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By David Bailey and Kevin Krolicki By pledging to cut $10 billion in costs, General Motors Corp has convinced investors and creditors that the immediate risk of bankruptcy has faded. After touching

By Sumeet Desai LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) – Britain may have to relax its own fiscal rules after data on Friday showed public borrowing at record levels, threatening to breach the restrictions

COMMENT By Patrick Skinner “Be-suited captains and black–vested waiters confer and preen and carry on behind a stone counter, while diners occupy, on the other side, a narrow lane of tables. The

By Jeremy Gaunt Fund managers are gloomier about equities than at any time in at least the last 10 years and aversion to risk is close to what it was during the

By Mark Weinraub The price was higher than Bill Boyd wanted to pay and still rising, but it didn't really matter. He needed a combine harvester. He lost most of his farm

By Bernd Debusmann By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) – If necessity really is the mother of invention, oil at $140 a barrel and gasoline at $4 a gallon will force

Slovakia will be eurozone’s poorest By Peter Laca and Jan Lopatka SACA, Slovakia, July 16 (Reuters) – "What can I buy with 300?" cries Marca Tancosova, a Roma woman worried that her

Revival of Brazil By Ana Nicolaci da Costa BRASILIA, July 16 (Reuters) – Housekeeper Leonides de Moraes is part of the emerging middle class fueling Brazil's economic revival — but try telling

Rejects MSFT bid SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – After six months of flip-flop deal talks that drew mostly anger and disappointment from Yahoo Inc shareholders, the Internet company may finally have done something

Recession fears grow By Sumeet Desai Financial markets are still betting the next move in UK interest rates will be up but the Bank of England could be readying itself to cut