Health Site Is Improving But Likely to Miss Saturday Deadline Wall Street Journal Wendy Bounds and Louise Radnofsky discuss the deadline for the HealthCare.gov website, and Charles Passy looks at gourmet food deals for the holiday season. Despite recent progress at HealthCare.gov, a raft of problems will remain beyond the Obama ... | |
Health Care Site Rushing to Make Fixes by Sunday New York Times As the Obama administration's weekend deadline for a smoothly functioning online marketplace for health insurance arrives, more than a month of frantic repair work is paying off with fewer crashes and error messages and speedier loading of pages, ... | |
S&P downgrades Netherlands' credit rating Financial Times The Netherlands has become the latest eurozone member to be stripped of its AAA credit rating by Standard & Poor's, citing weakening growth prospects as it cut the country's rating to AA+. Earlier this month France also suffered a downgrade by S&P, when it ... | |
Small Company Helps Twitter Make Money ABC News Twitter just issued its IPO but a lingering question is how the popular worldwide microblog company will turn a profit. One Colorado-based company thinks it has found one way to help Twitter, and itself, make money. Wayin has partnered up with the Denver ... | |
Black Friday frenzy leads to reports of violence USA TODAY Despite the fact that shoppers descended upon stores after giving thanks, Black Friday wasn't without its share of brawls. Here's a list of violent cases reported across the USA: 1. In Rialto, Calif., a police officer was injured trying to defuse tensions in the ... | |
Mexican drug cartels now make money exporting ore Businessweek MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican drug cartels looking to diversify their businesses long ago moved into oil theft, pirated goods, extortion and kidnapping, consuming an ever larger swath of the country's economy. This month, federal officials confirmed the cartels ... | |
EBay stands out in early Black Friday online shopping USA TODAY EBay performed strongly early on Black Friday as shoppers turned to the online marketplace to find hot items that sold out elsewhere, such as Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming consoles. E-commerce firm ChannelAdvisor reported that ... | |
Shoppers warm up to retail on Thanksgiving Day Detroit Free Press Stores opened earlier than ever Thursday evening for post-Thanksgiving sales, and the shoppers shopped. And shopped. And shopped. Lines at Toys R Us, which opened at 5 p.m., and Best Buy, which opened at 6 p.m., initially seemed shorter than they've ... | |
No Thanksgiving dinner: Shoppers hit Toys R Us and Best Buy Los Angeles Times In the early evening, in the thick of Thanksgiving dinnertime, another round of retailers opened their doors to deal-hunting shoppers. Toys R Us began welcoming customers at 5 p.m. At the store in Bell Gardens, Cathleen Leal, 35, had been waiting outside for ... | |
ArcelorMittal, Nippon Steel to buy Thyssen US plant for $1.55 bln Reuters FRANKFURT Nov 29 (Reuters) - Arcelormittal and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp agreed to buy ThyssenKrupp's steel plant in the United States for $1.55 billion, ArcelorMittal said late on Friday. The transaction will be financed through a combination of ... | |
Wal-Mart Uses Wristbands to Deter Holiday Shopper Melees Bloomberg With an estimated 140 million Americans predicted to shop this weekend, retailers are bolstering security, deploying Segway patrols and putting on live music to distract shoppers and avoid the deal-hunting scrums that can foster Black Friday tramplings. | |
Huge Bangladesh fire destroys key garments factory Reuters DHAKA (Reuters) - A huge fire on Friday destroyed a Bangladesh garment factory supplying key Western brands, authorities said, in a blaze touched off by workers angered over rumors of a colleague's death in police firing. Garments are a vital sector for the ... | |
Holiday shopping begins early The Seattle Times Shoppers quickly snapped up bargains on TVs and other electronics just after 6 p.m. Thursday at the Northgate Best Buy, one of the retailers that got a jump on Black Friday shopping by offering "door buster" deals on Thursday. Stores are getting creative to ... | |
Take a long drink of $4000 whiskey CNBC.com A new whiskey created in Kentucky features a blend of age and scarcity that spiked demand -- and its price. As a result, whiskey fans including celebrities and corporate chiefs are angling to snatch up limited stocks of Michter's Celebration Sour Mash Whiskey ... | |
