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Barroro voices concern over estimated one trillion euro tax evasion
BRUSSELS - Voicing concern about tax evasion that is estimated at one trillion euros, European Commission President Jose-Manuel Barroso said Tuesday that EU leaders will meet at a one-day summit on Wednesday to negotiate solution. The European Union can't afford to let tax evasion go on the way it is. Such large amounts of money, currently sitting in tax havens, would be greatly beneficial ...
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German central bank sees signals of economic pick up in Q2
FRANKFURT - Germany's central bank Deutsche Bundesbank expects the country's economy to improve "markedly" in the second quarter relying on signals of pick up in industrial orders and likelihood of weather related downturn in construction sector no longer impacting investment sentiments a development that could boost the wider eurozone as it struggles to get out of recession. "Overall ...
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HNL cancer drug trial discontinued by Pfizer
NEW YORK - Pharma major Pfizer has discontinued the development of cancer candidate inotuzumab ozogamicin, which is part of a class of therapies called antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), in the haematological cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma after it failed to show benefit in overall survival during phase III trials. Pfizer has notified the study investigators and appropriate regulatory authorities ...
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Merger pact by GrubHub and Seamless to stave off rivals
WASHINGTON - GrubHub Inc. and Seamless North America LLC, two of the biggest online services for food-delivery in the U.S., have entered into a definitive agreement to combine their companies to take on rivals in the growing market for online meal orders. The merger will create a combined company well positioned to drive more orders to restaurants, deliver a better experience for hungry ...
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Mortgage lending in UK rises highest in four years
LONDON - The UK housing market seems to be picking up with gross mortgage lending up 4.3 per cent in April over previous month to 12.1 billion pounds, the highest in over four years, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). The mortgage lending was 21% higher than April 2012, but this data is skewed by the end of the stamp duty concession on 24 March, 2012. Under the stamp duty ...
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Construction begins on new island off Jumeirah Beach in Dubai
Work began on Monday on the development of a man-made island in Dubai, 500 metres directly opposite the Jumeirah Beach Residence complex. To be known as Bluewaters Island, the new development will house five star hotels and resorts, al fresco dining and entertainment zones, and residential apartments and villas. The focal point of the island city, which will cost $1.6 billion, will be a 688 ...
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Microsoft launches all-in-one home entertainment system Xbox One
Microsoft has unveiled its latest video gaming console 'Xbox One' which is believed to transform games, TV and entertainment for the 21st century living room. The latest console reportedly promises a vision of the future. According to a report by the Mirror, 'Xbox One' will allow users to turn on the device with words like "Xbox On", and "snap" will allow users to watch two things at ...
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Microsoft unveils new all-in-one Xbox console
Microsoft unveiled a new Xbox console Tuesday that represents a major upgrade on the US-market-leading Xbox 360 model. The president of the IT giant's Interactive Entertainment Business, Don Mattrick, revealed the hi-tech Xbox One entertainment and gaming console during an event at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, campus. The Xbox One was presented as an all-in-one system for gaming, watching ...
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Microsoft Unveils New Xbox One Game Console
REDMOND, WASHINGTON Microsoft Corp gave the world the first look at its new game console on Tuesday, hoping the Xbox One will attract existing video game fans while also becoming a hub for living room entertainment. The third-generation Microsoft console, coming eight years after the Xbox 360, was unveiled by games unit chief Don Mattrick at an event at the software company's campus ...
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Lloyds to sell further 15 percent St. Jamess Place stake
to boost its capital by about 500 million pounds under incoming capital rules.After placing a 20 percent stake in St James's Place in March, Lloyds had agreed not to sell any more shares in the wealth manager for a year, but said that lock-up had been waived and it would sell a further 77 million shares.That would still leave it with a 21 percent stake in St. James's, whose shares ...
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Bernanke testimony boosts European stocks
LONDON (AFP) - Europe's main stocks shot higher Wednesday after US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke indicated that the end was not near to its easy money policies.London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares added 0.53 percent to 6,840.27 points to stand at a 13-year high, while in Frankfurt the DAX 30 index set a fresh record high, climbing 0.69 percent to 8,530.89 points.In Paris the ...
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Moss Barnett to relocate to Fifth Street Towers
Minneapolis law firm, has signed a long-term lease in Fifth Street Towers. About 160 employees will move from Wells Fargo Center in downtown Minneapolis to the new digs at 150 S. Fifth St. T The new lease begins August 2014, although more-detailed terms were not released. Fifth Street Towers was sold for $111 million last year to a joint venture formed by Zeller Realty Group of Chicago and ...
