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HBO's Game of Thrones is pumping up local economies like Iceland, Northern Ireland, and Croatia where the series is being filmed.
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HBO's Game of Thrones is pumping up local economies like Iceland, Northern Ireland, and Croatia where the series is being filmed.
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LONDON, April 5- Britain's biggest gas storage site ran dry of normal supply on Friday and is using gas usually reserved for the technical operation of the site, National Grid data showed.
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April 5- Wall Street's psycho-analysis of Hewlett-Packard's latest board room shuffle has begun. The resignation of Hewlett-Packard Co Chairman Ray Lane and appointment of activist investor Ralph Whitworth as his interim replacement has raised hopes for a more "shareholder friendly" board at the flailing PC maker.
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*FTSEurofirst down 1.6 percent, Euro STOXX 50 down 1.4 pct. LONDON, April 5- European shares fell on Friday to post their biggest daily fall of 2013 after U.S jobs figures came in much lower than expected. "It's a bad number, much worse than consensus or the whisper numbers that were being circulated," Joshua Raymond, strategist at City Index, said.
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European shares closed lower on Friday after U.S. jobs data came in well below expectations, raising concerns that the recovery in the world's largest economy is weakening.
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LONDON, April 5- European shares fell on Friday to post their biggest daily fall of the year so far after U.S jobs figures came in much worse than expected.
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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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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will discuss ways that 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. "What is very clear is that overall we're seeing very weak demand in Europe and rising levels of unemployment," a senior U.S. Lew will go to France, Belgium and Germany.
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NEW YORK, April 5- Brent crude oil fell to an eight-month low below $105 a barrel on Friday as data showed a much sharper slowdown in hiring by U.S. employers than analysts had expected, feeding worries about the economy and potential fuel demand.
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LONDON/ SEOUL, April 5- North Korea has asked embassies to consider moving staff out and warned it cannot guarantee the safety of diplomats after April 10, Britain said, amid high tension and a war of words on the Korean peninsula.
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LONDON, April 5- Gold held just below session highs on Friday as weaker-than-expected U.S. non-farm payrolls data stoked fears the recovery of the world's largest economy is losing momentum.
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Successive Slovenian governments have refused to privatize the country's banks, which made disastrous loans to politically connected business interests and now threaten to drag the country center stage in the euro zone debt crisis.
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LONDON, April 5- The investment herd is scattering again in a sign of less stressful times, encouraged by resolute central bank protection even if scarce growth and jobs may deter funds from straying too far.
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PARIS, April 5- Chancellor Angela Merkel's Social Democrat rival in this year's election accused the German leader during a visit to France on Friday of dragging Europe's southern economies into a vicious circle of ruin by insisting on fiscal austerity.
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SEOUL- North Korea has placed two of its intermediate range missiles on mobile launchers and hidden them on the east coast of the country in a move that could threaten Japan or U.S.
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April 5- The resignation of Hewlett-Packard Co Chairman Ray Lane and appointment of activist investor Ralph Whitworth as his interim replacement is a positive move by the No.1 PC maker that augers for a more "shareholder friendly" board, analysts said.
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*Rigel shares slump 33 pct, AstraZeneca little changed. LONDON, April 5- AstraZeneca's experimental rheumatoid arthritis pill fostamatinib met only one of two goals in a late-stage clinical trial, leaving the future of one of the group's few advanced pipeline products uncertain.
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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- Brent crude oil fell to a five-month low near $105 per barrel on Friday as bleak U.S. jobs data and bulging inventories dimmed the outlook for economic growth and fuel demand.
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The Saudi's investment in a Texas refinery's expansion is meant to ensure that it will retain an important market for its crude in the United States at a time when American politicians intend to wean the country off imported oil, The New York Times reports.