Hanging over the Edwards case was the specter of the Stevens case, where the department's public integrity unit suffered a major loss in 2009, when Attorney General Eric Holder asked a judge to dismiss the conviction of Mr. Stevens because of prosecutor misconduct.
Philips announced last year that it was transferring its loss-making television unit to a new joint venture arrangement with Hong Kong's TPV.
Separately, France's number three bank, Credit Agricole, reported a 51% rise in quarterly profits to 469m euros, helped by the sale of its loss-making Greek unit.
Within the euro, it has suffered a big loss of competitiveness as unit labour costs have shot up, largely because productivity has been stagnant or even fallen.
As a result, the firm has taken measures to try to turn around the fortunes of the unit, including cancelling services on loss-making routes and streamlining some of its maintenance operations and cutting jobs.
Steve Novak made three of New York's seven 3-pointers in the fourth quarter and added 15 points as the Knicks, sparked by their second unit, shook off a tough home loss on Sunday, when they blew a 16-point lead to Miami.
The CIO is the Chief Investment Office, the unit where the bets that led to the loss were made.
Although these made perfect strategic sense, the business unit leaders perceived the shifts as a potential loss of autonomy, power, and control.
Its insurance unit made a profit of 272m euros, compared with a loss of 1.51bn euros a year earlier.
Freddie Mac, the mortgage banking giant that has been a unit of the U.S. government since 2008, reported a smaller loss than last year amid a still faltering housing market.
And in dollar terms, given the loss of productivity suffered by the Brazilian economy given substantial appreciation in their currency, unit labor costs have grown by 110% since 2005. (Read No Credit Bubble In Brazil, Just Dangerous Consumer Debt Burden).
The ruling marks Apple's second patent loss in a week, after a judge dismissed a case it brought against Google's Motorola unit on Monday.
That has led to the loss of 15, 000 troy ounces of platinum output, an expected 8.5% increase in unit costs for the year and a risk that the company would miss its full-year production target of 750, 000 ounces, Lonmin said.
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