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"Rambunctious" McCain says he had chip on shoulder
2008-04-01: ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain's is on a nostalgic tour this week of some of the places he has known, featuring a lot of straight talk about what a difficult young man he was.
Couple plans to rebuild home underground
2008-04-01: AP - It will take more than two destroyed homes to get Skip and Linda Miller off the mountaintop property where they've lived for 30 years.
Clinton-Obama race spurs party switches
2008-04-01: AP - Matthew Buckingham, a stay-at-home father in Portland's suburbs and lifelong Republican, is fired up about voting for Sen. John McCain in November.
Intel, STMicroelectronics Officially Spin Off Flash Memory Business
2008-04-01: TechWeb - Numonyx will absorb the tech companies' money-losing businesses for memory devices found in portable media players, smartphones, and other handheld computers.
UBS Writes Down $19 Billion and Seeks New Capital
2008-04-01: UBS AG wrote down an additional $19 billion on assets, causing a net loss of $12.03 billion in the first quarter, and said it would seek new capital.
Wall Street stock futures signal positive Q2 start
2008-04-01: Reuters - Investment bank Lehman Brothers
, computer maker Dell , auto makers such as GM
and Ford as well as a key manufacturing gauge are
likely stock market focal points on Tuesday.
Eurozone official unemployment rate steady at record low 7.1 pct
2008-04-01: AFP - Unemployment in the 15 nations sharing the euro held steady in February at a record low point of 7.1 percent despite slowing economic activity, official European Union data showed on Tuesday.
German unemployment rate falls to 8.4 percent: official data
2008-04-01: AFP - The number of unemployed in Germany fell by 110,000 to 3.5 million people in March owing to improving economic conditions and seasonal effects, the national labour office said on Tuesday.
UBS reveals another $19 bln subprime drama
2008-04-01: AFP - Swiss bank UBS revealed a second round of subprime-related writedowns of about 19 billion dollars on Tuesday, becoming the world's worst-hit bank in the US mortgage crisis.
In Switzerland, an Alpine Perch
2008-04-01: Sandy and Vaughn Hysinger found their Swiss home while on a weekend trip to the Alps.
Manufacturing subdued in March: survey
2008-04-01: 'The lagged effect of higher official and commercial interest rates and the sustained high level of the exchange rate will continue to be felt over the next few quarters' High interest rates continued to keep Australian manufacturing activity subdued in March, a survey shows. via The Sydney Morning Herald
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