Debt crisis in Greece top issue at finance meeting (AP)

**RETRANSMITTED FOR ALTERNATE CROP** Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, center, arrives for a  meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner about Greece's deepening debt crisis at International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, Saturday, April 24, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The deepening Greek debt crisis remains uppermost in the minds of financial leaders as they wrap up a weekend conference pledging to address the risks facing the global economic recovery.



Source: Yahoo! News: Business News | 25 Apr 2010 | 4:07 am

IMF head speaks out on Greek fear

The IMF head says Greeks should not fear his agency, which wants to help tackle the country's economic crisis.
Source: BBC News | Business | World Edition | 25 Apr 2010 | 4:04 am

LyondellBasell to emerge from Chapter 11

LyondellBasell, the Rotterdam chemicals giant, expects to emerge from bankruptcy proceedings at the end of the month after the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan on Friday confirmed its plan to reorganize its business.



Source: MarketWatch.com - Top Stories | 25 Apr 2010 | 3:56 am

Weather delays oil cleanup at Gulf rig blast site (AP)

This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard Saturday April 24, 2010 shows oil leaking from the drill pipe of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig after it sank Thursday. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said the leak was a new discovery but could have begun when the rig sank on Thursday, two days after the initial explosion. Bad weather has halted efforts to clean up the mess that threatens the area's fragile marine ecosystem. (AP photo/US Coast Guard)AP - Stormy weather delayed weekend efforts to mop up leaking oil from a damaged undersea well after the explosion and sinking of a massive rig off Louisiana's Gulf Coast that left 11 workers missing and presumed dead.



Source: Yahoo! News: Business News | 25 Apr 2010 | 3:31 am

New austerity a precondition for Greek aid: Germany

BERLIN (Reuters) - Greece must agree to tough new austerity measures before it receives any financial aid from the European Union and failure to do so would endanger such support, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a newspaper.



Source: Reuters: Business News | 25 Apr 2010 | 3:02 am

New austerity a precondition for Greek aid: Germany (Reuters)

Reuters - Greece must agree to tough new austerity measures before it receives any financial aid from the European Union and failure to do so would endanger such support, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a newspaper.
Source: Yahoo! News: Business News | 25 Apr 2010 | 3:02 am

Goldman e-mails show how crash turned into cash (AP)

Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein attends a speech by U.S. President Barack Obama about Wall Street reform at Cooper Union in New York April 22, 2010. REUTERS/Natalie BehringAP - As the U.S. housing turned downward in January 2007, a Goldman Sachs trader wrote in e-mails to a woman he apparently was courting that investments he had sold were "like Frankenstein turning against his own inventor."



Source: Yahoo! News: Business News | 25 Apr 2010 | 2:57 am

Wall Street Journal revs up New York Times rivalry (AP)

In this March 24, 2010 photo, editors work at the news hub, below, of the Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - It might be the last great American newspaper war. And Rupert Murdoch intends to win it.



Source: Yahoo! News: Business News | 25 Apr 2010 | 2:14 am

US Senate panels releases Goldman Sachs emails (AFP)

Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs made huge profits during the financial meltdown through subprime, or higher-risk, mortgage backed securities that have been linked to the origin of the crisis, Senator Carl Levin said.(AFP/File/Richard A. Brooks)AFP - A US Senate investigative panel has released several emails that could prove embarrassing to Goldman Sachs as they suggest the Wall Street investment giant used the US sub-prime mortgage crisis to make tens of millions of dollars in profit.



Source: Yahoo! News: Business News | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:47 am

US Coast Guard: oil leaking from sunken rig (AFP)

This US Coast Guard image released on April 22 shows fire boat response crews as they battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon. Crude oil was leaking Sunday from two newly discovered leaks in a lengthy conduit connecting the sunken oil rig to a well site in the Gulf of Mexico, officials said.(AFP/US Coast Guard/File)AFP - Crude oil was leaking Sunday from two newly discovered leaks in a lengthy conduit connecting the sunken Deepwater Horizon oil rig to a well site in the Gulf of Mexico, officials said.



Source: Yahoo! News: Business News | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:31 am

Climate bill placed on hold over Senate dispute (AP)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 22, 2010.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Long-awaited climate change legislation was put on hold by its authors Saturday when a dispute over immigration politics and Senate priorities threatened to unravel a bipartisan effort that took months of work.



Source: Yahoo! News: Business News | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:15 am

On the Market: Pasadena homes

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Source: L.A. Times - Business | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am

Getting the best deal on an auto lease

There's complicated lingo to understand and some basic steps to take to ensure a smooth ride.

