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India joined Brazil, China and Russia in raising borrowing costs to combat inflation, adding to the risk of a slowdown in the world's fastest-growing economies.
The Reserve Bank of India yesterday unexpectedly increased the repurchase rate to 8 percent from 7.75 percent, joining its fellow members of what Goldman Sachs Group Inc. terms the […]

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WPP and Dell Inc.'s agency has hit upon a permanent company name — Enfatico.
Enfatico is a musical notation that means play each note with emphasis, WPP says in a release.
WPP (Nasdaq:WPPGY) of New York and Round Rock-based Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) partnered up last year to build an agency that will handle […]

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Gasoline rose to $3.99 a gallon at the pump, threatening to further shake the confidence of consumers whose spending makes up two-thirds of the economy, an industry survey showed.
The price climbed 20 cents on June 6 from three weeks earlier, according to oil-industry analyst Trilby Lundberg's survey of 7,000 filling stations nationwide. Gasoline […]

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A private California investment firm specializing in serving wealthy investors, has acquired a 120-acre property in Camas, fueling speculation it will bring its corporate headquarters and more than 1,000 jobs to Southwest Washington.
Woodside, Calif.-based Fisher Investments manages $43 billion in assets on behalf of 22,000 investors and employs more than 1,000 people […]

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European producer-price inflation accelerated to the fastest in more than seven years in April, intensifying pressure on the European Central Bank to keep interest rates on hold.
Factory-gate prices in the euro region rose 6.1 percent from a year earlier, the most since October 2000, after increasing 5.8 percent in March, the European Union […]

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