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March date set for Rio Tinto trial
Switzerland News.NetRio Tinto has been made aware of a trial date for four of its workers in China.
Financial institutions get another boost from Japanese government
Switzerland News.NetJapan's central bank has been encouraging financial institutions to lend more with a new stimulus package.
Boeing 777 software unsafe says FAA
Switzerland News.NetThe Federal Aviation Administration in the US has ordered Boeing to fix software in hundreds of 777 aircraft.
Irish airports seeing less travellers
Switzerland News.NetAir traffic in Ireland has slumped considerably over the past month.
Dow Jones closes higher for 7th day in row
Switzerland News.NetU.S. stocks ended the day higher Wednesday, with solid demand foir financial shares taking center-stage.
Climate change ads hauled from British screens
Switzerland News.NetTwo government advertisements in Britain have been banned because of overstatement.
US man in court for second time over alleged Ponzi scheme
Switzerland News.NetA Colorado man has been accused of running an investment-fraud scheme while still under investigation for an earlier securities-fraud case.
Airlines invite business travellers back with perks
Switzerland News.NetElite travellers are expected to start flying again soon, with airlines now gearing up for business travellers.
Microsoft Rival: Browser Downloads Double
Sign on San DiegoBRUSSELS Norway's Opera said Thursday that downloads of its browser more than doubled after Microsoft Corp. was forced to give European users a choice of Web software to settle European Union ...
Pelosi Says Gop, Insurance Companies Will Mount All-out Assault On Democrats' Health Overhaul
Star TribuneWASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is predicting an all-out assault by Republicans and the insurance industry as Democrats prepare to push their health care overhaul through Congress. The Calif...
House Dems: Health Care Bill Will Reduce Deficit By More Than $100b Over 10 Years
Star TribuneWASHINGTON - House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously deliver on President Barack Obama's promise to expand cov...
Hawk Associates Investor Relations Names Wall Street Professional Tom Fox As Senior Associate
Market WireKEY LARGO, FL and NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - March 18, 2010) - Hawk Associates Inc., a full service international investor relations and financial media relations firm, announced today the appointmen...
Microsoft To Launch Office 2010 For Indian Users In June
Hindustan TimesGlobal software giant Microsoft Corp will launch the latest version of its popular application suite MS Office 2010 for Indian users in June, a top official said on Thursday. "The Office 2010 will be...
University Cuts Are Already A Reality | Alex Callinicos
Guardian£500m worth of cuts in higher education. Everyone expects these to be only the beginning of a brutal squeeze in state spending on universities over the next few years.But the cuts are already a reali...
Timberland Boss Jeffrey Swartz Puts The Boot In – Over His Own Failures
GuardianJeffrey Swartz, chief executive of Timberland, admires the way Nike spins a brand image into an 'experience' Photograph: Tim Knox As a general rule, captains of industry shun exhibitions of self-dou...
Markets News Afternoon: Irish Services Producer Prices Down 4.1% In 2009; Eu Trade Deficit Up; Initial Weekly Jobless Benefit Claims Fall 5,000 In Us
Finfacts Business NewsSee Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it's a problem that developed when Interactiv...
Blacks Irked By Wal-mart Loudspeaker Incident
eTaiwan NewsVictoria Arter was stunned by the loudspeaker announcement."Attention, Wal-Mart shoppers," she recalled hearing the calm male voice begin. "Will all the black people please leave the store. Thank you....
Microsoft Rival: Browser Downloads Double
ExaminerNorway's Opera said Thursday that downloads of its browser more than doubled after Microsoft Corp. was forced to give European users a choice of Web software to settle European Union antitrust charges...
Non-us Stocks Should Be Over Half Of Portfolio: Advisor
CNBCWhile emerging market investing is a universally popular theme this year, one advisor is going full-bore and advising clients to put more than half their stock portfolios abroad.
Traders’ Cell Phones Would Be Recorded Under U.k. Fsa Proposals
Business WeekMarch 18 (Bloomberg) -- Traders’ cell-phone conversations should be taped in an effort to stamp out insider trading, according to proposals from the U.K. financial regulator.
El-erian Says Imf To Aid Greece After ‘chicken’ Game
Business WeekMarch 18 (Bloomberg) -- The International Monetary Fund will come to the rescue of debt-strapped Greece after a “game of chicken,” according to Mohamed El-Erian, co-chief investment office...
‘jihad Jane’ Pleads Not Guilty To Terror Plot Charges
Business WeekMarch 18 (Bloomberg) -- A Pennsylvania woman who used the alias “Jihad Jane” pleaded not guilty to charges she plotted to recruit jihadist fighters and conspired to murder a Swedish reside...
U.s. Economy: Consumer Prices Stagnate, Leading Index Climbs
Business WeekMarch 18 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy will keep expanding without a pickup in inflation that would require the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, reports today indicated.
Hewlett-packard Wins Ink Cartridge Patent Resolutions
Business Journalsaid Thursday that patent complaints it filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission against 11 ink cartridge suppliers have been resolved. Companies named in the complaint were
Microsoft Cuts And Pastes An Egg
Beta Newsblogger Long Zheng reports he was told by Microsoft that cut and paste is something the company hopes will find a place in Windows Phone 7 Series at some future point.Now, the initial excuse the compa...
Microsoft Rival: Browser Downloads Double
SifyNorway's Opera said Thursday that downloads of its browser more than doubled after Microsoft Corp. was forced to give European users a choice of Web software to settle European Union antitrust charges...
