Edoardo Cignoli : Four Retailers Set Up Bangladesh Compensation Fund

Four Western retailers agreed with labor groups and the Bangladesh government to establish a roughly $40 million fund to compensate victims of the April collapse of a garment-factory complex that killed more than 1,000 people.



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Edoardo Cignoli : Sherritt International Selling Its Coal Business

Sherritt International to sell off its coal businesses in two separate transactions for a total of nearly $892 million



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Khodorkovsky Applies for Swiss Visa

Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has applied for a visa to Switzerland less than a week after being released from decadelong imprisonment in Russia.



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War Code-Breaker Gets Royal Pardon

Alan Turing, a pioneering code-breaker whose work helped the Allies win World War II and laid the foundations for modern computing, has been granted a royal pardon by Queen Elizabeth II for a 1952 conviction for homosexuality, 59 years after his death.



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Financial Scammers Target Elderly

The fleecing of older Americans is becoming an epidemic. People 60 and older made up 26% of all fraud complaints tracked by the Federal Trade Commission in 2012.



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Bad Puns, Cheeky Gifts Make for a Very Wall Street Christmas

The holiday gift this year from Kingsford Capital Management, a hedge fund, is a quilt with panels representing a year's worth of 'stock market bad behavior.'



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Natural-Gas Prices Climb

Natural-gas prices rose to a new roughly 2 1/2-year high as weather forecasts called for record chilly temperatures in the Midwest next week, spurring hopes of even greater demand for the heating fuel.



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