Archive for June 2nd, 2008
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
LONDON, June 2 (Reuters) - Global manufacturing activityrecovered slightly in May but input prices hit a 10-year high assoaring energy costs continued to bite, a report showed onMonday. The JP Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI, compiled withresearch and supply management organisations, rose ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
By Steve Slater LONDON (Reuters) - Sometimes a 48 percent discount just isn't enough. British lender Bradford & Bingley (BB.L: Quote, Profile, Research) was on Monday forced to slash the price of its already deeply discounted rights issue, firing a ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Washington Mutual (WM.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the large bank and home lender slammed by the mortgage slump, said on Monday that it would strip Chief Executive Kerry Killinger of his title of chairman starting next month. The Seattle-based savings ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Rapid City, S.D., June 2: It's almost over, isn't it?That seems to be all anyone wants to know ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
June 2, 2008: 11:18 AM EDTDell on deckMore VideosSAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- The Semiconductor Industry Association, or SIA, said Monday that worldwide sales of semiconductors grew 5.9% in April 2007 on a year-over-year basis, but sales were flat compared with March.April sales grew to $21.2 billion, from $20.1 ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
NEW YORK, June 2 (Reuters) - Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research), thelargest U.S. home funding company, said on Monday it plans tosell $2.0 billion of three-month benchmark bills due Sept. 3,2008, $1.0 billion of six-month bills due Dec. 3, 2008 and $2.0billion of one-year ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A cancer vaccine made by Avant Immunotherapeutics Inc and licensed by drug giant Pfizer Inc more than doubled the survival time of people with glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and deadly type of brain tumor, U.S. researchers said on Monday. ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
SAO PAULO, June 2 (Reuters) - Brazil's currency weakened inearly trade on Monday after three straight sessions of gainsand stocks retreated as power firm Eletrobras fell onprofit-taking after Friday's surge. The benchmark Bovespa index .BVSP of the Sao Paulo stockexchange fell ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
(Corrects paragraph four to show the current wage deal ranout at the end of last week, not at the end of this week) HELSINKI, June 2 (Reuters) - A Finnish white-collar unionwarned on Monday of a ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
*U.S. manufacturing contracts for fourth month in May *Inflation pressures highest in four years *Construction spending down in April By Burton Frierson NEW YORK, June 2 (Reuters) - U.S. ...
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