May 23, 2013

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Asian stocks shaky, Nikkei still seen vulnerable
Reuters
By Ian Chua. SYDNEY | Fri May 24, 2013 12:24am EDT. SYDNEY (Reuters) - Japanese stocks turned negative on Friday and the yen reversed early losses, keeping intact worries that the Nikkei's largest one-day drop in two years may be the start of a bigger ...
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The Question Obama's EPA Pick Gina McCarthy Can't Answer
Businessweek
Gina McCarthy has fielded 1,100 questions from Senate Republicans in Congress since President Obama picked her in March to head the Environmental Protection Agency—more than any EPA nominee before her. Among them: How many people in the ...
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Exports Lift Wheat Prices
Wall Street Journal
CHICAGO — Wheat prices jumped 2.1%, lifted by higher-than-expected U.S. export sales and concerns that dry weather is hurting a portion of the nation's crop. U.S. grain exporters booked orders for 952,600 metric tons of wheat during the week that ended ...
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Former Google, Facebook Executive Joins Khosla Ventures
Wall Street Journal
Benjamin Ling, a well-known Silicon Valley Web executive and "angel" investor in young startups, is now a member of the investment staff at venture-capital firm Khosla Ventures. The 36-year-old Ling, who for years worked at Google on its commerce and ...
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Gap Earnings: Turnaround Picks Up Speed
Wall Street Journal
Gap Inc. notched a 43% rise in quarterly earnings as the apparel retailer kept up the momentum of its turnaround. Enlarge Image. image. Close. image. Bloomberg News. In recent quarters, Gap has closed stores and improved its product line. After struggling ...
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J&J Sees 10 Products Submitted for Approval by 2017
Bloomberg
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), the world's biggest maker of health-care products, anticipates submitting more than 10 new medicines for approval by regulators worldwide by 2017, including a modified version of a decades-old anesthetic that has been misused ...
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Ralph Lauren's 4Q profit rises 35 pct
Wall Street Journal
NEW YORK — Ralph Lauren Corp. is reporting a 35 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit, but economic challenges here and abroad and certain strategic initiatives cut into sales. The New York-based company is reporting net income of $127.2 million, ...
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New Rules for Labeling Meat Go Into Effect in US
ABC News
Shoppers in the U.S. will soon have more information about where their meat comes from after new federal labeling rules went into effect Thursday. The rules require labels on steaks, ribs and other cuts of meat to say where the animal was born, raised and ...
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Bond-Market Stability 'Extremely Desirable,' Says BOJ Chief
Wall Street Journal
TOKYO—Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said a stable Japanese debt market is "extremely desirable" and tha the central bank will work to head off volatility in bond yields. "As far as the markets for long-term government securities are concerned, ...
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Silicon Valley Food Boomlet Gets Its First Big Acquisition
Forbes
The new food industry growing up in Silicon Valley achieved another major milestone today when Campbell Soup Campbell Soup announced it will acquire Plum Organics Plum Organics for an undisclosed amount. Founded by an industrial designer from ...
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Target, Macy's among retailers suing Visa, MasterCard over swipe fees
Chicago Tribune
Macy's Inc., Target Corp. and 15 other U.S. retailers sued Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. on Thursday over fees to process credit card transactions. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, came before a May 28 deadline for the millions of ...
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'Ronald Is Not a Bad Guy,' McDonald's CEO Says
Wall Street Journal
McDonald's Corp. Chief Executive Don Thompson, presiding over his first annual shareholders meeting since taking the helm of the fast-food chain last summer, defended the company's efforts to market to children. Several speakers associated with ...
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Housing and Jobs Data Suggest Steady Growth
New York Times
WASHINGTON — Economic data released on Thursday indicated solid job growth and provided further signs that housing is recovering. The New York Times. The New York Times. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 23,000 last ...
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Embattled P&G Chief Replaced By Old Boss
Wall Street Journal
Robert McDonald's four-year struggle to adapt Procter & Gamble Co. to a new world of more frugal consumers and tougher global competition has come to an abrupt end. Late Thursday, P&G replaced Mr. McDonald with his retired predecessor, A.G. Lafley, ...
