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| Mexico's Slim named 'world's richest' person |
Mexico's Carlos Slim, the son of an immigrant shopkeeper who amassed a US$53.5 billion fortune and bought a major stake in the New York Times, became the first person from a developing nation to be named the world's richest person. |
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Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:13 p.m. |
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| Economists trim US growth forecast |
| US economists raised their forecast for economic growth in 2010 in March, the third straight monthly rise, while trimming their growth forecast for 2011, according to a new survey. |
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Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:43 p.m. |
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| MPs asked to back bill capping loan shark rates |
MPs are being urged to send to a select committee a bill seeking to cap interest rates that loan sharks charge. |
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Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:17 p.m. |
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| Graeme Hart ranks 144th in Forbes' billionaire list |
New Zealand businessman Graeme Hart ranks 144th in Forbes' annual list of billionaires. |
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Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:09 p.m. |
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| Britain confronts debt of Greek proportions |
Government debt is growing, as is the deficit. The economy is struggling to get out of recession and there is talk of spending cuts or higher taxes. The unions are on edge. And the currency is plummeting. |
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Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:44 p.m. |
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| Top business figures in broadband bid |
| A group of leading businessmen have unveiled plans to build an international fibre cable aiming to give unlimited high speed broadband for New Zealand and Australia. |
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Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:33 p.m. |
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| Canterbury dairy farmer fined for discharging effluent |
Ashburton sharemilker Richard Spicer says that the discharge was not deliberate and stemmed from a faulty irrigator. |
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Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:26 p.m. |
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| BioVittoria in US push |
| Biotech natural sweetener company BioVittoria says a major US beverage company will be the first to use its branded calorie-free fruit concentrate in a consumer beverage. |
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Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:22 p.m. |
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| Qantas heading towards bluer skies |
| Qantas is turning around the decline in yields - or average air fares - after they bottomed out last year, but it is still experiencing weakness in earnings from its international flights. |
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Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:12 p.m. |
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