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- Ailes Agrees to Remain at Fox News 5 More Years
- Times Cuts Dividend in a Move to Save Cash
- Aid request
- Present worries
- Dell sees quarterly profits slip
- CW Says It Is Retaking Control of Its Sunday TV Lineup
- Screen Actors Guild and Studios Negotiating Again
- Fund Created as a Way to Protect French Industry
- Roger Ailes Renews Contract With Fox News
- DVDs, Hollywood’s Profit Source, Are Sagging
- Paulson Cautions Against Overregulation
- Dell’s Cost-Cutting Increases Profit but Revenue Falls
- Markets Dive in Last Hour, Carving New Lows
- Trying to Save Cash, Times Co. Cuts Its Dividend
- Oil Closes Below $50, Lowest Price Since May 2005
- Democrats Ask Automakers for Way Forward
- No agreement for US car bail-out
- Union Chief Tries to Focus Auto Bailout on Jobs
- US senators ‘agree’ car bail-out
- Oil Price Falls Below $50 on Weak Consumption
- Russia pushes Ukraine on gas debt
- Oil Price Falls Below $50 as Consumption Remains Weak
- Mothercare sees its profit double
- RBS shareholders accept bail-out
- UK borrowing rise ‘is necessary’
- Pirated audiobook seller jailed
- Fake audiobook seller is jailed
- Santander snubs UK shareholders
- Oil Price Fall Below $50 as Consumption Remains Weak
- Downturn halts £500m project
- A Day After Sell-Off, Market Seeks a Course
- Bankers ’scrap’ HBOS campaign
- RBS boss apologises over losses
- Colombian scam suspect extradited
- Jobless Claims Reach a 16-Year High
- Latvia to seek support from IMF
- On Wall Street, the Slide Continues
- Gangmaster has licence revoked
- Oil Falls Below $50, Lowest Price Since January 2007
- Bee crisis
- Oil price goes below $50 a barrel
- Discount delight
- Public demand for social enterprises on the up
- Douglas Fraser
- Bankers ‘abandon’ HBOS campaign
- GMAC Seeks Bank Status So It’s Eligible for Bailout
- Revenue in new offshore tax trawl
- Putin vows to prevent ‘collapse’
- Mortgage lending picks up
- National Grid profit rises in US
- Nordic Countries Add $2.5 Billion to Iceland’s Bailout
- Coal power plan for nuclear site
- Yugo gone
- Retail sales bring scant comfort
- Markets in Europe and Asia Follow Wall Street Drop
- AstraZeneca axes jobs and plants
- Web Sites Wage Holiday Price Wars
- UK October budget deficit widens
- Oil price hovers at $50 a barrel
- China fears grow over job losses
- October mortgage lending picks up
- EU reaches deal on farm reforms
- October UK retail sales fall 0.1%
- Downturn hits newspaper profits
- Peugeot Citroen cuts 2,700 jobs
- Recession fears hit stock markets
- Microsoft ends Yahoo buyout talks
- After Losses, Pensions Ask For a Change
- Rolls-Royce plans 2,000 job cuts
- Asia markets follow US share drop
- Nordic Countries to Lend Iceland $2.5 Billion
- Music Patron Is Convicted of Fraud
- More UK retail sales woe expected
- HUD Secretary Says Programs Are Ineffective
- Emerging Powers Seen Taking Lead in Recovery
- Sarkozy’s Fiscal Meeting Raises Diplomatic Hackles
- Health Insurers Offer to Accept All Applicants, on Condition
- F.D.A. Opens Office in Beijing to Screen Food and Drug Exports
- Shares Near 6-Year Low, With More Losses Feared
- Auto Chiefs Fail to Get Bailout Aid
- Hurt by Losses, Pension Funds Criticize Rules
- Stocks Are Hurt by Latest Fear: Declining Prices
- Members of Bailout Panel Are Set
- Web Retailers Are Waging Seasonal Price Wars
- HUD Secretary Says Borrowers Not Getting Aid
- Asian Markets Reflect Wall Street’s Drop
- France Dominates Europe’s Digital Library
- State of the Art: HD Video Made Sleek and Simple
- Ambac Reaches Agreement on $3.5 Billion in Exposure
- Advertising: An Ad Network in Times Square
- Ex-Head of Bank of Italy to Go on Trial
- Formerly Lavish Music Patron Is Convicted of Fraud
- Yahoo Bid Is Over, Microsoft Says
- IMF approves $2.1bn Iceland loan
- Breakingviews.com: Commercial Loans Are Looking Risky
- British teenagers remain optimistic about jobs in face of downturn
- RBS shareholders vote on bail-out
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