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California Outlines Health Premiums
Wall Street Journal
California's new health-insurance exchange, the largest state-operated marketplace emerging under the federal health-care overhaul, will offer consumers premiums that vary widely but often avoid the steepest increases experts had predicted.
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A Final Peek at Bloomberg's Tax Returns
New York Times
It is so hard to keep track. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg bought a 12th residence last year, but his staff overlooked it when first explaining his finances to reporters. Connect with NYTMetro · Metro Twitter Logo. Follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook for ...
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SF Chronicle names new management team
San Francisco Chronicle
Hearst Corp. on Thursday named a new management team to lead The San Francisco Chronicle, picking a newspaper industry veteran to serve as publisher and a seasoned digital media executive as the paper's president. The new publisher, Jeffrey ...
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Navy conducts first test flight of Northrop's Triton drone
Los Angeles Times
Aerospace giant Northrop Grumman Corp., plagued by setbacks with its pricey high-flying spy drones, has come up with a new version for the Navy that could keep the company's unmanned aircraft assembly line in Palmdale humming. An initial test flight — a ...
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Dish Moves Closer to Sprint Deal Financing
Wall Street Journal
Dish Network Corp. took one step closer to arranging $9 billion in committed financing for its $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp., according to people familiar with the matter. Dish received signed commitment letters from five banks, including Barclays ...
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Drama is no-show at Amazon meeting
The Seattle Times
Amazon Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos presided over a brisk meeting at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. By Amy Martinez. Seattle Times business reporter. PREV of NEXT. AmazonCEOJeff Bezos ...
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Solar plane completes 2nd leg of trip in Texas
Fox News
DALLAS – A solar-powered plane has landed in Texas, completing the second leg of a trip across the United States. The Solar Impulse is making the first attempt by a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel to fly across the U.S.. The plane ...
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Corporate Directors Get Older, Hold Their Seats Longer
Businessweek
Michael Jeffries's penchant for having the male crew on Abercrombie & Fitch's (ANF) corporate jet wear the retailer's boxer briefs, flip-flops, and cologne certainly hasn't hurt the chief executive officer's standing with his board. Directors awarded Jeffries total ...
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Cost Controls Help Lenovo Profit
Wall Street Journal
BEIJING—Chinese personal-computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. said profit in its latest quarter rose 90% from a year earlier because of cost controls, stronger pricing and robust shipments. Lenovo's solid results stand out in the global PC industry, which is ...
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Will Kmart's Big Gas Ad Go Big Or Backfire?
Forbes
First there was "Ship My Pants" — Kmart's catchy ad campaign for its new shipping program — and now we've got " Big Gas Savings" to promote its Shop Your Way rewards program. But will tongue twisting ads translate to into big-ass sales for the retailer or ...
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Treasury Set for Fourth Weekly Loss Before Durable Goods Orders
Bloomberg
Treasuries headed for a fourth week of losses before data forecast to show durable goods orders and consumer confidence rose, backing the case for the Federal Reserve to slow stimulus. The 10-year Treasury yield touched the highest since March and ...
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Salesforce Forecast Misses Estimates on Marketing Tools
Bloomberg
Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) (CRM), the largest maker of online customer-management tools, forecast profit for the fiscal second quarter that missed some analysts' estimates as companies curtail spending on new business software. Profit excluding some items ...
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Twitter Amplify Video Ads - Business Insider
By Jim Edwards
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and his team are launching a new video content promotion tool called Twitter Amplify. The launch partners include A&E, Bloomberg TV, Clear Channel, Discovery, MLB, New York magazine, NCM, PGA Tour, The ...
Business Insider
Obama's booming drone business - Philip Ewing - POLITICO.com
By Philip Ewing
President Barack Obama said Thursday that he wants to scale back the killing of terrorists with unmanned systems, but that doesn't mean the end of drones. In the defense world, the drone business is booming. The reality is that for the ...
POLITICO - Politics
How We Train Employees to Analyze the Business - NYTimes.com
By By BRYAN BURKHART
This is one of our core values at H.Bloom. It stems from another one of our values, which is to care deeply about our colleagues, and from the shared ambition to become as good as we can possibly be in this business. The only way to achieve ...
