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Monthly Archive July, 2009

Advance made on bid for Opel, Brussels company says

July 14, 2009

BERLIN–Investor RHJ International SA claimed Monday that its talks with General Motors Corp. on taking a majority stake in its European Opel unit have […]

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BofA balking at paying fees for guarantees: report

July 13, 2009

Bank of America Corp is trying to avoid paying billions of dollars in fees to U.S. taxpayers for guarantees against losses at Merrill Lynch, […]

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Two ways to create a new pension savings scheme

July 11, 2009

Insurers such as Sun Life Financial could deliver millions of pension-deprived Canadians a lot more income in retirement if they could go about things differently.
A […]

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Google vs. Windows

July 10, 2009

Google Inc. is hoping to gain greater control over how personal computers work by developing a free operating system to attack Microsoft Corp.’s golden […]

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Publisher of RiseUp owes to Post-Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, others

July 9, 2009

The Kansas City-based publisher of RiseUp, which sought bankruptcy protection in June, owes millions of dollars to the companies it did business with during […]

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Second-quarter dividends less than impressive

July 8, 2009

The second quarter, which had the S&P 500 rising 15 percent in striking its largest quarterly gain since 1998, was less impressive in terms […]

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Encouraging sign, but with baggage

July 3, 2009

The slide in house prices eased in April, underscoring signs the economy began to stabilize in the second quarter, while a drop in consumer […]

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Tim Hortons Canadian again

July 1, 2009

Considering that many Canadians practically bleed Tim Hortons coffee on any given workday, it may come as a surprise to some that the much-beloved […]

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