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Australian Dollar Falls as RBA Set to Cut More, Warns of Weakness
Wall Street Journal
SYDNEY--The Australian dollar fell sharply Tuesday after the central bank left open the prospect of interest rate cuts in coming months, and said the currency could drop further. The policy-setting board of the Reserve Bank of Australia announced no change ...
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Alcoa breaks ground on $52M aluminum plant in NY
Wall Street Journal
MASSENA, N.Y. — Alcoa Inc. has broken ground on an expanded, more modern aluminum plant in northern New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that Alcoa will spend $42 million to prepare for modernization and added capacity at its plant in ...
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UAE sentences suspects in coup plot trial
Businessweek
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An activist in the United Arab Emirates says an Abu Dhabi court has handed down prison terms of up to 15 years in a trial of 94 suspects charged with plotting against the country's ruling system. At least 26 of the ...
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Stock futures extend Wall Street gains
USA TODAY
U.S. stock futures were finding reasons to make fresh gains on Tuesday after Wall Street closed the prior session — the first of the new month — on a positive note. Ahead of the opening bell, Dow Jones industrial average index stock futures added 62 points ...
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Walt Disney Extends Iger's Tenure as CEO Through June 2016 (3)
Businessweek
Walt Disney Co. (DIS) extended Robert Iger's tenure as chief executive officer of the world's largest entertainment company to June 2016, a move that delays his planned succession for 15 months. Iger, 62, will now continue in both the chairman and CEO ...
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Bay Area traffic grinds to a halt as BART workers strike
Los Angeles Times
SAN FRANCISCO — Wayne Phillips did everything but swim as he struggled to get to his tech job in this city's Financial District on Monday morning. His usual smooth ride on a Bay Area Rapid Transit train was derailed by the system's first strike in 16 years.
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Half a million dollars' worth of jewelry stolen in Atlantic City casino heist
CNN
New York (CNN) -- Three men stole half a million dollars' worth of jewelry from a store at an Atlantic City casino in what New Jersey police are calling a brazen smash-and-grab robbery. Atlantic City Police are looking for the men in connection to the Monday ...
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As Dell Considers Fortified Offer, Icahn Is Bullish on PCs
CNBC.com
After an encouraging word on Monday from Dell welcoming Carl Icahn's newly fortified bid for the computer maker, the billionaire investor said now is a good time for a contrarian view on PCs. "There's a lot of drum-beating that the PC business is falling apart," ...
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Oil hovers near $98 a barrel as military issues ultimatum to embattled Egypt leader
Fox News
BANGKOK – Oil hovered near $98 a barrel Tuesday, underpinned by political unrest in Egypt that raised fears of disruption to global crude supplies. Benchmark crude for August delivery was down 3 cents to $97.96 a barrel at early afternoon Bangkok time in ...
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Gold continues rebound from three-year low
Reuters India
By A. Ananthalakshmi. SINGAPORE | Tue Jul 2, 2013 12:04pm IST. SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Gold inched up on Tuesday, stretching its gains into a third straight session as buyers in China continued to snap up deals after bullion's plunge to a three-year low ...
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How Fed Avoids Deterring Bondholders With 7% Jobless Is Mystery
Bloomberg
Unemployment will fall to about 7 percent in the fourth quarter, according to economists at five of the world's largest banks, creating more confusion among investors about the Federal Reserve's bond-buying plans. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said last ...
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EU charges banks with blocking exchanges from derivatives market
Washington Post
BRUSSELS — E.U. watchdogs have charged 13 top investment banks with blocking exchanges' access to the lucrative credit derivatives market, hitting the sector with the latest in a growing list of regulatory headaches. Monday's move by the European ...
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Scott London pleads guilty to insider trading at KPMG
Los Angeles Times
Former KPMG auditing partner Scott London pleaded guilty to an insider-trading charge, and struggled afterward to explain why he jeopardized his career, reputation and freedom for money he didn't need. London, 50, admitted in U.S. District Court in Los ...
