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Apr 18, 2012

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54 New Schools Will Open This Fall, Bloomberg Says
New York Times
Earlier in the day, the issue of school closings was drawn into the fray of mayoral politics, when several expected mayoral candidates criticized Mr. Bloomberg's policies. William C. Thompson Jr., the former comptroller and a 2009 Democratic candidate ...
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New York Times
Couche-Tard Soars on Offer to Buy Statoil Fuel: Montreal Mover
San Francisco Chronicle
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. rose the most in more than eight years after agreeing to buy Statoil Fuel & Retail ASA, Scandinavia's biggest gas-station operator, for 15.9 billion kroner ($2.8 billion) to push into European ...
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Bristol-Myers Expands Hepatitis C Accord With J&J, Medivir
Bloomberg
(BMY) agreed to conduct two trials of experimental hepatitis C treatments in collaboration with Medivir AB (MVIRB) and Johnson & Johnson. (JNJ) Medivir shares rose as much as 5.7 percent in Stockholm. The companies will conduct a late-stage trial of ...
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Oncor Bonds Show Energy Future Contagion Risk: Corporate Finance
Bloomberg
“The Armageddon outcome is that Energy Future Holdings goes into bankruptcy and a judge says this ring fencing is nonsense,” Philip C. Adams, a debt analyst at Gimme Credit LLC, said in a telephone interview. “While remote, it's a risk factor Oncor has ...
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Citigroup's Pandit Lists Greenwich Home at $4.3 Million
Bloomberg
Vikram Pandit, the chief executive officer of Citigroup Inc. (C), put his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, on the market for $4.3 million, about 5 percent more than he paid for it almost 11 years ago. The six-bedroom, six-bathroom house on Pecksland ...
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Bloomberg
Dividends 'Best Defense' Against Bullion ETF, Kirkland Gold Says
Bloomberg
That compares with an average dividend yield of 4.2 percent by companies in the STOXX Europe 600 index, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. ETF Holding Surge Gold stocks are trading at the cheapest levels in at least nine years as profits reached ...
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Exxon Inferior to Pipelines in Energy Investing
Bloomberg
The BLOOMBERG RISKLESS RETURN RANKING shows pipeline companies in the past five years have provided triple the risk- adjusted return of companies that produce and refine oil and gas, such as Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), the next best group.
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Abbott Says Breakup Plans On Target as Profit Tops Estimates
Bloomberg
Humira, an autoimmune drug, gained about 17 percent to $1.93 billion, beating the $1.85 billion average of four analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Chief Executive Officer Miles White said in October he would split Abbott in two, with one company...
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U.S. Stocks Decline as Intel, IBM Slump After Reporting Results
San Francisco Chronicle
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- US stocks fell, after the biggest advance in more than a month for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, as Intel Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. drove a slump in technology shares after reporting results.
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Ivanhoe CEO Friedland Resigns as Rio Agrees on Mine Funding
San Francisco Chronicle
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Robert Friedland resigned as chief executive officer of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. as the company struck a deal with its majority shareholder Rio Tinto Group on funding for its $6 billion Mongolian copper mine.
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Exxon Inferior to Enbridge in Energy Investing: Corporate Canada
San Francisco Chronicle
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Pipeline companies offer the best returns in energy for investors seeking to cash in on the US shale boom while avoiding the volatility of a commodity market that's seen natural-gas prices reach a 10-year-low and crude bounce ...
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Rio, Ivanhoe Sign Accord on Mongolia Copper Mine Funding
Bloomberg
Dial +1-866-225-0198 or +1-416-340-8061, or follow the webcast at http://www.ivanhoemines.com.) To contact the reporter on this story: Christopher Donville in Vancouver at cjdonville@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Simon ...
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Exxon Inferior to Pipelines in Energy Investing: Riskless Return
San Francisco Chronicle
(For more columns, click on NI RISKLESS ) April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Pipeline companies offer the best returns in energy for investors seeking to cash in on the US shale boom while avoiding the volatility of a commodity market that's seen natural-gas ...
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Intel Joins IBM in Slowdown as Europe Crisis Crimps Orders
San Francisco Chronicle
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Intel Corp. and International Business Machines Corp., two of the computer industry's biggest bellwethers, posted the slowest sales growth in years as the European slump weighed on orders last quarter. IBM's revenue climbed 0.3 ...
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Banque Saudi Fransi Sets Up $2 Billion Islamic Bond Program
Bloomberg
Citigroup Inc. (C), Credit Agricole, Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) were appointed the lead arrangers of the program, Saudi Fransi said in its base prospectus posted on the London Stock Exchange. Saudi Fransi Capital, the investment banking unit of the bank, ...
