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Prudential says Wachovia stake sale on track

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Prudential Financial Inc's sale of its stake in a brokerage joint venture is on schedule to close next month and is expected to give its capital position a significant lift, the company said on Thursday.

Marketing Guru: Tiger Woods needs Oprah to clean his image

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Following the revelation last week that Tiger Woods, the World's number 1 golfer, is rumored to have had multiple affairs with women throughout his marriage, marketing gurus are weighing in on the effect this will have on the products that Woods endorses.
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GM board to get early update on CEO search: source

The board of General Motors Co will get an update on the search for a new chief executive by next month as a recruiting firm compiles a short list of candidates, a person familiar with the process said.
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Tiger Woods apologizes for not keeping Chevron commitment

Professional golfer Tiger Woods currently in the middle of an affair scandal which was uncovered the day after Thanksgiving apologized on his website Sunday to Chevron for being unable to fulfill my duties as host and player in this important event.
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Update: GM, Suzuki dissolve Canada joint venture

General Motors and Suzuki Motor Corp have agreed to dissolve their vehicle manufacturing joint venture in Canada, with GM buying Suzuki's stake in the operation, the companies said on Friday.
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Surprise order lifts Airbus above 200 sales

Airbus sold 52 A320 single-aisle jetliners worth $4 billion in an unexpected bounce in plane demand in November, but the name of the airline betting on a recovery in depressed travel demand was kept under wraps.
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Denbury to buy Conroe Field assets for $430.7 mln

Oil and gas company Denbury Resources Inc (DNR.N) said it would buy a 95 percent working interest in the Conroe Field in Houston for about $430.7 million in cash and stock from Wapiti Energy LLC.
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Sony sees robust early U.S. holiday demand

Japan's Sony Corp said it is enjoying robust demand for its PlayStation 3 game console and other electronic products so far in this holiday shopping season in the key U.S. market.
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Brazil Abreu Lima refinery costs rise to $13.3 bln

The Abreu Lima refinery in Brazil, a joint venture between state-run oil companies Petrobras and Venezuela's PDVSA, will cost roughly 23 billion reais ($13.3 bln), more than triple its previous estimate, a director at Petrobras said on Wednesday.
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UPDATE - Hitachi may sign UK high-speed rail project - Nikkei

Hitachi Ltd is expected to sign a high-speed railway project deal in the UK worth more than 500 billion yen ($5.62 billion), as the electronics conglomerate stepped up its efforts to exploit overseas markets, the Nikkei business daily reported.
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Apple Mac OS update does away with Atom 'Hackintoshes'

Apple rolled out its second security update to Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6.2, which puts an end to “hackintoshes” – a PC netbook that's based on Intel's Atom processor which has been hacked in order to run Apple's operating system.
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Apple's Snow Leopard update says bye-bye to 'Hackintoshes'

Apple released a Mac OS X 10.6.2 update on Tuesday which fixes 58 bugs, including a bug which deletes user data from their Macs. Along with fixes, Apple's update also disables support for Intel Atom processors, in a move to stop users from hacking their netbooks and creating hackintosh systems.
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UPDATE 1-GM board is told Opel costs could run higher

The cost to General Motors Co of keeping its European Opel unit could run $1.45 billion higher than the overly optimistic estimate prepared by the automaker in June, according to a report from a financial adviser presented to GM's board on Tuesday.
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Hurricane Jimena latest update, path, forecast (Sept 1)

Hurricane Jimena has weakened slightly as it approaches the southwestern area of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula but remains an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said on its latest report.

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