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Search for: Offline summarization (match summaries) Hybrid summarization Online summarization Offline summarization (match articles) U.S. World Finance Sci/Tech Entertainment Sports View Today's Images Back to Archive Index About Newsblaster About today's run Newsblaster in Press Academic Papers Article Sources: washingtonpost.com (324 articles) nytimes.com (144 articles) news.bbc.co.uk (139 articles) sfgate.com (109 articles) baltimoresun.com (106 articles) suntimes.com (98 articles) cbc.ca (74 articles) abcnews.go.com (70 articles) dallasnews.com (69 articles) timesonline.co.uk (68 articles) ft.com (61 articles) latimes.com (53 articles) foxnews.com (42 articles) cnn.com (31 articles) nypost.com (27 articles) wired.com (26 articles) business. timesonline.co.uk (24 articles) cbsnews.com (13 articles) money.cnn.com (5 articles) nature.com (4 articles) weblogs. baltimoresun.com (4 articles) inthefield. blogs.cnn.com (2 articles) ac360. blogs.cnn.com (2 articles) women. timesonline.co.uk (2 articles) entertainment. timesonline.co.uk (2 articles) health.nytimes.com (1 article) cowboysblog. dallasnews.com (1 article) latimesblogs. latimes.com (1 article)	FTSE closes up as RBS dominates trading Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English Supermarket gains lit a fire under the whole sector with French group PPR up 2.9 per cent to €85.40, Spain's Inditex rising 4.1 per cent to €32.23 and Sweden's Hennes & Mauritz up 1.2 per cent to SKr330.50. (article 2) Wall Street stocks extended their losses in a bumpy session as financial stocks stumbled and a rally in the material and technology sectors petered out in mid-afternoon. (article 3) Shares in the Lloyd's List publisher climbed 4.8 per cent to 386¾p after Cazenove advised clients to "buy" on weakness. (article 5) European companies suffered a bigger fall in first-quarter profits than their US counterparts in a striking contrast to the underlying performance of their home economies. (article 7) Bradford & Bingley lifted 5 per cent to 70.5p Miners succumbed to profit taking with Eurasian Natural Resources down 2.8 per cent to $14.04 and Vedanta off 2.2 per cent to $24.49. (article 4) Japanese companies are raising their dividends in spite of forecasting sluggish or negative earnings growth this year, boosting shares and contributing to gains in Japanese markets. (article 6) The FTSE Eurofirst 300 fell 1.1 per cent to 1,319.13 points as investors used worries in the British banking sector as a cue to take profits after last week's rally. (article 1) Other summaries about this story: Summary from United States, from articles in English (6 articles) [compare] Summary from the United Kingdom, from articles in English (1 articles) [compare] Event tracking: Track this story's development in time Story keywords cent, €, Shares, sector, FTSE Source articles Julius Baer and UBS bear the brunt (ft.com, 06/02/2008, 584 words) Retailers lead European shares higher (ft.com, 06/03/2008, 571 words) Wall St gives up gains in volatile session (ft.com, 06/03/2008, 449 words) RBS jumps on activist shake-up talk (business.timesonline.co.uk, 06/03/2008, 439 words) FTSE closes up as RBS dominates trading (ft.com, 06/03/2008, 699 words) Raised dividend fillip for Japan (ft.com, 06/02/2008, 614 words) European companies hit harder than US rivals (ft.com, 06/03/2008, 467 words) blaster@cs.columbia.edu