Archive for April 16th, 2008
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Last Updated: April 16, 2008: 11:18 AM EDTMerger of bad businessesMore VideosWASHINGTON (AP) -- Passengers who get bumped off overbooked flights will soon be eligible to receive twice as much compensation from U.S. airlines.Travelers forced onto another flight that takes them to their domestic destination more than two hours after ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
SAO PAULO, April 16 (Reuters) - Net inflows of U.S. dollarsto Brazil totaled $5.435 billion month-to-date, through April11, compared with $8.05 billion for all of March, the centralbank said on Wednesday. (Reporting by Silvio Cascione; Writing by Todd Benson; Editingby James Dalgleish; ) ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
PARIS, April 16 (Reuters) - The French Banking Federationsaid on Wednesday that French and German banks were studying thepossibility of setting up a European credit card to rival U.S.giants Visa (V.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and MasterCard (MA.N: Quote, Profile, Research). "Given ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
ALAMEDA, Calif., April 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. economy islikely to post little growth in the first half of 2008 beforestarting to recover later in the year, San Francisco FederalReserve President Janet Yellen said on Wednesday. Yellen's comments to ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
NEW YORK, April 16 (Reuters) - The spread on two-year U.S.interest rate swaps ballooned on Wednesday to their widestlevel in about five weeks on concerns about the daily settingson interbank lending rates in London. Two-year swap spread, which grows with risk aversion,widened to 100.25 basis ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
SAO PAULO, April 16 (Reuters) - Brazilian stocks marchedhigher early on Wednesday as steel and mining sector sharesjumped, while the local currency gained for a third session onexpectations of an interest-rate increase later in the day. The Sao Paulo stock exchange's ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
LONDON, April 16 (Reuters) - Swedish bank SEB (SEBa.ST: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to sell a covered bond in euros in the near future subjectto market conditions, an official at one of the banks managingthe sale said on Wednesday. No ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
LONDON, April 16 (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch (MER.N: Quote, Profile, Research) haslaunched a tradable basket of stocks exposed to fertiliserproducers in emerging markets, the bank said on Wednesday. The bank said that despite an estimated increase in the costof fertiliser, high ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
(Adds Permira comment, background, details) By Nicola Leske and Nikola Rotscheroth FRANKFURT, April 16 (Reuters) - An agreement for Germanmobile and Internet group Freenet (FNTG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) to take over rivalDebitel is imminent, a person close ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
(Rewrites throughout, wraps EDB) By Sami Torma HELSINKI, April 16 (Reuters) - Top Nordic IT services firmTietoEnator (TIE1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) posted first-quarter profit which beatmost forecasts on Wednesday, but said clients in its mainbusiness units ...
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