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China orders action to cool food prices
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING -- China has ordered local leaders to cool a surge in politically sensitive food prices by raising vegetable production amid rising tensions in poor countries over surg... Critics: Ill. lottery contract cloaked in secrecy
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn shows off the Veteran's Cash scratch-off lottery ticket, the Stars & Stripes, in Springfield, Ill. Two weeks before Gov. Pat Quinn is s... Tractor upgrades reduce farm deaths from rollovers
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Lynn Hageman sits on his tractor that has been upgraded with a steel roll bar, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, on his farm near Calmar, Iowa. Hageman was driving his John Deere tractor to a cornfield last Nov... Asil Nadir faces Old Bailey hearing
Guardian
since fleeing Britain 17 years ago , during which a provisional trial date may be fixed and his bail renewed during a brief hearing at the Old Bailey.Nadir was given bail in his absence on 30 July on ... Caroline Mason, chief operating officer Charity Bank
Guardian
investing in Latin American farm co-operatives or funding vaccines in developing countries.But five years ago, she was sitting in the flashy New York office of the managing director of a global financ... 3D TV mania grips electronics show
Guardian
James Cameron's Avatar is the biggest box office draw in history and is expected to triumph at the Oscars on Sunday. But how much of its success is due to the fact it was shot entirely in 3D? Bloggers... Taiwan share prices close up 0.68% on Wall St. rebound
The China Post
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan share prices closed up 0.68 percent yesterday as buying was triggered by a strong rebound on Wall Street overnight due to better-than-expected U.S. manufacturing activity data... Oil lingers near $75 in Asia as stock markets gain
The Seattle Times
Oil prices lingered near $75 a barrel Friday in Asia, largely holding onto a big gain the day before as investors put a positive spin on U.S. economic reports and Asian stock markets rose. Hard Times for Wall Street's "Sell Night" Recruits
Business Week
GS ) hosted an exclusive dinner for recent college graduates at a Ruth's Chris restaurant in midtown Manhattan. While the chain steakhouse might have seemed déclassé for veteran Wall Str... China Reserves 65% In Dollars, 26% In Euro: Report
Fox Business
LOS ANGELES -- China's $2.45 trillion foreign exchange reserves consist of approximately 65% in U.S. dollars and 26% in euros, according to a state media news report Friday. The reserves also include ... FSB's Draghi: global economic recovery to stay
Fox Business
SEOUL, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The world economy will likelyremain on a recovery track despite fragility in the financialmarkets and even if the recovery is not uniform, FinancialStability Board Chairman M... FOREX-Risk currencies firm, await U.S. jobs report
Fox Business
By Hideyuki Sano TOKYO, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The euro and high-yieldingcurrencies held firm on Friday after an improvement in U.S.housing and jobless claims data bolstered investor appetite forrisk ahea... Roche Launches Cost-Cutting Plan After R&D Setbacks
Fox Business
Dow Jones )- Roche Holding AG (ROG.VX) said Friday it has launched a cost-cutting and efficiency plan in the wake of increased price pressures in the U.S. and Europe and a series of drug development s... Samsung raises 2010 smartphone sales target-report
Fox Business
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, theworld's No.2 handset maker, expects to sell up to 25 millionsmartphones this year, exceeding its earlier target, and aims todouble shipments next year, media reports sai... Shanghai slips as IPOs weigh, HK up before U.S. data
Fox Business
* Regional markets edge up ahead of key U.S. jobs data (Updates to midday) By Vikram S Subhedar and Farah Master HONG KONG/SHANGHAI, Sept 3 (Reuters) - China's key stockindex slipped in lacklustre tra... Roche Affirms Outlook, Plans '11, '12 Cost Cuts
Fox Business
TEL AVIV -- Roche, the Basel health-care giant, affirmed its full-year outlook and, in view of "mounting pressures to curb health-care costs -- plans cost cuts to take effect in 2011 and 2012. In a Fr... Oil slips ahead of U.S. jobs data, Hurricane Earl
Fox Business
* Tropical storm Gaston weakens to depression inmid-Atlantic * Coming Up: U.S. nonfarm payrolls for August; 1230 GMT (Updates prices) By Alejandro Barbajosa SINGAPORE, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Oil fell on F... U.S. payrolls seen falling, private hiring tepid
Fox Business
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment likely fellfor a third straight month in August as more temporary censusjobs ended and cautious businesses scaled back hiring, anoutcome that c... BOE Tucker: Progress Made On New Bank Capital Rules
Fox Business
Bank of England Deputy Governor Paul Tucker said Friday that the Financial Stability Board and the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision are making "substantive progress" on devising new capital and... TABLE-Breakdown of China's Aug non-manufacturing PMI
Fox Business
BEIJING, Sept 3 (Reuters) - China's purchasing managers'index for non-manufacturing sectors held steady at 60.1 inAugust, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said onFriday. [ID:nTOE682012... Toshiba To Launch New Tablet As iPad Drives Market
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Middle East and Africa. It has yet to decide whether to launch it in other regions such as the U.S. or Japan, a company spokeswoman said. Toshiba is among many electronics manufacturers around the wor... Nikkei claws up 0.4 pct, caution before jobs data
Fox Business
By Elaine Lies TOKYO, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average crawled up0.4 percent on Friday as more encouraging data reassuredinvestors about the state of the global economic recovery andsparked s... Payrolls seen falling, private hiring tepid
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment likely fell for a third straight month in August as more temporary census jobs ended and cautious businesses scaled back hiring, an outcome that could pressure t... NZ Tycoon Unwraps Packaging Ambitions With US Deal
ABCNews
In this photo taken Nov. 18, 2005, Graeme Hart smiles in Auckland, New Zealand. The reclusive New Zealand billionaire buying the U.S. maker of Hefty brand trash bags to create the world's second-bigge... 3 Dead in Plane Crash off San Francisco Bay
ABCNews
Map locates the site of a small twin-engine plane crash in San Fransisco Bay (AP) A small plane that crashed into a shallow lagoon off San Francisco Bay on Thursday, killing three people, belonged to... Asia Stocks Rise on Slight Improvement in US Data
ABCNews
Most Asian stock markets climbed Friday as investors took heart from a slight improvement in U.S. economic indicators amid lingering worries over the pace of the global economic recovery. But gains... Earl Weakens but Still Powerful as It Passes NC
ABCNews
The surf pounds the Oceana Pier as Hurricane Earl heads toward the eastern coast in Atlantic Beach, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) (AP) The last ferry left for the mainland an... Asian stocks edge up in cautious trade
Times of India
HONG KONG: Asian stocks edged higher on Friday as dealers followed a third straight rise on Wall Street, but gains were limited by unease ahead of much-anticipated US jobs data. Optimism over ... Oil lingers near $75 in Asia as stock markets gain
Times of India
BANGKOK: Oil prices lingered near $75 a barrel on Friday in Asia, largely holding onto a big gain the day before as investors put a positive spin on US economic reports and Asian stock markets rose... Oil lingers near $75 in Asia as stock markets gain
Gadsden Times
Oil prices lingered near $75 a barrel Friday in Asia, largely holding onto a big gain the day before as investors put a positive spin on U.S. economic reports and Asian stock markets rose. Jobs report may show rise in unemployment rate
Gadsden Times
Economists are bracing for a weak showing in the August employment report, which is scheduled to be released Friday. The private sector is forecast to add a net total of only 41,000 jobs, the fewest s...
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