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HSBC profits dip
LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings missed expectations with a $7 billion annual profit after bad debts rose and risked a public backlash by paying three investment bankers over 9 million pounds ($13.7 million) each.
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Toyoda apologizes to China over recalls
BEIJING (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda apologized to Chinese consumers on Monday over the company's massive global recall, seeking to ease quality concerns in the world's biggest auto market.
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Global factories enjoy bumper February
LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) - Factories around the world enjoyed a bumper February with business surveys showing the manufacturing sector in major economies continued to lead an economic recovery, despite a slowdown in some growth rates.
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Vivendi beats forecasts, cautious on 2010
PARIS (Reuters) - Vivendi, Europe's largest entertainment group, sounded a cautious note on its profit outlook for this year despite posting better than expected results for 2009, boosted by its video games and telecoms units.
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Regulator warns against caving in on bank reform
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The global financial system is radically flawed and radical solutions are needed, so regulators must resist attempts to dilute proposed reforms, a top European watchdog said on Monday.
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AIG agrees to $35.5 billion unit sale to Prudential: sources
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc agreed to sell its Asian life insurance unit to Britain's Prudential Plc for about $35.5 billion, in a deal that would help the U.S. government get back billions of its bailout money, sources familiar with the matter said.
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Chile restarts top copper mines hit by quake
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's biggest copper mines hit by a massive earthquake slowly resumed operations on Sunday despite limited power supplies, which analysts fear could curtail exports from the world's No. 1 producer.
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U.S., Japan to see leap in distressed property sales
LONDON (Reuters) - The United States and Japan are expected to see the biggest rise in distressed property sales in the first quarter, as the fallout from the global property downturn intensifies, the results of a survey showed on Monday.
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Payrolls, quake, ISM may steer stocks
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Payrolls could give the U.S. stock market some direction this week as investors comb through the key report on one of the economy's weakest areas.
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U.S. hedge fund firm being probed on kickbacks: WSJ
(Reuters) - U.S. authorities are probing individuals close to NIR Group on whether the U.S. hedge fund firm paid kickbacks to outsiders to inflate the value of its holdings, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Shares seen up; focus on macro-economic data
(Reuters) - Futures for the Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 rise 0.1 to 0.3 percent, pointing to a rise on Wall Street on Friday, the last trading day of the month.
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Greek PM says worst fears confirmed on economy
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou told parliament on Friday, after a visit by EU economic inspectors, that the worst fears about Greece's economy had been confirmed.
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Lloyds shrinks loss in 2009, bad debts soar
LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds , Britain's largest retail bank, shrank its losses in 2009, despite a 24 billion pound ($37 billion) hit from loans that soured, mostly assets inherited from last year's takeover of rival HBOS.
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GM revisiting previous bidders for Hummer
DETROIT/HONG KONG (Reuters) - General Motors has approached previous potential bidders for its Hummer unit after a deal to sell the brand to an obscure Chinese firm collapsed, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Friday.
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Grinding Japan deflation may trigger more BOJ action
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's narrowest measure of consumer inflation matched a record annual fall in January in a sign weak demand will prolong deflation and may prompt the Bank of Japan to expand its supply of funds to the market by mid-year.
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Blackstone nails down some commitments to China fund
HONG KONG/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Buyout giant Blackstone has nailed down three commitments so far to its landmark yuan-denominated fund for China, with the country's national pension fund expected to be a major investor.
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Bernanke wants answers on Goldman role in Greece
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are probing how Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs helped debt-stricken Greece arrange derivatives deals that critics say were used to disguise the size of its budget deficits.
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Toyoda meets with LaHood, thanks workers at plant
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda had a "cordial and open" meeting on Thursday with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood before thanking workers in Kentucky for supporting him during his appearance before Congress.
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Deal on financial reform bill near in Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan agreement on financial regulation reform was close at hand on Thursday in the Senate, with lawmakers working to overcome a key obstacle -- creating a new financial consumer watchdog.
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Stock futures lower after Greece downgrade fears
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell on Thursday after rating agencies said they may downgrade Greece's sovereign debt, reigniting concerns over possible defaults in the euro zone that have dogged markets recently.
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