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Pound rises against dollar, in sight of 14-month high
By Brenda Goh
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The Business Matrix: Wednesday 6 April 2011
Kingfisher’s chief executive Ian Cheshire has sold £1.6m worth of shares to cover a tax bill. He also transferred £250,000 worth of shares in the B&Q owner to his wife. The shares formed half of an incentive award dating from 2008, which he exercised on Monday.
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FOREX-Euro at 15-month high vs dollar on rate view
* Euro extends gains to 15-month high vs dollar * Risk-on sentiment hurts dollar and yen * Aussie hits new post-float high * US dollar weighed by looming government shutdown (Recasts, updates prices, adds …
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Spain confident its banks will pass stress tests
(GODOLLO ) – Spain will submit all its banks and savings banks to stress tests at a European-recognised level, its finance minister said Saturday, expressing confidence of a positive result.
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UpClose with HFF’s Jose Cruz
FLORHAM PARK, NJ- The uptick in transactions in New Jersey commercial real estate is no illusion: the market is much busier than just a year ago, says Jose Cruz, a senior managing director in the Florham Park, NJ, office of HFF. Financing has opened up and investors are selling again, returning some sectors to their pre-recession pricing.
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The Peak


Image by Steve Webel
A view of a magical city, Hong Kong, China!

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FOREX-Euro slips vs dollar after ECB; yen broadly higher
* ECB raises interest rates as expected by 0.25 pct point * Euro off 14-month high vs dollar, 11-month peak vs yen * New Japan quake pushes yen to session peak vs dollar (Updates prices, adds byline) NEW …
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ECB to tread softly with historic rate rise
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is poised to raise interest rates from a record low 1.0 percent on Thursday and more is likely to follow but, fearful of heaping more pain on the euro zone’s …
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ECB to tread softly with historic rate rise
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is poised to raise interest rates from a record low 1.0 percent on Thursday and more is likely to follow but, fearful of heaping more pain on the euro zone’s …
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An old ruined house front


Image by Great Beyond
We found this way cool house – well, what’s left of a house – way out in the middle of nowhere right on the Idaho/Utah border.

Good U.S. Employment News Boosts Dollar
Two reports containing positive jobs news for the United States boosted the value of the dollar and American stock indices in early trading.New figures showed that private sector employers in the U.S. …
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Irish Stock Exchange – MSM – Suspension Notice
Irish Stock Exchange – MSM – Suspension Notice
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Bank’s King sees dollar secure as reserve currency
STANFORD, California (Reuters) – Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, said on Friday that he sees no immediate prospect for another currency to displace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve …
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