Business Stories from November 26, 2015 (Change date)
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Brazil banker's arrest sends shares tumblingNov 26, 2015 1:31 pm - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - When IT specialist Andre Esteves decided to leave Swiss bank UBS in 2008 to refound bank Pactual, he added BTG to the company's name to symbolize t...
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Russia strikes back at Turkey with economic sanctionsNov 26, 2015 10:01 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Russia plans to retaliate against Turkey for the downing of a warplane by imposing sanctions, cutting economic ties and scrapping major investment projects...
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Asia stocks lower amid Thanksgiving trading lullNov 26, 2015 9:01 pm - TOKYO (AP) - Asian stocks markets were lower in muted trading Friday after Wall Street was closed for the Thanksgiving holiday, and investors continued to watch for deve...
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Russian helicopter crashes in Siberia, killing 10Nov 26, 2015 1:31 am - MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian helicopter carrying oil workers has crashed in eastern Siberia, and officials say 10 of the 25 people on board were killed. Russian news agencies...
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Things to know about marine aquacultureNov 26, 2015 8:01 am - SAN DIEGO (AP) - Some 90 percent of seafood consumed by Americans is imported, yet the Obama administration's push to expand U.S. marine aquaculture into federal waters ...
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Greek pensioners take to streets ahead of expected cutsNov 26, 2015 5:01 am - ATHENS, Greece (AP) - More than 2,000 pensioners chanting "We can't live on 300 euros" marched through central Athens to protest plans by the country's left-wing governm...
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Source: Alibaba in talks to buy Hong Kong's SCMP newspaperNov 25, 2015 11:31 pm - HONG KONG (AP) - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is in talks to buy Hong Kong's leading English language newspaper, the South China Morning Post, a person with knowledg...
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Study: Skin care drug prices up 401 percent since 2009Nov 26, 2015 9:01 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The cost of prescription skin treatments has skyrocketed since 2009, as the burden of escalating drug prices increasingly weighs on family budgets. Ret...
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Cameron in Austria: Brits 'not happy' with EU status quoNov 26, 2015 3:01 pm - VIENNA (AP) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday that his fellow citizens are "not happy" with the EU status quo, the relationship between countries usin...
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Ukraine president defends his country's pact with EUNov 26, 2015 9:31 am - THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Ukraine's president has strongly defended a pact his country signed with the European Union, calling it "the last farewell to the Soviet Un...