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Canada Life Ireland lead bidder for Irish Life: source

Canada Life Ireland, a unit of Canada's second-largest life insurer Great-West Lifeco (GWO.TO: Quote), is the lead candidate buy Irish Life & Permanent's (IPM.I: Quote) insurance arm, a source close to the matter said on Friday.
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Canadian dollar hits six-week high after strong data

Dollar pushed higher by inflation data

The dollar firmed to a session high against the U.S. currency on Friday after data showed Canada's October inflation rate came in higher than forecast, curbing market bets on an interest rate cut.
Canada's Asian oil push not a slap to U.S.: minister

Canada's Asian oil push not a slap to U.S.: minister

Canada is looking to diversify the market for oil sands crude by courting buyers in Asia, and is not trying to punish the United States for delaying TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL pipeline to Texas, the country's natural resources minister said on Friday.
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Inflation eases but rate cut seen less likely

Canada's annual inflation rate moderated in October from a near three-year high in September but was still higher than expected, scaling back market bets for a central bank interest rate cut.
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Rhode Island Passes Controversial Pension Reforms

The Rhode Island legislature passed a pension overhaul bill that will raise the retirement age for most public workers, suspend cost-of-living adjustments and combine guaranteed pensions with 401(k)-style accounts. Proponents say the overhaul is necessary to save the state's foundering pension system, but public workers' unions cried foul.
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Ex-UBS Banker Sentenced for Aiding U.S. Tax Evasion

A former senior UBS banker who helped the U.S. government expand its crackdown on offshore tax evasion was sentenced to five years probation on Friday for advising wealthy Americans on ways to hide their money from U.S. tax authorities.
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More than 1 in 5 U.S. children poor, Census says

The number of children in the United States considered poor rose by 1 million in 2010, the U.S. Census said Thursday, with more than one in five of the youngest Americans now living in poverty.
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Tax evasion law could cost big banks $100 million

A U.S. law aimed at curbing tax evasion by citizens using foreign accounts could cost large multinational banks as much as $100 million apiece to implement in one-off systems costs, a top asset manager and a tax lawyer told a conference on Friday.
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Wall Street edges up early as S&P faces key test

Wall Street stocks rose in early trading on Friday after Europe's debt crisis drove heavy market losses this week, with the S&P 500 falling through important technical levels and facing another key test of strength.
Overall, blacks and Hispanics in the United States are far more affected by sexually transmitted diseases than whites, as are young people, according to the annual report, which looks at data from 2010.

Syphilis Rates Drop, STDs Still a Big Problem

The number of Americans newly infected with syphilis has fallen for the first time in a decade, but sexually transmitted diseases continue to take a staggering toll on the United States, with 19 million new infections each year at a cost of $17 billion annually.
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Congress Protects Pizza as a Vegetable

The House of Representatives dealt a blow to childhood obesity warriors on Thursday by passing a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus.
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Wall Street set to bounce as S&P faces key test

Wall Street stocks were set to bounce back on Friday after Europe's debt crisis drove heavy market losses this week, with the S&P 500 falling through important technical levels and possibly facing another key test of strength.

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