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		<title>Median Pay For Top Executives</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oksana Grebenjuk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final figures show that the median pay for top executives at 200 big companies last year was $10.8 million. That works out to a 23 percent gain from 2009. The earlier study had put the median pay at a none-too-shabby $9.6 million, up 12 percent. Total C.E.O. pay hasn’t quite returned to its heady, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Ways to Visit Cuba — Legally</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oksana Grebenjuk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to policy changes by President Obama earlier this year designed to encourage more contact between Americans and citizens of the Communist-ruled island, the Treasury Department is once again granting so-called “people-to-people” licenses, which greatly expand travel opportunities for Cuba-bound visitors. The licenses, created under President Bill Clinton in 1999, stopped being issued in 2003 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Banks Easing Terms on Loans Deemed as Risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oksana Grebenjuk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As millions of Americans struggle in foreclosure with little hope of relief, big banks are going to borrowers who are not even in default and cutting their debt or easing the mortgage terms, sometimes with no questions asked. Two of the nation’s biggest lenders, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, are quietly modifying loans for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Western Union Is Said to Be Nearing $1 Billion Purchase of Travelex Unit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oksana Grebenjuk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Western Union Co. (WU), the world’s largest money-transfer firm, is in talks to buy a division of Apax Partners LLP’s Travelex foreign-exchange business for about $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Western Union, based in Englewood, Colorado, may announce an agreement to acquire Travelex’s global business-payments unit as early as next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Euro Area Backs Greek Aid, Looks to New Bailout</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oksana Grebenjuk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The euro area approved its share of a 12 billion-euro ($17.4 billion) aid payment for Greece and pledged to complete work in the coming weeks on a second rescue package for the cash-strapped nation to prevent a default. Finance ministers agreed to disburse 8.7 billion euros of loans under last year’s 110 billion-euro bailout by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standardizing AAA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oksana Grebenjuk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years, a AA-rated municipal bond did not have the same risk of default as a AA-rated corporate bond. In fact, the corporate bond was about 6 times more likely to default. Over the last two years, credit rating agencies have standardized the municipal and corporate rating scales. This was a substantial change for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#171;Probably inevitable&#187; a country will exit euro: Soros</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oksana Grebenjuk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billionaire investor George Soros thinks a country will eventually exit the euro zone and urged policymakers on Sunday to come up with a &#171;plan B&#187; that could rescue the European Union from looming economic collapse. Soros, famous for making $1 billion by betting against the British pound in 1992, did not name any country he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans may hit gas again after reserve release</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 05:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oksana Grebenjuk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going lightly on the gas pedal, getting a few dollars of gas rather than filling up, cutting out the cruising, and swapping the BMW for a Dodge Caliber &#8212; those are ways Americans are coping with gasoline prices well above $3 a gallon. But people pumping gas on Friday from Miami to San Francisco saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama takes flak for tapping emergency oil reserves</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oksana Grebenjuk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama took withering fire from the oil industry and Republicans for agreeing to release the nation&#8217;s emergency oil supplies, a decision that senior officials said was prompted by the need to prop up the ailing economy. Critics blasted the release of 30 million barrels of oil &#8212; half of a global injection coordinated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall St higher as investors bet on Greece plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oksana Grebenjuk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stocks rebounded from three days of losses on Monday as investors bet there would be a near-term resolution to some of the uncertainty over Greece&#8217;s fiscal crisis, but the absence of a firm plan could limit the market&#8217;s upside. The Greek parliament will begin to debate a deeply unpopular austerity program that must be approved [...]]]></description>
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