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May 11 (Bloomberg) — U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling will call on European Union finance ministers to combat rising food prices by removing import levies and scrapping rules that keep food prices in the 27-nation bloc artificially high.
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TEL AVIV (Dow Jones) - Citigroup is considering paring down or selling its Japanese consumer-finance company, CFJ KK, the Nikkei daily reported in its online edition.
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Planning is underway for a ‘major review’ of Nova Scotia’s tax system, Finance Minister Michael Baker has confirmed.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)–The number of housing-finance approvals in Australia fell a seasonally adjusted 6.1% in March from February, the Australia Bureau of Statistics said Monday.
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Why can India and China become top business and finance players in a globalized finance, trade, hightech, investment, and politics? Get latest info and analysis from leading experts on the ground.
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ATLANTA - Three Manheim auctions were recently honored at Wells Fargo Auto Finance’s third annual auction awards reception held last month in Atlanta.
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SEOUL (Thomson Financial) - The South Korean economy has begun showing signs of easing as growth seems to have reached a peak, with consumer and corporate spending curbed by the surge in the cost of oil and other raw materials, the Planning and Finance Ministry said on Friday.
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MTS Group, an electronic trading platform for government bonds, has signed an agreement with the Brazilian Ministry of Finance for the creation of an electronic market dedicated to the trading of local currency sovereign securities issued by the Federative Republic of Brazil.
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Watch out on surging India and China! What is really behind the competitiveness of Indian and Chinese multinationals, tech, finance, labor, outsourcing, and management? Get insiders’ information and analysis from the inside on the ground of China and India.
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Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on Wednesday said a Medicare package that would delay for 18 months a 10.6% cut to physician fees would cost between $15 billion and $18 billion over five years, prompting committee members to begin discussions on how to offset those costs, CQ Today reports (Wayne/Armstrong, CQ Today, 5/7).
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