Vox Media Buying Curbed.com Network of Sites New York Times Vox Media, a company with three strong digital brands, including the technology site The Verge, is adding to its portfolio. The company plans to announce on Monday that it is buying Curbed.com L.L.C., which runs three web publications that deliver in-depth ... | |
Transocean reaches deal with Icahn to resolve proxy battle Reuters (Reuters) - Transocean Ltd (RIG.N) said it reached an agreement with Carl Icahn that would see the offshore driller paying out a dividend and reducing the number of board seats, in a move that resolves a months-long proxy battle. As per the agreement, ... | |
HealthCare.gov Enrollment Falls Far Short of Target Wall Street Journal Fewer than 50,000 people had successfully navigated the troubled federal health-care website and enrolled in private insurance plans as of last week, two people familiar with the matter said, citing internal government data. The figure is a fraction of the ... | |
Postal Service to Make Sunday Deliveries for Amazon New York Times WASHINGTON — The cash-short United States Postal Service, which has failed to win congressional approval to stop delivering mail on Saturdays to save money, has struck a deal with the online retailer Amazon.com to deliver the company's packages on ... | |
Internet sector downgraded by Morgan Stanley USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO -- Internet stocks have been hot this year, but the sector may be about to cool down, according to one of the leading investment banks covering the sector. "We see a more balanced risk-reward following strong performance," Morgan Stanley ... | |
US City Revenues Make Comeback With States' Help: Pew Fox Business Cities are getting big revenue boosts from U.S. states, leading some municipal budgets to recover from the 2007-09 recession, Pew Charitable Trusts found in an analysis of financial reports for the 30 most-populated cities released on Monday. A time lag in ... | |
Novartis to Sell Diagnostics Unit to Grifols for $1.7 Billion New York Times Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceuticals group, is selling its diagnostics business to Spanish health care company Grifols S.A. for $1.7 billion in an all-cash deal. The disposal comes shortly after Novartis's chief executive, Joseph Jimenez, said the company was ... | |
For many Fukushima evacuees, the truth is they won't be going home Reuters IWAKI, Japan (Reuters) - For many of Japan's oldest nuclear refugees, all they want is to be allowed back to the homes they were forced to abandon. Others are ready to move away, severing ties to the ghost towns that remain in the shadow of the wrecked ... | |
News Corp 1Q Revenue, Profit Misses Expectations ABC News News Corp.'s revenue unexpectedly fell in its first quarter since being spun off as a publishing-focused company, as revenue from its Australian newspapers plunged. The results Monday were short of analysts' forecasts and the company's shares fell more ... | |
New Cuban port, economic zone a potential lifeline, but US embargo rules still a ... Washington Post MARIEL, Cuba — Life still moves slowly in this small, dusty hamlet with squat homes lining narrow streets, where some walk slowly with parasols to ward off the pounding tropical sun. Best known as the launch point of a mass maritime exodus to the U.S. in ... | |
JetBlue's $55 fares a jab at AA-US Airways merger USA TODAY JetBlue is putting its money where its mouth is in making a statement about the proposed American-US Airways merger. The airline rolled out a fare sale today (Nov. 11) in which its fares from Washington's Reagan National Airport (DCA) have been slashed to ... | |
China's Online Shopping Spree Gets Bigger Wall Street Journal China's biggest online shopping day of the year, already the biggest in the world, looks set for another record. Last year on Nov. 11, China's online shoppers spent more in 24 hours than Americans spent online on Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. | |
NY Knish Factory Fire Leads to Nationwide Shortage ABC News There's plenty of kvetching over knishes in New York and beyond. A fire at a Long Island factory billed as the world's biggest maker of knishes has led to a nationwide shortage of the fried, square doughy pillows of pureed potatoes and other fillings. Gabila's ... | |
More oil and gas drillers turn to water recycling Seattle Post Intelligencer MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — When the rain stopped falling in Texas, the prairie grass yellowed, the soil cracked and oil drillers were confronted with a crisis. After years of easy access to cheap, plentiful water, the land they prized for its vast petroleum wealth was ... | |
BlackBerry's Woes Draw Canada's Contrarian Mogul Into Spotlight New York Times V. Prem Watsa, head of Fairfax Financial Holdings, is far from a public Aaron Harris/Reuters V. Prem Watsa, head of Fairfax Financial Holdings, is far from a public figure in Canada and gives interviews only sporadically. Throughout the first weekend of ... | |