Spain's Outlook Raised to Stable at S&P; Netherlands Cut Bloomberg Spain's debt outlook was raised to stable from negative by Standard & Poor's, which cited a resumption in economic growth, reducing chances the ratings company would cut the nation's score to junk. The ratings company also lowered the Netherlands to AA+ ... | |
Shoppers Cutting in Line Sparks Early Black Friday Brawl at Rialto Walmart: Police NBC Southern California At least three customers fought outside a Rialto, Calif., Walmart Thanksgiving night. The brawl that broke out ahead of Black Friday was apparently sparked after some customers were caught cutting in line. This video aired on the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on ... | |
Moody's Upgrades Greek Credit Rating TIME (ATHENS, Greece) — Ratings agency Moody's has upgraded Greece's credit rating, citing improved results in the crisis-hit country's economic adjustment program. The agency late Friday announced the two-notch upgrade from C to Caa3 — still well below ... | |
NLRB: Gift cards paid to 2012 Black Friday strikers were legal Los Angeles Times As organizers prepare for what they bill as the largest Black Friday protests to date, the National Labor Relations Board recently said that the practice of paying Wal-Mart strikers last year with $50 gift cards was legal. The decision came as thousands are ... | |
European Factors to Watch - Rally to pause before inflation data Reuters LONDON Nov 29 (Reuters) - European stocks were expected to open flat to lower on Friday as weak German retail sales dented sentiment and investors waited for confirmation that euro zone inflation is holding up before committing more money to a ... | |
Technology reveals what kind of shopper you are Businessweek WASHINGTON (AP) — Advances in technology have never made finding deals this holiday season so easy — or so creepy. Marketers and mobile app developers have developed creative new ways to help shoppers find what they want for less. But these ... | |
Black Friday-ish: Kmart kicks off Thanksgiving shopping at 6 am Los Angeles Times The streets were dark and empty at 5:30 a.m. in Burbank — except at Kmart, where a few dozen shoppers in hoodies, fleece and boots huddled against an exterior wall waiting to be let inside. With a 6 a.m. opening time, the retailer is kicking off a nationwide ... | |
Shoppers storm 8 pm store openings on Thanksgiving, 1000 in line at Target Los Angeles Times The Thanksgiving deals keep coming, with a big round of stores throwing open their doors at 8 p.m.. Hundreds of shoppers rushed into the Kohl's at Stonewood Center in Downey, quickly nabbing all of the available shopping carts as they took off in their ... | |
European Stocks Rise, UK Hit by BOE Decision Wall Street Journal With the U.S. stock market closed for the Thanksgiving holiday, most of the action in European stock markets came from the U.K. Thursday, while European markets closed the session on a moderately positive note. European equity markets added to ... | |
Surging Stocks Don't Pass the Sniff Test Wall Street Journal Bad breadth can indicate a weak foundation underpinning record index levels. For example, the last gasps of the technology bubble that peaked in March 2000 came from a handful of big companies. Enlarge Image. cat. The New York Stock Exchange on ... | |
Apple's iPhone, iPad used to place over 80% of mobile sales on Black Friday Apple Insider Apple's iOS products not only represented a large chunk of U.S. Black Friday sales, but where also used to place the vast majority of mobile purchases. A series of regular reports by IBM's Digital Analytics Benchmark group, tracking a "digital analytics platform ... | |
Euro-zone businesses more upbeat, consumers less MarketWatch LONDON--Confidence among euro-zone industrial firms edged higher for a seventh straight month in November but consumers aren't sharing their optimism, as figures Thursday from the European Commission confirmed the fall reported in the preliminary ... | |
Mall food court braces for Black Friday appetites Boston Globe Picture a throng of shoppers who have barely recovered from the gastronomic excess of Thanksgiving dinner as they tear through a mall hours later, searching for doorbuster sales in the middle of the night. You might think the mall food court would be the last ... | |