Auto leasing deals abound these days, with offers that often seem too good to be true.



Source: L.A. Times - Business | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am

Fannie Mae to shorten waiting periods for some troubled borrowers to get new home loans

Here's some good news for people who have had to give the deed on their house back to the bank because of financial problems, or who have done a short sale to avoid foreclosure: You may not have to wait the typical four or five years to requalify for financing to buy another home.



Source: L.A. Times - Business | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am

Money makeover: In debt after college

A recent graduate with a pile of student loans and car payments gets advice from a financial planner.

Recent university graduate Amy Horwath has grasped the golden ring in this weak economy: a job in her chosen field.



Source: L.A. Times - Business | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am

A strategy for charitable giving makes donations go further

Unless you’re wealthy, concentrate on a few causes and contribute in amounts that will make a discernible difference, experts advise.

Do you have a charitable giving plan? President Obama placed a spotlight on charity when he published his tax return information recently, showing a vast array of causes supported by the First Family.



Source: L.A. Times - Business | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am

Making the same mistake

Amnesty in 1986 resulted in the crisis we face today.

Re: Michael Hiltzik's business column "Turning down the temperature on illegal immigration," Apr. 21:



Source: L.A. Times - Business | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am

Home of the Week: Santa Monica Canyon contemporary

The steel, copper and glass house, built in 1992 by L.A. architects Mark Cigolle and Kim Coleman originally as a live-work space, has an asking price of $4.95 million.

A blend of steel, copper and glass frames a Santa Monica Canyon contemporary built by Los Angeles architects Mark Cigolle and Kim Coleman originally as a live-work space for their young family.



Source: L.A. Times - Business | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am

Private mortgage insurance companies return to market

As the FHA tightens its requirements for borrowers with small down payments, independent insurers are back in the game and offering competitive rates.

The low-down payment mortgage landscape is changing.



Source: L.A. Times - Business | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am

Goldman Sachs e-mails suggest firm profited from mortgage mess, Senate panel says

E-mail exchanges in 2007 among top executives contradict the investment bank's claims that it did not aggressively bet against the housing market, panel chairman Sen. Carl Levin says. Goldman denies the...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNPaperBusiness | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am

Greece races for rescue, some fear not enough (Reuters)

Reuters - Finance leaders scrambled to secure aid for debt-stricken Greece on Saturday and Canada cautioned that some European countries feared the 45 billion euros ($60 billion) under consideration was not enough.
Source: Yahoo! News: Business News | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:43 pm

Here come the Italians

In the next few years, we'll be seeing more Italian cars on American roads as Fiat and Alfa Romeo return to the states after a nearly two decade absence.
Source: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:22 pm

Goldman knew it profited from crisis

Goldman Sachs officials knew that their bets against mortgages, whose dramatic decline sparked the financial crisis, profited the firm, according to documents released Saturday by a Senate panel investigating the crisis.
Source: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:16 pm

JAL seen posting loss of $1.7 billion: report

TOKYO (Reuters) - Debt-ridden Japan Airlines (JAL) is forecast to have posted a group operating loss of about 160 billion yen ($1.7 billion) for the financial year that ended in March, Japan's Sankei newspaper reported on Sunday.



Source: Reuters: Business News | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:04 pm

JAL seen posting loss of $1.7 billion: report

TOKYO (Reuters) - Debt-ridden Japan Airlines (JAL) is forecast to have posted a group operating loss of about 160 billion yen ($1.7 billion) for the financial year that ended in March,...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:04 pm

Flipping houses is back in South Los Angeles

Investors are snapping up foreclosed homes in hopes of making a quick killing.

The musty smell of neglect greeted the two investors as they stepped past the waist-high weeds and peeling paint to cross the threshold of the latest prize: a boarded-up two-story house in South Los Angeles.



Source: L.A. Times - Business | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:03 pm

Meg Whitman has her own definition of ‘the right thing’

The gubernatorial candidate dismisses her preferential treatment in Goldman Sachs IPOs early in the decade as ‘nothing illegal’ at the time and ‘very old’ news. It’s newly relevant now.

Meg Whitman says she lives by the principle of doing the right thing. It's there in the very first line of her autobiography.



Source: L.A. Times - Business | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:00 pm

Shortsighted to oppose bank tax, IMF warns

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Countries that weathered the global economic crisis with their financial systems relatively unscathed are being shortsighted by opposing a global bank levy, the IMF's chief said on Saturday.



