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Exclusive: U.S. and Chinese labor groups collaborated before China Wal-Mart strikes

OUR Walmart, the American worker group, has taken the unusual step of collaborating with a group of Chinese Wal-Mart workers trying to fight work schedule changes and low wages. “They asked for our support,” said Cantare Davunt, OUR Wal-Mart's leader from Minnesota, who participated in the Skype call. The U.S. organization is keen to maintain the relationship with the WCWA and believes such partnerships can boost the clout of the retailer’s global workforce.

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Argentina, creditors agree $155 million more in default settlement: mediator

Argentina settled with an additional 115 individual creditors holding defaulted sovereign bonds for $155 million, Daniel Pollack, the court-appointed mediator in the long-running case, said in a statement on Friday. Pollack's announcement brings the total amount of settlements agreed in principle with U.S. creditors above $6.5 billion and moves Latin America's No. 3 economy closer to ending a festering 14-year legal battled …

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BofA raises share buyback by up to $800 million

(Reuters) – Bank of America Corp said its board has authorized share repurchase of up to $800 million, in addition to the $4 billion share buyback announced earlier. The No. 2 U.S. bank by assets said the buyback was meant to offset the share count dilution resulting from equity incentive compensation awarded to retirement-eligible employees.

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Staples, Office Depot say FTC opposition to deal ‘simply wrong’

The FTC has said a merger between the two could reduce competition for nationwide contracts for office supplies. It has also rejected Staples' raised offer to divest up to $1.25 billion of commercial contracts to secure approval for the

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