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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 12:34 pm ET
Portuguese striker Hugo Almeida netted twice as Werder Bremen went top of the Bundesliga on Saturday thanks to a 6-0 hammering of Freiburg.
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San Francisco Chronicle - Fri Nov 20, 1:09 pm ET
The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free dinners across the city this Thanksgiving _ meals planned by a star chef, cooked by one of New York's ritziest caterers and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street's most vilified financial firms. The number... Wall Street - Goldman Sachs - Thanksgiving - New York City - New York
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The Times and Democrat - 16 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Hershey Co. may make a $17 billion bid for UK candy company Cadbury PLC, topping the recent $16.5 billion hostile offer by Kraft Foods Inc., the Wall Street Journal reports Friday.
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The Times and Democrat - 16 minutes ago
BOSTON (AP) — JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Friday it is dropping a clause from its credit card contracts that required disputes with customers to be handled through binding arbitration, a move that could lead to consumers filing class-action and other lawsuits.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 20, 8:16 am ET
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The Swiss Market Index may rise as much as 11 percent from current levels to 7,000 in the next 12 months as the economy recovers and corporate earnings improve, according to Credit Suisse Group AG.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 5:36 pm ET
A broad healthcare overhaul was poised to clear its first Senate hurdle on Saturday as the last wavering senators said they would vote to begin debate on the legislation, giving Democrats the 60 votes they need.
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Omaha World-Herald - Thu Nov 19, 1:03 am ET
TD Ameritrade would consider acquiring E-Trade Financial Corp. if the conditions were right, CEO Fred Tomczyk said Wednesday at the Reuters Global Finance Summit in New York.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 20, 8:01 am ET
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- BHP Billiton Ltd. is unlikely to re- bid for Rio Tinto Group , after abandoning an offer a year ago, because of regulatory hurdles, as well as a lack of credit facilities and shareholder support, Credit Suisse Group AG said.
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New York Times - Sat Nov 21, 5:20 pm ET
Letters on paying doctors by salary instead of using the fee-for-service model.
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Market Watch - Fri Nov 20, 10:06 am ET
Shares of online broker E-Trade Financial Corp. rise more than 4% at the start of Friday’s session, amidst heavy talk of a possible takeover bid by TD Ameritrade Holdings Corp.
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Bloomberg - Sat Nov 21, 7:38 pm ET
Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. ’s board may extend its search for a new, permanent chief executive officer into 2010 if directors can’t settle on a candidate in the next four days, according to people familiar with the matter.
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TheStreet.com - Fri Nov 20, 3:25 pm ET
Citigroup is offering rebates on interest rate charges to some of its credit card customers if they meet certain usage minimums.
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - Fri Nov 20, 6:04 pm ET
Online retail brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. said Friday that it will sell $1.25 billion in senior unsecured notes in a public offering and use proceeds to retire debt and stagger the maturity of its long-term bonds.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 20, 4:21 pm ET
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- China’s credit risk may fall to a two-month low as the country posts “robust” economic growth and demand for higher-yielding, emerging-market assets rises, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said.
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 18, 4:56 pm ET
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- E*Trade Financial Corp. shares surged the most since August after TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.’s chief executive officer told Reuters he would consider buying the rival online brokerage at the right price.