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Boom Town Baby African stock markets see gains
NAIROBI, Kenya -; The barrage of hourly tweets sent out by Aly-Khan Satchu - East Africa's version of CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer - cheers on what Satchu says is a growing sentiment among investors: If you're not investing in Africa, you should be. Or as Satchu loudly proclaims on his Twitter feed or newspaper column: "ITS BOOM TOWN ...
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Complaint accuses Exxon Mobil of anti-gay bias
NEW YORK -; One after another, major U.S. corporations have updated anti-discrimination policies to protect gay, lesbian and transgender workers, drawing plaudits from gay-rights groups. There's one prominent exception: Exxon Mobil ...
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Energy Stocks Energy stocks inch up Pioneer WPX top gainers
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Energy stocks edged higher on Wednesday, losing some steam alongside the broader U.S. equity market as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Fed bond-buying could taper ...
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Morrisons shares slide as investment manager sells out
a major shareholder had dumped its stake in the Bradford-based supermarket chain.Walter Scott, a fund management group run by a former nuclear physicist, sold about 100m shares, equivalent to just over 4% of Morrisons' stock, for a total 280m, a slight discount to Wednesday's closing share price of 283p - down 2.5%. The Edinburgh-based investment manager is the second major shareholder ...
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Derivatives trader Trading can take over your life – but only if you let it | Joris Luyendijk
He describes himself as "a third-world migrant in his early 20s from near the equator". He worked as a derivatives trader in a small European country and now trades for a big institution in London after completing a quantitative degree in continental ...
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Nationwide results scarred by commercial property
Nationwide is entitled to a boast or two. The building society had a decent crisis, maintaining capital strength and even helping up to mop up a few spillages elsewhere, such as the over-extended Dunfermline Building Society.But chief executive Graham Beale should be careful not to overdo the hyperbole. A casual reader of ...
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Royal Mail workers balloted on privatisation plans
The results from the ballot, which also asks whether Royal Mail workers would support a boycott of competitors' mail, are due on 19 June. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the ...
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FTSE 100 moves closer to all time high after Bernanke comments
Leading shares climbed ever closer to their all time high on hopes that the central bank money taps would not be turned off any time soon, but ended the day off their best levels.Investors have been piling into equities on the basis that low interest rates and quantitative easing to boost the global economy would continue to support the markets. But recently there had been suggestions that the ...
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UK energy companies profits customers and price hikes
SSE fuels consumer anger as retail profits rise 30% to 410m Scottish and Southern Energy posts results under the heading Earning the Right to Make a ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview Foot Locker
reports its first quarter earnings on Friday, May 24, 2013. The consensus estimate is 87 cents per share, up 4.8% from a year ago when Foot reported earnings of 83 cents per share. The consensus estimate has declined from 91 cents over the past three months. For the fiscal year, analysts are projecting earnings of $2.82 per share. Revenue is projected to eclipse the year-earlier total of $1.58 ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview Sears Holdings
reports its first quarter earnings on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Analysts are expecting a loss of $3 per share for the fiscal year. Analysts project revenue to fall 9.7% year-over-year to $8.37 billion for the quarter, after being $9.27 billion a year ago. For the year, revenue is projected to roll in at $36.45 billion. A year-over-year revenue increase in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview Abercrombie Fitch
when the company releases its first quarter numbers on Friday, May 24, 2013. They are expecting the company to take a loss of 5 cents a share after Abercrombie & Fitch booked a profit of 3 cents a year ago. Over the past three months, the consensus estimate has sagged from 14 cents. For the fiscal year, analysts are expecting earnings of $3.50 per share. Revenue is expected to be $941.7 ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview Patterson Companies
reports its fourth quarter earnings on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Analysts are expecting Patterson to report earnings of 62 cents per share, up 6.9% from a year ago when it reported earnings of 58 cents per share. The consensus estimate has decreased from 63 cents over the past month. For the fiscal year, analysts are projecting earnings of $2.03 per share. Revenue is expected to be $969.4 ...
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Sydney's scandalous toxic waste plan by government
A controversial waste relocation project in Sydney has created anger in a community with a lower income than the Sydney suburb from which the waste is being removed, with many suggesting a class-bias in the city government.
Hunter’s Hill is a predominantly wealthy suburb of Sydney with average house prices of around AUD $1.3 million and a harbour-side community made up predominantly of professionals, managers and other traditionally middle to high-income workers. Penrith, on the other hand, located just over 50 kilometres from Sydney’s CBD, is not as affluent, with average property values of around AUD $280,000. Read more
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