Title Insurance Calculation Dropped From U.S. Mortgage-Form Rule Bloomberg A U.S. rule that would have wrapped title insurance into the total costs listed on a simplified mortgage-disclosure form was dropped by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after industry complaints. The rule first proposed by the consumer bureau in July ... | |
Debt Limit Rise May Not Be Needed Until June, CBO Says Bloomberg The U.S. may be able to delay a debt-limit increase until as late as June 2014, the Congressional Budget Office said today. Under an agreement reached last month, Congress suspended the debt limit through Feb. 7, 2014. After that, the Treasury Department ... | |
Fed minutes point to tapering 'in coming months' USA TODAY Despite the recent slowdown in the housing recovery, Federal Reserve policymakers last month said they still expected to dial down their easy-money policy within a few months, according to meeting minutes released Wednesday. Fed officials also debated ... | |
China manufacturing activity cools in November CNBC.com China's manufacturing activity expanded in November but at a slower pace than October, a survey from HSBC showed on Thursday. The HSBC flash Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 50.4 from a seven-month high of 50.9 in October, staying above the ... | |
UPDATE 2-US SEC staffer charged with lying about his stock holdings Reuters By Sarah N. Lynch. WASHINGTON Nov 19 (Reuters) - A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission examiner was charged on Tuesday with making false statements about his stock holdings that were prohibited under SEC ethics rules, U.S. prosecutors said. | |
Shareholders pushing back against government spying Washington Post COMMUNICATIONS. Shareholders push back against spying. Shareholders of AT&T and Verizon Communications are seeking more details related to the telecom giants' sharing of customer information with governments, showing that investors are starting to ... | |
Fewer people traveling for Thanksgiving CNN (CNN) -- Fewer people are expected to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday this year. Some 43.4 million Americans are predicted to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday next week, a 1.5% decrease from the 44 million people who traveled last year, according to ... | |
Job prospects for recent grads improving, survey finds USA TODAY DETROIT -- Recent college graduates are seeing better job prospects as they enter the labor market, although it's less encouraging for those who hold MBAs and other advanced degrees, according to an annual national survey of employers conducted by ... | |
Tribune to cut 700 jobs as part of restructuring USA TODAY Tribune Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and seven other daily newspapers, said Wednesday it's cutting 700 jobs, or 6% of its workforce, and reorganizing operational functions to save money. The non-editorial departments at its ... | |
Solid Retail Sales Ease Holiday Fog Wall Street Journal Americans spent a bit more freely in October, offering hope that the holiday shopping season won't be as gloomy as many retailers fear. The government's main gauge of retail sales, encompassing spending on everything from cars to drinks at bars, rose a ... | |
Pinterest tackles mapping with new Place Pins product PCWorld Pinterest is tweaking its service on the Web and mobile to make it easier for users to plan trips and locate their content with a new mapping product. On Wednesday the site announced "Place Pins," a tool that will allow users to see the location of businesses ... | |
New Google Debit Card Draws Funds from Your Virtual Wallet TIME Like TIME on Facebook for more breaking news and current events from around the globe! Email · Print; Share. Facebook · Twitter · Tumblr · LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Reddit · Digg · Mixx · Delicious · Google+. Comment. Follow @TIMEBusiness. Google will ... | |
Murdoch Divorce Said to Be Almost Final New York Times Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng Murdoch are negotiating the final details of their divorce settlement, a deal that will officially end the 14-year marriage of the media mogul and his third wife, according to people with direct knowledge of the negotiations. | |
Verrückt, the world's tallest and fastest water slide, is taking shape at Schlitterbahn Kansas City Star It could take a while to climb the 264 steps to the top of the new water slide at Schlitterbahn. Schlitterbahn Here's a view from the top of the Verrückt water slide. You'll have to climb 264 stairs to see this in real life. Schlitterbahn The 17-story drop from the tower. | |
Rieder: Charging for digital news a good thing USA TODAY Well, that was quick. It's not much more than 2½ years since The New York Times took the then-radical step of charging for digital content. Many newspapers followed its lead. Today, 41% of the nation's dailies are doing so or are about to, according to media ... | |
