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Wall Street tumbles, led by financials
(Reuters)
Reuters - Stocks tumbled more than 2 percent on
Thursday after a report showing yet another drop in U.S. home
sales prompted investors to take profits in financial shares,
which had rallied over the past week.
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Microsoft CEO backs Web spending, "done" with Yahoo
(Reuters)
Reuters - Chief Executive Steve
Ballmer on Thursday defended Microsoft Corp's need to
make heavy investments in its Internet businesses but said the
company was "done," for now, with pursuing Yahoo Inc .
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Wachovia CFO Wurtz to leave
(Reuters)
Reuters - Wachovia Corp , which posted a
record $8.86 billion second-quarter loss Tuesday, said Chief
Financial Officer Thomas Wurtz will resign from the
fourth-largest U.S. bank after a successor is named.
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Home sales at 10-year low, jobless claims jump
(Reuters)
Reuters - Jobless claims jumped and the pace
of existing home sales tumbled to a 10-year low as slowing
growth hit hiring and a glut of unsold houses weighed on real
estate, data released on Thursday showed.
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Morgan Stanley aggressively recruiting brokers
(Reuters)
Reuters - Morgan Stanley said on Thursday
it is poaching brokers from Merrill Lynch and other
rivals, accelerating the expansion of its global wealth
management business during a period of turbulence on Wall
Street.
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Jobless claims jump as housing market gets weaker
(AP)
AP - Two cornerstones of the economy — jobs and housing — sank to new depths Thursday, with unemployment claims bolting higher and home prices recording one of their steepest drops on record.
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| Virgin Mobile USA and Korea's SK in talks: source - 10, May 2008 |
By Sinead CarewNEW YORK (Reuters) - Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile USA Inc and South Korea's SK Telecom Co, which controls U.S. mobile service Helio, are in early talks on a deal, a person familiar with the discussions said on Friday.The person, who was not authorized to comment on the matter and asked not to be identified, declined to specify the nature of the talks."Virgin Mobile and SK Telecom are having preliminary talks," said the source.Recent blog reports said the talks have included scenarios such as SK Telecom buying Virgin Mobile USA, which had a market value of about $170 million, and combining it with Helio.Under one scenario that has been discussed, SK Telecom would buy out Virgin Mobile USA and do a cash infusion; then Virgin Mobile would buy Helio in an all-stock transaction, moconews.net said in a blog post on Thursday.The source told Reuters it was too soon to say how a deal would be structured, whether it would involve a merger of the U.S. entities, or a purchase of Virgin by SK, or other possibilities.Both Virgin Mobile USA -- part owned by Branson's Virgin and Sprint Nextel Corp -- and Helio rent space on Sprint's wireless network to target young cell phone users.Virgin, which has been suffering from customer defections amid U.S. economic weakness, focuses on prepaid services, where customers pay for calls in advance.
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BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Fund manager Bill Miller, one of Yahoo Inc's top shareholders, dealt a blow on Friday to billionaire investor Carl Icahn's two-month campaign to replace the Internet firm's directors, throwing his support behind Yahoo's cu
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rambler Media, the British-registered owner of Russia's Rambler Internet portal, said on Friday it has agreed to sell the Begun advertising agency to Google Inc for $140 million.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc and
Microsoft Corp traded new accusations on Monday over
the latest breakdown in deal talks, as the battle for control
of Yahoo heated up ahead of an August 1 showdown.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prices charged by cybercriminals selling hacked bank and credit card details have fallen sharply as the volume of data on offer has soared, forcing them to look elsewhere to boost profit margins, a new report says.
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