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Entrance to Chevron's headquarters complex in San Ramon, California. Chevron was found to have evaded $3.25 billion in federal and state taxes from 1970 to 2000 through a complex petroleum pricing scheme involving a project in Indonesia.
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Chevron to seek UK refinery sale, cut 2,000 jobs
The Guardian
* Chevron to cut 2,000 downstream jobs in 2010 * To seek bids for UK refinery, other downstream ops * Shares down 0.2 percent in early trading (Adds quote, detail, background, byline, updates share price) By Braden Reddall NEW YORK, March 9 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp, the second-largest U.S. oil compa...
Burger King
(photo: WN / Yolanda)
Burger King sales hurt by winter storms
Fresno Bee
| The Associated Press thefresnobee_994:/2010/03/09/1852088/burger-king-sales-hurt-by-winter.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name | tool goes here Comments (0) | MIAMI -- Winter storms hurt Burger King's results in January and February, the fast-food chain said Tuesday. | In the U.S. and Canada, B...
Chevron to seek UK refinery sale, cut 2,000 jobs
The Guardian
* Chevron to cut 2,000 downstream jobs in 2010 * To seek bids for UK refinery, other downstream ops * Shares down 0.2 percent in early trading (Adds quote, detail, background, byline, updates share price) By Braden Reddall NEW YORK, March 9 (Reuters)...
Burger King sales hurt by winter storms
Philadelphia Daily News
| The Associated Press | MIAMI - Winter storms hurt Burger King's results in January and February, the fast-food chain said Tuesday. | In the U.S. and Canada, Burger King's sales in locations open at least a year fell 8.2 percent over the two-month p...
AP puts New York Times Web vice president in charge of digital sales expansion
Star Tribune
| NEW YORK - An executive who helped run The New York Times' Web site has been hired to guide The Associated Press' effort to sell consumer applications for the Apple iPad and other digital devices, the news cooperative said Tuesday. | Nick Ascheim w...
Online sales tax leads Amazon to cut ties with Colorado businesses that promote its products
Star Tribune
| DENVER - Amazon.com Inc. cut ties Monday with Colorado online businesses that help it sell products because of a new state law aimed at getting out-of-state, online retailers to collect sales tax. | The move hurts businesses — many of them sm...
Illegal Elephant Dealer Arrested
All Africa
On February 19, 2010, an ivory dealer was ordered to serve a prison term of 8 months and to pay as damages and court charges the sum of about FCFA 1.2 Million by the Yaounde Court of first instance. Until the judgment, the ivory dealer Ousmanou Abdou...
Burger King sales hurt by winter storms
The Boston Globe
| MIAMI-Winter storms hurt Burger King's results in January and February, the fast-food chain said Tuesday. | In the U.S. and Canada, Burger King's sales in locations open at least a year fell 8.2 percent over the two-month period. | Over 75 percent ...
Nissan - Auto show - Carmaker - Car Sale
WN / Sweet Radoc
Auto sales zoom a record 35%
The Times Of India
NEW DELHI: Fear of price hikes after Budget and easier interest rates pushed car sales to record highs in February, with volumes increasing by 33%. According to monthly data releas...
McDonald's Restaurant
WN / Yolanda Leyba
McDonald's Key Sales Figure Rises in February
The New York Times
| Filed at 11:15 a.m. ET | OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) -- Strong overseas growth for McDonald's Corp. in February outweighed U.S. sales that barely nudged upward as the world's largest fa...
Wine bottles at the Public tasting event of the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition 2010. Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California.
Creative Commons / Guillaume Paumier
The Bristol to raise money for Chile through wine sales
Business Journal
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Burger King Sales Hurt By Winter Storms
WPXI
MIAMI -- Winter storms hurt Burger King's results in January and February, the fast-food chain said Tuesday. | In the U.S. and Canada, Burger King's sales in locations open at least a year fell 8.2 percent over the two-month period. | Over 75 percent...
Burger King sales hurt by winter storms
Seattle Times
MIAMI - | Winter storms hurt Burger King's results in January and February, the fast-food chain said Tuesday. | In the U.S. and Canada, Burger King's sales in locations open at least a year fell 8.2 percent over the two-month period. | Over 75 percen...
Internet Sales Taxes Gain Support From More States
Huffington Post
| CNET News: | Colorado is not alone. Fifteen other states have considered or are considering enacting laws targeting Amazon and other e-commerce companies that typically do not charge sales tax for shipments sent outside their home state, according ...
Currency
Rupee - Currency - India
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Rupee eases by 3 paise against dollar in early trade
The Siasat Daily
| Mumbai, March 09: The rupee eased by 3 paise against the dollar in early trade today after a six-day rally on fresh capital outflows by foreign funds and a firm US currency. At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market, the rupee fell by 3 paise to 45.55 a dollar. | The rupee closed higher by 8 paise at 45.52/53 a dollar in the previous sessi...



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