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[video] Gun Stores Sponsor Blowout Sale For The Mentally Unstable
Posted by admin on April 12th, 2013
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No Comments »Japan to raise $10 billion through Japan Tobacco share sale
Posted by admin on February 25th, 2013
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's government will sell around a third of its stake in Japan Tobacco Inc , the world's No.3 tobacco company, to raise about $ 10.4 billion for reconstruction of areas devastated by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The Ministry of Finance, which owns just over 50 percent of the $ 62 billion [...]
Alcohol sale to be banned in Egypt’s new residential suburbs
Posted by admin on February 17th, 2013
CAIRO (Reuters) – Two years after the Egyptian revolution that ousted an authoritarian regime, liberals are increasingly concerned that the ruling Islamists are out to curb personal freedoms and build a society in their own image. Alcohol, forbidden to Muslims but enjoyed by some Egyptian Christians and by foreign tourists, is one area where the [...]
Monte Paschi foundation considering partial stake sale
Posted by admin on January 28th, 2013
SIENA, Italy (Reuters) – The shareholder foundation which controls Monte dei Paschi di Siena is considering selling part of its nearly 35 percent stake in the troubled bank, according to a strategy document covering the 2013-15 period seen by Reuters on Monday. The document said the foundation would consider lowering its stake to below a [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: considering, Foundation, Monte, Partial, Paschi, sale, stake No Comments »Inaugural Tickets Sell Out Before They Were Even For Sale
Posted by admin on January 7th, 2013
A computer glitch at Ticketmaster “has created frustration and outrage among hundreds of people who wanted to buy tickets to one of President Obama’s two official inaugural balls beginning Monday, only to find all of them have been sold,” the Washington Post reports. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Before, Even, inaugural, sale, Sell, they, Tickets, Were No Comments »Al Gore Pushed for Sale Before Higher Taxes
Posted by admin on January 3rd, 2013
Interesting tidbit from the New York Times on the sale of Current TV: Tweet This Post
Factbox: U.S. Treasury plans GM stock sale as TARP winds down
Posted by admin on December 19th, 2012
(Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury said on Wednesday it planned to sell off its remaining shares in General Motors Co within the next 12-15 months, closing the book on a $ 50 billion bailout from the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program. The $ 700 billion TARP program was approved by Congress in 2008 at the [...]
India’s Singh says to speed up sale of stakes in state firms
Posted by admin on December 15th, 2012
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will speed up the sale of stakes in state companies to revive the stock market and will push ahead with reforms aimed at spurring an investment recovery in the flagging economy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday. Selling equity in large public industries is a central plank of the [...]
Treasury says has completed final sale of AIG stock
Posted by admin on December 14th, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday said it has completed its final sale of common stock in American International Group , reducing its shares in the company to zero four years after a massive government bailout. Treasury said it received $ 7.6 billion in proceeds from the sale of its remaining 234 [...]
Actor Depardieu puts Paris house on sale as tax furor rages
Posted by admin on December 13th, 2012
PARIS (Reuters) – French actor Gerard Depardieu, accused of trying to escape the taxman by buying a house just over the border in Belgium, has put his sumptuous Parisian home up for sale. Depardieu, the latest wealthy Frenchman to seek shelter from government tax hikes, is selling a vast early 19th-century manor house in the [...]
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