CME discloses FBI probing July hacking attack Financial Times CME Group disclosed on Friday that a system used to process big futures trades had been hacked in July, highlighting the vulnerability of the financial industry to cyber attacks. The CME said in a statement that its clearing and trading services had not been ... | |
UPDATE 3-US justices to hear Halliburton securities class action Reuters By Lawrence Hurley and Jonathan Stempel. Nov 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court, which in recent years has ruled for business in a string of high-profile cases, agreed on Friday to hear a case that could herald a dramatic decline in securities class ... | |
Fundraising stagnant for memorial at site of Rhode Island nightclub fire that ... Washington Post PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The nonprofit group working to build a memorial at the site of a 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people is having trouble raising money for the project, even as work has already begun to build it. The Station Fire Memorial Foundation ... | |
Program Designed to Help Prepare for Droughts ABC News Federal agencies will provide better and more accessible information about matters such as long-term weather prospects and soil moisture levels under a program designed to help communities prepare for future droughts and respond more effectively when ... | |
Japan Sets Emissions Target in Setback to UN Treaty Talks (1) Businessweek Steam rises from Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.'s Kimitsu Works steel mill in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg. Japan set a new target for greenhouse gas emissions that critics say will set back United Nations ... | |
DJIA Reaches New Record Wall Street Journal The Dow industrials rose to a fresh record, capping their sixth-straight weekly gain, as bets that Federal Reserve stimulus will power stocks higher outweighed weaker-than-expected readings on manufacturing activity. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ... | |
McDonald's adding window to speed up drive-thru Boston.com DES PLAINES, IL - OCTOBER 24: A sign directs customers to the drive- Getty Images DES PLAINES, IL - OCTOBER 24: A sign directs customers to the drive-thru at a McDonald's restaurant on October 24, 2013 in Des Plaines, Illinois. McDonald's has ... | |
California asks insurers to extend policies San Francisco Chronicle California health insurers, regulators and consumers scrambled Thursday to figure out the next step for more than 1 million state residents who face cancellations of their current policies under the Affordable Care Act. Hours after President Obama encouraged ... | |
Wall Street Week Ahead: As Fed taper debate goes on, retail vies for attention Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - The guessing game about when the Federal Reserve will start to cut its stimulus will enter a new round next week as stock investors dissect minutes from the last central bank meeting, while retail sales and clues about the consumer ... | |
Nikkei soars 2 pct to 6-month peak, marks best week in 4 years Reuters TOKYO, Nov 15 (Reuters) - A slide in the yen spurred Tokyo's Nikkei share average 2 percent higher on Friday to above 15,000 for the first time in six months, helping the benchmark post its best weekly rise in four years. Gains in financial companies on strong ... | |
Russia's Aeroflot rules out buying, or aiding, Alitalia Reuters MOSCOW (Reuters) - Aeroflot (AFLT.MM), the state-controlled Russian airline, on Friday ruled out buying or aiding stricken Italian carrier Alitalia, which is seeking a cash injection to keep flying. "Aeroflot does not plan to buy Alitalia, nor will it participate in any ... | |
Average 401(k) Balance Sees Increase Planadviser.com Nov 14, 2013 --- Fidelity Investments says the average balance of its 401(k) plan accounts rose to a record high of $84,300 at the end of the third quarter. ---. That is an increase of 11.1% from last year, according to the 401(k) provider, and largely the result of ... | |
Steve Forbes Is Selling His Magazine The Atlantic Wire Forbes magazine, which has been owned and operated by its namesake family for 96 years, is reportedly up for sale. The company of two-time presidential also-ran Steve Forbes, is looking for about $400 million from potential suitors, according to a report ... | |
Ethanol policy reform legislators react to EPA decision on ethanol blend ... vtdigger.org WASHINGTON — Reps. Peter Welch (D-VT), Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Jim Costa (D-CA) and Steve Womack (R-AR), authors of the Renewable Fuel Standard Reform Act (H.R. 1462), reacted this afternoon to the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to ... | |
Sales at Wal-Mart, Macy's hint at two consumer realities Washington Post When assessing how Americans are feeling about their economic well-being, there are a couple of powerful indicators to consider: Macy's and Wal-Mart. Although lots of other companies represent pieces of the economic picture, those two retailers sell a ... | |
Dow, S&P 500 end at records after Yellen hearing; Cisco sinks Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow and the S&P 500 index ended at new highs on Thursday after comments from Janet Yellen, the U.S. Federal Reserve Chair nominee, suggested the Fed's accommodative policies would continue as long as the economy ... | |
Princess Anne: We should consider eating horse meat Telegraph.co.uk The Princess Royal has suggested people should consider eating horse meat to improve standards of animal welfare. Princess Anne, a former British eventing champion, claimed that horse owners may take more care of their animals when they were alive if ... | |
