Big banks in Spain and Italy top stress test performers
SPAIN AND Italy’s leading banks were the strongest performers in last week’s European stress tests in a surprise result that could help relieve the funding pressure that had been building on them.
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Special Report: Saving Volvo – Geely buys brand, management test
It was a miserable winter day in January 2007, the kind that makes auto executives in the Motor City wonder why they hold the Detroit Auto Show at the most inhospitable time of the year.
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Test time for Madison school board candidates James Howard and Tom Farley
Madison voters will soon be put to a test, perhaps one of the more important ones they’ve faced in recent years. On April 6, they’ll get to decide who will fill an open seat on the Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education during [...]
Democrats offer $940b health bill for final test
House Democrats yesterday unveiled a $940 billion compromise health care package they said would reduce the deficit and vastly expand health insurance coverage, continuing a march toward what leaders predicted will be final House passage Sunday of a sweeping overhaul that has bitterly divided both Congress and the [...]
Rudd’s test: Labor needs a captain’s knock
AS HONEYMOONS go, Kevin Rudd’s two-year romance with voters was blissfully long. But his government’s effortless ascendancy in Australian politics is suddenly disappearing.
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