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Business Stories from December 4, 2012 (Change date)

Back to budgets, Ryan returns to comfortable topic

Associated Press
Dec 04, 2012 5:44 am - WASHINGTON — Paul Ryan is getting his groove back. A month after the GOP’s presidential ticket lost an election, the party’s vice presidential nominee finds himself comf...
Baxter to buy Swedish firm Gambro in $2.76B deal

Associated Press
Dec 04, 2012 5:31 am - Drug and medical device maker Deerfield-based Baxter International plans to buy the privately held Swedish company Gambro AB for about $2.76 billion to broaden its dialy...
Germany, France at odds over EU banking supervisor

Associated Press
Dec 04, 2012 5:30 am - BRUSSELS — Germany and France have set out sharply different visions of a new banking supervisor for Europe that they hope would better deal with future financial crises...
Markets recover their poise as focus stays on U.S.

Associated Press
Dec 04, 2012 5:15 am - LONDON — Markets recovered their poise Tuesday despite concerns over the progress of budget talks in the U.S. and the state of the world’s largest economy in the run-up ...
Struggling Nokia sells headquarters building

Associated Press
Dec 04, 2012 5:14 am - HELSINKI — Nokia Corp. plans to sell its head office near the Finnish capital to real estate investors for $220 million as the struggling cellphone maker continues to cu...
Saudi group sells majority stake in NY’s Plaza

Associated Press
Dec 04, 2012 5:13 am - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The investment firm headed by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says it has sold a majority stake in The Plaza Hotel in New York to a ma...
Japan tunnel disaster shows aging of public works

Associated Press
Dec 04, 2012 5:12 am - TOKYO — The deadly collapse last weekend of hundreds of concrete ceiling slabs in a tunnel outside Tokyo is raising calls for more spending on Japan’s aging infrastructu...
After Sandy, New York City pins housing hope on repairs

Associated Press
Dec 04, 2012 5:11 am - NEW YORK — Facing Superstorm Sandy’s daunting toll of wreckage and displacement in the nation’s largest city, officials have put much of their hopes and hundreds of mill...

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