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Poster child for recession shows signs of recoveryHope is rising in a struggling northern Indiana county as people return to work _ though not always to the jobs they left, and sometimes for less money. Elkhart County's double-digit...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 2 Jan 2010 | 2:02 am Hawaii is far from an economic paradiseThe plunge in tourism has resulted in soaring unemployment and home foreclosures, a shortened school year and an exodus from the state. Some residents blame the visiting President Obama.Between dealing with terrorism threats and crises abroad, President Obama is unwinding in Hawaii with his family this week. They've snorkeled in pristine bays and dined in fashionable restaurants. Tourism officials only wish there were thousands more visitors like them.
Source: L.A. Times - Business | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am A foreclosure auction for the super-richThe bids rise in $100,000 increments at this seven-bedroom, 11-bathroom Tarzana estate.The bargain hunters jockey gingerly for a spot to park their luxury sedans and SUVs along Brewster Drive, a winding road in the hills of Tarzana.
Source: L.A. Times - Business | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am Tackling your investment concerns in the new yearHere's a way to make your head explode in one hour or less: Start reading forecasts for the economy and markets in 2010 and try to decide who's likely to be right.
Source: L.A. Times - Business | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am Fox and Time Warner Cable reach a dealA new contract ends the loud financial dispute that threatened to deprive customers of numerous stations.The first big media showdown of 2010, which threatened to break out in war, ended with a peace treaty.
Source: L.A. Times - Business | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am Health insurers' rescission practices are exposed to more scrutinyLocal prosecutors, such as city attorneys, can sue over the practice of revoking sick patients' policies, an appellate court rules.California's health insurance companies may have hoped that the more than $13 million in fines they paid to regulators would put an end to the scrutiny of their practice of rescinding the policies of sick patients.
Source: L.A. Times - Business | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am Tackling your investment concerns in the new yearHere's a way to make your head explode in one hour or less: Start reading forecasts for the economy and markets in 2010 and try to decide who's likely to be right.Source: RSS feed - channel BNPaperBusiness | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am Health insurers' rescission practices are exposed to more scrutinyLocal prosecutors, such as city attorneys, can sue over the practice of revoking sick patients' policies, an appellate court rules. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNPaperBusiness | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am Retail space opens up as big chains shrinkMany big chain stores are expected to keep downsizing, letting other retailers grab the vacant spots in malls and big-box buildings more cheaply.Surges of large-scale retail bankruptcies such as Circuit City electronics and Mervyns department stores altered the shopping landscape in 2009 -- and experts say 2010 is likely to bring even more changes.
Source: L.A. Times - Business | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am Retail space opens up as big chains shrinkMany big chain stores are expected to keep downsizing, letting other retailers grab the vacant spots in malls and big-box buildings more cheaply. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNPaperBusiness | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am Flight crews have latitude in pegging threatening behaviorActions that pose a safety risk can land a passenger in big trouble. But the definition is open to interpretation. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNPaperBusiness | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am A foreclosure auction for the super-richThe bids rise in $100,000 increments at this seven-bedroom, 11-bathroom Tarzana estate. The bargain hunters jockey...Source: RSS feed - channel BNPaperBusiness | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am For U.S. automakers, truck sales are still a crucial driverDetroit still dominates the pickup truck segment, which could rebound this year along with the housing market.Even as Detroit automakers move their focus away from pickups to small, fuel-efficient cars, full-size trucks still make up more than 20% of sales by Detroit automakers and could play a key role in helping the companies recover in 2010.
Source: L.A. Times - Business | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am Ron Paul's ideas no longer fringeWith the economy still struggling, the lawmaker's libertarian views are getting serious attention. For three...Source: RSS feed - channel BNPaperBusiness | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am Flight crews have latitude in pegging threatening behaviorActions that pose a safety risk can land a passenger in big trouble. But the definition is open to interpretation.After an attempted terrorist attack on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, the Transportation Security Administration gave airline crews new discretion to deal with threats on U.S.-bound planes.
