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General Motors’ new chief executive said the carmaker was “looking at the possibility of paying back its US government bail-out loans from its cash reserves.Ed Whitacre made the comments on Monday in response to a question posed during a webchat, hi
BEIJING - China's state press renewed calls Monday for developed nations to provide adequate funding to help poorer countries fight climate change, as crunch UN talks were set kick off in Copenhagen. It is obvious that the planet is everyone's, an
Citigroup is racing against the clock to convince US authorities that it be allowed to repay $20bn of bail-out funds, with insiders and regulators arguing that unless the bank acts in the next 10 days it will have to wait for more than a month.The s
COLUMBUS, Ohio - American Electric Power Co., one of the largest electric utilities in the U.S., on Friday said it was selected by the Department of Energy to receive funding to cover some costs of installing a commercial-scale carbon dioxide captur
The Treasury refused to release extra funds for the reconstruction of Basra, the Iraq war inquiry has been told.Dominic Asquith, the former Foreign Office director for Iraq, said more money was requested to help rebuild the southern Iraqi city. But
Hard bargaining is intensifying over Europe’s efforts to regulate hedge funds and private equity funds on a pan-European basis for the first time. Six months of furious lobbying by the fund management industry has resulted in two heavily amended ver
Bank of America is to pay back $45bn in US bail-out funds in a dramatic step by the nation’s largest lender to escape the heightened supervision that accompanied government rescue from the financial crisis.BofA will use $26.2bn of its own cash and r
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