U.S. factories saw a surprisingly hefty increase in their orders for big-ticket products in July, reflecting continued strength in export sales and a boost to business investment from the government's tax stimulus package. Economists, however, remain ...
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FRANKFURT (Thomson Financial) - The European Central Bank, the U.S. Federal Reserve and other major central banks are planning to make it easier for banks to obtain liquidity in times of crisis, Financial Times Deutschland reported, without citing ...
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Aer Lingus has reported operating losses of more than €22m for the first half of this year. The losses come despite a 10% increase in revenue to almost €633m and an increase of almost half a million in passenger numbers. Aer Lingus is blaming ...
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Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Canon Inc. , Japan's biggest office- equipment maker, fell the most in more than five months in Tokyo trading after Ricoh Co. agreed to buy Ikon Office Solutions Inc., the largest copier distributor in the U.S. Canon fell 5.2 ...
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HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong Disneyland is expected to record attendance of 5.6 million people in its third year of operation — its best-ever result, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Thursday. The park, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Co. and ...
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Pressing ahead with plans to build three huge "Titan" prisons would be a "costly and hugely damaging mistake", the Government has been warned. The 2,500-place jails would do little or nothing to cut crime and would instead "destabilise the criminal ...
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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Aug. 28 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd (TAIEX: 2412; NYSE: CHT) ("Chunghwa" or "the Company"), today reported its consolidated operating results for the first six months of 2008. All figures were prepared ...
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