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Bank Of America Cutting 2,000 High-Wage Earners: Report

Bank of America Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan
Bank of America Corp., the second-largest U.S. bank by assets, will dismiss about 2,000 employees, many of whom earn high salaries, in its investment banking, commercial banking and non-U.S. wealth-management units, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Dog Food Recall Issued by Diamond Pet Foods for Salmonella, Recalled Products List Grows Longer

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Diamond Pet Foods, a Missouri-based pet food manufacturer, has issued a recall and suspended production on its dog and puppy dry food because of possible salmonella contamination. The latest recall comes from the same plant that produced mold-contaminated food when dozens of dogs were killed nationwide in 2005. According to a statement from the company, which is under Schell and Kampeter, Inc., the recall includes the Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul Adult Light Formula dry dog food and ...
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The Woodside gas plant is seen at sunset in Burrup at the Pilbarra region in Western Australia

Mitsui, Mitsubishi Buy Stake in Woodside's Browse LNG Project

Woodside Petroleum Limited (AX: WPL) sold a 14.7 percent stake in its Browse liquid natural gas (LNG) development project for $2 billion to a Japanese joint venture operated by Mitsui & Company Limited and Mitsubishi Corporation, the Australian company announced Tuesday.
Rupert Murdoch

Murdoch Unfit To Run Company: U.K. Lawmakers

Rupert Murdoch is unfit to run a major international company, British lawmakers said on Tuesday, finding him responsible for a culture of illegal phone hacking that has convulsed his News Corporation media empire.
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BP Earnings Fall As Gulf Spill Costs Continue To Weigh

BP Plc (BP.L) reported a bigger-than-expected profit drop on the back of a fall in production prompted by the need to sell oil fields to pay for the Gulf of Mexico disaster, raising concerns about the oil group's turnaround plan.
Gold mine in Bendigo, Australia

Gold Prices Climb To 2-Week High

Gold touched two-week highs on Tuesday, set for its longest stretch of daily gains in eight months, after a rally in the dollar fizzled out as investor concern escalated over the resilience of the U.S. and euro zone economies.
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Japanese Stocks Plunge On US, Europe Worries

Japanese stock markets plunged Tuesday as weaker-than-expected US manufacturing data and news that confirmed Spain has fallen into a double-dip recession weighed on the sentiment.
Apple

iOS Devices Beat Androids In Enterprise Penetration; Apple Still Dominates Business World: Report

The latest report from Good Technology shows that iOS devices are becoming stronger in the business world while the Android devices are still lagging far behind. The report reveals that the first quarter of the current year was dominated by the iPhone 4S, which hit a record high, claiming the number one device spot overall and accounted for 37 percent of Good's activations, followed by the iPad 2 with 17.7 percent. The new iPad, in first one and half months of its launch, has also made quite ...
US Housing Sector

US Homeownership Rate Drops To 15-Year Low

The share of privately-owned U.S. homes fell to a 15-year low in the first quarter as falling house prices and stringent lending conditions push younger Americans, in particular, into renting.
Google

Shareholder Sues Google To Prevent Stock Split

Google Inc and its board were sued on Monday by a shareholder who wants to block the company's stock split plan because it entrenches the Web search company's co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, according to court documents.
Exxon Mobil

Exxon Mobil Shuts Louisiana Oil Pipeline After Leak

Exxon Mobil Corp has shut the 160,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) North Line crude oil pipeline in Louisiana after a leak spilled 1,900 barrels of crude oil in a rural area over the weekend, affecting a conduit that supplies the nation's third-largest refinery.
Orhan Pamuk

Nobel Winner Pamuk Opens Novel Museum in Istanbul

Nobel prize-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk realizes a long-nurtured dream on Saturday with the opening of an actual Museum of Innocence - a collection of relics of a half-century of ordinary life - as depicted in his 2008 novel of the same name.

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