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Dudley to outline BP plans to help Gulf recover (AP)

AP - Incoming BP CEO Bob Dudley was set to outline his company’s long-term efforts to help the Gulf of Mexico recover from the oil spill Friday morning, and will be getting help from a Clinton administration-era emergency management official.

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Brown cuts backroom deals he campaigned against (AP)

AP - Republican Scott Brown owes his election in part to the public furor over the so-called Cornhusker Kickback, the backroom deal that Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska struck for his vote to pass the health care bill.

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Gulf rig owner criticizes Obama’s drilling halt (AP)

AP - The owner of the drilling rig involved in the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico criticized the U.S. government’s six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the area Tuesday.

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German business confidence rises unexpectedly (AP)

AP - German business confidence rose unexpectedly in June as the country’s economic recovery continued, though firms are growing more worried about what awaits in the next six months, a closely watched survey showed Tuesday.

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Hayward’s stand-in heckled at London oil meeting (AP)

AP - The owner of the broken Deepwater Horizon rig spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico criticized President Barack Obama’s six-month ban on deepwater drilling and a BP executive was heckled Tuesday at a major oil conference.

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US exec must clean up oil spill and BP’s image (AP)

AP - BP’s new strategy to clean up its image and the Gulf Coast is to hand the job from its British CEO, widely criticized for tone-deaf comments and yachting amid the crisis, to one of its top-ranking Americans.

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US lawmaker accuses BP of underestimating oil spill (AFP)

AFP - A key US congressman released an internal BP document Sunday showing up to 100,000 barrels of oil could be leaking into the Gulf of Mexico each day, up to 20 times more than it estimated in public.

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Factbox: Main features of China’s currency system (Reuters)

Reuters - China will gradually make the yuan’s exchange rate more flexible, the central bank said on Saturday a week before a G20 summit, strongly suggesting that it was ready to break the currency’s 23-month-old dollar peg.

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BP ’small people’ comment causes anger along Gulf (AP)

AP - The “small people” of the Gulf Coast have a humongous message for oil giant BP: They’re tired of the company’s big-time executives making insensitive comments.

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BP CEO to tell Congress he’s ‘devastated’ by spill (AP)

AP - BP CEO Tony Hayward expects to tell Congress he is “personally devastated” by the Gulf drilling rig explosion and oil spill and understands the anger Americans feel toward him and his company.

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