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Eurozone fears send investors to havens
Revival of concerns that stress tests in July understated lenders? holdings of risky government debt
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UK bank shake-up sets up reform face-off
Both banks have warned that forcing them to hive off their highly profitable investment and corporate banking operations from their less volatile retail businesses could see them shift their headquarters abroad
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Barroso calls on Europe to accelerate reform
In his first ?state of the union? address to the European parliament, Commission president José Manuel Barroso, appealed for action to consolidate an uneven economic recovery
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HP sues to block Hurd?s move to Oracle
Hewlett-Packard has sued to block Mark Hurd, its former chief executive, from taking up a senior role at Oracle, adding a twist to a saga that has transfixed Silicon Valley
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French unions test Sarkozy in pensions strike
France?s trade unions are holding one of the biggest nationwide demonstrations in several years in protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy?s plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62
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Obama to push business tax breaks
President Barack Obama to announce sweeping new plans to stimulate the US?s anaemic recovery, proposing businesses be able to write off all investments in their plants from now until the end of next year, a move that would amount to a $200bn tax cut for business
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SEC signals shake-up of equity market rules
A wide-ranging overhaul of the rules governing equity markets, including tougher controls on high-frequency traders, is being weighed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the wake of the May 6 ?flash crash?, the agency?s head said
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World Bank backs investment in global farmland
Vendors urged to demand much more to increase their farming productivity and peoples? livehoods
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Ousted AIG chief lands senior role at Willis Group
Martin Sullivan, who was ousted as AIG chief executive just three months before the world?s largest insurer was rescued by the US government, has returned to the industry with a leading executive role at Willis Group
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China vows to treat foreign business fairly
The man expected to become the next leader of China?s ruling Communist party has responded to a growing wave of complaints from foreign investors by assuring them the country will remain an open and fair place for them to do business
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