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ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - A tax on financial transactions to fund future bank bailouts should be considered with urgency, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday, a significant departure from London's line to date.

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Extending gains for the third day in succession, the Bombay Stock Exchange bellwether Sensex on Friday closed higher by 94 points even though it lost a big chunk of gains posted in early trade. Markets shot up by over 200 points in the morning taking positive cues from Asia where indices mirrored ro ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Friday said quarterly earnings tripled, as rising stock markets boosted its investment holdings and a quiet hurricane season contributed to higher insurance profit.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Losses at part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland more than halved in the third quarter with a sharp reduction in bad debt writeoffs, despite a slump in profits at its beleaguered investment bank.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Gold surged to a record high above $1,100 per ounce on Friday as investors pounced on the metal in volatile trade after data showed U.S. employers cut a bigger-than-expected 190,000 jobs in October.

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Japan’s Nikkei stock average rose 0.9 per cent on Friday as exporters such as Canon Inc climbed after good US job news renewed hopes about the pace of economic recovery, with tech shares up after gains by their US peers. Pioneer Corp advanced 8 per cent to 244 yen after UBS upgraded the consumer ele ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly jumped to a 26-1/2-year high of 10.2 percent last month, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment even as signs of recovery mount.

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The head of General Motors' European business, Carl-Peter Forster, is leaving the company following the surprise decision by GM's board to block the sale of Opel, two sources close to the situation told Reuters.

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LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways signalled business is stabilising, eclipsing news of a worse than expected first half loss and a prediction that revenue would slump by 1 billion pounds this year.

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LONDON (Reuters) - The administrator of Lehman Brothers' European arm will proceed with a revised plan to return billions of hedge fund assets after a London appeal court on Friday rejected earlier proposals.

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