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China Probes Food Businesses; Hong Kong Bans Imports In Meat Safety Scare

China's food regulator has visited close to 600 restaurants, businesses and food distributors as it investigates a fast-spreading food safety scare that has dragged in a number of global brands and hit food outlets as far away as Japan. Hong...

Ford Profit Beats Expectations, Sets Record For North America

Ford Motor Co's (F.N) operating earnings for the second quarter beat Wall Street expectations as better-than-expected profit in North America and Europe countered weaker results in Asia Pacific and South America. Ford's Chief Financial Officer Bob Shanks said lower costs...

Microsoft Sees End To Nokia Losses, Shares Rise After Hours

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Microsoft Corp said it aims to get its loss-making Nokia phone unit to break even within two years, helping its stock rise in after-hours trade. The world's largest software company reported a 7 percent dip in quarterly profit on Tuesday,...

U.S. SEC Poised To Adopt Reforms For Money Market Funds

U.S. regulators are expected to adopt rules on Wednesday that force "prime" money market funds used by large institutions to float their share price. Proponents have suggested that moving from the current stable $1 per share net asset value (NAV)...

Five Held In China Food Scandal Probe, Including Head Of Shanghai Husi Food

Shanghai police said on Wednesday they detained five people in an investigation into a Chinese-based supplier of foreign fast-food brands, including KFC, McDonald's Corp and coffee chain Starbucks Corp, over allegations the firm supplied old and rotten meat. The five...

China Food Scandal Spreads, Drags In Starbucks, Burger King And McNuggets In Japan

The latest food scandal in China is spreading fast, dragging in U.S. coffee chain Starbucks, Burger King Worldwide Inc and others, as well as McDonald's products as far away as Japan. McDonald's Corp and KFC's parent Yum Brands Inc apologized...

Fund Managers Unconvinced By Apple Rebound

Apple, once a can't-miss stock, is finding it tough to persuade portfolio managers to come back into the fold. The company's shares are up 17 percent for the year, nearly three times the performance of the benchmark Standard & Poor's...

Coca-Cola Quarterly Profit Falls 3 Percent

Coca-Cola Co reported a 3 percent fall in quarterly net profit due to restructuring of its juice operations in Russia and the separation of its Brazilian bottling operations last year. The company's net income attributable to shareholders fell to $2.60...

Apple Asks Suppliers To Produce Up To 80 Million Large-Screen iPhones: WSJ

Apple Inc has asked suppliers to manufacture between 70 million and 80 million of its two forthcoming large-screen iPhones by the end of the year, its largest initial production run of iPhones, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people...

PENGASSAN Threatens To Drag PTI Before EFCC Over N320m Scam

SAN FRANCISCO, July 21, (THEWILL) – The Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) Effurun chapter of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has threatened to drag the PTI management before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...