HSBC says to shut down India private banking business

HSBC Holdings Plc is shutting its private banking unit in India, marking the exit of another foreign bank from the cut-throat wealth management business in Asia's third-largest economy. “After a strategic review of the global private banking operations in India

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WTO talks stuck again as ministers prepare to meet, Azevedo says

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – World trade talks are deadlocked and ministers are unlikely to find a way out of the impasse when they meet in Nairobi next month, World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azevedo said on Thursday. “We clearly

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Barclays fined for lax crime checks in ‘deal of century’

By Steve Slater and Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Britain's financial watchdog has fined Barclays 72 million pounds ($109 million) for cutting corners in vetting wealthy customers in order to win a huge transaction described by one senior manager as potentially the “deal of the century.” Barclays arranged the 1.9 billion pound transaction in 2011 and 2012 for a number of rich clients deemed by the regulator to be politically exposed persons (PEPs), or people holding prominent positions that could be open to financial abuse. “Barclays did not follow …

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Thanksgiving shopping crowds ‘good not great’; online sales strong

PITTSBURGH/CHICAGO (Reuters) – Retailers across the United States offered early Black Friday discounts to lure bargain-hunters on Thanksgiving eve, but initial checks showed crowds in brick-and-mortar stores were subdued even as online sales jumped. “It's still early, and from what we are seeing so far the crowds are good but not…

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Two-decade Pfizer mission pays off for Guggenheim’s deal king

LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Alan Schwartz knows how to play a long game. The executive chairman of boutique investment bank Guggenheim Partners spent almost 20 years cultivating Pfizer boss Ian Read as a client. Schwartz, 65, had been working with Read since 2013 to find a European-registered company with which U.S. firm Pfizer could combine and shift its headquarters to a country with a lower tax rate, so

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United Continental to offer 13 percent pay increase to pilots: Bloomberg

The 2016 increase would be followed by annual increases of 3 percent and 2 percent, Bloomberg said. Reuters reported last week that the second-largest U.S. airline by capacity and its pilots union had reached an agreement in principle to extend the labor contract that covers United's more than 12,000 pilots by two years. United's contract with the Air Line Pilots Association International (ALPA) had been due to

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VW maintains $7 billion of provisions despite simple emissions fix

Volkswagen will not lower planned provisions of 6.7 billion euros ($7.1 billion) for the costs of its diesel emissions scandal, though the technical fix for 8.5 million cars in Europe have turned out to be simpler than expected. VW is seeking as much as 20 billion euros ($21.18 billion) in funding …

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U.S. new home sales rebound strongly in October

September's sales pace was revised down to 447,000 units from the previously reported 468,000 units. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast new home sales, which account for about 8 percent of the housing market, rebounding to a rate of 500,000 units.

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GM, law firm can keep ignition switch documents secret: U.S. judge

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – General Motors Co and its law firm need not turn over privileged documents to drivers hoping to show that the automaker intended to commit a crime or fraud by concealing defective ignition switches in…

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U.S. data points to moderate fourth-quarter growth

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. consumer spending barely rose in October as households took advantage of rising incomes to boost savings to their highest level in nearly three years, pointing to moderate economic growth in the fourth quarter. Anemic consumer spending did little do change expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next month as other data on Wednesday showed a surge in business…

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