Oct 17, 2012

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Officials: Obama ready to veto a bill blocking 'fiscal cliff' without tax hike for rich
Washington Post
President Obama is prepared to veto legislation to block year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, collectively known as the "fiscal cliff," unless Republicans bow to his demand to raise tax rates for the wealthy, administration officials said. Freed from the political ...
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China Shows Pickup Signs After Seven-Quarter Slowdown: Economy
Bloomberg
China's industrial production, retail sales and fixed-asset investment accelerated in September, reducing the urgency for added stimulus to support the economy after a seven-quarter slowdown. Gross domestic product expanded 7.4 percent in the third ...
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Bloomberg
Citigroup's Corbat Gets Housing Rebound Pandit Missed: Mortgages
Bloomberg
Citigroup Inc. (C)'s newly appointed Chief Executive Officer Michael Corbat has one big advantage over his predecessor Vikram Pandit -- a housing rebound that's accelerating enough to help the lender deal with its most troubled investments. Corbat, 52, is ...
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Exxon's Biggest Canada Deal Signals Shale Rush: Corporate Canada
Bloomberg
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM)'s largest-ever Canadian acquisition is fueling speculation that domestic companies with assets in Alberta's shale-gas fields will become takeover targets. Shares of Artek Exploration Ltd. (RTK), Cequence Energy Ltd. (CQE) and ...
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Sprint Said to Be Seeking Greater Control of Clearwire
New York Times
Sprint Nextel is seeking greater control of Clearwire, the wireless network operator in which it owns close to a majority stake, through negotiations with its partners in the company, people briefed on the matter said on Wednesday. The talks with other Clearwire ...
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Asian shares rise after US data, China GDP
Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares struck a seven-month high on Thursday as a slew of Chinese data pointed to stabilization in the world's second largest economy, and positive U.S. housing data helped ease worries about a sharper slowdown in global growth ...
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Align Tech, eBay: After-Hours Trading
TheStreet.com
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Align Technology was under heavy selling pressure late Wednesday after the maker of the Invisalign teeth-straightening product missed earnings expectations and announced the discontinuation of an important distribution ...
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Halliburton's earnings throttle back
Houston Chronicle
Oil field services giant Halliburton is being hampered by higher costs in the United States, price volatility involving a key component used in hydraulic fracturing, and customers' reducing spending. That translated into lower third-quarter earnings and could be ...
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Verizon unloads $7.5 billion pension burden to Prudential
Reuters
(Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc will transfer $7.5 billion in pension obligations to insurer Prudential, removing a quarter of its long-term employee retirement burden with a single upfront payment. The move by the company, which operates No.
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Oil holds steady as dollar inches higher
MarketWatch
Oil holds steady as dollar inches higher. HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Benchmark U.S. crude-oil futures saw little change in electronic trading Thursday, matching steady action from Wednesday, with a slightly higher dollar helping to limit gains. Crude for ...
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Moore Capital's Coffey Bows Out as Markets Stymie Funds
Businessweek
Moore Capital Management LLC's Greg Coffey is calling it quits amid markets that have proved difficult for even the most nimble hedge-fund investors. The 41-year-old told investors yesterday in a letter that he's leaving the hedge-fund industry after a trading ...
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Which cities are the best bets for real estate next year?
Houston Chronicle
The recovery of the nation's real estate markets will pick up next year, albeit still slowly and uncertainly, according to a new report. San Francisco is predicted to lead the way, while focus will increase on secondary markets, such as Seattle. "Real estate ...
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Abbott lays off 550 in run-up to spinoff
Chicago Tribune
Abbott Laboratories on Wednesday laid off 550 workers across several business units and said it plans to cut "several hundred" additional workers in 2013. About 100 of the layoffs were in Chicago area mostly related to sales and marketing and operations ...
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Volatility hurts investors' retirement savings: Natixis
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Volatile markets make saving for retirement more daunting for investors who either through habit or fear of the unknown are not adapting to a changing investment landscape, a top executive of Natixis, a large asset management firm, ...
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Bank of America Posts a Profit, Though Slight
New York Times
For most banks, a 95 percent profit plunge has all the makings of a Wall Street disaster. But at Bank of America on Wednesday, it was a victory of sorts. The bank reported a slim $340 million quarterly profit even after doling out huge payments to settle legal ...
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New York Times
Reports: BP Nears Deal To Sell TNK-BP Stake To Rosneft For $25 Bln Cash, Stock
NASDAQ
Reports: BP Nears Deal To Sell TNK-BP Stake To Rosneft For $25 Bln Cash, Stock. (RTTNews.com) - British energy giant BP plc (BP, BP.L) is nearing a deal to sell its 50 percent shareholding in troubled Russian oil producer TNK-BP to Anglo-Russian state ...
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EU Brussels summit to focus on eurozone crisis
BBC News
EU leaders are due to begin a two-day summit in Brussels that will focus on issues surrounding the eurozone crisis. High on the agenda will be controversial plans for a eurozone banking union, seen as a key element in restoring confidence in the euro.
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BlackRock Will Expand Exchange-Traded Funds
New York Times
8:22 p.m. | Updated. BlackRock, the giant money management firm, is making a big push to expand its business in exchange-traded funds after benefiting from strong investor interest. The firm said on Wednesday that investments had increased in most of the ...
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New York Times
Stanley Black & Decker bets on emerging markets
Reuters
(Reuters) - Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK.N), known for its Black & Decker and Dewalt power tools and Stanley security products, is sharpening its focus on emerging markets as economic woes in Europe forced it to cut its full-year earnings outlook.
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Bank of England Is Divided on More Stimulus Measures to Counter Weak Growth
New York Times
LONDON — Policy makers at the Bank of England are divided over the future of their multibillion-pound program of bond purchases to stimulate the economy, according to minutes of their discussions released on Wednesday, suggesting that prospects for an ...
