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Troubled Swiss banking giant UBS AG said Wednesday that it will slash its global work force of 76,200 people by more than 10 percent as part of across-the-board cost cutting to return to profit after racking up billion dollar losses for yet another quarte
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IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, right, talks with Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., center, and the subcommittee’s ranking Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., left, on Capitol Hill in...
