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December 18, 2007 08:27 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc said on Tuesday its
fourth-quarter earnings rose as a timely bet against subprime mortgages and
higher investment banking fees helped it sidestep the credit crunch that
hammered the rest of Wall Street.
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December 18, 2007 08:31 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Home building projects started in November fell by
3.7 percent as the pace of single-family home construction was the slowest
in more than 16 years, a government report on Tuesday showed.
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*Best Buy posts higher
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December 18, 2007 08:09 AM ET
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co posted a
higher-than-expected third-quarter profit on Tuesday on strong sales and
raised its full-year earnings forecast.
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December 18, 2007 08:29 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures remained higher on Tuesday after
investment bank Goldman Sachs Group reported its fourth-quarter earnings
rose.
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December 18, 2007 08:30 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp named Embarq Corp CEO Dan Hesse as
its new president and chief executive on Tuesday, hoping the telecom veteran
can help the No. 3 U.S. mobile service provider turn around its business.
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*Lilly says Lechleiter to succeed Taurel as
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December 18, 2007 08:26 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co on Tuesday said Sidney Taurel, the
drugmaker's longtime chief executive officer, will retire on March 31 and
will be succeeded by Chief Operating Officer John Lechleiter.
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*ECB, BoE turn on funding taps to ease
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December 18, 2007 07:24 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Central Bank and Bank of England flooded
money markets with funds on Tuesday as the UK central bank chief warned of a
possible "self-reinforcing" downward spiral in credit.
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*MGM's Macau casino opening ups ante for
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December 18, 2007 08:05 AM ET
MACAU (Reuters) - MGM Mirage, the world's No.2 casino operator, opens a
600-room, Las Vegas-style resort in Macau on Tuesday, raising the stakes in
a Chinese gambling haven increasingly crowded by global players.
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*Prosecutors investigating Bear fund manager:
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December 18, 2007 08:29 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors are investigating whether a Bear
Stearns Co Inc fund manager improperly withdrew his own money from a fund
while making rosy forecasts about the prospect of the portfolio, the Wall
Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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*Thornburg Mortgage names CEO, reinstates
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December 18, 2007 07:48 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thornburg Mortgage Inc said on Tuesday that it
promoted its chief operating officer to CEO and reinstated a quarterly
dividend despite ongoing turmoil in the mortgage market.
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