Source: L.A. Times - Business | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am Hawaii is far from an economic paradiseThe plunge in tourism has resulted in soaring unemployment and home foreclosures, a shortened school year and an exodus from the state. Some residents blame the visiting President Obama. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNPaperBusiness | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am Ron Paul's ideas no longer fringeWith the economy still struggling, the lawmaker's libertarian views are getting serious attention.For three decades, Texas congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul's extreme brand of libertarian economics consigned him to the far fringes even among conservatives. Not a few times, his views put him on the losing end of 434-1 votes on Capitol Hill.
Source: L.A. Times - Business | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am Fox and Time Warner Cable reach a dealA new contract ends the loud financial dispute that threatened to deprive customers of numerous stations. The...Source: RSS feed - channel BNPaperBusiness | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am For U.S. automakers, truck sales are still a crucial driverDetroit still dominates the pickup truck segment, which could rebound this year along with the housing market. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNPaperBusiness | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am Vietnam orders gold-trading floors shut by end-MarchVietnam, where many people see gold as a safe haven against economic uncertainty, has ordered public gold-trading floors shut by March 31 because they rest on a "fragile foundation". TheSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:50 pm China factories boom in Dec, demand lifts Korea exportsBEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - China's economic growth looks set to accelerate into the new year, with booming factories driving a December manufacturing survey to a 20-month high while South Korea's exports to the country surged on strong demand.Source: Reuters: Business News | 1 Jan 2010 | 8:26 pm Fox, Time Warner Cable reach deal to avoid blackoutNEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable on Friday reached a deal to keep carrying Fox Networks programing after the companies negotiated through New Year's Day to avoid a blackout of TV shows like "The Simpsons" and college and NFL football games in 13 million U.S. homes.Source: Reuters: Business News | 1 Jan 2010 | 7:42 pm Fox, Time Warner Cable reach deal to avoid blackout (Reuters)Reuters - Time Warner Cable on Friday reached a deal to keep carrying Fox Networks programing after the companies negotiated through New Year's Day to avoid a blackout of TV shows like "The Simpsons" and college and NFL football games in 13 million U.S. homes.Source: Yahoo! News: Business | 1 Jan 2010 | 7:42 pm Market Snapshot: Stocks may struggle with less government supportEconomic data in early January may test recovery, set tone for 2010.
Source: MarketWatch.com - Top Stories | 1 Jan 2010 | 7:16 pm Fox, Time Warner Cable reach agreementFox Networks and Time Warner Cable announced an agreement Friday that will avert the disruption of Fox network programming to 15 million subscribers of Time Warner Cable and an affiliated company.Source: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com | 1 Jan 2010 | 6:52 pm China Cord Blood Corporation Announces Full Exercise of Over-Allotment OptionSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 1 Jan 2010 | 6:52 pm American faces FAA scrutiny after landing problemsThe FAA said Friday it is heightening scrutiny of American Airlines after the carrier had three landings go wrong in December.Source: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com | 1 Jan 2010 | 6:39 pm UPDATE 2-Fox, Time Warner Cable reach deal to avoid blackout(Recasts, updates throughout with agreement, CEO comments)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 1 Jan 2010 | 6:34 pm Labor chief moves on job safety, workers' rightsSoon after she became the nation's labor secretary, Hilda Solis warned corporate America there was "a new sheriff in town." Less than a year into her tenure, that figurative badge of...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 1 Jan 2010 | 6:12 pm Fox reaches cable deal with Time WarnerAmerican football games remained on the air for millions of Time Warner Cable customers after News Corp’s Fox held back from its threat to pull programmes from the network over a carriage-fee disputeSource: Financial Times - US homepage | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:35 pm Rats and bedbugs take over where Dawnay, Day left off in HarlemDawnay, Day, the British property-to-financials conglomerate, had high hopes when it sank $225 million into 47 rental buildings, made up of 1,100 apartments, in the up-and-coming East Harlem neighborhood of New York in 2007. Its plan was to replace low-income residents in rent-stabilised apartments with affluent ones who would be charged higher rents as the area was gentrified.$ Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:01 pm SFO forced to write off £1.2m on failed IT planThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been forced to write off £1.2 million spent on an abandoned IT project that was designed to improve its management of complicated cases. Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:01 pm LSE on the attack to safeguard its futureSince it opened its doors in the last half of the 18th century, the London Stock Exchange has enjoyed a virtual monopoly on trading in London. Attempts have been made in recent years to buy the exchange and there have always been small over-thecounter markets running in parallel. Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:01 pm Country homes forecast to rise 10%Continued demand from foreign buyers will push up the price of country homes by as much as 10 per cent this year but the outlook for the property market as a whole is more mixed, according to leading estate agents. Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:01 pm Ambition-weary executives find more rewarding bonuses outside the CityWhen James Burridge left his job as a quantitative analyst at the Royal Bank of Scotland, a few months before the City imploded, it was a good career move in more ways than one. A few months later he was training as a teacher. Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:01 pm Goldman seeks $80m from Chinese power company$Goldman Sachs has threatened to sue a Chinese power company for defaulting on two oil hedging contracts, escalating a long-running dispute between China and Wall Street banks over derivatives losses. Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:01 pm Microsoft to go mobile with Xbox Live gamesVideo game fans addicted to playing the alien shoot-em-up Halo series online on the Xbox 360 console may soon be able to continue the fight on the move after Microsoft hinted that it might integrate online gaming into its Windows Mobile platform. Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:01 pm HSBC goes out on a limb and predicts growth beyond dreams of ChancellorHSBC has distanced itself from the Treasury and most economic analysts by taking a bullish stand on the economy, with a forecast for growth of 2.2 per cent this year. Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:01 pm Snow fails to hamper Ocado’s online salesOcado, the online grocer that is considering a possible flotation this year, enjoyed soaring sales over the Christmas period. Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:01 pm The wasteful avalanche of 12 million light bulbsTwelve million low-energy light bulbs were posted to households over Christmas by an energy company as part of its legal obligation to cut carbon emissions, despite government advice that many would never be used. Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:01 pm BAE bribery suit may be taken to Supreme Court (Reuters)Reuters - A pension fund may ask the Supreme Court to let it sue BAE Systems Plc in the United States over allegations that the company paid more than $2 billion in bribes to win a record Saudi arms deal, the fund's lead attorney said on Friday.Source: Yahoo! News: Business | 1 Jan 2010 | 4:40 pm BAE bribery suit may be taken to Supreme CourtWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A pension fund may ask the Supreme Court to let it sue BAE Systems Plc in the United States over allegations that the company paid more than $2 billion in bribes to...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 1 Jan 2010 | 4:40 pm BAE bribery suit may be taken to Supreme CourtWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A pension fund may ask the Supreme Court to let it sue BAE Systems Plc in the United States over allegations that the company paid more than $2 billion in bribes to win a record Saudi arms deal, the fund's lead attorney said on Friday.Source: Reuters: Business News | 1 Jan 2010 | 4:40 pm 3 reasons home prices are heading lowerAfter four months of gains, home prices flattened in October. Worse yet, industry insiders think that they'll soon start to fall.Source: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com | 1 Jan 2010 | 4:24 pm Stock picks from 5 prosWith economic uncertainty near an all-time high, Fortune sought the advice of some of the smartest market watchers we knowSource: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com | 1 Jan 2010 | 4:14 pm Delta CEO peeved about Christmas incidentThe head of Delta Air Lines says he is disappointed that a suspected terrorist was able to bring explosives on board a Christmas Day flight despite the company's efforts to follow federal safety regulations.Source: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com | 1 Jan 2010 | 4:11 pm NewsWatch: Stocks may struggle with less government supportEconomic data in early January may test recovery, set tone for 2010.