A Municipal Bankruptcy May Create a Template New York Times A sewage treatment plant in Jefferson County, Ala., which is trying to exit Marvin Gentry/Reuters A sewage treatment plant in Jefferson County, Ala., which is trying to exit bankruptcy. Jefferson County, Ala., which just became the first municipality to tap the ... | |
Four Things We Learn From Wal-Mart's Bangladesh Factory Audit Businessweek After the Rana Plaza fire in Bangladesh killed more than 1,100 garment workers in April, all of the big European apparel retailers (and some American ones, too) signed on to a binding agreement to work with labor organizations and other groups to improve ... | |
GSK To Sell 28.2 Mln Shares In Aspen Pharmacare - Quick Facts RTT News GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK: Quote,GSK.L), Wednesday said it agreed to the sale of 28.2 million ordinary shares in Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd., at a price of ZAR 250 per share, that is expected to raise gross proceeds of ZAR 7,059 million. Post the sale ... | |
Reforms to shift Japan's huge pension fund towards riskier investments Reuters TOKYO Nov 20 (Reuters) - The world's biggest pension fund is preparing its most ambitious overhaul since its creation more than a decade ago, a process that will eventually see more of Japan's $2 trillion in public funds invested in stocks and other riskier ... | |
Disinflation No Risk as Swap Gap Widens to Record: UK Credit Businessweek The widest gap between U.K. and euro-region price expectations in almost 10 years suggests investors are betting Britain will avoid the inflation slump that led the European Central Bank to cut interest rates. The five-year inflation swap rate, a market gauge of ... | |
US Stock Futures Point to Cautious Start on Wall Street -- Update Wall Street Journal Stock futures indicated a cautious start for Wall Street on Tuesday, as investors wait to see whether markets will make another run at key milestones, after a failure to lock those in the previous day. There are no data reports on the calendar, but a couple of ... | |
UPDATE 1-Crucial Obamacare financial technology still unfinished -US official Reuters (Recasts with details from hearing, adds background and quotes). By David Morgan. WASHINGTON Nov 19 (Reuters) - Up to 40 percent of the technology needed to run the new Obamacare health insurance marketplace has not yet been built and will not be ... | |
J.C. Penney's Fight for a Turnaround TheStreet.com NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Investors want to know one thing when J.C. Penney (JCP) reports third-quarter earnings on Wednesday: Was this the quarter when the company finally had some real turnaround? The Plano, Texas-based retailer is expected to post ... | |
Deere's Outlook Cloudy, Slight Chance of Sun Wall Street Journal Shares of the big agricultural machinery company are down about 4% since the start of 2013, a poor performance considering only about one-tenth of the stocks in the S&P 500 are in the red this year. Declining cash receipts at U.S. farms—the U.S. ... | |
Asian Shares Mostly Lower; Caution Ahead of Fed Minutes Wall Street Journal Asian stock markets were mostly lower early Wednesday after the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development lowered its growth forecasts, while investors adopted a cautious stance ahead of the release of the minutes from the latest Federal ... | |
US Labor Costs Remain Subdued Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—A moderate pickup in employers' labor costs in the third quarter underscored a slow-moving economy that has kept inflation subdued. The employment-cost index, a measure of labor expenses that includes pay and benefits, rose 0.4% from ... | |
Asia stocks mixed amid Fed uncertainty; Nikkei ends down 0.3% NASDAQ Investing.com - Asian stock markets were mixed on Tuesday, as ongoing uncertainty over the direction of U.S. monetary policy kept investors in a cautious mood. The Federal Reserve's stimulus program is viewed by many investors as a key driver in boosting ... | |
Butterball tackles thin turkey mystery Go Lackawanna NEW YORK — Butterball apparently has big fat mystery on its hands: The company says it doesn't know why some of its turkeys wouldn't plump up in time for Thanksgiving this year. CEO Rod Brenneman says in an interview with the AP that it's the first time it ... | |
USAF Official: Air Shows Are Efficient Way to Reach Allies DefenseNews.com Heidi Grant is the deputy undersecretary of the US Air Force for international affairs. (US Air Force). Filed Under. World News · Middle East & Africa. Q. What are your goals and priorities for the upcoming show? A. The main goal for this show is my opportunity ... | |
Kolkata now gold smuggling transit point Indian Express The customs officials here seized 29 kilo gold in two separate incidents, putting the spotlight on Kolkata, which is turning into a transit point for international smuggling of the yellow metal. While 24 kg gold, worth Rs 7.68 crore, was recovered from the toilet of ... | |
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