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The Swiss bank is also weighing a possible split of its wealth management and investment banking business, a Swiss newspaper reported.
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Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the Web site.
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A judge has ordered a USA Today reporter to pay fines of up to $5,000 a day if she continues to withhold names of sources she used for a story on the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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After more than 70 years, Consumer Reports has decided that a review isn’t enough for a bad product — it deserves a provocative ad campaign, too.
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Some critics say a Facebook application called Honesty Box has become another weapon in the cyberbully’s arsenal.
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Posted: March 17th, 2008, 12:44am EDT
RATE CUT EXPECTED The Federal Reserve meets on Tuesday, when it will decide how deeply to cut interest rates. A cut of a half point to three-quarters of a point is expected.
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In many hotel bathrooms, there hang hook-shaped plastic cards urging guests to forgo the laundering of their towels. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines how often people follow the requests of such cards, and why.
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Posted: March 17th, 2008, 12:42am EDT
The Treasury’s schedule of financing this week included today’s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills Tuesday.
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Critics say Starbucks has squandered its musical tastemaking cachet by offering more mainstream selections in its coffee shops.
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Alitalia, the money-losing Italian airline, accepted a 747 million-euro takeover offer from Air France-KLM on Sunday, seizing an 11th-hour financial lifeline.
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Executives involved in the deal said that Televisa had agreed to include multiple hours of Telemundo programs on one of its Mexico-based broadcast television stations.
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Melody Petersen has written an angrily illuminating book on drug-related corporate malfeasance and patient peril.
