European Union Unlikely to Get the Funds It Seeks
It is likely that the Union’s budget will be frozen, perhaps until 2020. The main losers would be poorer, ex-communist member states in Central and Eastern Europe

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‘Mickey’ Brown trial set
Man is accused of defrauding church members and others in a multimillion-dollar scam

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Vietnam Province to Spend $14.35M on Water Supply, Environment Program
Vietnam’s northern province of Thai Nguyen has kick-started a rural clean water supply and environmental sanitation program in the 2011-2015 period with a total investment of VND300 billion ($14.35 million).

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GS Financial Corp. Announces First Quarter Results
METAIRIE, La. — GS Financial Corp. , the holding company for Guaranty Savings Bank , reported earnings for the quarter ended March 31, 2011 of $174,000, or $0.14 per share basic and diluted, compared with a net loss of $52,000, or per share basic and diluted, for the same period in 2010.

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Bridge Capital Holdings Reports Financial Results For the First Quarter Ended March 31, 2011
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESSWIRE)– Conference Call and Webcast Scheduled for Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time Bridge Capital Holdings , whose subsidiary is Bridge Bank, …

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SL Green Realty Corp. Reports First Quarter 2011 FFO of $1.78 Per Share Before Transaction Costs and EPS of $1.01 Per …
NEW YORK–(BUSINESSWIRE)– SL Green Realty Corp. : Operating Highlights First quarter FFO of $1.78 per diluted share before transaction related costs of $0.03 per share, a 64.8 percent increase …

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Furse joins push into social finance
Dame Clara Furse, former chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, will join two other City of London heavyweights on the board of a new social finance initiative that aims to raise capital through a form of crowd funding, Financial News has learnt.

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