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Cornell's $2 Billion Campus Fuels N.Y.C. Search for Tech Jobs
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To contact the writer of this column: James S. Russell in New York at jamesrussell@earthlink.net. http://web.me.com/jscanlonrussell To contact the editor responsible for this column: Manuela Hoelterhoff at mhoelterhoff@bloomberg.net. ...
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Tougher Wall Street Compensation Clawbacks Necessary, NYC Comptroller Says
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Enlarge image New York City Comptroller John Liu New York City Comptroller John Liu Ramin Talie/Bloomberg John Liu, comptroller for New York City. New York City Comptroller John C. Liu, who oversees $108 billion in pension funds, said Goldman Sachs ...
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Olympus Declines as Takayama Revamp May Stop Short of Demands by Investors
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Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg Shuichi Takayama, president of Olympus Corp. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg Michael C. Woodford, former president and chief executive officer of Olympus Corp. Michael C. Woodford, former president and chief ...
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Eldorado Agrees to Acquire European Goldfields for C$2.5 Billion
San Francisco Chronicle
19 (Bloomberg) -- Eldorado Gold Corp., a Canada-based miner, agreed to buy European Goldfields Ltd. for about C$2.5 billion ($2.4 billion) in shares and cash to add reserves in Europe, pulling off its biggest acquisition. The offer values European ...
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Ex-Consultant to Mayor Gets Prison for Theft
New York Times
A Republican political consultant who was convicted of stealing campaign funds from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg admitted his guilt at his sentencing hearing on Monday, but could not avoid a prison sentence. The consultant, John F. Haggerty Jr., 42, ...
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Greenhill Pushed Into League Table Obscurity After AT&T Pulls T-Mobile Bid
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Enlarge image Greenhill & Co. Chief Executive Officer Scott Bok Greenhill & Co. Chief Executive Officer Scott Bok Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Scott Bok, chief executive officer of Greenhill & Co. Inc. AT&T Inc. (T)'s failed $39 billion acquisition of ...
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Jefferies Surges After Egan Says Firm May Avoid Equity Raise
San Francisco Chronicle
"They're doing the right thing on the balance sheet, bringing their leverage down," Brad Hintz, an analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., said today on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop." "They're pulling in their horns, they're battening down the ...
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JPMorgan Gets Best Bond Rates as Dimon Extends Maturity: Corporate Finance
Bloomberg
The bank issued $1.25 billion of 5.5 percent, 30-year bonds at a 165 basis-point spread on Oct. 14, 2010, the first sale since Citigroup Inc. (C) issued $2.5 billion of the debt in July 2009, Bloomberg data show. JPMorgan's offerings extended the ...
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Yingli Green Leads Gains as N.Y. Index Jumps: China Overnight
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The Bloomberg China-US 55 Index of the most-traded Chinese stocks gained 3 percent to 95.07 as trading closed in New York, the biggest advance since Nov. 30. Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. (YGE), the Baoding, China-based maker of solar modules, ...
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Canadian Stocks Rise as US Housing Starts Climb, Gold Gains
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Insurance holding company Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (FFH) advanced 2.3 percent to C$427.50. To contact the reporter on this story: Matt Walcoff in Toronto at mwalcoff1@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Nick Baker at ...
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China Debts Dwarf Official Data With Too-Big-to-Finish Alarm
BusinessWeek
By Bloomberg News Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- A copy of Manhattan, complete with Rockefeller and Lincoln centers and what passes for the Hudson River, is under construction an hour's train ride from Beijing. And like New York City in the 1970s, ...
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Dollar Rises as North Korea Leader Dies; Won Tumbles, Euro Drops
San Francisco Chronicle
19 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar rose against the yen for the first time in three days after North Korean said leader Kim Jong Il died, spurring concern instability may increase in Asia. The euro pared losses before euro-area finance ministers held a ...
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Teva Invests in Potential Type 1 Diabetes Therapy Once Rejected by Sanofi
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Enlarge image Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.'s Headquarters Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.'s Headquarters Adam Reynolds/Bloomberg The entrance to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.'s headquarters in Jerusalem. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries ...
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AT&T's Failed Takeover Is Goldman Sachs's Gain as Lead in Global M&A Widen
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... including JPMorgan Chase & Co. lose market share. Goldman Sachs, the only bank among the top four advisers that wasn't involved in the deal, now has 24 percent of the market with $529.5 billion in takeovers, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. ...
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Euro Gains Versus Dollar on Spain's Bill Sale, Less Debt Concern
San Francisco Chronicle
20 (Bloomberg) -- The euro rallied to a one-week high against the dollar after borrowing costs fell at a Spanish bill sale and German business confidence unexpectedly increased, easing concern the region's debt crisis is worsening. ...
