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<title>WRAPUP 1-European watchdogs probe Madoff as lawsuits loom</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207165460</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 19:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  file a legal complaint against UBS, HSBC, Hyposwiss and others, saying they had neglected clients  ...  as big as $50 billion. Wall Street financier Madoff is under house arrest in his  ...  are being planned in Luxembourg, Ireland and Switzerland. Meanwhile, Paris prosecutors are informally looking into  ...
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<title>Watchdogs probe Madoff as lawsuits loom</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207163848</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 19:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  are being planned in Luxembourg, Ireland and Switzerland. Meanwhile, Paris prosecutors are informally looking into  ...  probe, said Jean-Michel Aldebert, head of the financial section of the Paris Prosecutors&#39; office. In  ...  euros due to Madoff&#39;s alleged Ponzi scheme. Swiss bank Union Bancaire Prive is threatening to  ...
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<title>World Finance Legal Awards 2009</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207162489</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 19:30 GMT</pubDate>
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... LONDON, January 8 /PRNewswire/ -- World Finance magazine, the premier publication for financial decision-makers,  ...  d&#39;avocats, Member of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Best Banking &amp; Finance Team, Austria: Herbst Vavrovsky Kinsky  ...  Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati Best Tax Team, Switzerland: Tax Partner AG, Taxand Best Tax Team,  ...
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<title>Sheffield Wednesday to share and share alike</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207161916</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 19:23 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the workings, or failings, of international high finance, Sheffield Wednesday fans have had something of  ...  from its slumber. Geoff Sheard and his &#39;Swiss-based trust&#39; may have promised much and delivered  ...  at least that of a consortium of investors that stretches across two continents - where  ...
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<title>Net Asset Value as of December 31, 2008</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207159711</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 19:18 GMT</pubDate>
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...  reduction of the Net Asset Value in Swiss Francs is the result of the strengthening  ...  (SWX: PEHN), managed by Alpha Associates, offers investors the opportunity to invest, within a simple  ...  calculations are prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and pursuant to the  ...
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<title>American Apparel Names Adrian Kowalewski Chief Financial Officer</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207153825</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 18:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Kowalewski, 31, joined  ...  responsibilities have included finance, corporate strategy, and investor relations. Mr. Kowalewski has been a member  ...  France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Israel, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and China.  ...
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<title>Deeply uncool</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207152758</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 18:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  jets to Washington, DC, to beg for financial aid in November, they encountered some stormy  ...  According to a report from UBS, a Swiss bank, the number of used business jets available  ...
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<title>Expert On VW Says Plant Could Bring Total Of Up To 28,000 Jobs</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207152117</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 18:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  going to be seeing 3,000-4,000 Germans and Swiss in your community.&quot; Mr. Krause said he  ...  program. On the city bond issue, City Finance Director Daisy Madison said the city got  ...  the bonds have already been sold to investors. It is a tax-exempt bond issue so  ...
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<title>Suicide fails the test of taking responsibility</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207146559</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 18:09 GMT</pubDate>
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... Financial people may or may not be more  ...  Wall Streets fantastic misallocation of capital. The Swiss bank UBS AG has come up with  ...  CDOs, a rater of securities at Moodys Investors Serviceand are now wracked by guilt, how  ...
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<title>PM assures Cardinal of opposition to euthanasia</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207142404</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 18:05 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of British people who have travelled to Switzerland to commit suicide at the Dignitas euthanasia  ...  Brown and Cardinal Murphy-O&#39;Connor also discussed the banking activities that had led to the credit  ...  The Cardinal said that all economic and financial systems need to have a &quot;moral underpinning&quot;  ...
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<title>Jared builds second Utah store in Orem</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207141270</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 18:01 GMT</pubDate>
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...  for projected internal rate of return of investment, which has to be more than 20  ...  Magic Cultured Pearls by Mikimoto and luxury Swiss timepieces -- priced from under $100 to  ...  sales of jewelry have suffered since the financial crisis erupted in September -- sales through  ...
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<title>Slovenia may hold referendum on Croatia EU entry</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207138063</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 17:43 GMT</pubDate>
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...  downturn. EU gas crisis to boost nuclear investments The gas crisis is set to boost  ...  price-fixing and exchange of commercially sensitive information. Swiss business and farmers on Wednesday launched a  ...  in Ukraine, unnamed EU experts have told Financial Times Deutschland. This would lead to emergency  ...
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<title>EU monitors to end Russia-Ukraine gas war</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207138062</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 17:43 GMT</pubDate>
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...  downturn. EU gas crisis to boost nuclear investments The gas crisis is set to boost  ...  price-fixing and exchange of commercially sensitive information. Swiss business and farmers on Wednesday launched a  ...  in Ukraine, unnamed EU experts have told Financial Times Deutschland. This would lead to emergency  ...
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<title>Euro falls to three-week low on speculation ECB will cut rates</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207121526</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 15:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  against the yen as derivatives trading showed investors are betting the ECB will cut its  ...  The dollar advanced against yen and the Swiss franc after U.S. President-elect Barack Obama was  ...  wealth has been wiped out by the financial crisis and this will have a lasting  ...
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<title>Dollar falls from three-week high after report shows job cuts</title>
<link>http://consumer.einnews.com/news.php?wid=207121520</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2009 15:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  U.S. job market deteriorated last month, reinforcing investor expectations for a protracted recession. The dollar  ...  writedowns and losses at the worlds largest financial institutions since the start of 2007 total  ...  dollar and sell the euro versus the Swiss franc. The dollar will rise to $1.15  ...
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