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Pakistani spies aided Kabul suicide attack: report
2008-08-01: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan's spying service helped plan the suicide bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul this month, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
GM talks with Mahindra, others on Hummer: sources
2008-08-01: NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Corp is in talks with Indian automaker Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd and automakers in Russia and China about selling its Hummer brand, sources familiar with the matter said.
Wrecked WTO talks change the world trade game
2008-08-01: AFP - Ministers saw a 'new order' take hold of global trade Wednesday, with emerging economies calling the shots after WTO plans collapsed in a potentially devastating blow to millions of the world's poor.
Blade Server Use Will Be Limited Through 2012, Researcher Says
2008-08-01: TechWeb - InformationWeek - Among the disadvantages of blade servers are proprietary technology and a lack of interoperability standards that tend to lock users to a vendor.
Exxon?s Second-Quarter Earnings Set a Record
2008-08-01: Record earnings for Exxon, the world?s largest publicly traded oil company, have become routine as the surge of oil prices in recent years has filled its coffers.
GM posts $15.5 billion 2nd-quarter loss
2008-08-01: AP - General Motors Corp. says its losses widened to $15.5 billion in the second quarter as North American sales plummeted and the company faced expenses due to labor unrest and its massive restructuring plan.
World factories gearing down but raising prices
2008-08-01: Reuters - Factories across the developed world and
emerging markets are rapidly gearing down production responding
to fading demand but are raising prices aggressively, spelling
more trouble for the world's central banks.
The Euro Zone Is Headed for a Bumpy Ride
2008-08-07: BusinessWeek Online - For most of August, business across Europe grinds to a halt as Germans, Italians, and the rest of the Continent head off for month-long vacations. This year, Europe's sun-seekers may want to savor their time away from the office a little more than usual. That's because bad economic news awaits their return to work as the euro zone -- the 15-country bloc that uses the euro as its currency -- moves headlong toward recession.
UK's FSA finds no sign of HBOS share manipulation
2008-08-01: Reuters - Britain's financial watchdog has found
no evidence that illegal dealing was behind an abrupt fall in
the shares of mortgage lender HBOS in March, but
warned it would not relax its surveillance of the market.
A Glut of One-Bedroom Apartments
2008-08-02: The inventory of one-bedroom apartments in Manhattan grows, apparently because buyers, particularly first-timers, can?t get mortgages.
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services upgraded its credit ratings for H&R Block Inc
2008-08-01: Garmin Ltd. bought its Austrian distributor for an undisclosed price, the company said Thursday.
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