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People walk past a Vodafone logo in Piccadilly Circus, in London, Tuesday May 30, 2006. Vodafone Group PLC on Tuesday reported a record net loss of 21.9 billion pounds (euro 32.0 billion; US$40.7 billion) in the year ending March 31, but share prices rose after the company announced it would be returning an additional 3 billion pounds (Euro 4.4 billion; US$5.6 billion) to shareholders. The loss, the largest ever for a British-based company, compared to a profit of 6.4 billion pounds (euro 9.3 bi
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The logo of Swiss Bank UBS on Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. Swiss Bank UBS AG said Wednesday it expects a net loss of 4.4 billion Swiss francs (US$4.03 billion; euro2.73 billion) for the full-year 2007, largely as a result of bad investments in U.S. subprime mortgages. Switzerland's largest bank said the fourth-quarter net loss will amount to around 12.5 billion francs (US$11.45 billion; euro7.75 billion). Earnings will be published on Feb. 14, 2008
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A box of cannabis.
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Ski resort of Krasnaya Polyana
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Automobiles and cranes for export await to be carried on board a freighter at Yokohama port, south of Tokyo, in this October 12, 2006, file photo. Japan's trade surplus in October fell 24.8 percent from a year earlier to 614.7 billion yen (US$5.22 billion; euro4.07 billion), the government said Wednesday November 22, 2006. The decline was larger than the 5.4 percent slip to 773.9 billion yen (US$6.57 billion; euro5.13 billion) estimated by economists surveyed by Dow Jones and Nikkei News and bre
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Climate change protesters demonstrate outside the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland in London, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2009.
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Chile is the world's fifth largest exporter of wine and the eighth largest producer[66]
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A logo for Barclays is seen outside a branch of the bank in London, Monday Jan. 26, 2009. Barclays PLC said Monday it expects pretax profits of over 5.3 billion pounds ($7.3 billion) for the full year 2008 despite writing down 8 billion pounds on bad
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Demonstrators gather outside the Bank of England in the City of London on Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Several hundred protesters turned out to demonstrate against the British government's bank bailout. Earlier this week, the government announced a 50 billion pound (US$86 billion) plan to partly nationalize major banks and guarantee a further 250 billion pounds (US$431 billion) of bank loans to shore up the lending
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BANCO Santander Central Hispano has agreed to buy Abbey National of Britain, in a mostly stock deal worth 8.3 billion (S$26.2 billion).
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Sinn Fein supporters protest government spending cuts in icy weather outside Leinster House, Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010. Finance Minister Brian Lenihan says Ireland must endure the toughest cuts and tax hikes in its history as an unavoidable price for saving the debt-burdened nation from bankruptcy. Lenihan's emergency 2011 budget unveiled Tuesday contains euro4.5 billion ($6 billion) in spending cuts and euro1.5 billion ($2 billion) in tax rises.
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Food crisis
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A Chinese workers prepare to send off goods meant for export in Beijing Wednesday Jan. 11, 2006. China's trade surplus surged to US$101.88 billion (euro84.5 billion) in 2005, more than triple the US$32 billion surplus recorded the year before, according to customs figures released Wednes
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The photo of Jan. 31, 2001shows a statue of German poet Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) standing in a park in front of the 155 meter-high (ft 508) twin towers of the headquarters of Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Deutsche Bank announced on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2001, that its Corporate and Investment Bank unit reported a first-half pretax profit of EUR 2.1 billion (dlrs.1,85 billion) compared with EUR 2.7 billion (dlrs. 2,38 billion) last year.
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The logo of Swiss bank Credit Suisse is seen in Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday, April 24, 2008. Credit Suisse Group on Thursday posted a 2.1 billion Swiss franc (US$2.1 billion; euro 1.32 billion) net loss for the first quarter as the global effects of the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis continued to spre
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The WPA legacy includes public recreation buildings. WPA canoe house, University of Iowa campus, 1937.
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A pedestrian walks past a Barclays bank cash point in central London, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010.
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Night View of Cyber port Cyber port (Chinese: 數碼港) is a HK$15.8 billion (US$2 billion) landmark project
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A man walks out of the main London branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland in the city of London Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 . The directors of Royal Bank of Scotland are threatening to resign if the government stops them paying bonuses of 1.5 billion pounds ($2.5 billion/1.65 billion euro) to staff in its investment arm.
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A sign for HSBC bank is seen at a branch in the City of London, Monday, Aug. 3, 2009.
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People walk past a St. George bank branch in Sydney, Australia, Monday, May 12, 2008. Westpac Banking Corp. announced it has approached rival St. George Bank Ltd. with a 15 billion Australian dollars (US$14 billion; euro9 billion) takeover offer that could be the biggest shakeup of Australia's bank sector in years
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On Fridays in California, Interstate 5 is often congested as Los Angeles residents travel north for the weekend. The Texas Transportation Institute estimated that, in 2000, the 75 largest metropolitan areas experienced 3.6 billion vehicle-hours of delay, resulting in 5.7 billion U.S.
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In this Jan. 31, 2009 file photo the logo of Swiss bank UBS is seen during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Swiss bank UBS AG said Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009 it lost 8.1 billion Swiss francs (U.S. dlrs 7.57 billion) in the fourth quarter and announced it would cut a further 2,000 jobs as it refocuses on its home market after a troubled year abroad. The results exceeded the fears of analysts, who on average had predicted net losses of 6.2 billion francs (U.S. dlrs 5.79 billion).
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A cleaner cleans the area as customers use a Barclays bank cash point in central London, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010.
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Barclays' John Varley, left, and Rijkman Groenink, chairman of ABN Amro, right, during a press conference at ABN Amro's headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Monday, April 23, 2007.
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The 800-mile Trans-Alaska pipeline that feeds 950,000 barrels of oil a day to the West Coast snakes it way across the tundra north of Fairbanks, Alaska, in this undated file photo. Depending on whom you ask, the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline System is worth $1.5 billion, $3 billion or $13 billion. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)hg3
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