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Pink Floyd Wins Downloads Suit

15 min 43 sec ago
Britain's High Court has ordered record company EMI to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band's original albums.
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CBOE Parent Files $300 Million IPO

17 min 18 sec ago
CBOE Holdings moved ahead with plans for a long-delayed initial public offering, becoming the last large member-owned U.S. financial exchange to go down the public route.
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Exxon's Sees Production Gains

37 min 32 sec ago
The U.S. energy giant known for its heady profits is forecasting its energy output will begin to expand, but the new production comes at the risk of lower profit margins.
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Reynolds Loses Cigarette Case

43 min 7 sec ago
A Vermont judge ruled that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco made false and misleading marketing claims last decade about its Eclipse brand, a so-called reduced-harm cigarette.
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Data Theft Hits HSBC Clients

50 min 50 sec ago
HSBC said a former employee stole data on about 24,000 accounts in its Swiss private bank that wound up in the hands of French authorities.
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BB&T to Pay Tax for Offshore Enterprise

57 min 39 sec ago
BB&T Corp.'s use of an opaque offshore-tax enterprise will cost the U.S. bank nearly $1 billion.
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National Semiconductor's Profit Jumps

1 hour 7 min ago
National Semiconductor posted sharply higher profit as its revenue got a lift from industrial demand for analog products.
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Ex-Cazenove Partner Gets 21 Months

1 hour 9 min ago
Former Cazenove partner Malcolm Calvert was sentenced to 21 months in jail Thursday, following his conviction a day earlier on five counts of insider trading.
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Judge to Release Lehman Report

1 hour 27 min ago
A judge said he would approve the release of a redacted version of an examiner's report on Lehman's collapse. The report could be available to the public Thursday afternoon.
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U.S. Plans New Car-Safety Rules

1 hour 49 min ago
U.S. auto-safety regulators are considering new standards for car brakes, accelerator pedals and "black boxes" that record crash data, the Obama administration's top highway-safety official told Congress.
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CFTC Chief Criticizes Wall Street

2 hours 12 min ago
Gensler took another swipe at Wall Street, saying financial firms' objections to over-the-counter derivatives regulations could leave a large portion of the market in the dark.
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Barnes & Noble Plans iPad App

2 hours 19 min ago
Barnes & Noble will offer an e-book reader application for Apple's new iPad tablet computer, providing access to the electronic books it sells.
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FCC Weighs Fee-Dispute Rule

2 hours 41 min ago
The FCC has begun examining whether it needs to ensure that consumers don't lose channels during fee disputes between broadcasters and cable operators.
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Goldman Loses Senior Hedge-Fund Manager

2 hours 54 min ago
Pierre-Henri Flamand, the head of the largest internal hedge fund at Goldman Sachs, is leaving to start his own hedge fund.
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Citi Sees Higher Return on Assets

3 hours 9 min ago
The banking giant's goal is to generate a return on assets of 1.25% to 1.5% return in its core businesses, compared to the 1.15% returned last year.
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Nomura Loses 2 Asia Bankers

3 hours 16 min ago
Two senior bankers at Nomura have resigned, following the expiration earlier this month of a two-year guaranteed bonus period.
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BP Seals $7 Billion Offshore Brazil Deal

3 hours 31 min ago
The British oil giant agreed to acquire a big swath of oil assets from Devon Energy for $7 billion, in a deal that will vault BP into the hot new oil region off the shores of Brazil.
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Judge Upholds Chevron-Ecuador Arbitration

4 hours 23 min ago
A U.S. judge declined to stay an international arbitration in a dispute between Ecuador's government and Chevron over who should pay for alleged environmental damages in the country's Amazon region.
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Smithfield Returns to Profit

4 hours 34 min ago
Smithfield Foods posted its first quarterly profit in more than a year as losses narrowed sharply at its hog operations.
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Mitsubishi Wary in China

4 hours 43 min ago
Mitsubishi Motors is unlikely to accept an opportunity to increase its stake in one of its joint ventures in China because the auto maker wants to preserve cash.
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