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Money corrupts, they say, and now there`s a study that shows why people get so sneaky when it comes to making a profit.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 16:09 |
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Streaming media device adding apps from ESPN, HBO.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 17:35 |
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By Olesya Dmitracova and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England policymakers acknowledged earlier this month that further market volatility could be on the way because of uncertainty about the direction of U.S. monetary policy, but came no closer to shifting their own stance. Minutes of its latest policy meeting, released on Wednesday, show the BoE remained deadlocked over whether to restart its own asset-buying stimulus, with outgoing Governor Mervyn King again in a minority voting for another 25 billion pounds ($39 billion) of asset purchases. ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:52 |
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MADRID, June 19 (Reuters) - Spanish golfer Jose Maria Olazabal has won the Iberian nation`s most prestigious sports award, the Prince of Asturias prize, after he captained Europe`s Ryder Cup team to a stunning win against United States last year. `One of the best golfers in history, with two Masters titles at Augusta and four Ryder Cup wins, a competition in which he also showed his leadership qualities, as captain helping the Europe team to an epic comeback in 2012,` the jury said in announcing their decision. ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:33 |
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish golfer Jose Maria Olazabal has won the Iberian nation`s most prestigious sports award, the Prince of Asturias prize, after he captained Europe`s Ryder Cup team to a stunning win against United States last year. `One of the best golfers in history, with two Masters titles at Augusta and four Ryder Cup wins, a competition in which he also showed his leadership qualities, as captain helping the Europe team to an epic comeback in 2012,` the jury said in announcing their decision. ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:33 |
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Interest rates on home mortgages rose last week to hit their highest level in over a year, sapping demand from potential homeowners, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday. Rates climbed 2 basis points to average 4.17 in the week ended June 14, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. It was the highest level since March of last year. After hovering around record lows, rates have surged for six weeks in a row, pushed higher by worries that the Federal Reserve could slow its stimulus program sooner than had been expected. ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:25 |
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) Greece`s governing coalition parties are to meet for a second time in three days to try and end a political crisis triggered by the closure of state broadcaster ERT.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:13 |
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By Lefteris Papadimas and Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece`s ruling party leaders met on Wednesday to try to agree when and how to resume state TV broadcasts, two days after a top court ordered the immediate reopening of the state broadcaster ERT, abruptly closed by the government a week ago. ERT`s screens were black or showing color bars for an eighth straight day after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras`s unexpected decision to pull the plug at a few hours` notice to save money and help shore up Greece`s bankrupt state finances. ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 16:45 |
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Satellite TV company wants to focus its efforts on completing acquisition of Clearwire.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 15:08 |
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel`s conservatives and their junior coalition partner, the Free Democrats (FDP), are on course to win enough votes to form a narrow majority, a poll showed on Wednesday, before an election on September 22. Together with the FDP, Merkel`s conservatives would take 46 percent of the vote in the parliamentary election, the Forsa poll showed. The three main opposition parties - the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the far-left Linke (Left) party - would get 45 percent. ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 08:46 |
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