China factories stuck in cruise control CNNMoney After a long period of steady progress and faster growth, China's factories have lost some momentum in the final months of the year. HSBC said on Monday that its "flash" measure of sentiment among manufacturing purchasing managers fell to 50.5 in ... | |
Japan Tankan Gauge Climbs to Highest Since '07 After Yen Decline Bloomberg People look out at the skyline from an observation deck at dusk in Tokyo. Across all... Read More. People look out at the skyline from an observation deck at dusk in Tokyo. Across all industries, including services, big companies plan to boost spending by 4.6 ... | |
Asmussen Quits ECB to Join Merkel's Government Wall Street Journal FRANKFURT—European Central Bank executive-board member Jörg Asmussen is resigning his post at the central bank just two years into his eight-year term, leaving the ECB without one of its top German officials and skilled communicators as it weighs ... | |
Japan lacks decommissioning experts for Fukushima Washington Post TOKYO — Japan is incapable of safely decommissioning the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant alone and must stitch together an international team for the massive undertaking, experts say, but has made only halting progress in that direction. Unlike the ... | |
Emerging nations overtake West in dumping electronic trash Reuters ... Print. * Electronic waste set to surge by 33 percent from 2012-17. * Waste in 2017 weight of 200 Empire State Buildings - StEP. * Better recycling, disposal needed to limit waste. By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle. OSLO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - China ... | |
The last chapter of the Bernanke era MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — It's fair to say this will be a pretty big week for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. On Monday, he will appear alongside Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker to celebrate 100 years of the existence of the institution that ... | |
ObamaCare's Troubles Are Only Beginning Wall Street Journal The White House is claiming that the Healthcare.gov website is mostly fixed, that the millions of Americans whose health plans were canceled thanks to government rules may be able to keep them for another year, and that in any event these people will get ... | |
NC gov says Bonner Bridge is reopening Houston Chronicle HATTERAS ISLAND, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina officials say the Bonner Bridge on the Outer Banks is reopening. Gov. Pat McCrory and state Transportation Secretary Tony Tata said in a news release the bridge would reopen as of 4 p.m. Sunday. The bridge ... | |
Promise of 'Obamacare' raises question of how fair system will be Financial Times The great promise of the Affordable Care Act was that it would bring fairness to a system that denied healthcare to 47m uninsured Americans without harming those who were happy with their existing plans. But in recent weeks, that promise has appeared to ... | |
US Steel Plant Explosion Near Detroit Kills Worker, Injures 2 Businessweek An explosion early this morning at a United States Steel Corp. (X:US) plant near Detroit killed one worker and injured two others. Steelmaking operations have stopped, and the company said it's investigating the overnight incident along with the United ... | |
Postal Service to deliver packages on Sundays WISH INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Due to the increased volume of mailing, the Postal Service says they plan to deliver packages on Sundays to make sure it reaches its destination in time for the holidays. Bacon Station, Castleton Branch, Circle City Station, Eagle ... | |
Sen. Blumenthal calls for more inspections after derailment WFSB Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal is calling for more inspectors in the wake of the Metro North train derailment in the Bronx. Four people were killed and dozens were injured when a Hudson Line train went off the tracks in the Bronx. Blumenthal and New ... | |
Federal Reserve Tapering to UK Inflation: Global Economy (1) Businessweek The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building stands in Washington, D.C. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg. The data docket in the U.S. this week will be eclipsed by the Federal Reserve meeting as prospects mount that policy makers will trim ... | |
Metro reaches a 'milestone' in project to return trains to automated operation Washington Post Four and half years after a deadly rail crash forced Metro to let humans instead of computers drive its subway trains, the transit agency has reached "a milestone" in its effort to return to an automated system in which train operators do little more than make ... | |
Need help with your health insurance application? Fox Business HealthCare.gove and most state-run Health Insurance Marketplace websites (with the exceptions of Oregon and Maryland) are working well for a lot of applicants at this point. But not for all: Some are running into website malfunctions at various points in the ... | |
Dow loses 265 points for the week Los Angeles Times The stock market closed out its worst week since August, but selling pressure was light and many on Wall Street think share prices could be readying for another advance. Despite a modest gain Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average slid 265 points, ... | |
Taper' again on table at US Federal Reserve's final 2013 meeting Economic Times Steady economic gains, including a sharp fall in the unemployment rate, should stir the US Federal Reserve to begin trimming its stimulus program at its policy meeting on Tuesday. Editor's Pick. 5 blue-chip firms lose Rs 22,582 cr, led by ONGC · FIIs pump in ... | |
Trade in Bitcoins gains currency among youth in Mumbai Economic Times The current value of a Bitcoin is $806 with the buy and sell rate in India, at the time of writing this article, stands at 65,477 and 61,276 respectively. Editor's Pick. Why Instagram presents a new form of torture · How to run a biz on top of a mobile application ... | |
What You Should Know About the 2014 Light Bulb Ban PC Magazine The light bulbs you grew up with are going extinct next year. 2014 will be the next step in the phasing out of incandescent light fixtures, and 40W and 60W bulbs will no longer be brought into the U.S. Don't panic, this doesn't necessarily mean what you think it ... | |
Holiday shopping spree not for everyone News & Observer Shoppers wade through boxes of half-price socks at the Hollywood Fred Meyer store in Portland, Ore., on Black Friday. BETH NAKAMURA — AP. Most Popular Stories. UNC coach Roy Williams: No update, still, on P.J. Hairston and Leslie McDonald ... | |
As Software Eats The World, Non-Tech Corporations Are Eating Startups TechCrunch Netscape founder and VC titan Marc Andreessen famously wrote back in 2011 that software is steadily eating the world, disrupting industries like music, retail and more. Now large corporations in these industries are starting to eat startups. Over the past year ... | |
Gold, Silver Inch Up on Week; US Mint Silver Bullion Coins Jump CoinNews.net Gold and silver bounced back Friday to recover from sharp prior-day losses and each logged weekly gains as a result. Gold for February delivery rebounded $9.70, or 0.8%, to finish at $1,234.60 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile ... | |
15000 bundle up for Holiday Train concert In-Forum COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. – Roughly 15,000 people bundled in parkas and plenty of layers Saturday to soak up hit songs by Sheryl Crow as she headlined the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train anniversary concert here. By: Scott Wente, Forum News Service. | |
Supplies low on suddenly popular Sriracha sauce UPI.com IRWINDALE, Calif., Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A court order halting the production of hot Sriracha, a Thai chili paste, has sent customers scurrying for the bright, red condiment, grocers say. In November, a judge halted production of Sriracha at a plant in Irwindale, Calif., ... | |
Libya PM hopes oil ports will reopen on Sunday Business Recorder image TRIPOLI: Prime Minister Ali Zeidan expects Libyan oil ports seized by a group demanding autonomy for the country's east would reopen on Sunday, state news agency Lana said on Saturday, although it was unclear if the government had concluded a ... | |
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