Some furloughed federal workers may double dip USA TODAY Some fortunate federal employees will likely get paid twice for not working this month. Several states are expected to allow federal workers who collected unemployment insurance during the government shutdown to keep both those benefits and the back pay ... | |
Police in Kentucky believe theft of rare bourbon is an inside job Reuters By Tim Ghianni. Sat Oct 19, 2013 10:23pm EDT. (Reuters) - The theft of dozens of cases of rare, high-quality bourbon worth more than $25,000 from a local distillery appears to be an inside job, a Kentucky sheriff investigating the case, said on Saturday. | |
3-D printer Voxeljet's shares double in debut USA TODAY Shares of Voxeljet AG more than doubled Friday after the 3-D printing company raised $84.5 million in its initial public offering. Voxeljet's 3-D printers can make anything from vehicle parts to chairs to artwork. Its technology was used to make three Aston ... | |
Madoff Brothers, Kohn Cleared in Lawsuit Over Losses in Europe Businessweek Former Bank Medici AG chairwoman Sonja Kohn and directors of Bernard Madoff's European operations, including his sons Mark and Andrew, don't owe anything to liquidators seeking to recoup losses to repay the conman's victims, a judge ruled. | |
Wall St Week Ahead-Market priced for perfection as earnings, data flow Reuters NEW YORK | Sat Oct 19, 2013 3:32am IST. NEW YORK Oct 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. data clog will begin to clear next week and payrolls figures will land just as more than one-quarter of S&P 500 companies report earnings. But equities, at record highs, have ... | |
ECB President Mario Draghi asked EU to keep state aid rules for banks flexible Economic Times "Banks that are still viable but need state aid to boost their capital base should be allowed to receive help without inflicting losses." (Reuters). ET SPECIAL: Save precious time tracking your investments. MILAN: Banks that are still viable but need state aid to ... | |
Ball Street: are pro athletes like Arian Foster really... The Verge Fantex Inc., a startup based in San Francisco, is now selling stock in the star NFL running back Arian Foster. Sort of. The company has created a subsidiary, Fantax Holdings, that will track "brand value" — a complex metric that includes performance, ... | |
Train Carrying Oil, Gas Derails West of Edmonton ABC News Firefighters battling a major blaze after a Canadian National tanker train derailed west of Edmonton, Alberta, on Saturday have decided to withdraw and wait for the flames to burn themselves out. No injuries to people or livestock have been reported. | |
Shutdown cost billions in wages, shopping and more USA TODAY The 16-day government shutdown cost the economy jobs, delayed mortgages and lost retail sales — at least $12 billion worth, and maybe as much as $24 billion. As federal workers returned to work Thursday, statisticians and business people began toting ... | |
Sandy-Damaged Prison to Be Sold in NYC Hotspot ABC News On a recent morning on the west side of Manhattan, Wendy Featherstone showed off a prime piece of real estate that many New Yorkers don't know exists. The eight-story brick building in Chelsea's gallery district has three terraces, one with views of the ... | |
Facebook opens doors to Google ad service Hindu Business Line Google-owned online ad-placing service DoubleClick announced that the way has been cleared to include space at Facebook. Google had previously been shut out of the social network's advertising network, with no reasons given for the exclusion or the ... | |
New twist on GMO debate: Are they 'natural'? Washington Post (blog) In the opening scenes of a dystopian YouTube video gone viral, a scarecrow takes a job in the big city at a processed foods factory. All around him are signs that boast "All Natural" and "Farm Fresh," but as he goes about his work he glimpses the machinery, ... | |
The Nobel Prize Is No Crystal Ball Wall Street Journal For investors, the main lesson from this week's announcement of the Nobel Prize in economics should be humility about anyone's market-forecasting ability—especially your own. This past Monday, the economics prize went to three researchers whose work ... | |
Dallas Fed's Fisher: Fiscal Shenanigans Swamp Taper Bloomberg Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg international correspondent Hands Nichols reports that Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher has become the latest FOMC member to state that U.S. economic data does not support tapering of bond buying. He speaks on ... | |
Decades on, OPEC embargo molds challenging energy debates Environment & Energy Publishing Forty years after the 1973 oil embargo crippled the U.S. economy, today's domestic oil production and abundance of natural gas from shale deposits are nudging the legacy of energy shortage further into the recesses of memory. But even as the surge of U.S. ... | |
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