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REUTERS
WALL ST SET FOR HIGHER OPEN AFTER PAYROLLSNEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street was poised for a strong open on Friday after a better-than-expected jobs report lifted investor optimism on the economy....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:49:00 ESTCHINA ORDERS STATE FIRMS TO EXPLORE POTASH BIDHONG KONG/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Chinese officials have ordered state-owned companies to meet with investment bankers to explore potential options to block BHP Billiton's $39 billion bid for Canada's Potash Corp, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:49:00 ESTOWNERS OF A THIRD OF 3PAR BACK HP BIDNEW YORK (Reuters) - Data storage provider 3PAR Inc said on Friday that shareholders owning about a third of its shares have agreed to accept Hewlett-Packard Co's proposal to buy the company for $2.4 billion....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:49:00 ESTSWIFT ANGLO IRISH CLOSURE WOULD BE TOO COSTLY - PMDUBLIN (Reuters) - Moving swiftly to wind up nationalised Anglo Irish Bank could cost 70 billion euros (58 billion pounds) or more and would not be in the taxpayers' interest, Prime Minister Brian Cowen said on Friday....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:32:07 ESTSTOCK FUTURES RISE AFTER JOBS DATANEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures rose on Friday after data showed the decline in employment was far less than expected in August....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:32:05 ESTCAMPBELL SOUP PROFIT BEATS STREET BUT SALES LIGHTCHICAGO (Reuters) - Campbell Soup Co posted lower-than-expected quarterly sales and forecast sales growth for the new fiscal year would be below its long-term target as the world's largest soup company grapples with a weak economy....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:32:05 ESTWALGREEN SAME-STORE SALES MISS EXPECTATIONSCHICAGO (Reuters) - Walgreen Co posted weaker-than-expected August sales at stores open more than a year, hurt by generic drug introductions and a decrease in customer traffic....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:32:05 ESTUPBEAT U.S. JOBS REPORT BOOSTS WORLD STOCKSLONDON (Reuters) - World stocks jumped on Friday while the low-yielding yen and government bonds tumbled after a closely-watched U.S. jobs report showed a smaller-than-expected decline in non-farm payrolls....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:15:01 ESTPAYROLLS FALL LESS THAN EXPECTED 54,000 IN AUGUSTWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment fell for a third straight month in August, but the decline was far less than expected and private payrolls growth surprised on the upside, easing pressure on the Federal Reserve to prop up growth....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:15:00 ESTU.S. PAYROLLS FALL LESS THAN EXPECTED IN AUGUSTWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment fell for a third straight month in August, but the decline was far less than expected and private payrolls growth surprised on the upside, easing pressure on the Federal Reserve to prop up growth....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:58:02 ESTPAYROLLS FALL LESS THAN EXPECTED IN AUGUSTWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment fell for a third straight month in August, but the decline was far less than expected and private payrolls growth surprised on the upside, easing pressure on the Federal Reserve to prop up growth....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:58:01 ESTSTOCK FUTURES FLAT AHEAD OF PAYROLLSNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures were little changed on Friday ahead of the key monthly payrolls report that will give investors insight on the state of the ailing labor market....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:41:00 ESTCAMPBELL SOUP PROFIT BEATS ESTIMATESCHICAGO (Reuters) - Campbell Soup Co reported higher-than-expected quarterly earnings on Friday, helped by cost cuts and sales of V8 juice drinks, even as U.S. soup sales fell....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:24:01 ESTFTSE HIT MORE THAN 3-WEEK HIGH BEFORE US JOBS DATALONDON (Reuters) - Britain's leading share index hit a more than three-week high on Friday as the market looks beyond a weak employment picture in the United States after factoring in a soft patch in the pace of the economic recovery....Date: 03 Sep 2010 07:33:02 ESTEURO ZONE JULY RETAIL SALES RISE FOR THIRD MONTHBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone retail sales increased for a third successive month in July, offering more signs that consumers are opening their wallets and boosting the chances of the economic recovery continuing....Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:59:01 ESTBRAZIL OIL FIRM PETROBRAS PLANS $65 BILLION STOCK SALERIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian state oil company Petrobras will sell up to $64.5 billion in new stock -- one of the largest in capital markets history -- to raise funds for the world's biggest oil exploration investment plan....Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:42:01 ESTSERVICE SECTOR SPOTLIGHT SHINES ON GERMANY, CHINALONDON (Reuters) - Global service sector surveys highlighted a growing divergence in economic recovery on Friday with a pick up in growth in China and Germany but slowdowns in Britain and Spain and an expected deceleration in the United States....Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:42:01 ESTEUROPE STOCKS GAINLONDON (Reuters) - European stocks edged higher on Friday after U.S. shares climbed, but the dollar struggled as markets braced for a key U.S. labour report expected to show more job losses, clouding the outlook for recovery....Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:08:14 ESTMETRO BANK AHEAD OF TARGETS ON NEW ACCOUNTSLONDON (Reuters) - Metro Bank, Britain's first new high street retail bank in more than 100 years, said on Friday it was ahead of its own targets for new account openings at its flagship branch....Date: 03 Sep 2010 05:34:01 ESTBP OIL SPILL COSTS HIT £5 BILLIONLONDON (Reuters) - BP Plc said the cost of dealing with its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had risen to $8 billion (5 billion pounds) as the oil giant prepared to release the findings of an internal probe into the causes of the disaster....Date: 03 Sep 2010 05:17:01 EST
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
STOCKS EXTEND SEPTEMBER RALLY AFTER JOBS REPORTBy STEPHEN BERNARD 2010-09-03T13:42:34Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks extended their rally Friday after a relatively encouraging report on the jobs market lifted hopes about the pace of economic growth.......Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:49:02 ESTFLOODING ON OUTER BANKS, EARL HEADS FOR NORTHEASTBy MIKE BAKER 2010-09-03T13:30:30Z BUXTON, N.C. (AP) -- A weakened Hurricane Earl delivered only a glancing blow to North Carolina's Outer Banks early Friday on its way up the East Coast, flooding roads on the narrow vacation islands and knocking out power but staying farther offshore...Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:49:02 ESTCAMPBELL REPORTS Q4 PROFIT RISE ON BETTER MARGINSBy 2010-09-03T12:35:52Z CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) -- The Campbell Soup Co. reported a larger fourth-quarter net income Friday, a time when the temperature rises and its soup sales traditionally drop.......Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:49:02 ESTSTOCKS JUMP AFTER RELATIVELY UPBEAT US JOBS DATABy PAN PYLAS 2010-09-03T13:08:00Z LONDON (AP) -- Stocks pushed higher Friday after a relatively upbeat U.S. jobs report for August eased concerns about the pace of the economic recovery in the world's largest economy.......Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:32:12 ESTCOMPANIES ADD 67K WORKERS, BUT JOBLESS RATE RISESBy CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER 2010-09-03T12:58:40Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Private employers hired more workers over the past three month than first thought, lifting hopes for the weak economy. But the unemployment rate rose in August for the first time in four months as more people entered the...Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:15:02 ESTSTOCK FUTURES SURGE AFTER JOBS REPORTBy STEPHEN BERNARD 2010-09-03T13:03:03Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are set to extend their rally Friday after a relatively encouraging report on the jobs market lifted hopes about the pace of economic growth.......Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:15:02 ESTGAZPROM TO DOUBLE GAS IMPORTS FROM AZERBAIJANBy 2010-09-03T12:29:08Z MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's Gazprom on Friday clinched a deal to double supplies from Azerbaijan in a bid to expand its control over gas produced by former Soviet republics.......Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:41:05 ESTEARL BLOWS PAST OUTER BANKS ON PATH TO NORTHEASTBy MIKE BAKER 2010-09-03T12:25:07Z BUXTON, N.C. (AP) -- A weakened Hurricane Earl howled past North Carolina's Outer Banks before daybreak Friday on its way up the East Coast, flooding parts of the narrow vacation islands and knocking out power but staying farther offshore than feared....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:41:05 ESTGOLDCORP AGREES TO BUY ANDEAN RESOURCES FOR $3.42BBy 2010-09-03T12:34:47Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Goldcorp Inc. said Friday that it has agreed to buy Andean Resources Ltd. for about 3.6 billion Canadian dollars ($3.42 billion) in a deal that would give it access to an Argentinian mining project said to contain a significant amount of gold and silver...Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:41:05 ESTSTOCK FUTURES RISE SHARPLY AFTER JOBS REPORTBy STEPHEN BERNARD 2010-09-03T12:37:07Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Stock futures are rising after a better-than-expected report on the job market lifted hopes about the pace of economic growth.......Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:41:05 ESTUNEMPLOYMENT RATE RISES AS LABOR FORCE EXPANDSBy 2010-09-03T12:35:17Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- The unemployment rate rose in August for the first time in four months as weak hiring by private employers wasn't enough to keep pace with a large increase in the number of people looking for work.......Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:41:04 ESTEXPERTS SEE TROUBLE AHEAD FOR DEVELOPED WORLDBy DAN PERRY 2010-09-03T12:18:49Z CERNOBBIO, Italy (AP) -- Is the global economy out of the woods? Two years after near-meltdown, with the U.S. looking sluggish, equity markets groggy and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts gathered in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook - e...Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:24:03 ESTSTOCK FUTURES MIXED AHEAD OF JOBS REPORTBy STEPHEN BERNARD 2010-09-03T11:46:31Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Stock futures traded in a tight range Friday as investors cautiously approached the government's monthly employment report.......Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:07:07 ESTGOLDCORP TO BUY ANDEAN RESOURCES FOR $3.42 BILLIONBy 2010-09-03T11:14:36Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Canada's Goldcorp Inc. says it has agreed to buy Andean Resources Ltd. for about 3.6 billion Canadian dollars ($3.42 billion).......Date: 03 Sep 2010 07:33:02 ESTSOME FLOODING ON NC OUTER BANKS AS EARL PASSESBy MIKE BAKER 2010-09-03T10:47:48Z BUXTON, N.C. (AP) -- First light reveals some flooding on the narrow vacation islands of North Carolina's Outer Banks after Hurricane Earl passed in the night.......Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:59:01 ESTBP SAYS COST OF GULF OF MEXICO SPILL HITS $8 BLNBy 2010-09-03T10:53:48Z LONDON (AP) -- BP says it has so far spent $8 billion responding to the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.......Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:59:01 ESTSTOCK FUTURES EDGE HIGHER AHEAD OF JOBS REPORTBy STEPHEN BERNARD 2010-09-03T10:42:13Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Stock futures are inching higher, continuing a rally ahead of the government's monthly employment report.......Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:59:01 ESTWORLD STOCKS UP AHEAD OF KEY US JOBS DATABy PAN PYLAS 2010-09-03T10:38:29Z LONDON (AP) -- World stock markets rose Friday ahead of a U.S. jobs report that could help determine whether the Federal Reserve opts to introduce fresh measures to get the world's largest economy going again.......Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:42:02 ESTWORLD STOCKS RISE AHEAD OF US EMPLOYMENT REPORTBy JOE McDONALD 2010-09-03T09:46:44Z BEIJING (AP) -- World stock markets climbed as investors took heart from a slight improvement in U.S. economic indicators ahead of a crucial employment report due later Friday.......Date: 03 Sep 2010 05:51:03 ESTSWEDISH BANK CARNEGIE BUYS TROUBLED COMPETITORBy MALIN RISING 2010-09-03T08:40:45Z STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Swedish investment bank Carnegie AB Friday said it will buy competitor HQ Bank AB, which had its banking license revoked by the financial watchdog last week.......Date: 03 Sep 2010 05:17:02 EST -
WALL STREET JOURNAL
