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Would the issuance of euro bonds help to solve the Continent’s debt crisis, or simply spread the pain to the stronger nations like Germany?
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The World Bank cut its economic growth forecast for China this year to 8.2 percent from 8.4 percent on Wednesday and urged the country to rely on easier fiscal policy that boosts consumption rather than state investment to lift activity.
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Efforts to raise Nevada’s gaming, mining and business taxes through the initiative process never seem to get far — and that held true Tuesday when Kermitt Waters’ latest effort was rejected by a judge. Part of a lawsuit filed by Waters to get a tax initiative...(more)
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(05-22) 16:09 PDT LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Bolivia's corruption-plagued national police force has its seventh new police commander in six years. But some officers are upset by President Evo Morales' choice. The head of...
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German business software company SAP announces a $4.3bn acquisition of cloud computing firm Ariba as growth in cloud technology takes off.
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With the nation’s highest unemployment rate at 11.7 percent, it will take Nevada more than five years to gain back all the jobs lost here during the recession.
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Worries about global economic growth generally curbed traders’ appetite. Facebook shares fell again.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google has completed its $12.5 billion purchase of device maker Motorola Mobility in a deal that poses new challenges for the Internet's most powerful company as it tries to shape the future of mobile computing....
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans will have to drop their insistence on retaining tax cuts for the rich and plans to reshape Medicare before there can be a bipartisan deal on controlling federal deficits and averting a wide-scale tax increase in January, the Senate's top Democrat said.......(more)
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LONDON (Reuters) - Japanese electronics group Panasonic plans to open a European factory this year to make home appliances, a market it is targeting as sales of televisions stagnate, in a rare vote of confidence for manufacturing in the crisis-hit euro zone.
