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Slow start to week but US high-grade pace expected to pick up
ReutersBy Shankar Ramakrishnan NEW YORK, May 20 (IFR) - After the hectic pace of issuance in the last few weeks, the US high-grade primary market began this week with just two deals totaling a modest USD2.35bn. Some market players expect momentum to pick up in...Tags: Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Agrium Incorporated, Memorial Day, Credit Ratings
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Golf-European Tour Madeira Islands Open scores
ReutersMay 19 (Infostrada Sports) - Scores from the European Tour Madeira Islands Open at the par-72 course on Sunday in Santo da Serra 273 Peter Uihlein (U.S.) 72 64 69 68 275 Morten Madsen (Denmark) 72 69 67 67 Mark Tullo (Chile) 67 69 68 71 276 Craig...Tags: United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Denmark
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Soccer-Austrian championship results and standings
ReutersMay 19 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Austrian championship matches on Sunday Sunday, May 19 Sturm Graz 3 Ried 1 Saturday, May 18 Austria Vienna 3 SC Wiener Neustadt 1 Salzburg 3 Wacker Innsbruck 1 Mattersburg 2 Rapid Vienna...Tags: Vienna (Austria)
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Alpine in talks with FCC on financing: CEO
ReutersVIENNA (Reuters) - Alpine, the Austrian unit of Spanish construction group FCC , will hold talks with its owners on how to meet its financing needs and has many options open, Chief Executive Arnold Schiefer said. He was responding to a newspaper report...Tags: Finance, Media Industry, Economy, Business and Finance
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Shots fired at Cannes film festival, actors flee for cover
ReutersBy Matthias Galante CANNES, France, May 17 (Reuters) - A man was arrested at the Cannes film festival on Friday after firing a starting pistol during a live TV broadcast on the palm-lined waterfront, sending actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil...Tags: Inglourious Basterds (movie), Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Academy Awards, Entertainment
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Gay couples in Portugal win limited adoption rights
ReutersLISBON, May 17 (Reuters) - Portugal's parliament on Friday handed same-sex couples the right to adopt the children or foster children of one partner, a partial victory for equality campaigners that fell short of their call for full adoption rights. The...Tags: Christianity, Lisbon (Portugal), Human Rights, Civil Rights, Same-Sex Marriage
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Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions
ReutersMay 16 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Thursday: ** DDR Corp, owner of shopping centers where big-box retailers are located, said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy from Blackstone Group LP...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, European Union, Japan, Finance, Cubist Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
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Golan peacekeepers briefly held by Syria armed group - UN
ReutersUNITED NATIONS, May 16 (Reuters) - Several U.N. military observers were briefly taken hostage by an unknown armed group in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights just three days after Syrian rebels released four U.N. peacekeepers, a U.N. official said on...Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, United Nations, Philippines
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Austrian Yemen hostage says feared execution-report
ReutersVIENNA, May 16 (Reuters) - An Austrian man held hostage for five months in Yemen said he was kept in permanent darkness in a room too small to stand up in and was forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint. At one point, Dominik Neubaur told Austrian...Tags: Yemen, Kidnapping
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Austrian hostage says feared execution in Yemen
ReutersVIENNA/HELSINKI (Reuters) - An Austrian man held hostage for five months in Yemen said he was kept in permanent darkness in a room too small to stand in and was forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint. Weeks into his captivity, Dominik Neubaur told...Tags: Yemen, Electronics, Kidnapping, Science and Technology
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INTERVIEW-Liechtenstein open to bank data exchange talks with EU
Reuters* Secrecy helped create big Liechtenstein banking industry * Financial sector in crisis over global clampdown on tax evasion * Hope EU would accept British-style amnesty deal * Budget cuts raise questions over prized political stability By Emma...Tags: United Kingdom, European Union, Finance, Government, Swiss Confederation
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Liechtenstein open to bank data exchange talks with EU
ReutersVADUZ (Reuters) - Liechtenstein is reluctantly prepared to discuss exchanging data on bank clients in response to a new European Union push for more transparency from the secretive principality and other tax havens, its prime minister said. "We have...Tags: United Kingdom, European Union, Government, Finance, Swiss Confederation
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