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U.S. Stocks Decline as Intel, IBM Slump After Reporting Results
San Francisco Chronicle
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- US stocks fell, after the biggest advance in more than a month for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, as Intel Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. drove a slump in technology shares after reporting results.
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Canadian Gas Rises on Estimates of Below-Normal Stockpile Gain
Bloomberg
US inventories probably gained 24 billion cubic feet to 2.511 trillion last week, the median of 20 estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The five-year average increase is 26 billion, according to the Energy Department, which releases its weekly survey of ...
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IBM Raises Forecast After Net Income Rises; Sales Miss
Bloomberg
You need to enable Javascript to play media onBloomberg.com Play Earnings Report: Yahoo, IBM & Intel International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), the world's biggest computer-services provider, raised its full-year earnings forecast after posting a ...
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Canada Telecom Rule Changes Threaten National Security
Bloomberg
25, 2011, was obtained by Bloomberg News under Canada's freedom-of- information law. Industry Minister Christian Paradis announced plans last month to allow foreigners to own up to 100 percent of telecom operators with less than 10 percent of market ...
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US Stocks Decline as Intel, IBM Tumble After Results
Bloomberg
While S&P 500 per- share profit growth will accelerate to 8.6 percent during all of 2012, it slowed to 1.7 percent during the first three months of the year, according to analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Europe's Crisis Equities also joined ...
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Bloomberg
Verizon Wireless to Sell Airwaves If It Completes Cable Deal
Bloomberg
... or LTE, network on its 700 megahertz C spectrum and planned to add the cable companies' spectrum licenses to its buildout plan. To contact the reporters on this story: Scott Moritz in New York at smoritz6@bloomberg.net; Todd Shields in Washington ...
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Sino-Forest Says Co-Founder Allen Chan Resigned From Company
San Francisco Chronicle
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Sino-Forest Corp., the Chinese tree grower that's fending off fraud allegations, said Allen Chan resigned from the company he co-founded two decades ago. Chan, who stepped aside as chairman and chief executive officer in August, ...
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Couche-Tard Soars on Offer to Buy Statoil Fuel
Bloomberg
Couche-Tard, the largest independent convenience store operator in North America, rose 14 percent to C$39.03 at 10:19 am trading in Toronto, the biggest intraday increase since Oct. 6, 2003. The cash offer of 53 kroner a share represents a 53 percent ...
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Bloomberg
Poland Keeps Up Jobs Pace, Wages Slow Amid Rate-Rise Calls
Bloomberg
That matches the median estimate of 27 economists in a Bloombergsurvey. Hiring fell 0.1 percent from the previous month. Economic growth in Poland, the only EU member to dodge a recession in 2009, will slow to 2.5 percent this year from an estimated ...
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Swap Regulators Set to Approve $8 Billion Threshold for Dealers
Bloomberg
(JPM), Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. (C), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) controlled 95 percent of cash and derivatives trading for US bank holding companies as of Dec. 31, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the ...
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Proud Homecoming for Middle School Chess Champs
New York Times
The city's public school system was the focus of political attention on Tuesday, as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott announced the opening of 54 new schools in the city in September — and the likely candidates to run for Mr.
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Pfizer Said to Pick Nutrition Unit Buyer as Soon as Next Week
Bloomberg
“This deal makes huge strategic sense for Nestle,” Andrew Wood, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, wrote today in a note to clients. “It is in the right categories and the right markets and with a reasonable price we would expect a fairly positive ...
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Bloomberg
Mayoral Hopefuls Begin to Define Their Education Policies
New York Times
... they believed Mr. Bloomberg had wielded that power almost cavalierly by closing schools with little input from parents or teachers. Missing from the group was Speaker Christine C. Quinn, who also is believed to be seeking the mayoralty, ...
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Yen Remains Lower on Global Stock Rally, Before U.S. Jobs Data
Bloomberg
The yen was the biggest loser over the past three months among 10 developed-nation currencies tracked by BloombergCorrelation Weighted Indexes, dropping 7.5 percent. The dollar fell 1.6 percent, while the euro gained 0.5 percent.
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Hong Kong Short Selling Turnover (Main Board) Recorded 04/18/201
Bloomberg
Hong Kong, 04/18/2012 (Bloomberg) - Short selling was recorded on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for the following companies as of 00:45 today. Number Short Percent of shares selling Total of short Tkr sold short turnover turnover to ...
