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Gold hits record above $1,167/oz as dollar slips

LONDON (Reuters) - Gold hit a record high at $1,167.35 an ounce on Monday as dollar weakness pushed the metal through key technical resistance levels, fuelling momentum buying after the metal's sharp run higher earlier this month.

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Venture Funds Sweeten Terms

Venture-capital funds are cutting fees as they scrounge for cash amid a bruising fund-raising environment. Battery Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Opus Capital are among venture-capital firms that have dangled lower costs...

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Lehman, Bear Executives Cashed Out Big

Top executives at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers cashed out nearly $2.5 billion from 2000 through 2008 even though the financial crisis hammered the value of shares they held, according to a study, to be released Monday, that...

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Commodities Rally Lifts European Stocks

By ISHAQ SIDDIQI LONDON -- The pan-European Stoxx 600 index was 1.4% higher at 247.12. The dollar's weakness boosted commodity prices, showing that investors are still comfortable with the risks currently present in the equity...

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Fed under fire as public anger mounts

Suddenly the Federal Reserve is everybody's punching bag. Strip the Fed of its bank regulation powers, some in Congress are demanding. Get probing audits of its behind-the-scenes operations, others say.

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Rwanda: Barclays Puts Country Entry On Hold

Kigali — The proposed acquisition of Bank of Kigali (BK) by Barclays Bank PLC will not materialise soon, a top official of the Barclays has revealed. According to Marc Holtzman, the Vice Chairman of Barclays Investment Capital,...

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Uganda: Two Years Later, Katine Locals Reaping the Fruits

"I was finding it difficult to educate my children after my husband passed on. When I attended the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) sessions on how to save and borrow money using a savings scheme, I benefited a lot.

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Clickatell SMS Campaigns Help Customers Turn Shoppers Into Buyers; Text Messages Opened Within...

REDWOOD CITY, CA and CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, Nov 23, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- As organizations look for more effective and cost efficient ways to reach customers during this year's holiday season, many of Clickatell's...

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WORLD FOREX: Dollar Falls Vs Euro, Yen On Bullard's Comments

SINGAPORE (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. dollar fell against the euro and the yen in Asia Monday, after a top U.S. Federal Reserve official said he would prefer to keep the central bank's asset-buying program active beyond its...

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Leader of Verizon's Va. operations is driven to solve

Nov 23, 2009 (Richmond Times-Dispatch - When Robert W. Woltz Jr. walked up to the "cord-board" in Petersburg on his second day with the phone company, he stepped to a corner of the business world that has long since...

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