BLASTS TARGET MUSLIM MINORITIES IN PAKISTANAn attack on a Shiite rally killed at least 43 people in southwestern Pakistan, while a suicide bomber targeted a minority Sunni mosque in Peshawar....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:32:14 ESTOFFICIALS MOVE TO TAME ASIAN CURRENCIESSingapore intervened in the foreign-exchange market and Korea resumed its intervention after a two-week break, while Japan has signaled it is weighing entering the market for the first time in six years....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:32:13 ESTJOBS REPORT BOOSTS RISKIER MARKETSStocks and other growth-sensitive markets, including the euro, got the best news they've had for some time with Friday's better-than-expected U.S. payrolls report for August....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:32:12 ESTU.S. PRIVATE SECTOR ADDS 67,000 JOBSThe U.S. economy lost 54,000 jobs in August as census workers continued to exit payrolls, but the private sector added 67,000 jobs. The unemployment rate rose to 9.6%....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:15:03 ESTFUTURES JUMP ON JOBS DATAU.S. stock futures jumped after job losses slowed more than expected last month, though the unemployment rate edged up....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:15:03 ESTSARRAZIN'S DISMISSAL SOUGHTThe German central bank said its board will ask the country's president to dismiss Thilo Sarrazin, whose comments on immigration have caused a political storm....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:58:03 ESTU.S. EMPLOYERS CUT 54,000 JOBSU.S. payrolls fell by 54,000 in August, less than economists had expected. Private-sector companies added 67,000 jobs. The unemployment rate rose to 9.6%....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:58:02 ESTBP SPILL COSTS REACH $8 BILLIONBP said it has spent around $8 billion in response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and expects to resume its relief-well drilling shortly....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:07:08 ESTIEA SEES MORE RELIANCE ON OPEC OILThe global dependency on the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for oil will rise as production by non-OPEC nations falls....Date: 03 Sep 2010 07:50:08 ESTIEA PREDICTS GREATER RELIANCE ON OPEC OILThe global dependency on the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for oil will rise as production by non-OPEC nations falls....Date: 03 Sep 2010 07:16:03 ESTROCHE LAUNCHES COST-CUTTING PLANRoche said it has launched a cost-cutting and efficiency plan in the wake of increased price pressures and a series of drug-development setbacks....Date: 03 Sep 2010 07:16:03 ESTDON'T LOOK TO JOBLESS RATE FOR FED HINTSInvestors are counting on the August unemployment rate to send a clear signal about the prospect for more Fed policy easing. But they may only hear static....Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:59:01 ESTDIRTY MONEY PROBE CIRCLES GLOBEA slim lead helped spark an inquiry that found some of Europe's banks actively evaded U.S. law in aiding sanctioned countries to move $2 billion undetected....Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:08:17 ESTGULF OF MEXICO BLAZE SHAKES OIL INDUSTRYThe fire that engulfed an oil and gas platform heightened pressure on the energy industry, which is battling greater regulation and a drilling ban....Date: 03 Sep 2010 05:51:04 ESTGOP WOOS VOTERSHouse Republicans are hunting for an election-season middle ground on which they can make promises to voters without providing enough details to be attacked by Democrats....Date: 03 Sep 2010 05:51:04 ESTEXPORTERS ADVANCE IN TOKYOAsian stock markets were mostly higher Friday as exporters gained while the yen took a breather after strong gains recently. The Nikkei rose 0.6%....Date: 03 Sep 2010 05:34:03 ESTANDEAN SUBJECT OF BIDDING WAROne of the world's most prospective gold companies, Andean Resources of Australia, has become the subject of a bidding war between two Canadian companies....Date: 03 Sep 2010 05:17:03 ESTBP SAYS SPILL COSTS HAVE HIT $8 BILLIONBP said it has spent around $8 billion in response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and expects to resume its relief-well drilling shortly....Date: 03 Sep 2010 04:26:03 ESTBP: COST OF SPILL HITS $8 BILLIONBP said it has spent around $8 billion in response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and expects to resume its relief-well drilling shortly....Date: 03 Sep 2010 03:52:07 ESTROCHE SETS COST-COSTING PLANRoche said it has launched a cost-cutting and efficiency plan in the wake of increased price pressures and a series of drug-development setbacks....Date: 03 Sep 2010 03:35:08 EST
