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THE Rudd Government is examining certain share market practices as a result of the volatility in financial markets, such as margin lending by corporate bosses.
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Indian corporate are renowned to book these cars for their employees. This in turn helps the luxury car manufacturer to keep their sales going.
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Shari Redstone and her father, Sumner M. Redstone, appear to be battling in public again — this time over a large sell-off of shares by the family company, National Amusements.
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Executives can sometimes appear to own shares in a company, but have actually pledged them as collateral for a loan.
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Shares in Wolfson Micro-electronics plunged almost 4% yesterday after the Scottish microchip maker for many of the world’s must-have electronic consumer gadgets reported a 37% fall in third-quarter profit and reduced its fourth-quarter sales outlook.
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Tokyo, Oct 30, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Komatsu Ltd. announced today its business results for the first six-month period of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009. Highlights are described below. (Consolidated, U.S. GAAP) --- Six Months Six Months
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Barclays is to sell £5.8 billion of convertible notes, which could leave Abu Dhabi and Qatar with as much as 32 percent of the British bank. An additional £1.5 billion would be raised by selling securities to new and existing institutional shareholders.
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National Australia Bank is raising up to 3 billion Australian dollars in a share placement, prompting analysts to predict that other lenders would follow suit.
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U.S. corporate bonds are registering their first sustained gains since Lehman Brothers‘ bankruptcy, but the market’s rally is offering little relief to many cash-strapped companies. Rebounding from their worst sell-off ever, investment grade corporate bonds have posted a 2.7 percent total return month to date, according to data from Merrill Lynch. The rally is improving appetite for [...]
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - From riding the open range to traveling in the shoes of infamous political figures, this awards season's most buzzed-about performers have logged a lot of mileage this year.
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KAPALUA, Hawaii (Reuters) - The hotly anticipated return of Tiger Woods to competitive golf is likely to be the year's biggest storyline, but young guns Anthony Kim and Camilo Villegas are certain to command some of the limelight.
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Today is the day that Fabio Capello puts Steven Gerrard in his place in more ways, it would seem, than one. The England manager revealed yesterday that the role in which Gerrard will play against Kazakhstan is the role in which he believes the player is best-suited for in the long term, but Capello was also insistent that it will be the manager – and not Gerrard – who dictates what that role is.
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John Lewis Partnership, the employee-owned store chain seen as a barometer of the retail sector, said early Christmas shoppers and a demand for warmer clothing as autumnal weather set in lifted trading last week.
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Mod-home companies benefit from the mortgage mess.
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While the audacity of a band of Somali pirates who recently hijacked a ship has grabbed the world’s attention, the suffering of millions of Somalis seems to go unnoticed.
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PepsiCo, the nation's second-largest beverage company, said Friday it was launching a new marketing campaign to refocus attention on soft drinks, which have seen lagging sales.
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Online payday loan companies are using increasingly aggressive marketing tools, according to debt advisors.
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Cuba is limiting how much basic fruits and vegetables people can buy at farmers' markets, irritating some customers but ensuring there's enough — barely — to go around.
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The security services of Ukraine, Germany and Georgia have exchanged experience in and familiarized themselves with new methods for counteracting transnational organized crime in the field of illegal drug dealing
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Sales dropped 0.5% at John Lewis last week an improvement on the 8.3 per cent fall a week earlier.
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An epic battle looms when top mass choral groups perform for the first time on one stage.
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Microsoft Corp.'s Japanese unit aims to achieve its domestic sales target of one million units for the Xbox 360 video game console as quickly as possible, a senior official told Jiji Press on Friday. Microsoft Co., the U.S. software giant's
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Used automobile sales in Japan fell 4.2 pct in the fiscal first half from a year before to their lowest level in 23 years, an industry group said Friday. The drop was attributed to a decrease in the number of
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RETAIL sales have suffered their biggest drop in almost a quarter of a century as recession-hit shoppers stay away in their droves.
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Traditional bazaar merchants in several large cities closed their shops this week to protest a decision by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to enforce the nation's first-ever sales tax.
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The protests, the largest since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected in 2005, occurred in several large cities.
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Patricia Ohlemiller packed up her Edmund Scientific Astroscan telescope last week and headed to the Gaithersburg iSold It eBay drop-off center. She hoped to recoup $150, minus commission, of its original $350 value.
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A fall in sales of ponies at the annual Dartmoor drift auction could result in more animals being slaughtered.
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The veteran guard has put together a fine NBA career while higher-profile teammates get the attention. Cuttino Mobley should do ads for Avis. If he were a politician, his biggest dream might be to become vice president.
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Vitali Klitschko reclaimed the WBC belt and fulfilled a self-proclaimed dream to hold a heavyweight title at the same time as his brother, stopping Samuel Peter in eight rounds Saturday.
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Sweden 0-0 PortugalFrustration reigned at the Råsunda Stadium on Saturday night as neither Sweden nor Portugal were able to find the back of the net in Group 1.
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HE'S the irritating Aussie on the radio roaring "Go Harvey, go!" -- and now he's moaning Down Under that Ireland is "a catastrophe".
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The business empire run by Aburizal Bakrie, Indonesia's chief welfare minister, said it wanted to sell stakes in listed companies to settle $1.2bn in debts that were guaranteed by shares that have lost at least 74% of their value
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The UK is mesmerised by the American presidential election. The result will affect all our futures. But is it too much already? Vast resources go into the coverage, leading to a fabricated, even forced, identification with the hyper-power; a euphoric mood is daily whipped up by fervently Atlanticist pundits. Question the United States and you are slammed for "anti-Americanism". There are no equivalent sneers for those who, for example, criticise Russia or India. It is as if this country is an extension of the US. It is defiantly, patently not. In fact, the more this drama unfolds, the more intensely aware we become of how different we are. The ocean between us is physical and cultural.
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Many European banks emulated the riskiest characteristics of their American counterparts, bulking up on what turned out to be toxic debt and relying on short-term loans to support their operations.
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The Scottish Government’s controversial proposals to ban under-21s from buying alcohol in shops will face a challenge from within the SNP this week.
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Details: Grow revenue at targeted automotive accounts through problem solving and relationship building. Meets with appropriate customer personnel (i.e., purchasing agents, marketing, design, engineering and program management) to review
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