Rialto Walmart Thanksgiving brawl sends one police officer to hospital San Bernardino Sun RIALTO >> Police officers descended on Walmart in Rialto after a brawl between two men injured a police officer who tried to break up the fight Thursday night. The injured officer was transported to St. Bernardine Medical Center in San Bernardino with a ... | |
Shoppers look for big savings Huntington Herald Dispatch BARBOURSVILLE -- Shoppers across the region cut Thanksgiving short to get a jump on Black Friday shopping as retailers from Target to Macy's to Walmart opened their doors Thursday evening. Freezing cold temperatures didn't keep large crowds from ... | |
Black Thursday: Many chose to shop on Thanksgiving Reading Eagle Shoppers streamed out of the Wyomissing Wal-Mart Thursday night pushing carts piled high with flat screen TVs, mini fridges and children's toys. Stacey Osman of Womelsdorf, 28, wrapped up Thanksgiving festivities earlier than usual and journeyed to ... | |
Shoppers Take Advantage of Early Hours KLAS-TV LAS VEGAS -- This year, many retailers aren't waiting until Black Friday to open up shop. They are bucking tradition and getting customers in the door on Thanksgiving Day. More and more retailers are no longer waiting for Black Friday to roll out the deals, ... | |
Holiday Gift Card Warnings WBKO The National Retail Federation says gift card spending will hit a record high this year, with shoppers spending an average of $163 on them. BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) -- It's that time time to make the Christmas shopping list, but what's the one gift that ... | |
Stock futures rise as Street eyes abbreviated session Stevenspointjournal The sign for Wall St. is shown outside the New York Stock Exchange on July 15, 2013. / Mark Lennihan, AP. USA Today. by Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY. USA Today. by Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY. Filed Under. USA Today money · USA Today markets. | |
Seoul ranks 12th in CNN list of world's best shopping cities GlobalPost SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Yonhap) -- The city of Seoul has taken the 12th post among the world's best shopping cities selected by CNN, a global cable news channel in the United States, South Korea's state-run travel company said Friday. The city received a total of ... | |
Shoppers brave the cold for Thanksgiving Day bargains fox6now.com MILWAUKEE (WITI) — While many people gathered around the dinner table for a Thanksgiving meal Thursday afternoon, others got in line outside Toys R' Us on S. 27th St. — where shoppers were let in starting at 5 p.m.. Some bargain hunters began lining ... | |
ECB may charge banks to lodge cash by lowering rate below zero Irish Independent The European Central Bank is considering making banks pay to deposit cash with it overnight, news agency Bloomberg said this week, citing unnamed sources. Also in this section. Thomas Cook bounces back from slump · Penneys is a winner for ABF ... | |
No gold bars but higher salaries for London bankers with bonus cap Reuters AlertNet LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - In the 1990s, London-based investment banks rewarded top employees with gold bars, fine wine and oriental carpets to dent the impact of higher payroll taxes. Now, with public anger at banking excess near all time highs, they ... | |
J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (JCP): Buy J.C. Penney For Turnaround, Macy's For ... Seeking Alpha [Editor's note, Nov. 29, 2013: This article has been revised since original publication, as the author made a correction to Appaloosa's holdings in JCP.] The department store sector offers investment opportunities for everyone. There are companies that grow ... | |
Cayman signs 32nd TIEA agreement Royal Gazette Caribbean Journal is reporting that The Cayman Islands has signed a tax information exchange agreement with the Republic of Malta. It stated that the two sides completed the TIEA this week ahead of the Joint Ministerial Conference meeting of British ... | |
Goose Island Prepares For Its Own Black Friday Chicagoist Last year more than 400 people lined up in freezing weather to attend Goose Island's "Black Friday" event at Binny's Lincoln Park celebrating the annual release of Bourbon County Brand Stout and its myriad variants, proving once again that people, for the ... | |
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