U.S. lenders report loan and credit-card activity to credit bureaus based on billing addresses, but that activity could stop if you change your credit-card accounts and loans to a foreign address.

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In January, in a New Year's address to Sinopec employees, Mr. Fu signaled that he expected foreign deal-making to continue.

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Germany is the latest in Europe to put corporate governance on the table--in part to address questions and concerns from shareholders, both German and foreign.

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The changes affect not only Delaware residents, but also any shareholder of a Delaware-incorporated company whose current address is unknown to the issuer or is a foreign address, including U.S. military personnel stationed abroad.

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"I think it's important for the United States to be less at the mercy of foreign countries and their decision-making and politics, and more under our own control to address these problems, " Abraham said, two days after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to cut oil output by a million barrels a day.

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On the other hand, if Netanyahu sits on his laurels, he will be surprised to see how quickly Obama - desperate for a foreign policy achievement after being laughed out of Teheran and Pyongyang - forgets his happiness at Netanyahu's address.

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The White House has offered few specifics on what the president will say to address long-standing questions that have dogged his administration for years and, critics say, given foreign allies mixed signals about U.S. intentions in some of the world's most volatile areas.

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