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Telefonica Loses 'Magic Touch' With First Dividend Reduction in 10 Years
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Photographer: Denis Doyle/Bloomberg As rising unemployment and a weakening economy in Spain spur customers to cancel phone subscriptions or switch to cheaper offers, Telefonica missed earnings estimates in eight of the past nine quarters and is ...
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Knightsbridge Penthouse Duplex Said to Have Sold for About $157 Million
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Enlarge image Knightsbridge Penthouse Said to Sell for About $156 Million Knightsbridge Penthouse Said to Sell for About $156 Million Jason Alden/BloombergPrime Knightsbridge Developments Ltd. owns the Bulgari Hotel and Residences, center, ...
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Commodities Companies Help Lift Markets
New York Times
By BLOOMBERG NEWS Stock indexes were mixed on Friday as gains among commodity producers helped overcome debt-crisis concerns prompted by Fitch Ratings' warning that it might cut ratings of European nations. Halliburton and Chevron paced the gains among ...
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Tim Tops RIM as Doughnuts and Coffee Beat BlackBerrys: Chart of the Day
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Johnson spoke yesterday with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television's "BloombergWest." (Source: Bloomberg) Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), once Canada's largest company by market value, has fallen below the country's biggest coffee and doughnut chain ...
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Corzine: MF Staff Said Fund Transfer Legal
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She speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line." (Source:Bloomberg) Jon S. Corzine, former chairman and chief executive officer of MF Global Holdings Ltd., testifies during a House Financial Services Committee in Washington, ...
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Arbs Bet on Canada Properties for North America's Biggest Return: Real M&A
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Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg For the biggest takeover profits in North America, investors are betting on Canadian real estate. Canmarc Real Estate Investment Trust of Montreal is trading 4.1 percent above a C$15.30-a-share hostile bid from ...
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Sued by California Attorney General
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To contact the reporters on this story: Joel Rosenblatt in San Francisco at jrosenblatt@bloomberg.net; Karen Gullo in San Francisco at kgullo@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at mhytha@bloomberg.net Tweet ...
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Big C, G Steel, PTT, Thai Rubber: Thailand's Equity Preview
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To contact the reporter on this story: Tony Jordan in Bangkok at tjordan3@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Darren Boey at dboey@bloomberg.net Tweet More Business Exchange Buzz up! Digg Print Email.
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Canadian Solar Rises Most in Four Years After Plant Sale to TransCanada
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... percent to C$43.73 in Toronto. To contact the reporter on this story: Benjamin Haas in New York at bhaas7@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tina Davis at tinadavis@bloomberg.net Tweet More Business Exchange Buzz up! ...
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Oracle Earnings, Sales, Growth Strategy
Bloomberg
21 (Bloomberg) -- Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., talks about Oracle Corp.'s fiscal second-quarter earnings and outlook for the software maker. Profit before some costs in the quarter ended Nov. 30 was 54 cents a share, ...
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Solar-Makers Fall as NY Index Drops Third Day: China Overnight
BusinessWeek
... head of China research at BNP Paribas, France's biggest bank, said in an interview atBloomberg's offices in Shanghai. Yanzhou Coal Mining Co., China's fourth-largest producer of the fuel, lost 4.2 percent to $20.76, the lowest in two months. ...
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AT&T, Red Hat, Sprint Nextel, Watson: U.S. Equity Preview
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To contact the reporter on this story: Ksenia Galouchko in New York at kgalouchko1@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Nick Baker at nbaker7@bloomberg.net Tweet More Business Exchange Buzz up! Digg Print Email.
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Heineken Enlists Dos Equis to Win Back U.S. Drinkers: Retail
San Francisco Chronicle
19 (Bloomberg) -- The producer of Heineken beer is only too happy to make room on US store shelves for an upstart Mexican brand. Heineken NV's flagship beer has lost US market share to the likes of Belgium's Stella Artois over the last five years, ...
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Euro Advances as Juncker Signals EU to Meet IMF Loan Deadline, Yen Falls
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New Zealand's dollar, nicknamed the kiwi, rose the most among the 16 major currencies tracked byBloomberg, adding 1.1 percent to 76.18 US cents, paring its loss this week to 1.8 percent. Canada's currency fell 0.3 percent to C$1.0383 and the nation's ...
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Gold Rout Means Traders Least Bullish Since July: Commodities
BusinessWeek
16 (Bloomberg) -- Gold's biggest rout in three months means traders are the least bullish since July and Dennis Gartman, the economist who sold the last of his metal on the day the slump began, warned of further declines. ...
