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		<title><![CDATA[AIG Chief Tackles Government Repayment Head-on]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Bailed-out U.S. insurer American International Group AIG will take at least two years to repay its debt, but is benefiting from an aggressive management style, said Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche in an FT interview.AIG was propped up with $180 billion in taxpayer funds, but Benmosche said...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:00:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tullow eyes block on Heritage asset sale]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tullow Oil is likely to scupper Heritage Oil's proposed $1.5bn (Â£930m) sale of its Ugandan assets to Eni, the Italian energy group, by exercising a right to pre-empt the deal, a senior Tullow executive has said.Tullow has until January 17 to decide how to respond, but Brian Glover, head...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:02:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Memo to Eliot Spitzer on AIG: Don't Just Read Email, Pick Up the Phone]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today's New York TimesÃ‚Â former New York Attorney General and Gov. Eliot Spitzer suggestsÃ‚Â one surefire way to find out the story behind the September 2008 deal that saved American International Group and, arguably, bailed out Goldman Sachs and other major banks:Ã‚Â make public the emails that passed between these parties. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:49:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[John Lewis Hits Sales Record]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - John Lewis JLP, the British employee-owned retailer, posted its best ever trading last week, with sales up 15.5 percent year-on-year, helped by record sales of gift food, electronic games and board games.The company said more than 112 million pounds came through the tills of its 29...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:01:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stefanie McIntyreMACAU (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - About a thousand people marched through Macau's streets on Sunday, urging the government to fight corruption and grant them more political freedom, as the territory marked its 10th anniversary under Chinese rule.The protesters waved banners that called for universal suffrage in 2019 and chanted anti-corruption...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:15:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Talisman Energy, Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  Operator Instructions  Your first question comes from Andrew Fairbanks &#8211; Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Andrew Fairbanks &#8211; Bank of America Merrill Lynch I wanted to ask you about the capital spending on the shale gas program.  Obviously, you don&#8217;t have a number...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:30:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Citadel to File Bankruptcy as Soon as Sunday: Report]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Citadel Broadcasting Corp CTDB, the third largest U.S. radio broadcaster, plans to file for bankruptcy as soon as Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.Citadel is expected to file in a deal supported by many lenders collectively owed $2 billion, known as a "prearranged" deal, the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:30:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Consider Conseco]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conseco sells health insuranceÃ‚Â and other products, but until recently most investors considered it an ailing company. Tucked away in the quiet corner of Carmel, Indiana, Conseco bounced from misadventure to bankruptcy. Although it always paid its claims, if ever there was an insurer that looked like its pockets were empty,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:35:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Take-Two's Stock Rises On Icahn News, But Analysts Split On Long-Term Implications]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Let the games begin. Take-Two (NSDQ: TTWO) Interactive&#8217;s shares jumped up by 12 percent today, buoyed by the news that activist investor Carl Icahn had upped his stake in the company on the belief that its stock was &#8220;undervalued.&#8221; The spike comes just two weeks after Take-Two&#8217;s share price...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Conviva CEO Swap Official; Feher In, Co-Founder Zhang To Chief Scientist]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ More than three months after we reported that Darren Feher left NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) to head Conviva, the content delivery company is making it official. The former NBCU CTO is president and CEO, while co-founder Dr. Hui Zhang has moved to chief scientist. Zhang will focus on product...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIG: The Good, the Bad, and the Convoluted]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[American International Group has more than its share of headlines each week, and it's tough to decipher them all. The insurer was run for more than 30 years by former CEO Hank Greenberg as a puzzle only he could solve, and the confusion left behind when he was ousted in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:36:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[State Farm Warms Up to Florida and Decides to Stay]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The battling between Florida and its insurers has been notorious and nasty, but perhaps the Yuletide season has made them a little nicer. At any rate, the year-long feud between Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who is seeking a U.S. Senate seat, and State Farm, the nation's largest home insurer, finally...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:53:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Home For Christmas? 5 Holiday Real Estate Deals To Cheer You On]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Santa were looking for a new crib, would he buy one of these houses? by Ilyce Glink]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:29:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CBA Completes Sale of Fiji Business]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd has completed the sale of its Fijian banking and insurance businesses to the Bank of South Pacific Ltd.The Sydney-based bank announced on Friday the completion of the sale, which it announced in June.Bank of South Pacific, based in Port Moresby and Papua New Guinea's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:21:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CarMax, Inc. F3Q10 (Qtr End 11/30/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Jaison Blair - Rochdale  Jaison Blair - Rochdale  I was wondering about the fiscal &#8217;11 store openings. My impression is that at least one of those stores is in a new market which requires high levels of advertising to introduce...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:57:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CSR Demerger Hits Asbestos Hurdle]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The demerger of CSR Ltd's sugar business has hit a hurdle with a Sydney court adjourning a hearing on the matter to allow the corporate watchdog more time to study the proposal.In the first hearing in the Federal Court on Thursday, the Australian Investments and Securities Commission ASIC requested...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:33:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[French Court Rules Against Google Over Book Copying]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sophie HardachPARIS (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - A Paris court on Friday found U.S. Internet giant Google guilty of violating copyright by digitising books and putting extracts online, following a legal challenge by major French publishers.The court ruled against Google's French unit after the La Martiniere group, which controls the highbrow...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:01:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[HP EDS Acquisition Masks 2009 Troubles]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HP HPQ released its 10-K late yesterday. And when you read between the lines of numbers, you see that the EDS acquisition last year effectively masked some significant business issues and trends for the company.    The first trend is one that we've been looking at for some...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:55:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lloyd's of London CEO Encourages B-school Students, Managers to Take Risks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While speaking recently at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, Richard Ward, CEO of the insurance specialist Lloyd's of London, encouraged students to be risk takers. He also shared some ideas for managers hoping to get the most out of the risks they take. by Stacy Blackman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:00:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is Take-Two In For The Yahoo Treatment? Icahn Takes An 11 Percent Stake]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Activist investor Carl Icahn has a new company on his radar: Take-Two Interactive (NSDQ: TTWO). Fresh off the company&#8217;s poor fiscal Q4 earnings report, comes news that Icahn owns a roughly 11.3 percent stake, per an SEC filing. The filing states that Icahn believes Take-Two&#8217;s shares are &#8220;undervalued,&#8221; and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:45:02 -0800</pubDate>
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