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Once Again Standing In for the Mayor: Someone Who Wants His Job
New York Times
As mayoral news conferences go, this one had all the usual Bloomberg trappings: a powerful commissioner, an Ivy League academic, an innovative pilot program and money from a private charity.
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Hires, promotions at Bloomberg View
Politico (blog)
Bloomberg LP is set to announce a number of new hires and promotions this morning at BloombergView, it's online opinion site. Columnist Clive Crook and former Newsweek managing editor Nisid Hajari will join View's editorial board. Matthew C. Klein ...
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Bloomberg Blasts Mayoral Candidates in Speech to NYPD: Report
Patch.com
Bloomberg also criticized several members of the City Council as well as this year's crop of mayoral candidates, several of whom have called for the stop-and-frisk policy to be discontinued and the creation of an inspector general for the NYPD, NY 1 ...
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Canada Stocks Snap Six-Day Rally as U.S. GDP Trails Forecasts
Bloomberg
U.S. gross domestic product rose at a 2.5 percent annual rate, lower than forecast, after a 0.4 percent fourth-quarter advance, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. The median estimate of 86 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called ...
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Imperial Says Kearl Oil Sales to Start in Third Quarter
Bloomberg
The company reported net income fell to C$798 million, or 94 cents a share, from C$1.02 billion, orC$1.19, a year earlier. Excluding one-time items, per-share profit was 1 cent less than the 95-cent average of 12 analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
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Suncor Plans C$2 Billion Buyback After Dropping Voyageur Project
Bloomberg
The company was expected to boost the dividend to 15 cents, according to the forecast projected byBloomberg. Suncor has returned a combined C$2.5 billion to shareholders since Sept. 2011 by repurchasing shares, it said. Chief Executive Officer Steve ...
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Gold Bears Defy Rally as Goldman Closes Short Wager: Commodities
Bloomberg
Hedge funds accumulated their second-biggest bet against gold on record just as prices rallied the most in 15 months on surging demand for coins and jewelry and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ended a recommendation to sell. The funds and other large ...
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Gilead-Bristol Hepatitis C Drug Combo Cures 100% in Study
Bloomberg
A hepatitis C drug combination from Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) cured all patients in a trial, demonstrating the success of a cocktail that may never be approved. In a study among 41 patients of Gilead's sofosbuvir ...
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Handgun Sales Age Requirement Upheld by Appeals Court
Bloomberg
“Congress designed its scheme to solve a particular problem: violent crime associated with the trafficking of handguns from federal firearms licensees to young adults,” U.S. Circuit Judge Edward C. Prado wrote on behalf of the three- member appeals panel.
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Bloomberg
Open Text Jumps Most in Eight Months on Dividend
Bloomberg
Open Text Corp., Canada's second- biggest software services company by market value, surged the most in more than two years after it said yesterday it will pay a dividend for the first time. Open Text, based in Waterloo, Ontario, rose 12 percent to C ...
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Bloomberg Blowing Smoke
Harvard Crimson
New York officials announced Monday Mayor Bloomberg's proposal to raise the legal limit for buying all tobacco products from 18 to 21. It would not, however, prohibit adults under 21 from smoking cigarettes. In other words, cool older brothers across ...
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CGI Surges to 13-Year High on Profit Beat: Montreal Mover
Bloomberg
Profit excluding costs related to its 2012 purchase of Logica Plc was 56 Canadian cents (56 cents) compared with the average estimate of 49 cents in a Bloomberg survey of analysts. Revenue climbed 137 percent to C$2.53 billion, helped by the Logica ...
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U.S. Speeds to Stop Terror as Texas Blast Safety Ignored
Bloomberg
Political labels fell aside after the Boston Marathon bombing that killed three as Americans “united in concern for our fellow citizens,” said President Barack Obama, a Democrat. House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, urged the country to “come ...
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Wheat Yields Forecast at 45 Bushels in 12 Kansas Fields
Bloomberg
Wheat yields in central Kansas were estimated at 45 bushel an acre after a survey of 12 fields by analysts, farmers and grain traders participating in an annual three-day tour of the state's crop. A year earlier, the average yield was 44 bushels an ...
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Exxon Mobil Begins Production at Kearl Oil Sands After Delays
Bloomberg
Per- share results were 7 cents higher than the average of 19 analysts' estimates compiled byBloomberg. Net income at Calgary-based Imperial dropped to C$798 million, or C$0.94 cents, on revenue of C$8.01 billion. Earnings per share fell 1 cent short ...
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Bank of America and Citigroup Biggest Lenders to Coal
Bloomberg
Globally, Citigroup was the leading bank last year in terms of investments in clean energy and improving its environmental impact in a ranking released by Bloomberg Markets magazine. JPMorgan ranked third greenest-bank, while Bank of America came in ...
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Bloomberg, Kelly: No guarantees against NYC terror attacks - Newsday
Newsday
"You cannot prevent somebody who is determined and has the capability of [making] an improvised explosive device from doing something," said former CIA analyst and private security consultant Larry C. Johnson. "You can't defend against that. But it is ...