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Home Building Surges as Confidence Grows
Wall Street Journal
Residential construction picked up momentum in September and now is running at its highest level in four years, a turn that could have a positive effect on the jobs market and the broader U.S. economy. Builders started work on new houses and apartments at ...
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Uproar Over Mitchell Appointment In San Bruno Explosion Talks
CBS Local
SAN BRUNO (CBS / AP) — A group of city officials, consumer advocates and a state lawmaker on Wednesday attacked California regulators' decision to hire former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell to oversee private settlement talks over a deadly pipeline explosion ...
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St. Jude Medical sales, earnings down for third quarter [Star Tribune (Minneapolis)]
Equities.com
St. Jude Medical sales, earnings down for third quarter [Star Tribune (Minneapolis)]. By James Walsh, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. Oct. 17--St. Jude Medical on Wednesday reported third quarter net sales of $1.326 ...
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Why the Dow Soared Today
DailyFinance
The record will show that the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI) gained a paltry 5 points today, or 0.04%. However, because of the price-weighted structure of the index, it would have climbed nearly 1% had it not been for IBM's (NYS: IBM) 4.9% fall.
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Japan economy: Prime Minster Noda eyes stimulus boost
BBC News
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has ordered his cabinet to draw up fresh stimulus measures in a bid to spur economic growth. Japan's growth has been hurt by falling demand for its exports amid a slowdown in key markets such as the US, eurozone ...
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M&T Bank profits up 60 percent
The News Journal
With the costs of its takeover of Wilmington Trust behind it, M&T Bank was able to reduce its expenses and focus on its increasingly profitable mortgage lending business last quarter, boosting profits by 60 percent compared to last year. The Buffalo-based ...
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Kinder Morgan Energy Partners profit soars
Houston Chronicle
Oil and natural gas pipeline and storage titan Kinder Morgan Energy Partners reported Wednesday that its third-quarter profit soared 76 percent on a nearly 11 percent increase in revenue. The company said its net income totaled $379 million, or $1.26 per ...
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Google Android Event - Business Insider
By Steve Kovach
Google just sent out invites to the press for an Android-themed event in New York. The announcement will likely be for Google's new Nexus phone, which is rumored to be made by LG. It's also possible Google will team up with other hardware ...
Business Insider
Consumer Comeback - Business Insider
By Joe Weisenthal
This is really the big story of the moment: The full-on comeback in everything related to consumers and households. Let's just break it down really fast. 1. New housing starts are shooting straight up. image. 2. Retail sales growth: ...
Clusterstock
The Guardian To End Print Publication? - Business Insider
By Adam Taylor
If the reports are true, it may be the biggest international paper to do so?
Business Insider
Daily Kos: Romney urged business owners to tell employees how to ...
By rss@dailykos.com (Hunter)
There's nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure into their election decision, their voting decision. And of course doing that with your family and your kids ...
Daily Kos
Gallup: The Unemployment Rate Is Collapsing - Business Insider
By Joe Weisenthal
More evidence that the official 7.8% unemployment rate is not the wild outlier people initially thought. This just in from Gallup: --------. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, is 7.3% in ...
Money Game
Galaxy S III To Get Jelly Bean Update - Business Insider
By Steve Kovach
Samsung announced today that it will update its flagship Galaxy S III phone to Jelly Bean, the latest version of Android. There's no specific time frame for the update, with Samsung only committing to the update the phone in "the coming months ...
Business Insider
Mitt Romney Encouraged Business Owners To Advise Employees ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
In a June conference call hosted by the conservative-leaning National Federation of Independent Businesses, Mitt Romney encouraged business owners to let their employees know which candidate they support and how the election's ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Wanted: Shiny, happy APIs (with a business rationale) — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
API love is all fine and dandy. But successful application programming interfaces should have a real -- and measurable -- business value, according to API experts speaking at GigaOM Structure Europe on Wednesday.
GigaOM
The Business of Health Insurance and "Obamacare": What Can We ...
By Yves Smith
The health insurance business is–it cannot be overemphasized–a business. While its advertising may suggest otherwise, we would do well to remember that business differs from charity in ways that matter. Being private for-profit businesses, ...
naked capitalism
Foxconn Explains Trouble Making iPhone 5 - Business Insider
By Henry Blodget
A Foxconn executive has acknowledged that the company is having trouble making enough iPhone 5s--creating a supply problem that has contributed to Apple's falling stock price and led to analysts cutting their estimates for the company's ...
Business Insider
BII MOBILE INSIGHTS: OCT 17 - Business Insider
By Heather Leonard
Use is often closely tied to obtaining information about physical business locations, with the first or second most important task identified by consumers in all industry categories was getting directions to a store or obtaining store hours.
Business Insider
Presidential Candidates Spar Over Small Business (Again) : The ...
By Courtney Rubin
Small business took center stage again during Tuesday night's presidential debate.
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The world's oldest profession is giving a whole new meaning to love of the game.
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A Hearing Aid, Not a Megaphone: Social Media for Business | Input ...
This is a huge improvement over businesses that use social media simply to trumpet their latest products or features. But it still doesn't go nearly far enough.
bigthink.com/.../a-hearing-aid-not-a-megaphone-social-media-...
LGBT workplace policies a draw for MBA students - Business ...
On Thursday, more than 1000 MBA candidates, corporate executives, and recruiters will gather for the annual Reaching out LGBT MBA Conference, which aims ...
www.boston.com/business/news/2012/10/17/.../story.html
Smallest Stock Trading Firms Hardest Hit as ... - Bloomberg
"It's an impossibly tough business," Greg Wright, chief executive officer of ThinkEquity, said yesterday in a telephone interview. "There aren't enough commission ...
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