firm Investcorp Bank BSC. The ...
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Burger King merger talks with Tim Hortons gets positive market response
NEW YORK - Shares of US fast-food company Burger King Worldwide Inc and Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons Inc rose on Monday following reports that they are in merger talks. While it ...
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Experimental anti-influenza drug offered by Japan for treating Ebola
TOKYO -- Japan has offered to provide an anti-influenza drug favipiravir developed by a Japanese-pharmaceutical company Toyama Chemical Co, a subsidiary of Fujifilm Holdings, as a possible treatment ...
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Aramco to maintain $40 bn annual investments for next decade, says Al-Falih
STAVANGER, Norway - Khalid A. Al-Falih, chief executive of Saudi Arabia's state-owned national oil company Aramco, world's biggest oil producer, Monday stressed need for maintaining investments as ...
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Once Best in the West Israels Economy Shows Cracks
JERUSALEM- For more than a decade, Israel's high-tech-fueled economy has weathered the global financial crisis and several military conflicts with little impact on growth or the free flow of ...
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WHO Shuts Ebola Lab in Sierra Leone
The World Health Organization has shut one of its Ebola testing labs in Sierra Leone after a staff member there was infected by the virus. The WHO said Tuesday it has withdrawn its staff from the ...
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WHO Calls for Restrictions on Electronic Cigarettes
The World Health Organization is recommending restrictions on the new electronic cigarettes, whose manufacturers tout them as a safer alternative to traditional tobacco smokes. A new WHO report ...
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Next Generation Leaders Head Home After US Experience
WASHINGTON- Nine young people from around the world have been spending the past year in the United States - learning the ins and outs of local government. They're the first participants in a "Next ...
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Ex-banker Replaces Rebel Minister in French Cabinet Shake-up
PARIS - President Francois Hollande replaced his maverick leftist economy minister with a former Rothschild partner on Tuesday, in a reshuffle intended to reconcile his efforts to revive the ...
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WHO Urges Stiff Regulatory Curbs on E-cigarettes
GENEVA- The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday called for regulation of electronic cigarettes as well as bans on indoor use, advertising and sales to minors. In a long-awaited report that ...
Reported in the press
When it comes to Iran's nuclear weapons program, the only difference between them is this: Ahmadinejad was a wolf in wolf's clothing, Rouhani is a wolf in sheep's clothing, a wolf who thinks he can pull the wool over the eyes of the international community.
David French
The chief lobbyist for the National Retail Federation was speaking about talks to end the U.S. government shutdown.
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Royal Caribbean's high-tech cruise ship called 'Quantum of the Seas' will have robot bartenders and 80-inch virtual balconies.
The 167,800-ton ship would have the Bionic Bar for people to place an ...
Top International Business News from Yesterday
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Five of the top seven vacuum cleaners
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Sweden won't take action on property bubble
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Boeing bags orders for 82 medium haul
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Burger King in talks to buy Tim
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France must move away from German obsession
with austerity says top official
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- BMO Financial Group Reports Net Income of $1.1 Billion for the Third Quarter of 2014
- Polk County Mortgage Foreclosures
- RBS fined £14.5m over mortgage advice failings
- RBS Fined £14.5m For Mortgage Advice Failures
- Underwater mortgages weigh on property market
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