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FINANCIAL TIMES
INVESTORS BUOYED BY BETTER US JOBS DATATraders are piling into risky bets after a better than expected US labour market report reinforced hopes that the US economy can avoid sliding back into recession....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:32:14 ESTRISE IN US PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS RAISES HOPEThe US shed 54,000 jobs in August as the government dismissed more temporary census workers, but a healthy rise in private-sector employment offered hope that the economy could fend off a second recession...Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:15:04 ESTFRANCE AND UK SEEK ‘DELIVERABLE’ DEFENCE SAVINGSFrance and Britain have stepped up their talks about strengthening bilateral defence co-operation but ruled out the idea of sharing aircraft carriers as ‘utterly unrealistic’...Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:15:04 ESTCHINA AND US STAGE YELLOW SEA WARGAMESChina and the US stage near-simultaneous naval exercises this week in the oceans around the Yellow Sea in one of the most open displays of the rising competition between the two rival forces in north Asia...Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:15:04 ESTTRADERS BUOYED BY BETTER US JOBS DATATraders are piling into risky bets after a better than expected US labour market report reinforced hopes that the US economy can avoid sliding back into recession....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:58:04 ESTCHINA AND US STAGE SOUTH SEA WARGAMESChina and the US stage near-simultaneous naval exercises this week in the oceans around the Yellow Sea in one of the most open displays of the rising competition between the two rival forces in north Asia...Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:58:04 ESTGELDOF SEEKS $1BN FOR AFRICAN INVESTMENTThe singer and campaigner for aid to the continent is seeking to raise money from institutional investors for a private equity venture on the continent...Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:41:08 ESTWEAK SERVICE DATA ADD TO SLOWDOWN FEARSService sector activity grew at the weakest pace in 16 months in August, heightening fears that the economy is beginning to stall...Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:25:02 ESTMAYOR OUTLINES PLAN TO LIMIT TUBE STRIKE IMPACTExtra buses and river services and a series of guided cycle rides are due to operate in London next week as the capital prepares for the first system-wide London Underground strike in 15 months...Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:25:02 ESTBP DISASTER COSTS RISE TO $8BNThe oil group said the costs associated with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have risen by $2bn in the last month to $8bn and that it expected the relief well currently under construction to be completed by mid-September...Date: 03 Sep 2010 04:26:03 ESTBBC’S IMPARTIALITY UNDER QUESTIONThe BBC was forced to defend its neutrality after its director general met with senior aides to David Cameron to discuss its political coverage...Date: 03 Sep 2010 03:01:06 ESTTRADING THINS AHEAD OF KEY US JOBS DATAAsian shares are slightly higher as investors are cheered by positive economic data from the US and a third straight session of gains on Wall Street....Date: 03 Sep 2010 02:44:03 ESTTRADING THINS AHEAD OF US JOBS DATAAsian shares are slightly higher as investors are cheered by positive economic data from the US and a third straight session of gains on Wall Street....Date: 03 Sep 2010 02:27:02 ESTASIAN SHARES RISE ON SUPPORTIVE US DATAAsian shares are slightly higher as investors are cheered by positive economic data from the US and a third straight session of gains on Wall Street....Date: 02 Sep 2010 23:59:09 ESTBANKS ARE CUTTING USE OF BONUSES TO RECRUITGuaranteed bonuses accounted for about 5% of the bonuses paid out for 2009 at 37 leading financial companies surveyed by the Institute of International Finance...Date: 02 Sep 2010 21:26:06 ESTBBC DEFENDS NEUTRALITYThe BBC was forced to defend its neutrality after its director general met with senior aides to David Cameron to discuss its political coverage...Date: 02 Sep 2010 20:01:07 ESTHSBC IN CLEAREST WARNING OVER RELOCATIONWarning given over British banks moving their headquarters abroad if UK government-appointed Commission on Banking were to decide that big groups should be broken up...Date: 02 Sep 2010 18:53:08 ESTLENDERS SHUNNED ON STRESS TESTS DOUBTSLeading UK and continental European companies eschewing banks from Spain, Italy and even Germany because they do not believe the Europe-wide assessments gave a true picture of their financial health...Date: 02 Sep 2010 18:19:08 ESTFEARS GROW OVER GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLYRussia announced a 12-month extension of its grain export ban, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08 which spread through developing countries dependent on imports...Date: 02 Sep 2010 17:45:13 ESTNEW ROW OVER NEWSPAPER PHONE-HACKERSA former Labour minister is one of at least 10 MPs who suspect they were targeted by reporters looking to hack into their telephone messages...Date: 02 Sep 2010 17:45:13 EST -
