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One percent growth seen in Japan
Japan's economy grew slowly but more strongly over the first three months of the year. The economy grew by one percent between January and March, compared to the final quarter in 2011. The ...
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Japan in space-push for foreign money
Japan has launched a rocket carrying an environment monitoring satellite from South Korea. In the country's first commercial launch of a foreign satellite, technicians sent the HII-A rocket into ...
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Senate panel will take evidence from Jamie Dimon
The head of JP Morgan has accepted a call from a US Senate committee to appear before it. Chairman and chief executive Jamie Dimon will go before the committee to explain the bank's unexpected $2 ...
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BMW in push to develop world manufacturing sites
German luxury carmaker BMW is believed to be considering the building of plants in Mexico, Slovakia and Hungary. As reported in Germany's daily newspaper Handelsblatt, company sources have ...
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Indian rupee hits new lows
The Indian rupee has fallen drastically over the past week. On Friday, the Indian currency had sunk to a record low against the dollar. It was the third day the rupee had fallen, due in part ...
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LAs Old Chinatown ponders a future with Wal-Mart
LOS ANGELES -; On the surface, a big Wal-Mart store might seem out of place in the midst of the old-fashioned curio shops, the little dim sum eateries and the colorful lanterns and pagodas that ...
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Yahoo nears deal to sell stake in Alibaba reports
Yahoo Inc. may finally be nearing a deal to sell a part of its prized stake in the major Chinese e-commerce provider Alibaba.Bloomberg Businessweek is citing unnamed sources in reporting that the ...
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Heist of the century Wall Streets role in the financial crisis
Wall Street bankers could have averted the global financial crisis, so why didn't they? In this exclusive extract from his book Inside Job, Charles Ferguson argues that they should be ...
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Artists design Greeces new currency – in pictures
The current economic instability in Greece could soon force the country out of the eurozone, which means it will need to print a new currency sharpish. De La Rue, the British company that produces ...
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Roger Mosey interview BBC will show every Olympics event
BBC 's director of London 2012 is now sipping a cappuccino, and they started amid hubristic high hopes. But the Games ended in bitter, soggy acrimony following a string of disqualifications, ...
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