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Appeals court directs Ex-Im Bank to explain rationale for loan guarantee to Air India
WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court has upheld a decision by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance the sale of 30 Boeing wide-body jets to Indian state-owned carrier Air India in a legal challenge brought by Delta Air Lines to the loan guarantee. The court has however directed the government-run bank to better explain its rationale for providing loan guarantee, which Delta claimed as a ...
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Google renews efforts wipe out child porn images from internet
LONDON - Internet giant Google said it is spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them. "We're in the business of making information widely available, but there's certain 'information' that should never be created or found," wrote Jacqueline Fuller, director of Google Giving, in a blog post. ...
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GSK negotiating sale of thrombosis drug and plant to Aspen
DURBAN / LONDON - South Africa's biggest generic drug maker Aspen Pharmacare and its subsidiary Aspen Global Incorporated have made an offer to acquire thrombosis drugs and their associated manufacturing site at Notre Dame de Bondeville, France, from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). "AGI will acquire from GSK the Arixtra and Fraxiparine/Fraxodi brands and business worldwide, except in China, Pakistan ...
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Carbon trading to begin in Shenzhen in bid to cut emission
BEIJING - China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, is set to launch Tuesday its first carbon trading scheme as a pilot project in the southern city of Shenzhen as part of efforts to cut emissions in its key cities. Carbon emissions trading schemes are meant to encourage companies to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by setting a limit or a cap, on the level of emission that can be ...
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Rise in transportation costs push up UK inflation to 2.7pc
LONDON - The consumer price index (CPI) inflation increased to 2.7% in May, up from 2.4% in April, mainly due to higher fuel costs pushing up transportation costs particularly airfares, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Tuesday. The ONS said the rise was due to a record increase in airfares and higher fuel prices. "The inflation rate has returned to the levels seen between ...
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Kodak prepares $406 million offering as it eyes bankruptcy exit
on Tuesday said it will seek court approval for a $406 million (259.7 million pounds) rights offering that could give creditors a big equity stake in the company after it emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.Kodak said creditors agreed to backstop an offering that would let the Rochester, New York-based company issue 34 million common shares at $11.94 each, equal to about 85 percent of ...
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Judge U-T must pay former carriers
U-T San Diego must pay a group of former newspaper carriers $3.18 million because they were classified as independent contractors but given job requirements more appropriate for regular employees, a Superior Court judge said ...
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Filner cedes to builder after $100000 gift
Mayor Bob Filner vetoed a builder's request to modify a Kearny Mesa development plan and then later dropped his objection after the company gave $100,000 to the ...
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Australian Market Trades Higher On Wall Street Lead
The Australian stock market is trading higher on Wednesday with investors indulging in some brisk buying in mining, energy and industrial stocks, tracking positive cues from Wall Street, where the major averages surged higher overnight on the back of some encouraging economic data.The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index, which advanced to 4,844.8 in early trades, is currently trading at 4,825, up ...
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Why Yellen Should Be Next Fed Chief
Robert Heller, Former Federal Reserve Governor, tells CNBC why he sees Janet Yellen as both the best qualified and the most likely successor to Ben Bernanke if he does leave the Federal Reserve at the end of ...
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Whitehaven shares jump as Tinkler cuts stake
WHC.AX ) rose as much as 9 percent on Wednesday after the company's top shareholder, embattled tycoon Nathan Tinkler, offloaded about half his stake to cut his ...
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Adobe expects third-quarter Creative Cloud subscriber adds to exceed second-quarter
Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer of Adobe Systems Inc., speaks during the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecom Summit in New York May 21, ...
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Market Wrap for Tuesday June 18 Stocks Rally Ahead of Fed Statement
Risk appetite was brisk on Wall Street on Tuesday as investors purchased stocks ahead of Wednesday's FOMC statement. The Fed is expected to provide clarity on when it may begin tapering its current $85 billion per month bond buying program. Although there is uncertainty, the market seems to be pricing in the likelihood that the Fed will continue its dovish monetary policy for the ...
