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 Following 13 years of Gates reigning over Forbes’ richest men on Earth list, it is now time to welcome Warren Buffet as the holder of the biggest fortune in the world. Estimated at around 62 billion dollars, Forbes announced on Wednesday.Microsoft’s co-founder slipped to the third position in the elite list despite the fact that he got 2...
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 William Lerach, a high-profile class action attorney, was sentenced by a federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday to two years in federal prison, two years probation and 1.000 hours of community service for legal improprieties.The former partner of the well-known New York law firm, which is now known as Milberg Weiss was fined 250.000...
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 CheckFree Corp. is an online
banking service provider that recently unveiled a smart technology that could
help millions of people save time, as they will no longer have to go to the
bank to deposit checks. The new technology presented by CheckFree Corp. was
called Remote Deposit Capture and will allow people to scan checks at...
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 The famous actor Wesley Trent Snipes was found guilty on three misdemeanor charges for failing to file tax returns by a jury, but was acquitted on some more serious charges of conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and fraud regarding the tax payment."The jury's conviction of Wesley Snipes today represents the...
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 A survey that was published on Wednesday by the Office of Communications (Ofcom) showed that the United Kingdom offers the lowest prices for telephone, broadband and television in Europe and also that the country is the leader in the take-up of digital television out of the 12 countries that were included in the survey.The survey...
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 US President George W. Bush revealed a plan on Thursday that is aimed to help as much as 1.2 million people that are struggling to pay their home loans, in the context of growing risks to the economy and the fear of average Americans that they might lose their homes in the subprime mortgage meltdown.In its strongest measure taken in the...
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 As a cause to the record rise of freight and fuel costs, the
Christmas tree shoppers might see themselves forced to pay more for the joy of
children and the shelter for presents.
Another cause for the rising prices might be the extended
dry fall season, along with the growing demand and the weak dollar, which makes
the trees that...
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 US consumers mobbed malls and shops Friday to kick off the holiday
shopping season, but retailers forecast the lowest sales in five years
because of the slow US economy.
Chain stores nationwide opened before dawn on the day after the
Thanksgiving holiday, touting deep discounts on electronics, clothes
and thousands of other items....
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 The U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, compiled by RealtyTrac, found that foreclosure filings rose 36 percent in August from July and 115 percent from a year ago, hit by declines in once-hot housing markets such as California, Nevada and Florida. The number of foreclosure filings this August was 243,947, the highest since RealtyTrac began...
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 The troubled British bank Northern Rock is apparently collapsing after shareholders have joined savers in creating trouble for the financial institution. It seems that a domino effect was started which can only lead to the bank's collapse, if not for a miracle -- from the government. That's not entirely impossible:While British finance...
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GBP |
YEN |
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0.757 |
0.701 |
97.307 |
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1.320 |
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128.479 |
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1.426 |
1.080 |
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138.794 |
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0.010 |
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| Symbol | Last | Change | | Dow | 14,047.31 |  40.24 (0.29%) | | Nasdaq | 2,747.11 |  6.12 (0.22%) | | S&P 500 | 1,546.63 | 0.41 (0.03%) | | 10-Yr Bond | 4.529%
| 0.028 | | NYSE Volume | 3,112,411,000 | | Nasdaq Volume | 1,795,889,000 |
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 New BMW-6 Series Coupe and convertible
BMW has launched a convertible and new coupe of the 6-Series
featuring several advanced drive technologies and driver assistance
safety systems.
Both the coupe...
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