admin | February 1, 2012
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July 29 (Bloomberg) — Kenneth Lewis, the former Bank of America Corp. chief executive officer accused of recklessness involving losses at Merrill Lynch, lost his bid to have a securities claim dismissed from a shareholder lawsuit.
U.S. District Judge [...]
admin | February 1, 2012
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July 7 (Bloomberg) — Italy risks becoming a debt crisis casualty if bond yields remain at their current levels because annual interest costs will jump by more than $14 billion, according to Gary Jenkins at Evolution Securities Ltd.
Yields on Italy’s 10-year bonds yesterday exceeded 5 percent for the first time since [...]
admin | January 30, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO – US home run king Barry Bonds has suffered a setback in court when a federal judge ruled that former Major League Baseball players will be able to testify in the famed slugger’s perjury trial.
Bonds pleaded not guilty last week to four counts of perjury for denying to a grand jury in 2003 [...]
admin | January 28, 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Thinking about your own death can make you reach for the cookie jar, with an international study finding that morbid thoughts tend to whet the appetite.
Researchers Naomi Mandel from Arizona State University and Dirk Smeesters from Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands conducted several experiments in Europe and the United [...]
admin | January 28, 2012
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – California has become the largest U.S. state to ban text messaging while driving — a growing practice in cities like Los Angeles where gridlock turns four wheels into a virtual second office.
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admin | January 28, 2012
MANILA , Philippines — Influential businessman Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco Jr., chairman and chief executive of diversifying conglomerate San Miguel Corp., is not asking anything in return for his support of his nephew, President-elect Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, in the recently concluded elections.
The Aquino and Cojuangco families have been estranged for years, but closed ranks when [...]
admin | January 28, 2012
MANILA, Philippines – Solicitor General Jose Anselmo Cadiz said it is unfair for the United States and the European Union to question the lower duties the country imposes on its own distilled spirits.
Cadiz said their allegations that the Philippines discriminates against foreign suppliers of liquor is unwarranted.
"They want to penetrate the Philippine market. Ang sinasabi [...]
admin | January 28, 2012
BEIJING, – The possible retirement of star NBA centre Yao Ming will not diminish the league’s booming popularity in the world’s most populous nation, the NBA’s top executive in China has said.
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admin | January 28, 2012
MANILA, Philippines – International singing sensation Charice on Wednesday said she also collaborated with international rapper Taboo of “The Black Eyed Peas.”
Charice is in the United States finishing her second international album.
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admin | January 28, 2012
MANILA, Philippines – Negros Navigation Co., Inc. aims to post a turnaround this year from the net loss in 2010 by expanding its logistics operations and streamlining its work force after acquiring Aboitiz Transport System Corp., a ranking official yesterday said.
Profits should hit P1 billion this year versus the P500-million loss computed from Negros Navigation [...]