EU to introduce legislation to oversee ratings agencies
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union finance ministers agreed to introduce legislation to oversee credit rating agencies after the U.S. subprime crisis highlighted the industry's failures.

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WPP makes hostile $2.1 billion TNS takeover bid (Reuters)
Reuters - WPP Group , the world's second-largest advertising company, launched on Wednesday a hostile bid worth 1.08 billion pounds ($2.13 billion) for British market research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres .
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Higher debt and weaker consumers to hurt retailers
LONDON (Reuters) - Retailers are in danger of becoming one of the leading victims of the credit crisis, with the cost of insuring their debt against default on the rise due to their exposure to heavily indebted consumers.

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IMF chief unsure if worst of financial crisis is over
TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - It is hard to know how far the global financial crisis still has to run, with the extent of further credit losses dependent on what happens to the U.S. housing sector, IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on Wednesday.

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Oil rebounds by $1 on Iran missile test (Reuters)

A New York City cab driver fills his taxi up with gas at a Hess station in New York July 2, 2008. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)Reuters - Oil rose a dollar on Wednesday, recovering from a more than $5 fall a day ago, after Iranian state media reported that the country had test-fired missiles that could reach Israel and U.S. bases in the region.
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Google's YouTube ad revenue short of expectations: report (Reuters)

A screenshot of YouTube.com, taken on July 3, 2008. (www.youtube.com/Reuters)Reuters - Advertising revenue from YouTube is likely to total about $200 million this year and thus fall short of parent company Google Inc's
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TUI shareholder Fredriksen hikes offer to buy Mordashov's TUI stake
(Thomson Financial via COMTEX) -- TUIFF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- TUI AG.'s shareholder John Fredriksen has increased his offer to buy Russian billionaire Alexei Mordashov's 10 percent stake in the German shipping and tourism company,
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    Stock Buzz ) said on Tuesday depositors had been withdrawing cash at an &quot;elevated&quot; pace since a key U.S. senator questioned its ability to survive the housing crisis.

  • Fannie Mae mortgage commitments soared in April (Reuters)

    The headquarters of mortgage lender Fannie Mae is shown in northwest Washington in this October 3, 2006 file photo. (Jason Reed/Reuters)Reuters - Fannie Mae , the largest provider of financing for U.S. home loans, on Friday said its commitments to buy mortgages soared to $30.7 billion in April.



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