Asian shares edge lower, China PMI offers support Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares edged lower and the dollar gave up some of its recent gains against the yen on Monday, as investors cautiously awaited key U.S. data this week and took heart from a decent reading on China manufacturing. China's factory ... | |
Amazon testing delivery by drone, CEO tells 60 Minutes USA TODAY Amazon.com is testing delivering packages using drones, CEO Jeff Bezos said on the CBS TV news show 60 Minutes Sunday. The idea would be to deliver packages as quickly as possible using the small, unmanned aircraft, through a service the company is ... | |
Yen remains under pressure as China PMI, US data eyed Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese shares could get support from a weaker yen on Monday, while investors were generally cautious as they awaited a Chinese manufacturing survey later in the session as well as key U.S. data this week. HSBC will release its final ... | |
Retail Sales on Thanksgiving, Black Friday Rose 2.3%, Report Finds Wall Street Journal Peggy Penn bags chocolate treats for a customer at The Chocolate Factory during Small Business Saturday in Paducah, Ky. People around the country showed up to support their small local businesses. Associated Press. Sharp discounts and earlier hours ... | |
New York train derailment: Safety officials recover 'black box' Los Angeles Times NEW YORK -- Investigators have recovered the "event recorder" from a Metro-North train that derailed in New York City early Sunday, a major step toward determining what caused the crash that killed four people and left scores injured. Earl F. Weener of the ... | |
Holiday Sales Sag Despite Blitz of Deals Wall Street Journal Retail spending over Thanksgiving weekend dropped for the first time in at least seven years, the industry's main trade group said, as the blitz of deals and earlier opening hours apparently failed to pry more dollars out of the hands of budget-conscious ... | |
Tribe looking at bottled water plant as way to help reservation's troubling ... Washington Post INDIAN TOWNSHIP, Maine — Tucked in the nation's northeastern corner, the Passamaquoddy tribe's ancestral land remains as it was centuries ago: rugged and teeming with natural beauty and wildlife. Snow-covered in winter, springtime warmth reveals a ... | |
Japan corporate capex up in third-quarter but GDP seen little changed Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese companies raised spending on factories and equipment in the July-September quarter, but the slow pace of increase casts some doubt on the strength of capital spending that is needed to help sustain economic growth. The 1.5 ... | |
How Doug McMillon Went From Unloading Trucks At Wal-Mart To Its Next CEO Houston Chronicle When Wal-Mart announced that Doug McMillon would become the retailer's fifth ever CEO starting in February, only the timing was a surprise. McMillon, 47, has steadily risen up the company's ranks and has long been pegged as a possible successor. | |
New Rubik's Cube models attempt to battle counterfeits, include puzzle for the ... Fox News BUDAPEST, Hungary – Company executives say new models of Rubik's Cube are being launched in an effort to battle counterfeit models, many of which are made in China. Janos Kovacs, brand manager for Rubik Enterprises, says one of the models has an ... | |
The Stock Market Is At An All-Time High — Here's Why So Many Americans Don ... Seattle Post Intelligencer Stocks are at all-time highs, and anyone invested in the market has reason to be happy. But that's just it. It's only the people who are investing who have gotten a piece of this 3.5-year-long bull market, which has seen the S&P 500 explode 170%. According to ... | |
Black Friday E-Commerce Spending Reached Record $1.2 Billion Businessweek Total e-commerce sales reached $20.6 billion in the first 29 days of this holiday season, according to ComScore Inc. Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Online spending on Black Friday increased 15 percent to a record $1.20 billion as more ... | |
Mexico crowd protests against energy reform BBC News Tens of thousands of people have protested in the centre of Mexico City against President Enrique Pena Nieto's planned overhaul of the energy sector. Opposition leader Andres Lopez Obrador told the crowd to surround the Congress this week. Mr Pena ... | |
Record crowds over weekend, but spending declined Washington Post NEW YORK — Did retailers shoot themselves in the foot? U.S. retailers offered holiday discounts in early November and opened stores on Thanksgiving Day to attract more shoppers. Those tactics drew bigger crowds, but they didn't motivate Americans to ... | |
ShopperTrak: Sales on Thanksgiving and Black Friday rise just 2.3% Los Angeles Times U.S. retailers eked out a 2.3% sales gain on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, in line with a prediction for the weakest holiday results since 2009. Sales at bricks-and-mortar stores on Thanksgiving and Black Friday increased to $12.3 billion, according to a ... | |
A higher minimum wage is the tonic America needs Financial Times Imagine receiving the following note from your boss: try to eat two small meals instead of one big one, sell your unopened holiday gifts on eBay for cash and please stop complaining – it is bad for your stress levels. That was what burger chain McDonald's ... | |
Thanksgiving Openings Take Sales From Black Friday New York Times Shoppers who braved the sales on Black Friday may have wondered at the size of the crowds. Did they seem a bit smaller than in years past? How Has Black Friday Changed for You? When do you begin your holiday shopping, and where do you look for the ... | |
What to know about buying health insurance on individual market Washington Post A look at questions related to recent health-care news. Today's focus: people who buy insurance on the individual market. Q. I have a private health insurance plan, not through my employer. How will the Affordable Care Act affect me? More health and ... | |
Early Retirement or Forfeited Earnings? Wall Street Journal Last month's column on how to consider the full retirement age generated unusually heavy email, much of it from retirees in their early 60s who think waiting until 70 to leave the workforce is bunk. They might be right, but there are many factors to consider ... | |
Why Both Parties Lie All The Time About Health Care Houston Chronicle A lot of the recent complaints about the Affordable Care Act go back to one theme: The law makes health care more expensive for some people with moderate incomes. This is true and it's a design feature of the law. And Democrats didn't want people to ... | |
OPEC to decide oil output amid demand, Libya strains Economic Times READ MORE ON » West Texas Intermediate | the middle | Opec | North America | New York crude | market conditions. Supplying about one third of the world's oil, the cartel is expected to maintain its output ceiling of 30 million barrels per day. (). Vol: shares ... | |
Two Obama Cabinet members shop in Portland on Small Business Saturday Press Herald The leaders of the Small Business Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency visit Longfellow Books. By Tom Bell tbell@pressherald.com. Staff Writer. Two members of President Obama's Cabinet came to Portland on Saturday to do a little ... | |
Train derailment kills three outside Bayard Silver City Sun News Susan Dunlap - Sun-News A locomotive with Southwestern Railroad derailed outside of Bayard Saturday afternoon, killing the three men aboard. SILVER CITY >> Three train operators were killed Saturday when a locomotive for Southwestern Railroad ... | |
Shale gas not source of tap water fire Allentown Morning Call Natural gas that caught fire after it bubbled from a faucet in a Portage County, Ohio, house did not come from a nearby shale well, state officials have concluded. Debby Kline told state officials that a flare erupted from the tap last year when she lit a candle ... | |
Cyber Monday 2013: Kohl's Deals and Coupon Codes Patch.com Kohl's is offering some great deals on Cyber Monday. Here's a link to the ad, along with coupon codes. Posted by Bea Karnes (Editor) , November 30, 2013 at 06:06 PM. Comment Recommend. If you prefer to skip the store for online shopping, Cyber Monday ... | |
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