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| | | | | | AP - At the height of summer, tar balls and paddies of oil were rolling ashore along the Florida Panhandle. Months later, sand castles are being built and swimmers frolic in the water, even though crude lies buried beneath the white sands. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - Consumer goods giant Unilever Plc/NV (UNc.AS) on Monday said it had agreed to buy United States-based hair care group Alberto Culver Co for $3.7 billion in cash. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - Walmart offered more than $4 billion for South African wholesaler Massmart on Monday as the world's largest retailer seeks to expand in fast-growing Africa. | | | | | |
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| | | | | |  Reuters - Hyundai Motor, South Korea's top automaker, will recall some 139,500 Sonata sedans sold in the United States, due to problems with the steering wheel that could cause a loss or reduction of control.
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| | | | | |  Reuters - Asian stocks rose on Monday to their highest in more than two years in response to optimism on the U.S. economy, while the dollar dipped to five-month lows against the euro.
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| | | | | |  AFP - South Korea's top automaker Hyundai Motor is recalling nearly 140,000 of its Sonata sedans in the United States due to a steering problem, US authorities said.
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| | | | | | Reuters - A rise in the value of the yuan may intensify expectations for further increases and could lead to a worsening of China's international payments imbalance, a regional central bank official said in comments published on Monday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) JPMorgan Chase is the frontrunner to buy the remaining infrastructure of RBS Sempra Commodities , the Financial Times said on Monday, citing people familiar with the deal. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - American International Group Inc will sell only existing shares in its Asian life insurance unit, AIA Group Ltd, in the unit's upcoming initial public offering, a term sheet showed on Monday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | |  AFP - Japan's trade surplus fell 37.5 percent in August from a year earlier as the resource-poor country imported more crude oil and liquid natural gas, the government said Monday.
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| | | | | | Reuters - French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis is seeking to line up more funding to potentially raise its $18.5 billion bid for Genzyme Corp, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - Some traders are manipulating U.S. stocks that are worth less than $1 by taking both sides of trades in order to earn big rebates, according to an official at Knight Capital Group Inc . | | | | | |
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| | | | | |  Reuters - The Treasury Department may unveil plans by Wednesday to return American International Group Inc to independence, Bloomberg reported on Sunday.
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| | | | | |  AFP - The White House Sunday slammed Republican plans to cut taxes for wealthy Americans as a recycled failed policy, while sparring lawmakers vowed a vote on the hot-button issue before the tax cuts expire in December.
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| | | | | |  AFP - South Korea's top automaker Hyundai Motor is recalling nearly 140,000 of its 2011 model year Sonata sedans in the United States due to a steering problem, US authorities said Sunday.
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| | | | | | Reuters - One day after the Federal Reserve got investors thinking about uncomfortably low inflation, Starbucks announced it was raising prices on some of its coffee drinks. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - U.S. stock investors will head into this week wondering if September will end as strongly as it began for the market, with manufacturing and personal income data among the top indicators on tap. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner faces a lonely campaign to make China's currency a major issue at the next Group of 20 summit as would-be allies shrink from confronting Beijing. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  AP - BP's lead investigator into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill told an independent panel of experts Sunday that the company's internal probe had limitations.
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| | | | | |  AP - The White House and Democratic leaders in Congress said Sunday they would find a way to extend middle-class tax cuts after the November elections, unable to secure GOP backing before lawmakers break to campaign.
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| | | | | | Reuters - Chinese food company Bright Food is in exclusive talks to buy Britain's United Biscuits for than 2 billion pounds ($3.13 billion), the Sunday Times reported. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - BP has asked the Venezuelan government for permission to negotiate the sale of its assets in the South American OPEC member, Venezuela's Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said on Sunday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - Buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has bought Norway software company Visma for an enterprise value of 1.2 billion pounds ($1.88 billion) from private equity firm HgCapital, the companies said on Sunday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | |  Reuters - Italian automaker Fiat is considering listing part of its sports car unit Ferrari to raise cash in order to increase its stake in U.S. carmaker Chrysler, Il Corriere della Sera said on Sunday.
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