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Study launched on health impact from mobile phones

A new decades-long study examining the link between the use of mobile phones and long-term health problems such as cancer and neurological diseases launched on Thursday across five European countries.

Greek debt revision hits stocks

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World equity markets and the euro turned south on Thursday after the European Union said Greece's budget deficit was worse than first believed, feeding fears about the country's ability to avoid default.
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Daily Forecast - 22/4/2010

The Australian Dollar opens lower (0.9260) this morning weighed down by little movement in global equity markets last night and further Greek Sovereign debit worries.
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Earnings lift equities, Greece stays in focus

Strong earnings from tech stock Apple and other U.S. companies helped lift global stocks on Wednesday, boosting tech-heavy markets in Asia and feeding optimism about the global economic recovery.
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EUR/USD – lost a lot yesterday

Good morning dear traders, how was your yesterday´s trading day? I hope, you could fetch some pips out of the market. As there have been a lot of chances yesterday.
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Ash flight ban hits life-saving transplant

Europe's flight ban is preventing some life-saving transplant tissue from reaching patients, and other operations have had to be canceled because surgeons are stuck overseas.
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Author Toibin sees novel surviving new technology

Award-winning Irish writer Colm Toibin firmly believes the novel will remain fundamentally unchanged by the Internet or other high-tech innovations, a realm in which he admits he is nearly illiterate.
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Daily Forecast - 21/4/2010

The Australian Dollar opens higher today at 0.9310 after receiving a boost yesterday from the release of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) April 6 board meeting minutes.
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Republicans soften opposition to financial reform

Republican lawmakers on Tuesday took a more conciliatory tone toward Democratic proposals to crack down on Wall Street as the U.S. Senate delayed debate on a financial reform package until next week.
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Delta posts smaller loss, sees profitable Q2

Delta Air Lines Inc posted a smaller quarterly loss on Tuesday as business traffic began to recover and said it expects a profit in the current period despite disruptions to transatlantic travel caused by ash from an Iceland volcano.
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Goldman earnings beat overshadowed by fraud probe

Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported blow-out quarterly earnings on Tuesday, but investors appeared to focus on the U.S. fraud case against the bank as Britain's market watchdog launched its own probe.
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Wall Street buoyed by energy, Apple at life high

U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday as oil prices lifted energy shares and investors were upbeat about the overall profits recovery, even as some high-profile results fell short of lofty expectations.
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Lawmakers tone down fight on financial reform

Republican party lawmakers on Tuesday took a more conciliatory tone toward Democratic proposals to crack down on Wall Street as the U.S. Senate delayed debate on a financial reform package until next week.
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Democrats push for support for financial reform

Republican lawmakers on Tuesday took a more conciliatory tone toward Democrat proposals to crack down on Wall Street as the Senate delayed debate on a broad financial reform package until next week.
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Ten countries urge privacy changes at Google

Data protection and privacy chiefs from 10 countries issued a joint letter pushing search engine giant Google to improve respect for data privacy, Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner said on Tuesday.
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Apple says iPad 3G available on April 30

The high-speed mobile version of Apple Inc's iPad will hit store shelves on April 30, and international pricing for the tablet computer will be spelled out on May 10, the company said on Tuesday.
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UK joins Goldman fraud probe as heat builds

Britain launched a probe into alleged fraud by Goldman Sachs four days after the United States shocked markets by accusing Wall Street's most powerful investment bank of duping clients.
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Strong Goldman Sachs earnings overshadow UK probe

Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported stunningly strong quarterly earnings on Tuesday, overshadowing British financial regulators' move to follow their U.S. counterparts in pursuing civil fraud allegations against the dominant Wall Street bank.
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Goldman Sachs' strong earnings overshadow UK probe

Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported stunningly strong quarterly earnings on Tuesday, overshadowing British financial regulators' move to follow their U.S. counterparts in pursuing civil fraud allegations against the dominant Wall Street bank.
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Stock futures rise on wave of strong earnings

U.S. stock index futures rose on Tuesday on a wave of strong earnings reports, including Goldman Sachs and UnitedHealth, and on expectations of good results from other bellwethers including Apple.
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UK launches formal probe into Goldman Sachs

Britain's financial regulator started a formal enforcement investigation into Goldman Sachs on Tuesday, four days after U.S. regulators filed a fraud case against Wall Street's biggest investment bank.
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Aircraft enginemakers, regulators study ash impact

General Electric Co and other aircraft engine makers and regulators are studying the possibility of formulating limits for safely operating jet engines in volcanic ash, industry and regulatory officials said on Monday.

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