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Winklevoss twins plan $20m Bitcoin trust fund
BBC News
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, famed for their legal dispute with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, have unveiled plans to float a Bitcoin trust. The Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust will initially sell $20m (£13m) worth of shares to investors, according to a filing with the US ...
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PG&E Encourages Customers To Conserve Electricity As California Grid ...
Wall Street Journal
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is urging customers to conserve electricity in response to a Flex Alert called for today and tomorrow, July 1-2, 2013, by the California Independent System Operator ...
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Nokia Pays $2.21 Billion for Siemens Stake in NSN
Wall Street Journal
Paul Vigna and Sharon Terlep discuss Nokia buying out a joint venture, and Rolfe Winkler looks at Apple's moves into China. Nokia Corp. signaled an end to its tie-up with Siemens AG, announcing a €1.7 billion ($2.21 billion) deal to buy its German partner ...
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Obama's Affordable Care Act could lift a financial burden off Detroit
Detroit Free Press
As Detroit confronts a possible municipal bankruptcy, the forthcoming rollout of President Barack Obama's health care law could be the city's lucky break. Emergency manager Kevyn Orr has proposed moving younger retired city workers who do not yet qualify ...
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Vatican Bank Director, Deputy Resign Amid Scandal
NPR
ROME (AP) — The director of the embattled Vatican bank and his deputy resigned Monday, the latest heads to roll in a broadening finance scandal that has already landed one Vatican monsignor in prison and added urgency to Pope Francis' reform efforts.
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China censors urge media to curb 'cash crunch' coverage
Financial Times
With a cash crunch roiling the Chinese economy, propaganda authorities have told local media to tone down their reporting to help stabilise financial markets. In a directive written last week and transmitted over the past few days to newspapers and television ...
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Rocky June Sees Record ETF Withdrawals
Wall Street Journal
U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds saw their largest monthly cash outflow on record in June, as global stock and bond markets quaked over worries about central bank stimulus and China's slowing growth. Nearly $12 billion came out of ETFs in June, biggest ...
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Groupon climbs social ladder
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — Groupon continues to regroup — or at least give doubting analysts and investors a reason not to take a bat to its battered image. Today, the daily-discount service used by 42 million people unfurls Groupon Reserve, a tool that lets ...
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How Onyx Transformed Itself Into a Target
Wall Street Journal
Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has been transformed from a struggling biotech company to a $10 billion acquisition target in just a few years, the result of gambles made by its hard-charging chief executive, N. Anthony Coles, who sued his company's partner and ...
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Energy drinks go natural as market buzzes along
Wall Street Journal
ALBANY, N.Y. — Energy drinks are busting out of the convenience store cooler and into the health food aisle. As energy drink sales soar like a caffeine-fueled rocket, more drinks are promoting organic ingredients, added juices, natural caffeine and so-called ...
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Steinway to Be Bought by Kohlberg for $438 Million
Bloomberg
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg. The Steinway & Sons logo appears on the sides of grand pianos inside the Steinway & Sons piano factory in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York. Steinway Musical Instruments Inc. (LVB), owner of the 160-year-old piano ...
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FX GLOBAL CALL: Our Take on the Day's Big FX News
Wall Street Journal
Activity in the euro-zone manufacturing sector continued to decline in June but at the least severe rate in nearly a year and a half. Article; Stock Quotes; Comments. more in Markets | Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ ». smaller; Larger. By; GEOFFREY ROGOW.
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Construction Spending in US Rises , Led by Residential Projects
Bloomberg
Construction spending in the U.S. climbed in May, led by the strongest expenditures on residential projects in more than four years. Outlays (CNSTTMOM) grew by 0.5 percent to an $874.9 billion annualized rate, the Commerce Department reported today in ...
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Successful satellite launch a milestone, says PM Manmohan Singh
IBNLive
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the successful launch of India's first navigation satellite is an important milestone in the development of country's space programme. He congratulated the department of space and Indian Space ...