Police to resume search for fallen passenger MiamiHerald.com The pilot's call for help was calm, but his message was stunning: "Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! I have a door ajar and I'm heading toward Tamiami," he said Thursday as he flew over the Atlantic. Then, "I have a door ajar and a passenger that fell down.". | |
The Winners And Losers Of The US Airways, American Merger Forbes With the announcement of a settlement of the DOJ lawsuit against the US Airways – American merger, who are the winners and losers from the deal? Winner: The New American It's obvious, but the biggest winner here is clearly the merged airline, which got ... | |
Euro Zone's Rebound Feels Like Recession Wall Street Journal The euro-zone economy's recovery from its long slump lost its momentum in the third quarter, compounding fears that Europe could get mired in a "lost decade" of stagnation, joblessness and political discontent. | |
Asian Stocks Rise on U.S. Stimulus, China Policy Optimism Bloomberg Asian stocks headed for the first weekly gain in a month after Federal Reserve chairman nominee Janet Yellen said she would continue U.S. stimulus and amid speculation China will release detail of economic reform. Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average (NKY) ... | |
Union's Rejection Puts Future Home of Boeing 777X in Doubt New York Times Which state might get the thousands of coveted jobs producing Boeing's planned 777X airliner seemed up for grabs on Thursday after Boeing's machinists in Washington State overwhelmingly rejected a contract extension that the company said was pivotal to ... | |
Shares Rise as Yellen Reassures on Stimulus New York Times The stock market rose on Thursday, with the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index once again hitting nominal record highs, after Janet L. Yellen, the nominee to become chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, suggested the ... | |
FOREX-Euro down on weak data, pares losses as Fed's Yellen speaks Reuters ... Print. * Fed Chair nominee Janet Yellen leaves stimulus expectations intact. * Euro falls on weak euro zone Q3 GDP, French contraction. * Dollar hits two-month high above 100 yen. * Japan finmin says must retain FX intervention as policy tool. NEW YORK ... | |
zulily Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering Wall Street Journal SEATTLE, Nov. 14, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- zulily, inc. (Nasdaq:ZU) today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 11,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $22.00 per share. A total of 6,377,500 shares are ... | |
Mobile Shortens Holiday Shopping (Schedule And Spend) So You Have More ... Forbes Shopping for the holidays yet? Probably not. Our annual 2013 Holiday Survey found fewer than 19% of consumers polled started shopping last month. That's 5% fewer than last year. Oh, and a projected spend of $825, also down 5%. Why? Well, according to ... | |
JPMorgan Chase agrees to pay $4.5 billion on mortgage security claims Reuters India NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co(JPM.N) said on Friday it has agreed to pay $4.5 billion to settle claims by investors who lost money on mortgage-backed securities before the collapse of the U.S. housing market. The bank reached the ... | |
Reacting to California's Proposed Fracking Rules Santa Barbara Independent The state of California released proposed rules for governing hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a. "fracking," on Friday morning, setting off a slew of reactions from both environmentalists (who complain the draft regulations don't go far enough to protect the public) and ... | |
US Postal Service To Deliver Amazon Packages On Sunday WWNO The online retail giant Amazon.com has made a deal with the ailing United States Postal Service to provide Sunday deliveries to Amazon customers. Amazon, which typically works with competing delivery companies FedEx and UPS, has decided to make the ... | |
Volkswagen official meets political leaders, workers Chattanooga Times Free Press Bernd Osterloh, right, head of the Volkswagen workers council, stands next to CEO Martin Winterkorn at the Volkswagen workers' meeting in Wolfsburg, Germany. Photo by Associated Press /Chattanooga Times Free Press. Gov. Bill Haslam had a "frank and ... | |
Jos. A. Bank has no update on Men's Wearhouse offer with deadline imminent Baltimore Sun Hampstead-based Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. had issued no update as of late Thursday on whether Men's Wearhouse would reconsider Bank's $2.3 billion acquisition bid. After Men's Wearhouse rejected the $48 per share proposal as too low, the ... | |
Major Averages Close Moderately Higher, Dow And S&P 500 Reach New Highs RTT News After turning higher over the course of the previous session, stocks saw some further upside during trading on Thursday. With the upward move on the day, the Dow and the S&P 500 once again reached new record highs. Gold stocks showed a substantial ... | |
Little reason for optimism as euro faces dark future Herald Sun I RECENTLY visited Italy, Spain, Ireland and England. Despite optimism from the euro elite, I fear the high debt euro countries face a bleak future of high unemployment and falling real wages, with ongoing political and social tensions. In contrast, England is ... | |
After Market: Weak Earnings from Discounters = Good Holiday Deals for You DailyFinance Some big name retailers posted weak results Thursday, but that could lead to more bargains for consumers when holiday shopping season kicks into high gear. It was 41 years ago today, in November 1972, that the Dow Jones industrial average (^DJI) ... | |
Dollar rises on weak eurozone, Japan data Global Times The US dollar advanced against most major currencies on Thursday as economic data from both the euro zone and Japan were below expectations, but the dollar lost some gains after Federal Reserve chairman nominee Janet Yellen's testimony before ... | |
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