TIMES OF LONDON
NEWS CORP REACHES FOR THE SKY WITH TAKEOVER OFFERNews Corporation, the media group headed by Rupert Murdoch, confirmed this morning that it had made an offer to take full control of BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster in which it has a 39 per cent stake....Date: 16 Aug 2010 01:02:12 ESTCHINA PRIMES HOUSE TAX TO HALT RUNAWAY PRICESChina is considering a wealth tax on homeowners as it grasps at new weapons to halt a frantic rise in property prices that many fear poses the biggest threat to the Chinese economy....Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTBUSINESS BIG SHOT: STEVE WIENERIt is a dilemma familiar to anyone still clinging to analogue radios or cathode-ray televisions: pay to go digital or wait until prices drop?...Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTBUSINESS BRIEFING: OLD GUARD PIN HOPES ON NEW MEDIATraditional media, from television to newspapers, is pinning its hopes for a recovery in advertising on mobile devices such as the iPad and on the spread of high-speed broadband....Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTCOWDERY LAYS DOWN HIS CHALLENGE TO THE BANKSClive Cowdery appears to have confounded the sceptics once again....Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTROW OVER BANK CARD AND CREDIT CARD CHARGESBanks are making hundreds of millions of pounds a year and pushing up prices on the high street by levying “unjustifiably high” fees on credit and debit card sales, retailers will say today....Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTDANA PETROLEUM ACQUIRES PETROCANADA NETHERLANDSDana Petroleum paid £270 million for PetroCanada Netherlands yesterday, it’s biggest-ever acquisition....Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTVIRGIN READY FOR SHOOT-OUT WITH INTERNET GAMING GIANTSWith titles such as Command and Conquer and Resident Evil, Virgin was regarded as one of the cooler geeks in computer games during the 1990s....Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTECONOMY MAY NEVER RECOVER FROM BANKING CRISIS, WARNS OBRThe economy, more damaged by the banking crisis than previously admitted, will grow more weakly and may never fully recover, the new Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said yesterday....Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTCOWDERY GOES IT ALONE TO CUT BANKS’ FEESClive Cowdery’s Resolution is close to securing a ground-breaking deal to slash investment bank underwriting fees on a rights issue to fund a £2.75 billion acquisition of Axa’s UK life business....Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTFSA CALLS SIR FRED GOODWIN TO ACCOUNT OVER RBS UNRAVELLINGSir Fred Goodwin has been summoned by the Financial Services Authority to answer questions about Royal Bank of Scotland’s management in the run up to its near-collapse in October 2008....Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 EST‘A DISLOYAL, DISHONEST, CRIMINAL CHEAT’ – BANK BOSS DENOUNCES ROGUE TRADERJérôme Kerviel, the rogue trader accused of losing almost €5 billion, was denounced by a former boss as criminal, dishonest, disloyal and a cheat at his trial in Paris yesterday....Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTVANTIS SHARES SUSPENDED AMID SURVIVAL FEARSThe crisis surrounding Vantis, the AIM-listed accountancy firm, deepened today as the group asked for trading in its shares to be suspended amid doubts over its ability to survive....Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTOBR SLASHES ECONOMIC GROWTH FORECASTSQ&A: what is the Office for Budgetary Responsibility? LIVE: question to the experts on inflation...Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTBP SHARES DIVE AMID US SENATORS’ £20BN ESCROW PLANRead how BP managers face years in jail and how America snubbed British offer of help with spill at The Times's new website...Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTTFL CASHES IN AND CHECKS OUT OF SHARDTransport for London will abandon its plans to move into the Shard at London Bridge after a deal that allows the skyscraper’s owners to find tenants willing to pay a much higher rent....Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTSHAREHOLDERS PLUG INTO GRID FUNDRAISERInvestors have given the thumbs up to the biggest rights issue by a British utility....Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTRESOLUTION IN TALKS WITH AXA FOR LIFE UNITResolution, the insurance buyout vehicle, detailed its plans today to acquire the majority of AXA's £2.75 billion life assurance division....Date: 15 Aug 2010 01:02:03 ESTVINCE CABLE BACKS BREAK-UP OF BIG BANKSVince Cable, the Business Secretary, has given official backing to recommendations that call for investment banks to be broken up....Date: 14 Aug 2010 01:02:04 ESTTESCO CHAIRMAN STAYS ON TO SMOOTH SIR TERRY LEAHY TRANSITIONDAVID REID has pledged to stay on as chairman of Tesco for at least another 18 months to maintain boardroom stability at Britain’s biggest retailer, insiders say....Date: 13 Aug 2010 01:02:06 EST -
SKY NEWS
PUB CHAIN SERVES UP JOBS FOR 16-YEAR-OLDSDiscount pub chain JD Wetherspoon has announced plans to create 1,000 jobs for school leavers aged 16 and 17....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:07:11 ESTFOOD PRICE FEAR OVER RUSSIA WHEAT BANRussia has extended the ban on wheat exports until next year's harvest, sparking fears over a global food shortage....Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:59:04 ESTSKY LAUNCHES 3D TV PARTNERSHIP WITH LGSky has announced a new 3D TV deal with the Korean manufacturer LG during the IFA technology fair in Berlin....Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:59:04 ESTTAGGED NADIR TO FACE TRIAL IN OCTOBER 2011An Old Bailey judge has said Asil Nadir could face trial in October 2011 and ordered the tycoon wear an electronic tag....Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:25:04 ESTBINNING THE BOOZE: BRITS ARE DRINKING LESSPeople in the UK are drinking less for the first time in 60 years, according to new figures....Date: 03 Sep 2010 06:08:43 ESTCOLA WORKERS TO STRIKE IN POP AT PAYWorkers at a Coca-Cola factory are to launch a wave of 24-hour strikes from next week in a row over pay....Date: 03 Sep 2010 05:34:05 ESTBP COSTS RISE AS NEW SPILL FEARS ALLAYEDBP has said the cost of tackling the Gulf of Mexico disaster has risen to £5.2bn - as fears were allayed over another rig blaze in the region....Date: 03 Sep 2010 05:17:10 ESTBP COSTS RISE AS NEW SPILL FEARS QUELLEDBP has said the cost of tackling the Gulf of Mexico disaster has risen to £5.2bn - as fears were allayed over another rig blaze in the region....Date: 03 Sep 2010 04:26:05 ESTBALLS CALLS FOR SPENDING SPREE ON NEW JOBSUnemployment should be tackled by spending £250m on creating 200,000 jobs and placements for people out of work, Labour leadership hopeful Ed Balls has said....Date: 03 Sep 2010 03:35:12 ESTFUGITIVE TYCOON FINALLY FACES THE MUSICFugitive tycoon Asil Nadir is due in court today to finally face multi-million pound charges over the collapse of his Polly Peck business empire....Date: 02 Sep 2010 22:00:25 ESTBALLS CALLS FOR £250K TO BE SPENT ON NEW JOBSUnemployment should be tackled by spending £250m on creating 200,000 jobs and placements for people out of work, Labour leadership hopeful Ed Balls has said....Date: 02 Sep 2010 22:00:25 ESTARCTIC WEATHER ENDS OIL RIG OCCUPATIONFour Greenpeace activists have been arrested after abandoning a protest aimed at disrupting drilling on the Stena Don oil rig in Baffin Bay, Greenland....Date: 02 Sep 2010 11:14:26 ESTBURGER KING AGREES £2BN 3G CAPITAL BUYOUTBurger King Holding has agreed to be bought by private equity firm 3G Capital in a deal valued at $3.26bn (£2.12bn)....Date: 02 Sep 2010 10:57:10 ESTGREENPEACE PROTESTERS ARRESTED ON OIL RIGFour Greenpeace activists have been arrested after abandoning their 40-hour protest on the Stena Don oil rig in Baffin Bay, Greenland....Date: 02 Sep 2010 10:57:10 ESTRBS AXING 3,500 MORE JOBS 'IS A HORROR STORY'Royal Bank of Scotland is cutting a further 3,500 British jobs in a move a major trade union has described as a "horror story"....Date: 02 Sep 2010 09:32:12 ESTSAMSUNG GALAXY AIMS TO ECLIPSE APPLE'S IPADA new cheaper rival to the Apple iPad has been officially launched - among a host of gadgets at the world's biggest technology fair....Date: 02 Sep 2010 08:41:07 ESTRBS AXING 3,500 MORE JOBS IS A 'HORROR STORY'Royal Bank of Scotland is cutting a further 