You're the Boss
Kmart's 'Ship My Pants' Ad Sequel - Business Insider
By Laura Stampler
Last month the chain launched an ad campaign in which character after character rejoices that with Kmart's free delivery program one can "ship my pants" conveniently. Kids, parents, and geriatrics of all racial backgrounds repeat the catch ...
Business Insider
U.K.'s Cameron to China, India: We're open for business - Fortune ...
By Fortune Editors
Prime Minister David Cameron says openness to foreign investment is competitive advantage for Britain (and Ratan Tata is always welcome at Downing Street). FORTUNE -- U.K..
FORTUNE Features
Score helps counsel small-business owners | Wichita Eagle
By John Madden
The Wichita Score Chapter (Counselors to America's Small Business) has accomplished in 2012 what it would like to refer to as an outstanding year in supporting its mission, which is to help small businesses grow and prosper through the ...
Wichita Eagle: Business
Verizon, J.Lo Launch Latino Mobile Brand - Business Insider
By Judith Grey
"I saw great opportunities in this space for Viva Movil," she said. "As an entrepreneur, empowering the Latino community is at the core of what I choose to have my businesses stand for and exemplify." To that end, every facet of Viva Movil's ...
Advertising
Tinder Matchmaker New Feature - Business Insider
By Kevin Smith
Matchmaker allows users to create a match between any two of their Facebook friends for any reason. Once the couple has been matched the two friends can then chat in Tinder without sharing contact information, unless they choose to do so.
SAI
This Tim Tebow Screenshot From A 2009 ... - Business Insider
By Tony Manfred
A group of former college athletes is currently bringing an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA. The group is led by former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon. In the lawsuit, O'Bannon alleges that the NCAA and its licensed partners used ...
Sports Page
Ford to shut down Australian production by 2016 — RT Business
By RT
The Ford Motor Company has decided to wind down production in Australia after 85 years.
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Worst Airlines To Fly Economy - Business Insider
Although the no-frills carrier has non-reclining seats and lacks seat-back pockets, it carries a surprising number of business travelers, and it may have figured out ...
www.businessinsider.com/worst-airlines-to-fly-economy-2013...
Reinsdorf to be honored at Sports Business Awards - MLB.com ...
White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, who has run the club since 1981 and the NBA's Chicago ...
mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130521...
Students to Business - Microsoft
S2B The Microsoft Students to Business program connects tech savvy students like you with internships and job opportunities. S2B. Showcase your talent.
www.microsoft.com/en-us/studentstobusiness/
Bill Greehey School of Business | St. Mary's University - San Antonio
The Bill Greehey School of Business is specifically designed to develop tenacious professional and ethical leaders who are prepared to meet the demands of ...
https://www.stmarytx.edu/academics/business/
Nokia Says HTC Infringed Three of Its Patents, Seeks ... - Fox Business
Nokia Corp. (NOK) filed a lawsuit against HTC Corp. (2498.TW) in a U.S. court Thursday, alleging the Taiwanese smartphone to have infringed three of its ...
www.foxbusiness.com/.../nokia-says-htc-infringed-three-its-pa...
New York vs. Boston: Survival Mode Is Business as Usual for 2013 ...
The New York Rangers must like living on the edge. Outplayed badly through the eight minutes of the second period, the Rangers were trailing the Boston ...
bleacherreport.com/.../1650240-new-york-vs-boston-survival-...
Atlanta Business Chronicle - Atlanta, GA - Newspaper | Facebook
Atlanta Business Chronicle, Atlanta, GA. 5080 likes · 435 talking about this · 84 were here.
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Procter & Gamble brings back A.G. Lafley as CEO - Business ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Household products giant Procter & Gamble Co. is hoping its former CEO can work his magic once again.
www.boston.com/business/news/2013/05/23/.../story.html
NEW YORK: Procter & Gamble brings back A.G. Lafley as ... - Miami
Business Breaking News ... AP Business Writer ... His first order of business, he said, will be to stay on the strategic course that the company has been ...
www.miamiherald.com/.../procter-gamble-brings-back-ag.htm...


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