Microsoft Rival: Browser Downloads Double
Seattle Post-IntelligencerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS -- Norway's Opera said Thursday that downloads of its browser more than doubled after Microsoft Corp. was forced to give European users a choice of Web software to set...
Microsoft Slashes Virtual Desktop Licence Cost
TechworldMicrosoft is lowering the price of licensing the Windows operating system in a virtual desktop deployment, and announcing new bundles with partner Citrix. Microsoft customers have complained that its...
Barnes & Noble Elevates Online Chief To Ceo
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Racist Pa Remark Stuns Wal-mart Store
CNN"I can't go back in," said Patricia Covington, who was also in the store and spoke to Philly.com. "I went to Target instead. I can't bring myself to go back in there."
Barclaycard Confirms Job Losses
BBCBarclaycard has confirmed that it is to close an office in Scotland with the loss of about 350 jobs.The company revealed plans to relocate its loan centre Barclays Partner Finance in Glasgow to other ...
Mbna To Stop Credit Card Cheques
BBCThe biggest issuer of credit card cheques in the UK - MBNA - is to stop issuing them to customers from 31 March.The decision comes ahead of a ban on unsolicited credit card cheques that will become la...
Cartel Client Review Closed Down
BBCOne of the biggest claims management companies, Cartel Client Review, has been shut down by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).The MoJ has been investigating Cartel since February after complaints from cus...
Fraud Squad Questions Former Irish Banker
Sky NewsSean FitzPatrick - former chairman and chief executive of the now nationalised Anglo Irish Bank - was arrested in a dawn raid at his house in Greystones, Co Wicklow. Officers searched his house and c...
Microsoft Rival: Browser Downloads Double
Associated PressBRUSSELS (AP) -- Norway's Opera said Thursday that downloads of its browser more than doubled after Microsoft Corp. was forced to give European users a choice of Web software to settle European Union ...
Microsoft Rival: Browser Downloads Double
Tampa Bay OnlineBRUSSELS (AP) -- Norway's Opera said Thursday that downloads of its browser more than doubled after Microsoft Corp. was forced to give European users a choice of Web software to settle European Union ...
Apple Board Member Jerome York Dies At 71
Fox BusinessSAN FRANCISCO -- Apple Inc. board member Jerome York has died, the company said Thursday. York, 71, was hospitalized Wednesday after reportedly suffering from a brain aneurism. He joined Apple's boar...
National Bank Of Greece Profit Slumps 40%
Fox BusinessLONDON -- National Bank of Greece said its annual profit slumped 40% to 923 million euros, hurting by 1.06 billion euros of provisions and 238 million euros of write-offs in its bond and equities por...
Money-market Fund Assets Hit New Lows
Fox BusinessNEW YORK -- Total assets in money-market funds have fallen below $3 trillion for the first time since late 2007, as higher federal funds rates coaxed investors back into the broader market.Assets fel...
Epa Launching Water Study Of Hyrdaulic Fracturing
Fox BusinessNEW YORK -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it'll conduct a study to investigate any potential adverse impact that hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas may have on water...
Air Products Raises Quarterly Dividend For 28th Straight Year
Fox BusinessAPD ) raised its quarterly dividend for the 28th straight year, saying the latest increase will be 8.9%. The industrial gas maker's increase to 49 cents a share will add $35 million a year to the co...
Update: Price Guidance Out On Cnh Global's $822.5 Million Bond
Fox Business(Adds issuance details in the last two paragraphs.) NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Price guidance is out on farm and construction machinery manufacturer CNH Global NV's (CNH, NHL.BE) $822.5 million deal, acc...
Alternative Core Cpi Measures Unchanged In Feb.
Fox BusinessWASHINGTON -- Core inflation was flat in February, according to two alternative methods of figuring underlying inflation that don't automatically exclude food and energy costs, the Cleveland Federal ...
Dollar Extends Gains Versus Euro
Fox BusinessNEW YORK -- The dollar extended gains against the euro in late morning trading on Thursday after a spokeswoman for the International Monetray Fund said Greece hasn't approached the IMF for financing,...
Correct:2nd Update: Aegis Appoints Jerry Buhlmann Ceo
Fox Business("=2nd UPDATE: Aegis Appoints Jerry Buhlman CEO; Sees Modest Growth" published at 1238 GMT incorrectly spelled the last name of the new CEO in the headline and throughout the story. The error was als...
Imf Spokeswoman: Portugal Budget Plan Seems Appropriate
Fox BusinessOf DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Portugal's budget plan seems appropriate, with realistic macroeconomic assumptions and goals, a spokeswoman at the International Monetary Fund said Thu...
Obama Signs $17.6 Billion Jobs Bill
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Toyota, Lexus Slip In Key Dependability Study
ReutersDETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota and its luxury Lexus brand slipped for the second consecutive year in an influential vehicle dependability study released on Thursday.
Loonie Ripe For A Correction: Rosenberg
Financial PostThe Canadian dollar is overvalued by at least six cents, according to David Rosenberg, chief economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff + Associates. With net speculative long positions for the loonie ...
Canadians Need To Save More, Dodge Warns
Financial PostCanadians hoping to "replace" 70% of their working income when retiring at 65 will need to save a "very high" portion of their annual pre-retirement earnings, says a C.D. Howe Inst...