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Instead of blaming India and other developing nations for the rise in food prices, Americans should rethink their energy policy - and go on a ...…
May 13 2008 1:48PM EDT
Even as investors were sighing with relief Tuesday over Societe Generale's no-worse-than-expected first quarter results, the French banking sector ...…
May 13 2008 12:56PM EDT
Westpac Banking said Tuesday that it would acquire its smaller rival St. George in a takeover worth about 18.5 billion Australian dollars or about ...…
May 13 2008 9:42AM EDT
PARIS - Societe Generale, the large French bank pummeled by a rogue trading scandal, reported Tuesday that its net profit fell 23.4 percent in the ...…
May 13 2008 5:57AM EDT
The Nissan Motor Company plans to sell an electric car in the United States and Japan by 2010, raising the stakes in the race to develop ...…
May 13 2008 2:20AM EDT
The United States Court of Federal Claims began another hearing on Monday to decide whether a vaccine additive led thousands of children to become ...…
May 12 2008 11:48PM EDT
The Chloride Group, the largest maker of backup power supplies in Europe, rejected a preliminary $1.3 billion takeover approach from the Emerson ...…
May 12 2008 11:33PM EDT
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela signed a law to formally assume state control of the Venezuelan unit of Ternium, a steel maker based in ...…
May 12 2008 11:33PM EDT
India's industrial production in March grew at the slowest pace since 2002, as borrowing costs hit a six-year high and discouraged consumer ...…
May 12 2008 11:33PM EDT
The Italian aerospace company Finmeccanica reached a $5.2 billion deal to buy DRS Technologies, securing a bigger presence in the growing United ...…
May 12 2008 11:33PM EDT
The General Motors Corporation said Monday that it would close its transmission plant in Windsor, Ontario, in the second quarter of 2010.. . A G.M ...…
May 12 2008 12:59PM EDT
SYDNEY - Westpac Banking, the large Australian bank, said Monday that it was in talks to merge with the rival St. George Bank, a deal that would ...…
May 12 2008 9:43AM EDT
LONDON - HSBC Holdings, Europe's biggest bank, said on Monday that profit in the first quarter rose as its Asian business more than offset ...…
May 12 2008 9:14AM EDT
ATHENS - With its sales slipping and fixed-line customers defecting, Deutsche Telekom looked set this week to complete plans to buy a stake worth ...…
May 11 2008 8:04PM EDT
TRAVELODGE, one of the largest budget hotel chains in Britain, is a company in a hurry.. . Founded in 1985, it operates 330 hotels throughout ...…
May 10 2008 3:50PM EDT
Moscow. . ON a frigid evening in February, the hottest place to be here was the Kremlin Palace theater. The draw inside the towering hall wasn't ...…
May 10 2008 1:38PM EDT
Foreign-Currency C.D.'s. . When McDonald's builds a commercial for its "dollar menu" around cubicle banter about the value of U.S. currency - "it's ...…
May 10 2008 12:59AM EDT
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