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Analyst, Vodafone cast doubt on likelihood of telco's sale

2014-11-24 02:43:32| Telecom - Topix.net

The likelihood of a sell-off of Australia's number three telco, Vodafone Australia, has been greatly exaggerated, according to both the telco itself and a local telecom analyst. Speculation about a possible sale of the telco, which is a joint venture of Vodafone and Hutchison Australia, exploded after Vodafone Group's chief executive, Vittorio Colao, was asked at an investor conference if it would consider selling it business in Australia and two other weak markets.

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Keystone Bill Expected to Pass House, but Senate in Doubt

2014-11-14 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives prepared to vote on Friday to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline that will help transport oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, but a companion bill in the Senate may lack votes to pass next week. The bills would circumvent the need for approval of TransCanada Corp's $8 billion project by the Obama administration, which has been pending for more than six years. Final approval would bring to an end years of jousting between supporters,...

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Highway official stood by guardrail system as doubt mounted

2014-11-03 22:15:17| Automakers - Topix.net

U.S. highway safety officials defended a widely used guardrail system's crashworthiness even as they worried whether its design had been altered in a potentially deadly way, according to internal emails. Starting in 2012, a Federal Highway Administration engineer fielded emails from state officials, plaintiffs' lawyers and others asking about a change that Trinity Industries Inc. had made to its guardrail system years earlier.

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