3,500 jobs in Britain under plans to more than halve the bank's administration centres across the UK....Date: 02 Sep 2010 08:24:14 ESTRBS AXES 3,500 MORE JOBS IN BRITAINRoyal Bank of Scotland is cut a further 3,500 jobs in Britain under plans to more than halve the bank's administration centres across the UK....Date: 02 Sep 2010 08:07:15 ESTSAMSUNG TABLET VIES FOR HOTTEST GADGET TAGA new cheaper rival to the Apple iPad is officially launched today - among a host of gadgets at the world's biggest technology fair....Date: 02 Sep 2010 08:07:15 ESTFOUR ENERGY FIRMS FACE MIS-SELLING PROBEFour energy companies are to be investigated over claims they may have been mis-selling to customers....Date: 02 Sep 2010 06:59:10 EST
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NEW YORK TIMES
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HOW ''GREEN'' IS YOUR CAR?U.S. government agencies are proposing car stickers that include an environmental grade....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:49:11 ESTHOW ''GREEN'' IS YOUR CAR?U.S. government agencies are proposing car stickers that include an environmental grade....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:32:24 ESTUNEMPLOYMENT HITS 9.6%, BUT THERE'S GOOD NEWS, TOOFor the third month in a row, the US economy shed jobs according to the Labor Department?s lat...Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:32:18 ESTAPPLE'S IADS: ONLY FOR BIG SPENDERS? | FAST COMPANYApple?s iAds: Only for Big Spenders? | Fast Company....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:32:18 ESTFASHION WEEK CAN BE YOURS - FOR A PRICEThis will get you behind the ropes - no insider status required....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:32:18 ESTBULLS SNORT MORE LOUDLY, BUT BEARS STILL DOMINATEInvestors gained some confidence in the market but bears still rule....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:32:18 ESTHOW ''GREEN'' IS YOUR CAR?U.S. government agencies are proposing car stickers that include an environmental grade....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:15:11 ESTTHE FORGOTTEN PATIENTSThe mental health industry ignores the 35,000 people a year who commit suicide. A few researchers are trying to change that....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:15:07 ESTMOLE EYES MOUSE: WATCH OUT, DISNEY, HERE COMES CHINA'S TAOMEECranes are in motion and?construction boards are being heaved into piles as workers put in?extra hou...Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:15:07 ESTUNEMPLOYMENT RATE RISES TO 9.6%Nonfarm payrolls fall by 54,000 in August, less than the 90,000 drop Wall Street had forecast....Date: 03 Sep 2010 09:15:07 ESTHOW ''GREEN'' IS YOUR CAR?U.S. government agencies are proposing car stickers that include an environmental grade....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:58:13 ESTHOW ''GREEN'' IS YOUR CAR?U.S. government agencies are proposing car stickers that include an environmental grade....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:41:21 ESTVIRGINIA'S WAR ON ACADEMIC FREEDOMThe attorney general of Virginia sued his own state University in an attempt to quash science on glo...Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:41:12 ESTHOW ''GREEN'' IS YOUR CAR?U.S. government agencies are proposing car stickers that include an environmental grade....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:24:08 ESTWHICH FOOD HAS MORE FAIRY DUST, AND WHICH JOURNALIST WILL REPORT IT?In his now-famous New York Times magazine piece, Michael Pollan told us to ?Eat food. Not too...Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:24:07 ESTTHE JIGSAW PUZZLE OF JOBS DATAThe market should focus on what's going on in the private sector....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:24:07 ESTTHE NEXT WEB PHENOMAndrew Mason figured out how to inject hysteria into the process of bargain hunting on the Web. The result is an overnight success story called Groupon....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:24:06 ESTHOW ''GREEN'' IS YOUR CAR?U.S. government agencies are proposing car stickers that include an environmental grade....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:07:15 ESTROW OVER RICHESClive Palmer and his mining compatriots can claim credit for stymieing Aussie Labourites....Date: 03 Sep 2010 08:07:13 ESTHOW ''GREEN'' IS YOUR CAR?U.S. government agencies are proposing car stickers that include an environmental grade....Date: 03 Sep 2010 07:50:21 EST -
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