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  • Ex-Im Bank loan guarantee to Air India upheld by US appeals court Ex-Im Bank loan guarantee to Air India upheld by US appeals court

    WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court has upheld a decision by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance the sale of 30 Boeing wide-body jets to Indian state-owned carrier Air India in a legal challenge brought by Delta Air Lines to the loan guarantee. The court has however directed the government-run bank to better explain its rationale for providing loan guarantee, which Delta claimed as a ...

  • Google spending $7mn to fight child pornography Google spending $7mn to fight child pornography

    LONDON - Internet giant Google said it is spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them. "We're in the business of making information widely available, but there's certain 'information' that should never be created or found," wrote Jacqueline Fuller, director of Google Giving, in a blog post. ...

  • Aspen seeks to acquire GSK thrombosis drug and plant Aspen seeks to acquire GSK thrombosis drug and plant

    DURBAN / LONDON - South Africa's biggest generic drug maker Aspen Pharmacare and its subsidiary Aspen Global Incorporated have made an offer to acquire thrombosis drugs and their associated manufacturing site at Notre Dame de Bondeville, France, from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). "AGI will acquire from GSK the Arixtra and Fraxiparine/Fraxodi brands and business worldwide, except in China, Pakistan ...

  • Shenzen to be first Chinese city to begin carbon trading Shenzen to be first Chinese city to begin carbon trading

    BEIJING - China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, is set to launch Tuesday its first carbon trading scheme as a pilot project in the southern city of Shenzhen as part of efforts to cut emissions in its key cities. Carbon emissions trading schemes are meant to encourage companies to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by setting a limit or a cap, on the level of emission that can be ...

  • UK inflation rises to 2.7pc in May pushed by higher transport cost UK inflation rises to 2.7pc in May pushed by higher transport cost

    LONDON - The consumer price index (CPI) inflation increased to 2.7% in May, up from 2.4% in April, mainly due to higher fuel costs pushing up transportation costs particularly airfares, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Tuesday. The ONS said the rise was due to a record increase in airfares and higher fuel prices. "The inflation rate has returned to the levels seen between ...


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  • Wells Fargo securities lending case goes to trial

    A group of 11 jurors will decide whether Wells Fargo & Co. grossly mismanaged a former securities lending program and lied about its safety, or whether the financial calamity that followed the boom was to blame for millions of dollars in ...

  • Amazon drops blogger affiliates in Minnesota to avoid sales tax

    The move, which parallels those by other Internet retailers, is a response to an upcoming change in the state’s tax law that applies to ...

  • City Deli to get new owner new name

    The planned change in ownership was disclosed on Tuesday to the deli's two dozen employees, who were told that the new owners plan to keep them on through the ...

  • Dish Focuses on Clearwire

    SoftBank Corp , which is also trying to buy Sprint. Satellite TV provider Dish said in a statement that it was not practical for it to submit a revised offer by the June 18 deadline imposed by Sprint even though it "continues to see strategic value in a merger with Sprint." ...

  • What if Wall Street doesnt like what Fed says

    One analyst's take: 'We are so screwed' when bond buying eases NEW YORK -- Ever since it began injecting cash into the financial system in 2008, the Federal Reserve has been compared to a drug dealer by critics. The Fed's bond-buying and zero-interest-rate policy, they say, is akin to a performance-enhancing, steroid-like drug with the addictive quality of crack cocaine. ...

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