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- GM may be mulling thousands of job cuts
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(Reuters) - No. 1 U.S. automaker General Motors Corp is planning to cut thousands of white-collar jobs and is considering whether it should sell or stop production of more of its brands, The Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- Michael Page profits up
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LONDON (Reuters) - Recruitment company Michael Page International reported a 31 percent increase in half-year profit but said the slowdown in the UK’s financial sector recruiting was continuing.
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- EMI picks Reckitt’s Leoni-Sceti to head music unit
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LONDON (Reuters) - EMI has appointed Elio Leoni-Sceti, a senior executive from household cleaning products maker Reckitt Benckiser , as chief executive of its recorded music division, it said on Monday.
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- Helphire sees year profit in line with forecasts
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LONDON (Reuters) - Accident-claim handling firm Helphire said on Monday annual profit would be in line with forecasts but if economic conditions remained tough motoring activity, and therefore use of credit hire, might slow.
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- Morgan Crucible sees year performance in line
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LONDON (Reuters) - Engineering firm Morgan Crucible is set to deliver a full-year performance in line with market expectations, helped by rising revenue on the back of a strong order book, the company said on Monday.
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- Rising costs to dominate G8 talks
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World leaders are starting a key summit in Japan that is expected to focus on soaring global food and fuel prices….
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- Persimmon cuts 1,000 jobs
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LONDON (Reuters) - House builder Persimmon will confirm on Tuesday that it has made around 1,000 staff redundant, the Telegraph reported on Monday, without citing sources.
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- Mountains and waterfalls
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An unconventional holiday in “The Other Iraq”Standing in a crowded amusement park near Rawanduz, in northern Iraq, waiting to get on a small, mountainside toboggan-run while sucking an ice-lolly that claimed to imitate a watermelon (but more closely resembled chilled, sweetened, pulverised cotton wool), I cannot help but feel that my expectations of Kurdistan have been confounded.Iraqi Kurdistan is not an obvious holiday destination. But when offered the opportunity to spend a week here, I jumped at it. While the rest of Iraq remains mired in conflict, Iraqi Kurdistan is relatively peaceful. After the years of suffering under Saddam Hussein, the Kurds have finally been able to take their fate in their own hands. They are busily building a future. ……
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- Merrill may consider Bloomberg and BlackRock sales
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(Reuters) - Merrill Lynch & Co is moving closer to selling stakes in financial firm BlackRock Inc and information provider Bloomberg LP in an effort to raise cash to make up for $6 billion (3 billion pounds) in coming write-downs, the Wall Street Journal said Monday citing people familiar with the matter.
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- Oil hovers near $144
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PERTH (Reuters) - Oil was steady around $144 a barrel on Monday, holding near last week’s record high after Iran reasserted its right to pursue uranium enrichment, keeping alive political tensions in the Middle East and adding to worries about oil supplies.
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- Glaxo chief seeks guidance from health systems
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(Reuters) - Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline plans to give government healthcare systems a say in deciding which drugs advance in its research pipeline, Chief Executive Andrew Witty told The Wall Street Journal.
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- Oil hovers at $144
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PERTH (Reuters) - Oil was little changed at around $144 a barrel on Monday, holding near last week’s record high after Iran reasserted its right to pursue uranium enrichment.
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- Coca-Cola agrees to settlement in shareholder lawsuit
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co agreed to pay $137.5 million (69.4 million pounds) to settle a shareholder lawsuit that claimed the world’s largest soft drink maker artificially inflated sales to boost its stock price, according to court documents.
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- BP’s rivals shift in Russian tussle
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The fate of the second biggest foreign investment in Russia hangs in the balance amid signs of a shifting mood in the Kremlin which may have wrong-footed investors and one of the world’s biggest oil companies.
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- Pension funds move from equities to bonds
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LONDON (Reuters) - Almost half of final salary pension funds have moved assets from equities to bonds in the past year, as they respond to market volatility and aim to match assets more closely with liabilities, figures show.
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- Ireland’s Carroll sells stake in FBD
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish property developer Liam Carroll sold his entire shareholding in Irish insurer FBD Holdings last week, the Sunday Times reported.
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- Russia partners say BP legal suit "bullying"
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian partners in BP’s TNK-BP joint venture accused the oil major of “bullying tactics” on Sunday after BP said it is suing them for 8.4 billion roubles (180 million pounds).
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- Is capitulation on the cards?
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LONDON (Reuters) - Profit warnings, breaches of key index levels, record oil prices, stressed consumers and investors seeking safety provide the background for markets this week, and many people are wondering how long this will all last.
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- G8 urged to act over oil prices
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Japan and the US vow to call for “swift action” on oil and food prices at next week’s G8 summit….
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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- UAE waives billions of Iraqi debt
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The UAE says it is cancelling the entire debt owed to it by Iraq, a sum of almost $7bn (£3.5) including interest….
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6 July, 2008| massmedia |
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