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CNN 2011-09-01

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CNN 2011-09-06

It is almost here. Hurricane Irene is curving closer and closer to tens of millions of people. Waves and wind already kicking up, and the first rains will soak the Southeast today. This is a big storm, hundreds of miles across. And even from space, i

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BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- China's banking watchdog said Wednesday Chinese domestic commercial banks' balance of non-performing loans (NPL) decreased（减少） 14 percent through 2010 to stand at 429.3 billion yuan (65.17 billion U.S. dollars) at

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Banks encouraged to seek private investment

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Stocks soared after the U.S. Federal Reserve and other major central banks agreed to make it easier to borrow dollars overseas, in a bid to ease the fallout of the European debt crisis. The move came as European finance ministers delayed key decision

China should reform banks to prevent risks: central bank

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Foreign banks see record profits in China despite economic slowdown

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Global banks posted record profits from their Chinese operations last year, with many foreign lenders expecting annual growth of about 20 percent up till 2015, according to a survey released Tuesday by PricewaterhouseCoop

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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades says the terms of his country's new $13 billion bailout are painful, but that he had to agree to the deal with international lenders to keep the island nation from economic collapse. In a televised speech to his co

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