So all they really wanted to do was to agree to start talking about what to do after 2012, and for the first week and a half of the meeting, they weren't even able to agree on anything on that front.

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Chinese billionaire Huang Li added shares in his Hong Kong-listed auto distributor Zhongsheng Group Holdings at the end of last week after the company posted a drop in its first-half net profit.

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The first half of 2011 maintained a range-bound upward trend until finally breaking sharply to the downside in the first week of August.

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History text book author, Sean Lang, last week called for a modern history curriculum that was not so skewed towards the first half of the 20th century.

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Traders positioning for shares in FedEx to extend losses, and possibly dip to new 52-week lows ahead of October expiration, initiated a few different bearish strategies in the first half of the session.

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