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UK private car sales jump in best May since 2005 - SMMT
2013-06-07 04:47:49| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
British consumers bought more cars last month than in any May since 2005, and overall car sales including company fleet purchases rose 11 percent on a year ago, adding to signs the economy is getting going faster than its European peers.
Brazil touts progress in reducing deforestation, but fails to note recent jump in clearing
2013-06-06 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Today in a press release for the U.N.'s World Environment Day, the Brazilian government highlighted a sharp drop in deforestation since 2012. The trouble is, the South American superpower failed to acknowledge what appears to be a sharp rise in Amazon forest loss since last year, reports Greenpeace. In a post on the government's official blog, Brazil congratulated itself for an 84 percent decline in Amazon deforestation between August 2011 and July 2012 relative to 2004, the year that it enacted...
Today's oil prices jump on Federal stimulus doubts, drop in US stockpiles
2013-06-06 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Oil prices steadied today as concerns that the US Federal Reserve might retract from its stimulus programme balanced the optimism rising from a surprise fall in oil stockpiles in the world's top consumer.
U.S. says Apple to blame for jump in e-book prices
2013-06-04 01:36:36| IT Services - Topix.net
A U.S. government lawyer opened a civil trial Monday by portraying Apple Inc. as a corporate bully that swaggered into the market for electronic books in 2010, forcing an end to price competition and costing consumers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Shares of Merck, Bristol jump on cancer drug news
2013-06-03 23:06:59| Biotech - Topix.net
Shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb Inc. and Merck & Co. are up about 5 percent each after the drugmakers announced encouraging results on experimental cancer medicines over the weekend.
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