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Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) — Hasbro Inc., the maker of Monopoly
and Scrabble, agreed to buy closely held game company Cranium
Inc. for $77.5 million, its biggest purchase in eight years.
Cranium, which makes its [...]

Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) — National Australia Bank Ltd. and
Australia %26amp; New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. raised interest rates
on mortgages to recoup higher funding costs, the first time in
more than a decade that some of the nations biggest lenders
changed home loan rates without any [...]

Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) — The preceding year, the worst in a
decade for the U.S. auto industry, nevertheless brought a most
pleasant surprise from General Motors Corp.
GM managed to turn out a reworked [...]

Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) — Former Arkansas Governor Mike
Huckabee was declared the winner of the Iowas first-in-the-
nation Republican presidential nominating caucus.
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney congratulated Huckabee
after CNN, NBC, and Fox News declared [...]

Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) — Iowans flocked to Democratic and
Republican presidential-nominating caucuses as their state
kicked off voting to select the 2008 presidential candidates.
Hundreds of Republicans converged on a high school in the
Des [...]

Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) — Andrew “Twiggy Forrest isnt the
most likely candidate to become the poster boy for Australias
mining boom. His last big venture ended in disaster for many
investors.
U.S. bondholders who bet [...]

Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) — “I was nobody until I killed the
biggest somebody on earth.
That quote from Mark David Chapman neatly sums up his
rationale for killing John Lennon outside the former Beatles [...]

Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) — Andrew “Twiggy Forrest isnt the
most likely candidate to become the poster boy for Australias
mining boom. His last big venture ended in disaster for many
investors.
U.S. bondholders who bet [...]

Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) — European stocks fell for a second day,
led by retailers, after DSG International Plc forecast that profit
will miss analysts estimates, Next Plc said trading was
“difficult and oil reached $100 a barrel.
[...]

Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) — The outcome of the first U.S.
presidential contest today in Iowa may hinge on voters like Russ
Johns, a 43-year-old car-parts assembly worker who has never
participated in a nominating caucus.
[...]