Archive for April 19th, 2008
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
South Korea and the United States reached an agreement on beef imports from the U.S. after holding tough negotiations, said the South Korean government on Friday.
"The two sides agreed on the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) rules f ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
The number of dangerous products removed from the European Union (EU) market rose by 53 percent in 2007 compared to that in 2006, thanks to better surveillance, the European Commission said Thursday.
An annual report on the EU's rap ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, posted a first-quarter profit that trailed estimates on costs for pensions and closing a plant, and forecast the handset market's value will shrink in euro terms this year.
Nok ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
California's unemployment rate rose by a whopping half a percentage point last month, reaching 6.2 percent as a slowing economy shed more jobs especially in the construction and financial services sectors, the state's Economic Development D ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
The dollar rose against the euro and the yen on Friday as better-than-expected Citigroup earnings helped ease investor anxiety on the financial market.
Citigroup, the largest U.S. bank, posted a quarterly loss of 5.1 billion dollars ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Wall Street rallied Friday on Google's better-than-expected profit report.
Shares of Google, the online search giant, surged Friday as its first-quarter earnings and revenue growth topped analysts' predictions.
Citigroup, th ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
The agreement to fully reopen the South Korean market to U.S. beef exports is consistent with international standards and World Animal Health Organization (OIE) guidelines, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said Friday.
The agr ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Crude oil futures rose nearly 2 U.S. dollars a barrel on Friday to close at a new record high of 116.69 dollars a barrel on news about pipeline sabotage in Nigeria.
The front-month contract hit 117 dollars a barrel in electronic tra ...
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