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Interesting Similarities Among 2013s Top-Performing ETFs
With 2013 nearly half complete, now is a good time to look at this year's top-performing ETFs to see what has worked, what might keep working and which funds could be vulnerable to second-half pullbacks. Before getting to the good stuff, some housekeeping is in order. First, 10 ETFs that will be highlighted are all plain vanilla, non-leveraged funds. Second, the list and performance data ...
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Dividend ETFs No Need to Pay up For Yield
according to Treasury Department data , but the reality is even at 2.2 percent, the yield on Treasurys is nothing to write home about. Given the still anemic yields on assets that are perceived to be risk-free, it is not surprising that investors have been paying up for higher yields elsewhere. The ongoing hunt for yield has predictably ...
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Alexander Why Wi-Fi is speedier than Internet
Q You wrote that any Wi-Fi router you can buy today will be much faster than your Internet connection. Does this mean the wireless router can transmit data faster than my Internet connection can send it? If so, who ...
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Statuesque San Diego County
San Diego is home to some wonderful examples of public art. Above, "Magic Carpet Ride" by artist Matthew Antichevich goes through odd transformations, as you'll see in the next slide.Did we forget your ...
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Nuclear failure may show limits of computers
View inside one of the San Onofre nuclear power plant's steam generators with the steam dome cut off, looking at the top of the steam bundle. Tubes begin at the opposite end from the viewpoint of this photo, bring hot reactor water up around the tube bend shown in this photo and then end back to the other end where the water returns to the reactor. Thus the tubes are heated. Then a second ...
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Tyrie report now lock up the banksters
Banks will hate large chunks of this report, which is fair indication that Andrew Tyrie's commission has understood the industry. Photograph: Felix ...
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British banks must do better says standards report
The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards report - called Changing Banking for Good - runs to more than 500 pages and is the culmination of a year's work. It cost 850,000 to produce and took evidence from more than 250 witnesses. Its recommendations ...
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Honeywell takes to skies with COMAC
/enpproperty--> Honeywell Aerospace, the United States-based aviation parts maker and a major supplier to China's domestic commercial aircraft, the C919, is upbeat about the much-anticipated jet's maiden flight in 2015, a senior executive of the company said. "We are on schedule" with the Commercial Aircraft Corp of China's plan for the first flight, John ...
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Bankers Should Face Jail Terms Report Warns
A new criminal offence punishing bankers for "reckless misconduct" while running their institutions is the centrepiece of proposals unveiled by a group of MPs and peers aimed at reforming the industry. The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards (PCBS), which was set up after last summer's Libor-manipulation scandal led to Barclays being ...
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Microsoft says it freed millions of computers worldwide from criminal botnet
said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than US$500 million from bank accounts worldwide. "We definitely have liberated at least 2 million PCs globally. That is a conservative estimate," Richard Domingues Boscovich, assistant ...
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Stimulus Program Is Noise In Economy Gilder
All eyes are on the Fed as they kick off their 2-day meeting. Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, and George Gilder, author of "Knowledge and Power," discuss what's ahead for Fed Chairman Bernanke, and the U.S. ...
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Small Business Economic Uncertainty
Many small businesses are still struggling in this economy. Sen. Bob Casey, Joint Economic Committee (D), and Sen. Susan Collins, Appropriations & Intelligence Committee (R), discuss ways in which small business can be ...
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Hopkins International on the brink
United and Continental Airlines remain intent on merging the two airlines, which would create the biggest airline in the world. Continental, based in Houston, Texas is already the fourth-largest carrier in the United States, which makes its operations out of Hopkins International extremely important to the city of Cleveland.
Local industry commentators have been discussing the merger between United and Continental and the effects it might have on the city. The general consensus has been negative, according to Cleveland news media. Read more
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