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FAA probes close call of Spirit jet, small plane
Businessweek
DETROIT (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it is investigating a close call between a Texas-bound Spirit Airlines flight and a skydiving plane that forced the jetliner to dive sharply over Michigan, as screaming passengers feared the ...
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Intuit Rises After Selling Financial Unit: San Francisco Mover
Businessweek
Intuit Inc. (INTU) rose the most in more than two months after private-equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC agreed to buy the small-business software maker's financial-services unit for $1.025 billion in cash. Shares of Intuit advanced 3.5 percent to $63.15 at the close ...
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Carl Icahn Has Raised $5.3 Billion to Finance His Plan For Dell ...
By Arik Hesseldahl
carl_icahn_feature Activist investor Carl Icahn has apparently raised more than the $5 billion he needs to finance his plan to carry out a recapitalization of the computer maker Dell, a plan he argues will be worth more to the company's ...
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Audit Commission: City Finance Department Processes Need ...
By Jenna Carlesso
The internal audit commission, after completing an audit of the Hartford Finance Department's Revenue Management Unit, found that policies and procedures in the unit and department in general "needed improvement." In a 12-page report ...
Cityline
Financial reform must carry on | Hugo Dixon - Reuters
By Hugo Dixon
After seven years of crisis, progress has been made in fixing the financial system: for example, a landmark EU deal last week to make creditors not taxpayers foot the bill for bust banks. But there's a huge job still to do. Policymakers must not ...
Hugo Dixon
Appointed: Maria Luis Albuquerque is the new Minister of Finance...
By Editor
Former Treasury Secretary, Maria Luis de Albuquerque, was appointed Portugal's Minister of Finance by Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, the office of President Cavaco Silva announced Tuesday. Albuquerque, 46, holds degrees in ...
Portuguese American Journal
Cuomo says campaign finance probe won't be limited to Legislature
By Politics on the Hudson
Speaking to reporters in New York City, Cuomo said the probe—which he says will be conducted by a panel he appoints under the state Moreland Act—will have "general jurisdiction and responsibility for all campaign finance… activity.
Capitol Confidential
Eurozone: the shape of things to come | Blog | Public Finance...
By Daniela Schwarzer
Since the sovereign debt crisis hit the euro area in 2010, most attention has been paid to crisis management decisions, i.e. financial aid packages, debt restructuring or behind-the-scenes-action by the European Central Bank. In order to fully ...
Blog | Public Finance International
EUROPEAN OPENING NEWS INCLUDING: Portuguese Finance...
Asia Chinese banks raised lending by CNY 1trl in the first 10 days of June. (WSJ) According to a previously undisclosed summary of a PBOC meeting, the central bank was concerned that in the first 10 days of June, Chinese banks increased ...
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Distinguished financial economist Professor Darrell Duffie appointed ...
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Singapore, 28 June 2013 – The National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have jointly appointed Professor.
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Element Financial Closes Acquisition of GE Capital's Canadian ...
Element Financial Corp., an independent equipment finance company, has purchased GE Capital's Canadian fleet portfolio. As part of this agreement, the two companies said they have formed a strategic alliance to deliver vehicle fleet ...
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From the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blogs: Standard cost worksheet ...
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Bahrain Bourse falls to one-month low | Finance and Economy ...
The Bahrain All-Share Index declined by 0.25% to 1184.84 points on Monday. Ahli United Bank dived 2.21% to $0.665. BMMI Shops gained the most, advancing by 6.12% to hit BD0.78. Earlier in the day, the research department of National ...
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OilVoice | New sale and leaseback transactions with Ship Finance...
North Atlantic Drilling ("NADL") and Ship Finance International Limited ("Ship Finance") today announce an agreement to a combined sale and leaseback arrangement whereby Ship Finance will acquire the harsh environment jack-up drilling ...
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Portugal finance minister quits - Europe - Al Jazeera English
Resignation of Vitor Gaspar comes amid rising social discontent over austerity measures.
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Four former Lombard Finance directors will serve home detention sentences.
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