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Exxon Mobil reports profit 28 percent

31/07/2014(0)
Exxon Mobil Corp, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, on Thursday reported better-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday on higher prices for crude and natural gas. The company said ... Read More
People receive food that is either too old or not looking nice enough for sale at the non-profit Dortmund food bank in the western German city of Dortmund

Euro zone inflation declines to near five-year low in July

31/07/2014(0)
Annual inflation in the euro zone fell in July to its lowest since the height of the financial crisis in 2009, keeping the risk of deflation on policymakers’ radar ... Read More
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Alibaba in Talks to Invest in Snapchat

31/07/2014(2)
Snapchat Inc. has held preliminary talks with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. to raise a new round of financing that could value the mobile-messaging startup at about ... Read More
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IMF: China should set slower but safer growth

31/07/2014(0)
China should set an economic growth target of 6.5-7 percent for 2015 and refrain from stimulus measures unless the economy threatens to slow sharply from that level, the International ... Read More
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Royal Dutch Shell sees ‘robust’ profits rise

31/07/2014(0)
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has described its performance as “robust” after its second-quarter profits more than doubled. Shell said profits for the period rose to $5.15bn (£3bn) from ... Read More
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Banco Espírito Santo reports a loss of €3.6 Billion

31/07/2014(0)
Banco Espírito Santo on Wednesday reported a first-half loss of €3.58 billion (or $4.8 billion), the largest ever for a Portuguese institution, wiping out the bank’s €2.1 billion capital ... Read More
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New York Governor involved in BNP deal to get $1 billion more for NY state fund

31/07/2014(0)
Only days before U.S. authorities reached a landmark $8.97 billion settlement with BNP Paribas over the bank’s dealings with countries subject to U.S. sanctions, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ... Read More
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Russians worry over the growing sanctions from the West

31/07/2014(0)
Russia confronts the biggest sanctions from the West since the Ukrainian crisis erupted and has therefore adopted a nonchalant public stance, with President Vladimir V. Putin emphasizing the importance ... Read More
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Argentina’s credit rating follows further cuts

31/07/2014(0)
Standard & Poor’s on Wednesday cut its credit rating on Argentina’s foreign-currency sovereign debt to “selective default” even as talks between officials from Latin America’s No. 3 economy and ... Read More
Legal firm Hogan Lovells representative Nina LeClair talks to U.S. military veteran applicant Jacob Wilkens at a hiring fair for veteran job seekers and military spouses at the Verizon Center in Washington

U.S. economy advances in second quarter

30/07/2014(0)
U.S. economic growth likely regained steam in the second quarter as activity picked up broadly, which would bolster expectations for a stronger performance in the last six months of ... Read More
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