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Mullen visit aims to paper over US-Turkey differences
Turkey and the United States are “not just allies” but “good friends”, the US military’s top commander said after a visit to Ankara aimed at papering over the cracks in an increasingly fractious relationship
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Walsh hints at Indian investment after BA and Iberia complete their merger
A newly merged British Airways and Iberia would be “very interested” in investing in an Indian airline, BA chief Willie Walsh said on Saturday as he announced a groundbreaking code-share deal with India’s Kingfisher Airlines
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Texas watchdog reviews Google’s practices
The company faces the first broad antitrust probe of its core search business, in its latest fight to contain legal challenges prompted by its spreading influence on online life
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Petrobas prepares to raise up to R$55bn
Petrobras, Brazil’s national oil company, is preparing to raise as much as R$55bn from minority shareholders in what would be the world’s biggest share sale
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Lloyd’s brokers weigh up iPads
Lloyd’s of London is to test whether Apple iPads could replace the traditional paper slips containing all the information on bespoke policies sold at the 300-year-old insurance market
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Investors turn to linkers and gold to hedge uncertainty
In 2002, Ben Bernanke deemed deflation such a threat that he referred to Milton Friedman’s notion of handing out cash to stop falling prices
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Beijing eyes counterbid for PotashCorp
The Chinese government has backed Sinochem, the state-owned chemicals giant, to pursue a counterbid that could trump BHP Billiton’s $39bn hostile offer for PotashCorp
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Buffett and Gates on Chinese mission
Having persuaded many of their billionaire peers in the US into giving away chunks of money, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are travelling to China to host newly minted Chinese tycoons to sell them on the value of philanthropy
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US jobs data allay double dip concerns
Fears of a double-dip recession in the US were allayed on Friday by data showing that the private sector had created 235,000 jobs in the past three months
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China and US stage Yellow Sea war games
China and the US stage near-simultaneous naval exercises this week in the oceans around the Yellow Sea in one of the most open displays of the rising competition between the two rival forces in north Asia
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