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Mortgage applications tumble as rates rise further MBA
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Interest rates on home mortgages rose last week to hit their highest level in over a year, sapping demand from potential homeowners, data from an industry group showed on ...
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Tata Motors upgrades existing cars as rivals launch new products
TAMO.NS ) on Wednesday launched eight upgrades of existing models, including a CNG-fuelled version of its low-cost Nano, but said little about plans for completely new vehicles to help reverse sliding car sales in ...
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Vodafone set to trump Liberty with $10 billion cash bid for Kabel sources
The logo of Germany's biggest cable operator, Kabel Deutschland, is pictured above a monitor wall at the Kabel Deutschland playout center in Frankfurt February 25, ...
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Santander says does not need to make new bad debt provisions
At the Reuters Tech Summit, Trulia chief executive Pete Flint says private equity investors are starting to pull back from buying U.S. real estate, while overseas buyers are coming on strong once ...
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Europe Markets European stocks rise with Fed update in sight
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European stock markets moved cautiously higher on Wednesday, with what is likely to be a volatile day ahead as investors waited for the much-anticipated monetary-policy decision from the U.S. Federal ...
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Wall Streets lawfare strategy against regulation | Heidi Moore
already weakened state of the attempt at financial regulation - like taking a hammer to a housefly. Still, a phalanx of injured parties - 11 states, two groups dedicated to conservative economic agendas and one Texas state bank - argued that Dodd-Frank is unconstitutional. Their complaints all center around the part of Dodd-Frank that wants to solve the problem of "too big to fail" by ...
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Photos Rare Painting Sold for $21M
A rare Expressionist painting by Wassily Kandinsky, "Studie zu Improvisation 3, 1909", was auctioned for $21,157,438 on June 18 in London by Christie's. It was the most expensive item sold of 44 lots in the "Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale". In Nov. 2012, Kandinsky's "Studie fr Improvisation 8, 1909" set a record for the artist when ...
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Photos Disney Estate on Sale for $90M
The Carolwood Estate, nicknamed the Disney estate, in Los Angeles is on sale for $90 million. The property once belonged to Walt Disney, founder of the Walt Disney Company, ABC News' parent. Billionaire Gabriel Brener bought the animator's old barn on Carolwood Drive from the estate of Disney's widow in 1998, tore it down and annexed the neighboring land. An eight-bedroom home was ...
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STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-Micro Focus hits record high on earnings beat
* FY underlying pretax profit 26.4 mln euros, down 66 pct* Dividend maintained at 3.5 cents* Says confident of improved earnings in medium termBy James DaveyLONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Darty, Europe's No. ...
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Wall Street betting on last-minute debt deal
With no political deal in Washington on raising the U.S. debt limit just days before a crucial deadline, investors are increasingly worried about a downgrade of the country's top-notch credit rating, or even an actual governmnent debt default. The U.S. Treasury Department has said the Congress must act before Aug.2 to avoid a catostropic default. With the dealine drawing close ...
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Average earnings up 0.5 in 2012
Average annual earnings for Irish workers rose by 0.5% last year to €36,079. Earnings were up in 9 of the 13 sectors covered by the CSO statistics for 2012. The sector which showed the biggest increase was "professional, scientific and technical" where average earnings rose 5.2% to just under ...
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No NSA Spying Did NOT Prevent a Terror Attack on Wall Street
June 19, 2013 In response to the revelation that the NSA has been illegally spying on all Americans for more than a decade, NSA chief General Keith Alexander claimed that the spying prevented a terrorist attack on Wall Street and the New York subway. There's only one problem: the claim is completely false. The Christian Science ...
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Indications Stock futures higher but jittery ahead of Fed
MADRID (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock market futures moved cautiously higher on Wednesday as markets awaited the main event: a monetary-policy decision from the Federal Open Market Committee, with a press conference to follow from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben ...
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Conventional markets could cure capital concern
The relationship between co-ops and capital has never been straightforward. While in theory co-ops fund their capital needs from their members' own capital and from retained profits, in practice co-ops have frequently needed to bring in external capital. ...
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Savings rates lag inflation ... what are your options
savings account paying 3.38% a year, while those on a higher rate need an interest rate of at least 4.5%. And the bad news is that not a single standard savings account delivers big enough returns. Even if you do not pay tax, you will struggle to beat inflation: ...
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Mervyn King outvoted on QE in his 194th and final MPC meeting
Bank of England rate-setting meeting.Minutes of the monetary policy committee (MPC) confirmed that the governor bowed out with one last call for another 25bn ...
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Berkeley reports 26 jump in profits
property market in London and the south-east.Berkeley reported revenues of 1.4bn for the year ending April 2013, up more than 30% on last year, helped by advance sales of its riverside flats and detached houses.The housebuilder said activity outside the south-east had not recovered since the 2008 downturn, but was likely to pick up as a result of the government's "help to buy" ...
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Wednesday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories - - June 19 2013
See Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it's a problem that developed when Interactive Tools upgraded to a new content management ...
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Airbus wins A350 order from Air France-KLM
Air France-KLM has been at loggerheads with suppliers over issues mainly including maintenance of the plane's Rolls-Royce engines ever since the deal was first mooted in 2011. Air France and Rolls had clashed over conflicting ideas for engine supply ...
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German cartel court takes on Porsche lawsuit source
Reuters © A logo is seen on a Porsche 911 Carrera 4S displayed ahead of the annual news conference at the Porsche headquarters in Stuttgart March 15, 2013. REUTERS/Lisi ...
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Asian Stocks Fall On Uncertainty Over Fed Policy
Asian stocks fell broadly on Wednesday as investors adopted a cautious stance ahead of the outcome of the two-day policy meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve. With Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke scheduled to hold a press conference shortly after the meeting, investors wait to hear what he has to say about possible tapering of bond purchases and the future course of Fed policy. Japanese shares bucked ...
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Stocks to Watch FedEx Micron are Wednesday’s stocks to watch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Among the shares expected to see active trade in Wednesday's session are those of FedEx Corp., Micron Technology Inc. and Red Hat ...
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ITV buys US production company Thinkfactory Media
ITV has made its third foray into the US TV production sector, paying $30m (19m) for a controlling stake in the company behind Kevin Costner drama Hatfields & McCoys.The UK broadcaster is buying 65% of Los ...
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Bankers banged up They need to return to planet Earth first | Polly Toynbee
Bang up the bankers! That has a nice ring to it, like the rioter's line in Henry VI (part two) that always gets a roar of approval, "let's kill all the lawyers". But does anyone really think any of them will land in the clink? The degree of personal recklessness would have to be extreme.The parliamentary commission on banking standards ...
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Rio Tinto rises after Australian job cuts as markets await Bernanke
has moved higher after job cuts and a broker recommendation.The mining giant is cutting more than 40 office jobs in its Australian iron ore division, to reflect changing market conditions. Chief executive Sam Walsh unveiled plans earlier this year to save $5bn of costs over the next two years.Meanwhile Citigroup added the miner to its most favoured stock list, helping its shares climb 52p to ...
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Silicon Valley's Expo ambitions
Moffet Field, a fairly unknown former military airbase in Silicon Valley near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, may become the centerpiece of the 2020 World Expo if Governor Schwarzenegger and other advocated of a California bid get their way.
California wants one of its cities to host the 2020 World Expo, the event is a seminal one on the world calendar and is expected to draw in over 70 million visitors to Shanghai, the city currently hosting the exhibition, which last six months. Read more
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