Posted by Reuters: Business News on July 12, 2010
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is still in danger of losing its triple-A rating despite the ambitious fiscal tightening announced by the country’s new coalition government last month, Standard & Poor’s said on Monday.



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NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Under-pressure BP Plc is in talks with U.S. oil and gas company Apache Corp and other companies over potential asset sales, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday, as it weighs how to pay costs related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on June 7, 2010
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Bristol-Myers Squibb Co’s shares rose more than 8 percent on Monday after news over the weekend that its experimental drug ipilimumab extended survival in patients with deadly skin cancer.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on May 29, 2010
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – The future of Prudential’s deal to buy AIG’s Asian life insurance arm remained uncertain on Saturday, with the U.S. Treasury saying it has not considered any other deal than the existing contract on the table.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on May 10, 2010
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Global financial markets surged on Monday after officials agreed to a $1 trillion emergency rescue package to avert a sovereign debt crisis in Europe from festering and engulfing the rest of the world.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on April 21, 2010
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported blow-out quarterly earnings on Tuesday, but investors appeared to focus on the U.S. fraud case against the bank as Britain’s market watchdog launched its own probe.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on April 20, 2010
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported blow-out quarterly earnings on Tuesday, but investors appeared to focus on the U.S. fraud case against the bank as Britain’s market watchdog launched its own probe.



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NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported blow-out quarterly earnings on Tuesday, but investors appeared to focus on the U.S. fraud case against the bank as Britain’s market watchdog launched its own probe.



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NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported stunningly strong quarterly earnings on Tuesday, overshadowing British financial regulators’ move to follow their U.S. counterparts in pursuing civil fraud allegations against the dominant Wall Street bank.



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NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc said first-quarter earnings nearly doubled, and Britain’s financial regulator launched a formal probe related to civil fraud allegations against the Wall Street bank.



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