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NEW YORK, May 17- Pension and endowment managers on Friday called on U.S. regulators to review the rules for shareholder voting after a firm collecting ballots for JPMorgan Chase& Co cut off the bank's opponents from polling information.
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NEW YORK, May 17- Pension and endowment managers on Friday called on U.S. regulators to review the rules for shareholder voting after a firm collecting ballots for JPMorgan Chase& Co cut off the bank's opponents from polling information.
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NEW YORK, May 17- Pension and endowment managers on Friday called on U.S. regulators to review the rules for shareholder voting after a firm collecting ballots for JPMorgan Chase& Co cut off polling information to the bank's opponents.
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RALEIGH, N.C.-- Former presidential contender John Edwards has reactivated his license to practice law and is setting out on the speaking circuit. The two-time presidential candidate and former North Carolina senator is scheduled to appear June 6 at a private retreat in Orlando, Fla., for lawyer clients of the marketing firm PMP.
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Beppe Grillo, the founder of the Five Star Movement tells CNBC he's going to win the next Italian election and that the country's traditional parties have already become history.
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Beppe Grillo, founder of the Five Star Movement in Italy, tells CNBC how Britain has everything to lose from the EU and why he sympathizes with UKIP.
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FHFA oversees the government-controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage financiers that own or back about half of all U.S. home loans. Bank of America Corp, Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Wells Fargo& Co were among his top 20 contributors in his last election, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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*Government-controlled Congress likely to approve reforms. QUITO, May 16- Ecuador's government on Thursday presented a mining bill to Congress that should pave the way for the signing of contracts with several investors, including Canada's Kinross Gold Corp..
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WASHINGTON, May 16- A Senate committee voted along party lines on Thursday to advance President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency to the full U.S. Senate for a confirmation vote.
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VADUZ, May 16- Liechtenstein is reluctantly prepared to discuss exchanging data on bank clients in response to a new European Union push for more transparency from the secretive principality and other tax havens, its prime minister said.
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WASHINGTON, May 16- A Senate committee voted along party lines on Thursday to send President Barack Obama's controversial nominee for secretary of labor, Thomas Perez, to the full Senate for a confirmation vote. The fate of the nomination in the full Senate is uncertain.
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*Elliott will support Hess's five nominees. May 16- Hess Corp will put three directors backed by hedge fund Elliott Management onto its board, settling a months-long feud over the oil company's governance and long-term strategy.
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WASHINGTON, May 16- A Senate committee voted along party lines on Thursday to send President Barack Obama's controversial nominee for secretary of labor, Thomas Perez, to the full U.S. Senate for a confirmation vote. It is uncertain whether the full Senate will confirm Perez.
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DETROIT-- Detroit's next mayor will inherit a city low on cash and an office low on power, yet nearly two dozen candidates are seeking the job anyway.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-- Politics has long been a family business in Illinois, a place where who you know _ and who you're related to _ matters more than most. Though the election is a year away, the possible candidates include both a Daley and a Madigan _ two surnames that represent the royal families of Illinois politics, the local equivalent of the Kennedys or Bushes.
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*Centre-right GERB demands election within six weeks. *Says campaigning on day before the vote hit support. SOFIA, May 16- Bulgaria's GERB party is demanding a rerun of Sunday's election, blaming illegal campaigning for its failure to win more support, prolonging a political vacuum that would further undermine the European Union's poorest economy.
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Just six months after a heady re-election, President Obama's second-term dreams have collided with second-term reality: scandals and foreign setbacks. The NYT reports.
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SOFIA, May 16- Bulgaria's centre-right GERB, which won most parliamentary seats in Sunday's vote, wants the election result cancelled because of a "violation", its leader Boiko Borisov said on Thursday.
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*Labour Party calls it a "Devastating blow to Cameron's authority". LONDON, May 15- Prime Minister David Cameron suffered an embarrassing blow in parliament on Wednesday when more than a third of his Conservative lawmakers voted against him in protest at his stance on Britain's membership of the European Union.
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LONDON, May 15- Prime Minister David Cameron suffered an embarrassing blow in parliament on Wednesday when a third of his Conservative lawmakers voted against him in protest at his stance on Britain's membership of the European Union.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.-- A Senate panel has endorsed Rhode Island Gov. The Senate Commerce Committee voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of the nomination of Marcel Valois for executive director of the Economic Development Corp. It would be his second stint in that role.