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While the average African American is feeling more financially secure, many still feel neglected by the financial industry, new research shows.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 17:46 |
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By Ethan Bilby BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union wants to exclude much of the utility sector from a prospective EU-U.S. free trade agreement in order to protect government controlled infrastructure, the latest draft of the EU`s mandate for the negotiations showed on Tuesday. Unlike in the United States, many national European electricity grids and power generators are state controlled, and governments fear that a deal supporting the free flow of U.S. companies and money into the sector would erode their influence over assets seen as vital to national infrastructure. ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 15:55 |
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Imagine being on national TV to beg fate and luck to help bail you out from your mistakes.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 16:49 |
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By Brian Ellsworth CARACAS (Reuters) - A recording released by Venezuela`s opposition purportedly revealing graft and conspiracy in the ruling Socialist Party has stirred a new political storm in the OPEC nation`s already traumatic transition after the death of Hugo Chavez. Opposition leaders on Monday played an hourlong, expletive-laced diatribe in which a man identified as powerful state TV commentator Mario Silva lambastes party heavyweight Diosdado Cabello. They said Silva was talking to a Cuban intelligence officer. ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 17:11 |
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By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - A U.N. nuclear agency report due this week is expected to show Iran further increasing its capacity to produce material that its adversaries fear could eventually be put to developing atomic bombs, Western diplomats said on Tuesday. But they said it is also likely to indicate that growth in Iran`s most sensitive nuclear stockpile has been held back because some of it has been used for reactor fuel, potentially providing more time for diplomacy between Iran and major powers. ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 15:04 |
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By Nishant Kumar HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Asian prime brokerage unit of Credit Suisse has replaced Morgan Stanley as the second largest firm servicing the region`s $148 billion hedge funds industry, a survey showed. The annual survey by industry tracker AsiaHedge, released this week, found that Goldman Sachs remains Asia`s top prime broker with 179 clients and total assets under management of $24.6 billion. Credit Suisse overtook Morgan Stanley by adding 14 new clients and $2.4 billion in assets over the last year, a first for any prime broker in Asia, the survey showed. ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 09:12 |
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The latest data on EU bathing water quality is released, showing that 93% of more than 22,000 sampled locations meet the minimum standards.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:59 |
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A study showing how ants tunnel their way through confined spaces could aid the design of search and rescue robots, say scientists.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 09:47 |
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By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan has turned away thousands of Syrian refugees in the past week in the first such clampdown since the crisis in Syria began more than two years ago, diplomats, activists and aid workers said on Tuesday. Jordan, due to host an international conference on Syria on Wednesday, has already taken in 473,587 Syrians out of a total of 1.5 million who have fled the conflict in an exodus that has accelerated in the past four months, U.N. figures show. ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 13:32 |
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LONDON (AP) — Official figures show that consumer price inflation in Britain eased in April, largely on the back of lower fuel prices and airfares.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:16 |
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