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Reuters - Airports operator BAA, owned by Spain's
Ferrovial , received a tougher-than-expected ruling
from Britain's competition regulator on Wednesday, which said
it should sell two of its three London airports because of
problems created by its near monopoly.
Reuters - A joint venture created by LandCap Partners is
buying $40 million of troubled land and construction loans from
Wachovia Corp The Wall Street Journal said.
Reuters - EBay Inc is cutting the
fees U.S. sellers on its site pay for fixed-price items, in one
of the company's boldest moves this year to boost merchandise
for sale, lure new buyers and take on competitors.
Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co
results beat Wall Street targets as net profit rose 14 percent,
subduing fears that slowing economies and a stronger dollar
would weaken the world's biggest computer and printer maker and
its rivals.
Reuters - World stocks edged higher on Wednesday
after the previous day's tumble to their lowest level in almost
two years attracted some buyers, while rebounding commodity
prices helped resource shares.
AFP - Investments in the bonds of struggling US home-loan financers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have earned Russia more than a billion dollars in the past six months, press reports said Tuesday.
AP - From affluent shoppers at Saks to bargain-hunters at Target, from Home Depot to office supplier Staples, consumers are pulling back and that's hurting retailers and raising more concerns about how they'll do the rest of the year.
AP - LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46.
AP - It's not easy being Bond. Roger Moore, who starred in seven Bond films in the 1970s and 1980s, recounts his days as the dashing super-spy in his upcoming memoir, "My Word Is My Bond," and says things weren't always as they seemed.
E! Online - The Dave Matthews Band brass has been silenced.
E! Online - Nicole Kidman's got the golden touch.
E! Online - The rekindled "bromance" between Hills stars Brody Jenner and Spencer Pratt took a turn for the worse following the show's season premiere party at Paradise Cove in Malibu Monday night.
Reuters - James McAvoy and Emily
Blunt might soon discover that the grass is always greener on
the other side of the fence -- if you're a garden gnome in
love.
Reuters - Malaysia's government
has told promoters of a concert by Canadian pop star Avril
Lavigne to postpone the show because it could mar the country's
independence day celebrations, an official said on Wednesday.
AFP - Thailand declared British former glam rocker Gary Glitter "persona non grata" Wednesday and threatened to deport him back to Vietnam, where he has just finished prison time for child sex offences.