Economic recovery, climate change tops G20 meeting
St Andrews, Scotland - Finance ministers from the world's 20 leading economies are meeting in the Scottish golf resort of St Andrews Saturday to review the state of the global economy amid signs of a tentative recovery from its biggest slump in a gen...
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Five more US bank failures bring total for 2009 to 120
New York - Bank failures in the United States have risen to 120 this year as five more regional institutions were added to the list, the US agency that guarantees the safety of bank deposits said. United Commercial Bank in San Francisco with assets o...
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US stocks climb slightly despite double-digit jobless rate
New York - US stocks posted mild gains Friday to end the week as investors shrugged off government figures that put the unemployment rate above 10 per cent. The Labour Department said the jobless rate hit 10.2 per cent in the month of October, the hi...
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2009-11-06 ] Category : [
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European head of General Motors quits - Summary
Ruesselsheim, Germany/Washington - The European head of General Motors, Carl-Peter Forster, is quitting after GM's surprise U-turn over European subsidiary Opel, the US carmaker confirmed Friday. Detroit-based GM did not give a reason for Forster's d...
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London Stock Exchange quotations 6 November 2009
FT-100 Index5,142.72 (+ 17.08) BAT Industries 1,959.00 (+8.00) BP Amoco 583.90 (-3.20) Diageo 1,003.00 (+3.00) HSBC Holdings 683.30 (+ 13.80) Prudential 578.00 (+5.00) R.Dutch Shell 'A' 1,807.50 (- 13....
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GM's European head quits, company confirms
Washington - The head of General Motors' European subsidiary is quitting, the carmaker confirmed Friday, just days after GM's surprise announcement that it was holding onto its troubled European operations. Carl-Peter Forster, president of Opel Europ...
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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations 6 November 2009
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX5,488.25 (+7.33) MDAX 7,084.74 (+ 67.28) Adidas34.24 (+0.03) Allianz 79.31 (+0.54) BASF37.55...
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