Shire Buys Rare Disease Firm ViroPharma for $4.2B >SHP.LN Wall Street Journal LONDON--Shire PLC (SHP.LN) is buying rare disease company ViroPharma Inc. (VPHM) for $4.2 billion, or $50 a share, a deal that would enhance its short- and long-term revenue growth profile, the U.K. specialty biopharmaceutical company said Monday. | |
Big Banks May Block Traders From Chat Rooms Wall Street Journal Big banks are considering blocking employees from computer chat rooms that have become pervasive tools of the modern trading floor, but which face mounting scrutiny from regulators as potential venues for collusion and market manipulation. J.P. Morgan ... | |
Oil Futures Rise on Positive US, China Economic Data Wall Street Journal Oil futures were higher in Asian hours Monday as investors cheered positive economic data out of the world's two largest economies, the U.S. and China, while the lack of a resolution in nuclear talks with Iran also provided support. On the New York Mercantile ... | |
Gold Drops Near Three-Week Low as Jobs Data Spur Tapering Bets Bloomberg Gold fell for a third day toward a three-week low after data showed that U.S. employers added more jobs than expected, boosting speculation the Federal Reserve will begin scaling back stimulus. Bullion for immediate delivery dropped as much as 0.4 percent ... | |
Analysis: US retailers tread tight path in shortened holiday race Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. retailers have little room for error in the fast-approaching and shortened holiday shopping season, a period that typically generates 30 percent of annual sales. A late Thanksgiving - the unofficial kickoff for holiday sales - has ... | |
Stocks Regain Broad Appeal Wall Street Journal Five years after the financial crisis, individual investors are piling into stocks again amid signs that the U.S. economy is slowly gaining steam. Enlarge Image. cat. The buyers, many with investment portfolios that were scorched during the market meltdown, are ... | |
Talk of Penalty Is Missing in Ads for Health Care New York Times New York's health exchange slogan is "Today's the Day." Minnesota has enlisted Paul Bunyan. Oregon held a music contest, and California stresses the "peace of mind" that will come with insurance. | |
Twitter: 'How Tweet It Is: 1600+ New Millionaires' (And Other Quotes Of The Week) Forbes Twitter founders and management team pose in front of a banner with the logo of Twitter outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on November 7, 2013 in New York. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife). How Tweet it is. In comments ... | |
Nikkei ends 1.30 pct higher on weakening yen, strong US jobs data Xinhua TOKYO, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Nikkei ended 1.30 percent higher on Monday afternoon, bolstered by better-than-expected U.S. jobs data and the yen's depreciation versus the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average closed up 183.04 points from Friday at ... | |
Asia Currencies Slide With Stocks Outside Japan; Brent Oil Gains San Francisco Chronicle Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Emerging-market currencies weakened and Asian stocks outside Japan fell after a typhoon swept across the Philippines and the U.S. jobs data damped optimism for continued Federal Reserve stimulus. Silver retreated while Brent ... | |
All Eyes Are On The Bank Of England Report That Will Update The World On ... Seattle Post Intelligencer The Bank of England's latest inflation report is set to be released at 5:30 a.m. ET on November 13. Markets will be watching to see if the central bank upgrades its economic forecasts. This comes after the economy grew 0.8% in the third quarter and as the UK ... | |
Today's Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA Index, Nasdaq, S&P 500 stock ... Learning and Finance The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 touched new record highs throughout the course of the last full trading week and the DJIA finished the last full trading session at another record high. Investor's confidence was boosted by the better than ... | |
Chinese Yuan Declines To 1-week Low Against U.S. Dollar RTT News The yuan reached a weekly low of 6.1054 against the greenback from last week's closing quote of 6.0907. If the yuan declines further, it may target support around the 6.11 area. The People Bank of China set today's central parity rate for yuan at 6.1390 per ... | |
US Stocks: Dow, S&P 500 end higher for fifth straight week, financials lead Financial Express US stocks rose on Friday, rebounding from the previous session's selloff, after an unexpectedly strong payrolls report lent weight to views the world's largest economy is stronger than previously thought. With Friday's advance, The Dow and S&P 500 recorded ... | |
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