WASHINGTON (AP) - Commercial banks and investment firms reduced borrowing from the Federal Reserve 's emergency lending program over the past week, although demand for the loans was still elevated. The Fed's report, released Thursday, showed ...
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NEW YORK: Citigroup Inc won a vote of confidence from Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, its largest individual investor, who yesterday said he plans to boost his stake in the US banking giant to 5% from less than 4%. In a statement, Alwaleed said he ...
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Opera-loving philanthropist Alberto Vilar was convicted on fraud charges Wednesday for swindling investors, including the mother of actress Phoebe Cates, out of millions of dollars. Federal prosecutors accused Vilar and a business ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson called the financial crisis now plaguing the world economy a "once or twice" in a 100 years event, even as he warned Thursday against imposing too-strict regulations to prevent a repeat calamity ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Apparel chain Gap Inc. reported Thursday that its third-quarter profit rose 3.4 percent as cost-cutting efforts like inventory control offset a sales slump. The company also affirming its profit guidance for the full year. The San ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Commercial banks and investment firms reduced borrowing from the Federal Reserve 's emergency lending program over the past week, although demand for the loans was still elevated. The Fed's report, released Thursday, showed ...
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Abstract: The RFID reader company gets a funding infusion from In-Q-Tel, which focuses on advanced technologies for the intelligence industry. RFID reader specialist and Mercury 5 purveyor ThingMagic, Inc. this week announced that it had received an ...
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