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Exclusive: T. Rowe bans some American Airlines employees from fund trading 26 Aug 2013 | 04:43 pm
NEW YORK (Reuters) - T. Rowe Price Group has permanently banned about 1,300 American Airlines employees from trading among its funds in their 401(k) retirement plans, a rare move to curb "collective" ...
Insight: Trades from 1990s come back to haunt Wall Street 26 Aug 2013 | 04:43 pm
(Reuters) - In the 1990s, U.S. banks came up with a clever idea: using life insurance to bet that their employees would eventually die. Now those wagers are coming back to haunt Wall Street banks for ...
Analysis: Spending on cars, homes threatens apparel sales as holidays approach 26 Aug 2013 | 04:43 pm
(Reuters) - Even with consumer confidence at a six-year high, retailers ranging from Target Corp to Macy's Inc are competing not only with each other but are also having to adapt to shifting spending ...
Building boom expectations tempered by skills shortage fears 26 Aug 2013 | 04:43 pm
Tasmania's construction industry is anticipating a boom in the south as a number of big projects begin over the next six months. More...
ING's Asia exit plan nears end as MBK agrees to buy South Korea unit 26 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
SEOUL/HONG KONG (Reuters) - ING Groep edged closer to completing its year-and-a-half-old Asia divestment plan after private equity firm MBK Partners agreed to buy its South Korean insurance unit for t...
India's fiscal deficit target getting more challenging: Fitch 26 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Fitch ratings said it was getting more challenging for India to meet its fiscal deficit target in the current fiscal year ending March 2014 with revenues slowing. More...
First female member of NYSE dies 26 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
The first woman to become a member of the New York Stock Exchange, Muriel 'Mickie' Siebert has died. Read More...
Workplace battle looms at Glencore coal mine in Collinsville 26 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
A potentially bitter workplace battle with parallels to the '90s docks dispute may be brewing in the coal fields of central Queensland. More...
India's ONGC to buy $2.64 billion stake in Anadarko Mozambique gas block 26 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
MUMBAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp has agreed to buy 10 percent in a gas field offshore Mozambique from Anadarko Petroleum Corp for $2.64 billion, as the explorer looks to of...
Weidmann urges governments not to rely on ECB to solve crisis 26 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
BERLIN (Reuters) - European Central Bank Governing Council member Jens Weidmann urged governments not to rely on the ECB to solve their problems, saying the central bank would do best by sticking to i...