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Sexy Venetians, Pisarro Cocotte, Grandiloquent Serra: S.F. Art
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Source: de Young Museum via Bloomberg "Portrait of a Man in Gold-Trimmed Armor" (c.1560) by Tintoretto. The painting is featured in "Masters of Venice" in San Francisco and is on loan from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. ...
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British Women's Triathlon Domination Boosts Sport's Image, Equipment Sales
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To contact the reporters on this story: Tony C. Dreibus in London at tdreibus@bloomberg.net; Danielle Rossingh in London at drossingh@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Christopher Elser at celser@bloomberg.net. ...
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Sugar Gains in New York on Lower Supply From Brazil; Cocoa Rises
Bloomberg
Before today, the price dropped 9.4 percent in 2011. In London futures trading, refined sugar advanced as robusta coffee and cocoa fell on NYSE Liffe. To contact the reporter on this story: TonyC. Dreibus in London at tdreibus@bloomberg.net.
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Citigroup Said to Face Partial Japan Suspension
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Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg Citigroup Inc. (C), the third-biggest US bank, will be ordered by regulators to suspend some operations in Japan after a probe revealed compliance violations, according to two people familiar with the matter. ...
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U.S. Stock Futures Rise Before New York, Philadelphia Manufacturing Data
Bloomberg
The median of 47 economists had projected 390000, according to a Bloomberg News survey. Two reports showed manufacturing in the New York and Philadelphia regions expanded more than forecast in December. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's general ...
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De Blasio Backs Wage Bill in a Challenge to Quinn
New York Times
In a letter that he sent to both Ms. Quinn and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Sunday evening, Mr. de Blasio wrote that New York City was not doing enough to expand economic opportunities and that the so-called living wage bill represented an “immediate ...
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Canadian Natural Gas Falls on Mild Weather, Ample U.S. Supplies
Bloomberg
Alberta gas for January delivery slipped 3.5 cents to C$2.78 a gigajoule ($2.57 per million British thermal units) as of 11:30 am New York time, according to NGX, a Canadian Internet market. Gas traded on the exchange is shipped to users in Canada and ...
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Bloomberg Gets on Smear Ron Paul Bandwagon « Dvorak News Blog
By John C Dvorak
Bloomberg Gets on Smear Ron Paul Bandwagon. By John C Dvorak Tuesday December 20, 2011. ____. Author Ramesh Ponnuru Ron Paul-hater. It is possible that Paul will come in first in a fractured field in the Iowa caucuses: Those ...
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CBS News Names Senior Staff for 'CBS This Morning' - TVNewser
By Alex Weprin
The new additions include Eva Nordstrom, who joins CBS from Bloomberg TV and Rachel Weintraub Riegel, who was co-executive producer of “The Gayle King Show” on OWN. King is now a co-anchor of “CBS This Morning.” CBS NEWS ...
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Bears Receiver Sam Hurd Faces Cocaine Trafficking Charge | The ...
By The Associated Press
(c) 2011, Bloomberg News Chicago Bears wide receiver Sam Hurd appeared in court Thursday on a federal charge of possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it in an operation in which he allegedly negotiated to spend $700000 a ...
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Rangers Win Right to Negotiate with Japanese Pitcher Darvish | The ...
By The Associated Press
(c) 2011, Bloomberg News The Texas Rangers have 30 days to reach a contract agreement with Yu Darvish after winning negotiating rights for the Japanese pitcher.
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Eldorado to Buy European Goldfields for C$2.5 Billion - Businessweek
Eldorado Gold Corp. agreed to buy European Goldfields Ltd. for about C$2.5 billion ... Lifestyle, Magazine, Management, Small Business, Technology, Top News ... 2.2 times for 10 comparable deals, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. ...
www.businessweek.com/.../eldorado-to-buy-european-goldfiel...
In New York City Mayor's Race, Search for Dream Candidate ...
Ruby Washington/The New York Times; Jin Lee/Bloomberg News; Richard Perry/ The New York Times. Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker; William C. ...
www.nytimes.com/.../in-new-york-city-mayors-race-search-fo...
Two Dead in Virginia Tech Campus Shooting - Bloomberg
View: India's Fear of Free Markets Is Gift to China - Bloomberg. View: India's Fear of Free Markets Is Gift to China via @BloombergNews http://t.co/jv3GnND7 ...
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Bloomberg News: S&P Cut Proves Absurd as Investors Prefer U.S. ...
S&P Cut Proves Absurd as Investors Prefer U.S.. By Zeke Faux and John Detrixhe - Dec 19, 2011 6:21 AM ET Four months after Standard & Poor's stripped the ...
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