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ShopKeep refines retail touch using iPad
May 10 -Founded by a former shop operator, ShopKeep is hoping to get a bigger piece of the growing mobile retail point-of-sale business, by allowing small-to-mid size retailers to use iPads to process and track customer sales at a low monthly fee. Conway G. Gittens reports.
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Triple crown for stocks
May 10 - Summary of business headlines: Stocks turn in their third weekly gain on Friday; Bernanke's warning to banks; Icahn new Dell offense; Yen falls to 4-1/2 year low. Bobbi Rebell reports.
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U.S. Week Ahead: JCP earnings could surprise to the upside
May 10 - Optimism is growing ahead of J.C.Penney's earnings on Thursday with the number of analysts giving the company a strong buy or buy rating doubling in the last month.
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MuniLand: Harrisburgs of America beware! The SEC is listening
May 10 - SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter says she's putting the municipal bond market on notice and that public officials should watch what they say in speeches that reach securities markets.
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Daily Digit: 1776 feet high
May 10 - New York City's One World Trade Center was completed, and it now at its full height of 1776, a reference to the year the American revolution against British rule began. Bobbi Rebell reports.
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Techquity: Big data play for Facebook
May 10 - Reuters Breakingviews Columnist Rob Cyran gives his take on Facebook's potential purchase of Waze and Carl Icahn's latest offer for Dell.
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Bailout fears for Britain's Co-op Bank
May 10 - The head of Britain's Co-operative Bank stands down after Moody's downgraded its debt rating to junk status, highlighting the difficult regulatory environment for small banks. Melanie Ralph reports that the bank may need a government bailout.
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Breakingviews: Filling the buyback void
May 10 - Rob Cox and Jeffrey Goldfarb discuss how Apple’s record $50 bln share repurchase typifies the challenge facing investors and helps explain the healthy appetite for IPOs.
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Amplats scales back its job cuts plan
May 10 - Anglo American Platinum is to cut 6,000 mining jobs in South Africa, fewer than half the 14,000 originally planned, and slash platinum production by 10% this year, as it battles to return to profit. But as Joanna Partridge reports, Amplats has to tread a fine line in South Africa, to avoid a backlash from the government and restive trade unions.
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Trading at Noon: Will Dell do the Icahn dance?
May 10 - Carl Icahn & Southeastern Asset Management proposed an alternative to a $24.4B buyout deal by Michael Dell.
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Japan says weak yen won't be on G7 agenda
May 10 - Group of Seven Finance ministers arrive at a stately home on the outskirts of London to discuss whether central banks can do more to bolster the fragile global recovery. Kirsty Basset reports.
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Europe Week Ahead: G7 - Historic Venue, Modern Problems
May 10 - A look at next week's key events including the weekend G7 meeting, a slew of euro zone GDP data and the first update from Glencore Xstrata.
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Bailout fears for Britain's Co-op Bank
May 10 - The head of Britain's Co-operative Bank stands down after Moody's downgraded its debt rating to junk status, highlighting the difficult regulatory environment for small banks. Melanie Ralph reports that the bank may need a government bailout.
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U.S. Morning Call: Dell plot thickens with new proposal
May 10 - Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management have proposed an alternative to Michael Dell's buyout deal.
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Market Pulse: Yen Will Slither Up To 105
May 10 - It's the Year of the Snake so the yen won't go in straight lines, but will eventually slither up to 105 against the dollar, says Reuters FX analyst Neal Kimberley.
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Breakingviews: Global monetary policy is going wrong
May 10 - Quantitative easing has become a tide that is raising all ships, but with a disappointing impact on GDP says Breakingviews.
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In the Boardroom: AGMs - David & Goliath work it out
May 10 - AGM season can be perilous for boards with protests erupting over pay. But Stephen Cohen, who runs a shareholder activist fund, says companies are starting to listen to their investors.
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Yen outlook '101': Where the currency goes from here
May 10 - The yen has finally smashed through the 100 to the dollar mark - but as Yonggi Kang reports, its downward slide may be running out of steam.
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Asia Week Ahead: How to navigate China's contradictory data
May 10 - China and Japan will send out confusing signals next week about the state of their economies. Reuters' Wayne Arnold explains how to sift through the numbers for the real picture on Asia's powerhouses.
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Reuters Today: All talked out? G7 meets anyway
May 10 - G7 finance chiefs gather in London, but is there anything left to say? And news of a 21st-century heist.
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