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Christine Quinn: Mayor Bloomberg's Child Care Cuts 'Unacceptable'
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Hundreds of parents, children and teachers gathered on the steps of New York's City Hall Tuesday to protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget plan, which calls for big cuts to city early childhood education and after-school programs. The rally was ... Settings. Read Share Settings; Share everything I read; Share only things safe for work; Dont share what I'm reading. Read Share History; Learn More. Saki Knafo · saki.knafo@huffingtonpost.com. GET UPDATES FROM Saki: Like. 472 ...
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Canada Adds Most Jobs Since 2008 as Full-Time Work ... - Bloomberg
Canada added the most jobs since September 2008 last month, a gain dominated by full-time positions that revived what had been a stalling labor market in the ...
www.bloomberg.com/.../canada-adds-most-jobs-since-2008-as...
Gilead Bets on Hepatitis C Data to Back Pharmasset Deal - Bloomberg
Gilead Sciences Inc., after paying $10.8 billion for the developer of an experimental hepatitis C drug, will soon give investors a better sense of whether its ...
www.bloomberg.com/.../gilead-bets-on-hepatitis-c-data-to-bac...
Raymond C. Forbes, NYSE Member Who Fostered ... - Bloomberg
Raymond C. Forbes, a white, Roman Catholic broker who helped establish the first black-owned member firm of the New York Stock Exchange and a ...
www.bloomberg.com/.../raymond-c-forbes-nyse-member-who...
Rona's Lowest Value Making Firm Takeover Bait ... - Bloomberg
Rona Inc., the home-improvement retailer with the lowest market valuation in North America, would give potential suitors the chance to profit as Canada's...
www.bloomberg.com/.../rona-s-lowest-value-making-firm-tak...
First Quantum Takeover Turns on Anglo-Rio Talk - Bloomberg
For mining companies seeking a deal in copper, no producer in the industrialized world is offering faster earnings growth than First Quantum Minerals Ltd.
www.bloomberg.com/.../first-quantum-takeover-turns-on-angl...
Phil Mattingly, Bloomberg News - C-SPAN Video Library
Phil Mattingly talked about the demise of brokerage firm MF Global and its former Chief Executive ...
www.c-spanvideo.org/program/305407-1
Canadian Dollar Trades Touches Lowest Level in 10 ... - Bloomberg
The Canadian currency touched the lowest level since January as it fluctuated before the Bank of Canada releases its monetary policy report next week.
www.bloomberg.com/.../canadian-dollar-rises-from-10-week-l...
AvtoVAZ to Borrow $2 Billion for Upgrade With Renault ... - Bloomberg
OAO AvtoVAZ, Russia's biggest automaker, will seek to borrow as much as 60 billion rubles ($2 billion) by 2015 for its biggest overhaul “in decades” with...
www.bloomberg.com/.../avtovaz-to-borrow-2-billion-for-car-...
Canadian Dollar Advances From One-Month Low ... - Bloomberg
Canada's dollar strengthened from its lowest level against the yen in a month amid speculation that North America's economies will sustain their recoveries.
www.bloomberg.com/.../canada-dollar-drops-to-month-low-v...
U.S. Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple, Hachette - Bloomberg
The U.S. sued Apple Inc., Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster in New York district court, claiming the publishers colluded to ...
www.bloomberg.com/.../u-s-files-antitrust-lawsuit-against-appl...
Scene in D.C.: Marie Osmond at Fashion for Paws - Bloomberg
EarthEcho International CEO Philippe Cousteau and E! News anchor Ashlan Gorse, the Fashion for Paws host. Photographer: Stephanie Green/Bloomberg ...
www.bloomberg.com/.../scene-in-d-c-marie-osmond-at-fashio...
U.S. Retail Sales Climb More Than Forecast on Jobs ... - Bloomberg
Retail sales in the U.S. rose more than forecast in March as Americans snapped up everything from cars and furniture to clothes and electronics.
www.bloomberg.com/.../retail-sales-in-u-s-increased-more-tha...
RIM Is Said to Discuss Hiring Bank to Weigh Options - Bloomberg
Research In Motion Ltd., the troubled maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, is in talks to hire a financial adviser to help it weigh strategic options, according to ...
www.bloomberg.com/.../rim-said-to-discuss-hiring-bank-to-he...
Euro Area Seeks Bigger IMF War Chest on Spanish ... - Bloomberg
European officials travel to Washington this week seeking a bigger global war chest to combat the debt crisis as Spain's government battles to quell renewed ...
www.bloomberg.com/.../euro-area-to-seek-bigger-imf-war-ch...
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