Source: MarketWatch.com - Top Stories | 1 Jan 2010 | 3:05 pm Outside Edge: An era that sets records in absurdityThe best thing about the turn of the year aside from our perennial forlorn hopes of a new beginning will be the disappearance of reviews of the now-departed decade, involving as they do the endless repetition...Source: RSS feed - channel BNPaperBusiness | 1 Jan 2010 | 2:53 pm Airport pat-downs often ineffective security stopWith all the screening technology at airports, the last line of defense remains the human hand. But experts say pat-downs are often ineffective and probably wouldn't have found the...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 1 Jan 2010 | 2:47 pm Presenting Questor's top share tips for 2010Without risk, there is no reward. Selection has a higher degree of risk than the investments recommended last year.Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 1 Jan 2010 | 2:07 pm Arabia takes the New Silk Road to China, spurning the WestWith hindsight we can see that two events within days of each other in late 2001 brought about an epochal change in the world's strategic system.Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 1 Jan 2010 | 2:03 pm Revenge seen as motive in CIA killingsAfghanistan’s government suspects that a suicide bombing that killed seven Central Intelligence Agency personnel was a revenge attack organised by followers of a powerful insurgent leader who was once backed by the agency to fight the SovietsSource: Financial Times - US homepage | 1 Jan 2010 | 1:59 pm Pirate cash suspected cause of Kenya property boomProperty prices in Nairobi are soaring, and Somali pirates are getting the blame. The hike in real estate prices in the Kenyan capital has prompted a public outcry and a government...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 1 Jan 2010 | 1:47 pm Solar showdown in Calif. tortoises' desert homeOn a strip of California's Mojave Desert, two dozen rare tortoises could stand in the way of a sprawling solar-energy complex in a case that highlights mounting tensions between wilderness...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 1 Jan 2010 | 1:45 pm APNewsBreak: Foreign govt's among Clinton donorsCountries including Norway and Oman gave to former President Bill Clinton's charity as Hillary Rodham Clinton served her first year as President Barack Obama's secretary of state. A...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 1 Jan 2010 | 1:40 pm European business groups warn EU over protectionismThe British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has joined forces with some of its European counterparts to warn against protectionist measures in the wake of the global recession.Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 1 Jan 2010 | 1:18 pm Icelandic revolt upsets Icesave dealIceland's president will on Saturday meet activists calling on him to veto a deal that would return £3.4bn of Icesave deposits to former customers in Britain and Holland.Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 1 Jan 2010 | 1:11 pm 'No warning' freight company was foldingStaff at a nationwide freight transport company are shocked to find they will have to find new jobs.About 250 people are out of work after Rapid Roadfreighters went into liquidation, just before Christmas. The company has more...Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 1 Jan 2010 | 1:10 pm Reykjavik stalls on Icesave dealIceland’s president is holding up approval of a €3.8bn deal to reimburse Britain and the Netherlands for money lost in a failed Icelandic bankSource: Financial Times - US homepage | 1 Jan 2010 | 1:00 pm Planning test to safeguard competition could cost 25,000 supermarket jobsIndustry sounds warning over proposed CompetitionTest.Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 1 Jan 2010 | 1:00 pm Peter Brimelow: Dines has year's top newsletterAt 80-plus years, Jim Dines does it again.
Source: MarketWatch.com - Top Stories | 1 Jan 2010 | 12:58 pm Bumper Christmas for online supermarket OcadoOcado saw sales rise 49pc in the week leading up to Christmas, as the online supermarket delivered 3.5m items to almost 42,000 customers.Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 1 Jan 2010 | 12:47 pm Internet payment firm UC Group anxious to benefit from David Blunkett effectA technology group advised by David Blunkett, the former Home Secretary, has seen its profits slump 91pc in the face of the economic downturn.Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 1 Jan 2010 | 12:42 pm Tube Lines hits out at London Underground efficiencyA fresh row has broken out between Tube Lines and London Underground after the contractor for the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines claimed that official data showed it was much more efficient than its client.Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 1 Jan 2010 | 12:37 pm Fashion patriarch fronts a model of successThe conscious balancing act between the image of overt family involvement and the insistence on active external management has become one of the hallmarks of the Polo Ralph Lauren CorpSource: Financial Times - US homepage | 1 Jan 2010 | 12:25 pm Leaders call Yemen terror summitWestern governments have convened a top-level meeting to discuss strategies to counter Yemen’s role as a recruitment base for terrorists, in the wake of the failed attack on a US-bound airlinerSource: Financial Times - US homepage | 1 Jan 2010 | 12:07 pm Thousands demand HK poll reformThousands of people have taken to the streets of Hong Kong demanding universal suffrage by 2012, in the strongest display yet of public dissatisfaction with the government’s plan to delay open electionsSource: Financial Times - US homepage | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:41 am An update on 2009 financial resolutionsBack in January 2009, we aired some listeners' money resolutions for the year. We check back in with a few to see just how well they kept those promises.Source: Marketplace Money | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:29 am Why we can all be philanthropistsGiven this economy, you might think that only those with big bucks can do philanthropy. Commentator Matthew Bishop urges us to think again.Source: Marketplace Money | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:29 am Finding value in corporate historyCompanies are often so focused on the present and future that they forget about their past. But now some companies are opening up showcases that highlight their products through history. Cash Peters takes us inside.Source: Marketplace Money | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:29 am Cleveland restaurants serve up successDespite Cleveland's problems with foreclosures and poverty, restaurants keep opening up and prospering. Why? Dan Bobkoff reports.Source: Marketplace Money | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:29 am Getting PersonalEconomics editor Chris Farrell and Tess Vigeland revisit some of the most common questions that listeners asked in 2009, and check-in with a woman who has been putting her marriage on hold because of student loans.Source: Marketplace Money | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:28 am Beware of charities' 'donor illusion'Donors to charities get satisfaction from thinking their money is going to a particular person or project with which they then have a special relationship. But those relationships sometimes aren't so special. Ashley Milne-Tyte reports.Source: Marketplace Money | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:28 am Overwhelmed by check-out-line charityIt's becoming more common for grocery store shoppers to be asked to contribute to charities while they're in the check-out line. Those small contributions can add up for worthy causes, but there are hidden costs involved. Michael May reports.Source: Marketplace Money | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:28 am OMG, you're still using AOL for e-mail?Like the brand of shirt you wear, your preferred e-mail address can send a message about who you are. Stacey Vanek-Smith explores why many of her friends and colleagues recently started switching e-mail accounts.Source: Marketplace Money | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:28 am How to save $5,000 a yearKristin Van Ogtrop, managing editor of Real Simple Magazine, talks with Tess Vigeland about how to scale back and save up to $5,000 a year.Source: Marketplace Money | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:28 am Giving a big chunk of it awayThe Fifty Percent League is made up of people who believe it's their moral obligation to give away as much of their money as they can. Lisa Napoli looks at what inspires these folks to engage in "extreme giving."Source: Marketplace Money | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:28 am Google’s YouTube gamble is vindicatedIn spite of a rocky start, the web’s most popular video site is finally on course to start to return some of Google’s investmentSource: Financial Times - US homepage | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:27 am Pancakes in a can: It's made $15 millionIn 2001, Sean O'Connor was a co-owner of Thee Parkside, a San Francisco club that served up punk bands alongside yak burgers and bear-meat chili. When the dot-coms collapsed, he pared down the menu to focus on cheap, creative snacks. During an experiment with whipped cream canisters and funnel cake -- a project that failed miserably -- he stumbled on a better idea: putting pancake mix in pressurized cans for quick and easy breakfasts.Source: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com | 1 Jan 2010 | 10:16 am A family history of starting overDespite signs of an economic recovery, jobs are still scarce. Increasing unemployment means more people are having to start over, like commentator Peter Basch.Source: Marketplace | 1 Jan 2010 | 10:03 am A layoff isn't so bad for someMost stories about the newly unemployed are all about doom and gloom. But some people are riding out unemployment on severance packages and savings. Reporter Julie Rose finds that this new-found freedom can't last forever.Source: Marketplace | 1 Jan 2010 | 10:03 am Making a project to find happinessDoes money make people happy? Gretchen Rubin has been studying the subject and has written a book called "The Happiness Project." She talks with Bill Radke.Source: Marketplace | 1 Jan 2010 | 10:03 am Arizona sending more illegals to fedsArizona has been sending illegal immigrants it's detained to federal prisons to serve the final months of their sentences, thus sticking the federal taxpayer with the bill. Now Arizona's governor is stepping up the program. Jeff Tyler reports.Source: Marketplace | 1 Jan 2010 | 10:02 am Fox-Time Warner rift shows new TV bizNews Corp. and Time Warner Cable aren't the only ones battling over how much to charge for television subscription fees. Amy Scott reports the whole television business is changing, and everyone wants to set the rules.Source: Marketplace | 1 Jan 2010 | 10:02 am NewsWatch: Stocks may struggle with less government supportEconomic data in early January may test recovery, set tone for 2010.