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Capstone Buys BHP's Pinto Valley Copper Mine for $650 Million
Bloomberg
Capstone Mining Corp. (CS), the owner of copper mines in Mexico and Canada, agreed to buy BHP Billiton Ltd.'s Pinto Valley mine and a railroad in the U.S. for $650 million in cash, marking its biggest acquisition. Capstone is expected to complete the ...
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Bloomberg
Canada Economy Set for Fastest Quarterly Growth Since '11
Bloomberg
Output rose 0.3 percent, matching the revised January gain, to an annualized C$1.57 trillion ($1.55 trillion), Statistics Canada said today in Ottawa. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of 23 economists was for a 0.2 percent expansion. The ...
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Athabasca Oil Seen Winning Approval for Dover Project
Bloomberg
Athabasca Oil Corp. (ATH) is poised to rebound from a record low after a Canadian aboriginal group that has opposed an oil-sands project with PetroChina Co. signaled the impasse can be overcome. “We still feel there could be a resolution that will ...
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Investors Spurn U.S. States as Revenue Sets Record: Muni Credit
Bloomberg
From Florida to Michigan, states are readying record budgets as tax collections are set to exceed prerecession peaks. The achievement is going unrewarded in the $3.7 trillion U.S. municipal-bond market. Even as states' fiscal health improves, investors ...
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Cameco Profit Trails Analysts' Estimates as Uranium Price Drops
Bloomberg
Profit excluding one-time items was 7 cents a share, missing the 8-cent average of 14 estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Sales declined to C$444 million from C$466 million, less than the C$473 million average of six estimates. The price of uranium for ...
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Bloomberg accuses newspaper and activists of racism for opposing stop and frisk
Raw Story
Speaking to gathered reporters on Tuesday morning, New York City Mayor MichaelBloomberg (I) castigated the media and civil rights groups for not showing the same outrage over the recent killing of a black 17-year-old boy as they do over the vast ...
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Raw Story
Bristol-Myers Quarterly Profit Misses Analysts' Estimates
Bloomberg
Bristol-Myers earlier today reported first-quarter earnings excluding one-time items of 41 cents a share, 1 cent less than the average of 17 analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Sales were $3.83 billion, compared with the average analysts ...
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Canadian Stocks Rally, Erasing 2013 Loss as Energy Shares Gain
Bloomberg
Canadian stocks rose, erasing a loss for the year, as energy and technology shares gained after data showed the economy is on track for its fastest quarterly growth since 2011. Suncor Energy Inc. (SU), the nation's largest energy producer, climbed 6 ...
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CFTC April 17 Letter Sought Information From Banks on Compliance With 60 ...
NASDAQ
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sent a letter April 17 to several large banks seeking information on their compliance with new time limits for swaps clearing, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. The letter requested that banks "provide data ...
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Derivatives Revisions Blocked by Dodd-Frank Backers, Himes Says
Bloomberg
“If I were betting, I would say none of these bills will become law,” Himes, a Connecticut Democrat, said at a Bloomberg Government breakfast in Washington. “I don't think there's a lot of appetite in the Senate to get into which of these bills make ...
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Theravance to Split After Ending Review of Alternatives
Bloomberg
15, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Ronny Gal, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., is among those who speculated that Glaxo, the U.K's biggest drugmaker, would take over its California partner. Instead, Theravance decided to split in two.
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Canadian Dollar Rises to 1-Week High as U.K. Avoids Recession
Bloomberg
“After five days of gains in risk assets the dam has finally broken in dollar/CAD,” said Adam Button, a currency analyst at forexlive.com, by phone from Montreal. “The pair had been resistant against better news in the stock market and the European ...
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Siri-Like Voice Echoes as Florida Lawmakers Clash Over Medicaid
Bloomberg
Imagine Siri, the virtual personal- assistant application for Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone, on speed. That's what democracy sounds like in Florida right now. For the second day, Florida House Democrats are protesting the Republican majority's refusal to ...
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Bloomberg: Tsarnaev brothers planned Times Square bombing
The Hill (blog)
Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planned to travel to New York City and detonate explosives in Times Square, FBI officials told New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg(I) and other city officials. "Last night, we were informed ...
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Bloomberg: After Boston bombing, we need to ... - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday the country's interpretation of the Constitution will ...
news.yahoo.com/bloomberg-boston-bombing-rethink-constitu...
Bloomberg News analysis for how CEO pay has risen over time | Biz ...
To be fair, Ron Johnson's pay of $53.3 million in 2011 included a one-time sign- on bonus of $52 million that he was leaving behind at Apple Inc. in order to join ...
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Credit Suisse, Lone Star to Buy Fortis Bad Bank ... - NASDAQ.com
Credit Suisse Group AG and Lone Star Funds LLC will pay 6.7 billion euros for the assets of Royal Park Investments, a vehicle set up to manage toxic.
www.nasdaq.com/.../credit-suisse-lone-star-to-buy-fortis-bad-b...
Credit Suisse, Lone Star to Buy Fortis Bad Bank - Bloomberg News ...
Credit Suisse Group AG (CS, CSGN.VX) and Lone Star Funds LLC will pay 6.7 billion euros ($8.7 billion) for the assets of Royal Park Investments, a vehicle set ...
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