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While share price has dropped in the telecom industry, billion Carlos Slim’s companies have held up well.
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France and UK seek hedge fund deal

Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy are to try to hammer out a compromise deal over European Union reforms that the US and UK believe could damage the hedge fund and private equity industries
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Tax Credit For Homebuyers

What you need to know about claiming the $8,000 or $6,500 homebuyer’s tax credit.
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Phillip Morris Lights Up Dividend

Cigarette maker will pay out 58 cents per share.
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Pink Floyd won a legal battle Thursday against EMI that prevents the band’s long-time record label from selling individual songs online.
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GMAC: The scariest zombie

Now that Citigroup and AIG are rolling in the bucks, GMAC is looking like the most egregious zombie bank of them all.
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Dr Pepper Pops To All-Time High

Analysts throw weight behind beverage maker on bottling deals. Shares climb to new high.
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Salvaged GM dealers in limbo

The 661 axed auto dealers General Motors is offering to reinstate aren’t ready to pop the champagne just yet. They’re still waiting to find out about the terms they’ll have to meet to regain their franchises.
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Google’s $750m acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob faces a potential challenge by regulators concerned about the search company’s expanding reach
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Recently card holders have seen interest rates increase, new and higher fees. and fewer reward programs.
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US takeover defences come tumbling down

Pressure from US corporate governance activists is forcing companies to dismantle poison pill measures designed to protect them from unwanted takeover attention
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Enticing Travelers Comes At A Cost

Bookings and occupancy are improving, but companies still rely on discounts.
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No Love For Landry’s

Restaurant operator slides on fourth-quarter loss, CEO-led buyout could be in jeopardy.
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Devon On A Diet Looks Appetizing

The Oklahoma driller sells $7 billion in assets, slimming down ahead of a possible sale.
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Appetite for risk points to oil traders’ renewed faith in the strength of their trading counterparties
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The pork producer also offers a more optimistic outlook.
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CBOE in first steps to $300m offering

The Chicago Board Options Exchange, the last big member-owned exchange, filed an application with US regulators for an initial public offering, a move that follows years of disputes that have delayed the company from going to the market
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Jamboree For Gymboree

Children’s apparel retailer gains on earnings and expansion plans. It may still be cheap, too.
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Despite the growing shortage of family doctors in the United States, medical centers last year offered higher salaries and incentives to specialist nurses than to primary care doctors, according to an annual survey of physicians’ salaries.
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It’s a small (cap) world after all

Want to know if all this talk of an economic recovery is for real? Don’t think big. Think small.
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Violence mars protest by Greek unions

Riot police fired teargas at stone-throwing demonstrators in central Athens as a peaceful march by workers staging a 24-hour strike ended in disarray
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Long-term U.S. debt prices rose Thursday after a government auction of $13 billion in 30-year bonds.
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HSBC Pays The Price For Moles

Data theft data of 24,000 wealthy clients in Switzerland is another good reason to expand private banking into Asia.
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Investors Giddy For Gymboree

Children’s apparel retailer gains on earnings and expansion plans. It may still be cheap, too.
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India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp is in talks with Gazprom and Rosneft over taking equity stakes in oil and gas projects to help cement an energy partnership
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