Reuters – Genzyme Corp Chief Executive Henri Termeer said he is willing to sell the company he built up over 25 years, but not for $69 a share.
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Genzyme CEO open to sale, not at $69 a share
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AP – Inflation in the 16 countries that use the euro fell in August, official figures showed Tuesday, reinforcing market expectations that the European Central Bank will not be raising borrowing costs this year.
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Eurozone inflation eases in August to 1.6 percent
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AP – Inflation in the 16 countries that use the euro fell in August, official figures showed Tuesday, reinforcing market expectations that the European Central Bank will not be raising borrowing costs this year.
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Eurozone inflation eases in August to 1.6 percent
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Reuters – Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday that it was in the country’s interest to sign loan agreements with the IMF if necessary but it was not in the country’s interest to have economic policy agreements with the Fund.
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Hungary PM says IMF is lender, not econ policy guide
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AP – In another sign that borrowers have taken tighter control of their debt, late payments on auto loans dropped in the second quarter.
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Late payments on auto loans fall in 2nd quarter
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In another blow to U.S. efforts to fight corruption in Afghanistan, one of the country’s most senior prosecutors says he was forced into early retirement by President Hamid Karzai. The prosecutor maintains that members of the Karzai government are blocking corruption investigations involving high-ranking officials. Host Liane Hansen talks to NPR’s Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson in Kabul.
The U.N. Security Council is grappling with a troubling question in the Democratic Republic of Congo: How could U.N. peacekeepers not know about mass rapes taking place over a four-day period this summer? Nearly 200 women were raped by rebel fighters. The U.N. says it only found out about the atrocities more than a week after they ended.
Astrophysicists have identified two new solar systems — one with two planets, the other with as many as seven. Though these planets are not ones where life could survive, scientists say detecting planets that can is looking very likely.
Reuters – Blackstone Group LP urged a federal appeals court not to revive an investor lawsuit accusing it of hiding bad investments before raising $4.7 billion in its 2007 initial public offering.
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Blackstone urges court to throw out IPO appeal
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