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Chinese President Hu Jintao was on a triumphant tour through Havana on Tuesday as his country expanded its already extensive economic relationship with the...
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Share prices on the London Stock Exchange closed higher Tuesday.
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Massachusetts’ top securities regulator on Tuesday accused Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. of fraud over the investment bank’s sales of auction-rate securities...
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Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that both leaders hope Lufthansa can work out a collaboration deal with...
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Oil prices fluctuated Tuesday even as the government reported that gasoline prices recorded their largest drop ever in October and prices for home heating oil, natural...
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InBev SA formed the world’s largest brewer Tuesday when it finalized its $52 billion (euro41 billion) takeover of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc.
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France, the current holder of the European Union presidency, called Tuesday on EU regulators to show flexibility in applying state subsidy rules so governments could...
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AP, Cincinnati
The Kroger Co. has opened its biggest “Fresh Fare” store yet and plans more of the stores aimed at luring eat-at-home and natural foods shoppers.
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United Airlines said on Tuesday that a federal judge has barred its pilot union and four pilots from activities that disrupt the airline’s activities.
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China on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that it is seeking to illegally obtain U.S. space technology after a scientist in the United States was convicted of violating...
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Markets should not have been so surprised by the Bank of England’s large 1.50 percentage point rate cut in November because it was justified by the increasingly...
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Even as they struggle amid the slowing economy, some states are giving retailers back about $1 billion in sales taxes each year as reimbursement for acting as tax...
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Wall Street made a hesitant advance Tuesday, with investors refraining from making big bets in a volatile market battered by a stream of weak economic data.
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The EU’s top labor affairs official said Tuesday there is no further need for Germany, Austria, Belgium and Denmark to keep in place job restrictions on citizens...
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AP, Helsinki
Finland’s government said it will hike the tax on alcohol by 10 percent next year in an attempt to discourage heavy drinking.
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Deutsche Lufthansa AG said Tuesday its CityLine regional carrier will cut 20 percent of its 2,500-person work force and scale back the size of its fleet as it trims...
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A Belgian commercial court on Tuesday threw out a shareholder challenge to the fire sale of troubled bank Fortis to France’s BNP Paribas.
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Takeover talks for bankrupt budget airline Sterling A/S failed Tuesday because of disagreements between the potential buyer and a labor union representing flight crews,...
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Shares of Corning Inc. tumbled 12 percent Tuesday after the specialty glass maker lowered its fourth-quarter sales and profit guidance to reflect slumping demand for...
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The National Association of Realtors says home prices fell in four out of five U.S. cities in the third quarter, the latest sign of how the U.S. housing market’s...
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The financial crisis is forcing European Union member countries to reverse two decades of decline in state subsidies for companies, the European Commission said...
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The European Commission has proposed tougher sanctions for overfishing and says the existing weak control system undermines attempts to restore threatened fish stocks.
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The president of the European Commission says the European Union will resume partnership talks with Russia that were put on hold over the war with Georgia.
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The European Commission gave its approval Friday to rescue plans drafted by Italy and Finland to help stabilize their national financial markets.
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The European Commission told EU governments Thursday that Western Europe needs more power grids and pipelines to ensure reliable supplies of electricity and natural gas...
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EU antitrust regulators have raided cement companies it believes formed an illegal cartel to hike prices for the building trade, the European Commission said...
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The European Commission forecast Monday that the economy in the 15 countries that use the euro may already be in a recession and will barely grow next year, expanding...
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The European Commission forecasts that the euro-zone economy will barely grow next year, expanding just 0.1 percent as the financial crisis hits hard.
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The European Commission on Friday asked EU governments to approve a 6.5 billion euro ($8.5 billion) loan to Hungary announced earlier this week and to more than double...
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French and Dutch programs to shore up the banking sector in the wake of financial turmoil won EU approval on Friday, the European Commission said.
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Business and consumer confidence in the 15 nations that share the euro fell to a 15-year low in October, the European Commission said Thursday, as a credit crunch hits...
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The European Commission is eyeing the X-ray vision that will flash images of European airline passengers on a computer screen in all their glory - minus their clothes....
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The president of the European Commission said he was very hopeful that a meeting of European leaders Sunday would take an important step toward a coordinated response...
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The European Commission wants to give Internet shoppers more rights and better protection, in an effort to boost Internet shopping across the continent and provide...
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One of the diagnoses of why the Great Depression was so bad is that countries engaged in “competitive devaluation” — weakening their exchange rates to make...
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A growing number of Europeans don’t bother to buy landline telephone service in their homes, relying instead on their cell phones, the European Commission said...
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The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe into a revenue-sharing deal between British Airways PLC, American Airlines and Spain’s Iberia SA, a...
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Euro area inflation fell in August from a record high, offering some relief as economic confidence plunged to the lowest level in five years, the European Commission...
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