Source: MarketWatch.com - Top Stories | 1 Jan 2010 | 10:00 am Apple's tablet: Big iPhone or thin MacBookSource: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com | 1 Jan 2010 | 9:39 am Biggest regional trade deal unveiledChina and the 10-country Association of South East Asian Nations have launched the final stage of the world’s biggest regional trade agreement, measured by populationSource: Financial Times - US homepage | 1 Jan 2010 | 9:35 am The nation's media from A to ZFrom the safety of the silly season John Drinnan delivers his take on the state of the nation's media - from A to Z. AVATARS 'R' US Special effects firm Weta played a big role in Avatar , the Hollywood movie that seamle...Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 1 Jan 2010 | 9:00 am Fletcher's artistic tunnel vision pays offA prosaic tunnel under Great South Rd, between two Fletcher buildings at Penrose has become an art gallery.Peter Shaw, the Fletcher Trust Collection curator since 1991, has used both sides of its blank, stark white walls to showcase...Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 1 Jan 2010 | 9:00 am Phillip Mills: Green chances far outweigh costsAll of a sudden we are at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century. Just yesterday, it seems, we were watching for Y2K disruptions while greeting the new millennium. Now a new set of problems threatens our treasured...Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 1 Jan 2010 | 9:00 am All roads lead to commercialisationI was really interested to see the coverage of the New Zealand Institute's discussion paper on innovation released recently. The Institute noted that New Zealand underperforms when it comes to innovation, but says that the solution...Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 1 Jan 2010 | 9:00 am New year, old worries for U.S. stocksNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks closed out 2009 with the best performance in six years, but monthly employment figures in the first week of the new year will keep investors focused on what is likely to be 2010's reality -- the economy's struggle to recover.Source: Reuters: Business News | 1 Jan 2010 | 8:15 am Richard Lambert: CBI chief 'not satisfied' with deficit plansRichard Lambert, the director general of the Confederation of British Industry, has said that he is "certainly not satisfied" with Government plans to bring public debt under control.Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 1 Jan 2010 | 7:07 am NewsWatch: Rate worries and low volumes put damper on stocksA late burst of selling leaves stocks with a hefty loss Thursday as traders take cash off the table at the end of a banner year, highlighted by the biggest annual percentage gain in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in six years.
Source: MarketWatch.com - Top Stories | 1 Jan 2010 | 7:05 am New year, old worries for U.S. stocks (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Stock Markets News | 1 Jan 2010 | 7:01 am Emerging markets rise from decade’s gloomAfter another turbulent year, the decade ended showing that youth triumphed over maturity – that emerging markets and developing asset classes such as commodities outperformed established equity and bond marketsSource: Financial Times - US homepage | 1 Jan 2010 | 6:34 am Cablevision drops Food, HGTV networksCablevision Systems, a New York-area cable provider, said Friday it was no longer carrying The Food Channel and HGTV, two channels operated by Scripps Networks Interactive, in a dispute over distribution rights fees.Source: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com | 1 Jan 2010 | 6:10 am Top Ten: The Top 10 stories of 2009Here are the 10 most-popular stories that appeared on MarketWatch in 2009:
Source: MarketWatch.com - Top Stories | 1 Jan 2010 | 6:01 am Iran’s opposition leader ready to die for his causeIran’s opposition leader, Mir-Hossein Moussavi, declares his willingness to die for his cause after government supporters openly threatened him with executionSource: Financial Times - US homepage | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:50 am Sri Lanka Stock Index Topped Results Of All Other Nations In 2009The stock market of Sri Lanka, birth place of Galleon hedge fund founder and alleged inside trader Raj Rajaratnam, posted the best return of any national index in the world. Its CSE of the Colombo Stock Exchange yielded a 125% increase in 2009. Most analysts believe that investors in Sri Lanka equities expect the Presidential election on January 26 to [...][[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Source: 24/7 Wall St. | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:41 am Top 2010 Stock Picks from… Everyone (AAPL, GE, CMCSA, MRVL, BIDU, DRYS, POT, LVLT, C, CVX, HPQ, KBH)2009 is over, for better or worse. Now it is time to look ahead. We wanted to look for the best top stock picks for 2010 from our partners and from key financial websites. We compiled all of these 2010 stock picks into grouped lists with links directly to each, but there was one standout [...][[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Source: 24/7 Wall St. | 1 Jan 2010 | 4:59 am EPA concerned about N.Y. shale-gas drillingThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has expressed concern about the prospect of energy companies drilling for shale-based natural gas around New York City's key water supply.
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