Archive for December 26th, 2007


Oil hits one-month high over $96 a barrel

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26Dec 07

Oil rose to a one-month high above $96 a barrel on Wednesday ahead of a U.S. government report expected to show crude inventories in the world's top consumer fell for a sixth straight week.
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15 bln pound pension surplus at end ‘07

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In UK financial news
26Dec 07

The final-salary pension schemes of the UK's 100 largest companies will show an aggregate surplus of 15 billion pounds at the end of 2007, Deloitte said on Wednesday.
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Oil above $95 on expected U.S. stock drop

Posted by UK Economy News
In UK financial news
26Dec 07

Oil rose above $95 a barrel to a one-month high on Wednesday ahead of a U.S. government report expected to show crude inventories in the world's top consumer fell for a sixth straight week.
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MAXJet Airways Inc , an all-business class airline, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors after cancelling all flights earlier this week, according to court documents.
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15 billion pound penison surplus end ‘07

Posted by UK Economy News
In UK financial news
26Dec 07

The final-salary pension schemes of the UK's 100 largest companies will show an aggregate surplus of 15 billion pounds at the end of 2007, Deloitte said on Wednesday.
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A Japanese rail operator said Wednesday it plans to introduce the world's fastest train in the next two decades, a next-generation maglev built at a cost of 45 billion dollars.
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State-run Korea National Oil Corp said Wednesday it would not abandon an exploration project in Iraqi Kurdistan despite threats by the central Iraqi government to cut off oil supplies to South Korea.
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Japan's Kansai Electric Power Co. and trading house Sumitomo Corp. will tie up with Kazakhstan's state-run energy company in uranium processing for nuclear power generation, an official said Wednesday.
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Standard Chartered is leading the race to buy South Korean savings bank Yeahreum Bank, owned by the state-run Korea Deposit Insurance Corp (KDIC), a local media report said on Wednesday.
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Russian food retailer Magnit plans to place shares worth no less than $500 million (252.4 million pounds) on the London Stock Exchange, Vedomosti daily reported on Wednesday, quoting banking sources.
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