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Who's winning the "Game of Thrones?" Here are some clear victors in the real world.
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Who's winning the "Game of Thrones?" Here are some clear victors in the real world.
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LONDON, April 5- Britain's most high-profile entertainment retailer HMV was handed a lifeline on Friday when a turnaround group bought it, ensuring a future for a firm which gave the Beatles one of their first big breaks.
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An apt symbol, as Slovenia comes under growing pressure to seek a bailout to fill a financial hole, just as Cyprus did last month. The countries are different in many ways, but they have at least two things in common: like Cyprus, Slovenia needs to recapitalise its biggest banks, and it does not have the money to do so.
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LONDON, April 5- Restructuring specialist Hilco on Friday bought Britain's most high-profile entertainment retailer HMV, securing the future of the 92- year-old firm and safeguarding 2,500 jobs.
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*Lew goes to Belgium, France and Germany for first official trip. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will discuss ways Europe can rebalance its demand to help grow the economy during a trip to the continent next week, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.
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*Freeh has prepared lawsuit vs MF Global former executives. *Corzine puts blame on those outside MF Global. April 4- The "negligent conduct" of Jon Corzine and other officers of the MF Global Holdings Ltd brokerage contributed to the firm's dramatic collapse in 2011, according to a report by the bankruptcy trustee.
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NEW YORK, April 4- If you read just one book this spring to understand how the world is changing, it should be Mohsin Hamid's new novel, "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia." Asia's rise is a story of the eastward tilt of global gross domestic product, but behind those numbers are billions of individual lives that are being radically transformed.
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April 4- The "negligent conduct" of Jon Corzine and other officers of the MF Global Holdings Ltd brokerage contributed to the firm's dramatic collapse in 2011, according to a report by the bankruptcy trustee.
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April 4- Jon Corzine's aggressive bets on European sovereign debt while head of the MF Global Holdings Ltd brokerage led to the firm's dramatic collapse in 2011, according to a report by the bankruptcy trustee.
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PARIS, April 4- European planemaker Airbus looks set to challenge Boeing for top place in the order race in the first quarter after falling behind its U.S. rival in 2012, data showed on Thursday.
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But with persistent recession across Europe and high levels of youth unemployment and long-term joblessness, signs that growth is picking up may offer little cheer.
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*Elan welcomes Irish Takeover Panel deadline for bid. DUBLIN, April 3- U.S. investment firm Royalty Pharma, which is considering a $6.6- billion bid for Irish drugmaker Elan, must make a firm offer by May 10 or walk away, Ireland's Takeover Panel said on Wednesday.
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*Elan welcomes Irish Takeover Panel deadline for bid. DUBLIN, April 3- U.S. investment firm Royalty Pharma, which is considering a $6.6- billion bid for Irish drugmaker Elan, must make a firm offer by May 10 or walk away, Ireland's Takeover Panel said on Wednesday.
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Australia will force corporate giants to disclose their tax arrangements to curb alleged tax avoidance by multinational corporations.
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CANBERRA, April 3- Australia will force corporate giants such as Google Inc and Apple Inc to disclose their tax arrangements in an effort to curb alleged tax avoidance by multinational corporations.
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Barry Dixon, head of research at Davy Research, , tells CNBC that stability is coming back to the Irish property market with Dublin experiencing some shortage of prime commercial property and the residential market having seemingly bottomed out.
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*Factories in Germany, Ireland slip back into contraction. *Cyprus had little effect on manufacturing so far. Factories in Germany and Ireland, the relative stars of February's PMIs, fell back into decline last month.
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Thousands of U.K. financial sector workers risk being frozen out of the industry unless they pass mandatory tests measuring their personal ethics and integrity.
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LONDON, April 2- Thousands of financial sector workers risk being frozen out of the industry unless they pass mandatory tests measuring their personal ethics and integrity.
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Cyprus may be a "special case" in the eyes of European officials, but their handling of its bailout is taking a toll on another small euro zone member with an over-burdened banking sector- Slovenia.