Source: Reuters: Business News | 24 Apr 2010 | 8:05 pm

IMF eyes data mission to Argentina

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The IMF and Argentina are talking about sending an IMF technical mission to the country to improve the quality of the government's economic data, a senior IMF...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:34 pm

IMF eyes data mission to Argentina

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The IMF and Argentina are talking about sending an IMF technical mission to the country to improve the quality of the government's economic data, a senior IMF official said on Saturday.



Source: Reuters: Business News | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:34 pm

Goldman emails show how crash turned into cash

NEW YORK - As the US housing turned downward in January 2007, a Goldman Sachs trader wrote in emails to a woman he was apparently courting that investments he had sold were "like Frankenstein turning against his own inventor"."I'm...
Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:20 pm

Ineos quit Britain after ministers snubbed Vat plea

INEOS, the £30 billion chemicals group that is moving offshore to escape UK tax rates, was refused financial help by the government last year when recession slashed its sales.


Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:01 pm

Kate Swann’s £8m nest egg

KATE SWANN, chief executive of WH Smith, could bag a payday of more than £5m under a bumper management incentive plan being drawn up by the newsagent and stationery chain. It would keep her at the helm of the retailer for at least another three years.


Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:01 pm

ITV mulls takeover of Five

ITV is weighing up a shock takeover of Five, a rival broadcaster, as it draws up a strategy to return to growth under new leadership.


Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:01 pm

Dubai to prop up shaky UK ventures

A SOVEREIGN wealth fund in cash-strapped Dubai could be forced to plough more than £100m of fresh capital into one of its UK investments.


Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:01 pm

Farepak’s directors pay up £4m

DIRECTORS of Farepak, the Christmas savings club that collapsed in 2006, are to pay customers £4m compensation.


Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:01 pm

The show must go on for Endemol

GEMMA, a 23-year-old high street store planner from Bristol, is soaking wet but laughing like a drain.
Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:01 pm

All change at Republic as retailer eyes sale

REPUBLIC, the fast-growing fashion chain that sells the trendy Superdry and G-Star brands, has been put up for sale through Rothschild, the investment bank.


Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:01 pm

Recovery mountain is not as steep as it looks

There was something for everybody in Friday’s gross domestic product figures. Growth of 0.2% was weak enough for Labour to say that the economy is too fragile to be entrusted to the Tories, while the opposition parties could retort that if this is the best upturn the government can achieve, it is pretty feeble.
Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:01 pm

Dublin takes Bank of Ireland stake

THE Irish government is in advanced discussions to take a 35% stake in Bank of Ireland (BOI), as part of a €3.4 billion (£3.1 billion) emergency capital raising. Details of the package are expected to be unveiled tomorrow.


Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:01 pm

Goldman trader’s email slur

FABRICE TOURRE, the 31-year-old trader at the centre of the Goldman Sachs fraud allegations, dismissed the complex debt products he created for the bank as “pure intellectual masturbation”.


Source: Latest Business News from Times Online | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:01 pm

Obama links auto industry woes, financial overhaul (AP)

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, center, General Motors CEO Edward Whitacre, left, and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers, right, meet at the Treasury Department in Washington, Wednesday, April 21, 2010.   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - President Barack Obama on Saturday cited encouraging signs of an auto industry rebound as he promoted stronger financial rules that he said would help prevent a repeat of the crisis that pushed carmakers to the brink.



Source: Yahoo! News: Business News | 24 Apr 2010 | 5:46 pm

World Bank to reach deal on vote change: sources

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World Bank member countries reached a preliminary agreement on a 3.13 percent shift in voting power to give emerging and developing nations greater influence in the...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 24 Apr 2010 | 5:30 pm

World Bank to reach deal on vote change: sources

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World Bank member countries reached a preliminary agreement on a 3.13 percent shift in voting power to give emerging and developing nations greater influence in the global institution.



Source: Reuters: Business News | 24 Apr 2010 | 5:30 pm

Goldman in crash profit boasts

Goldman Sachs executives boasted about the money the bank made while the US housing was collapsing, e-mails show.
Source: BBC News | Business | World Edition | 24 Apr 2010 | 5:06 pm

No exchange rate debate in IMF meeting

Ministers at the International Monetary Fund’s spring meeting welcomed the recovery in the world economy but either deferred agreement on or refused to discuss altogether the most contentious issues in front of them
Source: Financial Times - US homepage | 24 Apr 2010 | 4:33 pm

Minnesota man out to change UK retail

Ostensibly it's hard to see what all the fuss it about. For two years threat of invasion by Best Buy the American electrical retailer, has struck fear into Britain's biggest retailers including DSG International, the owner of Dixons, Curry's and PC World, and even Tesco.
Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 24 Apr 2010 | 4:26 pm

Osborne to replace Serious Fraud Office with super-agency

British businesses could be scrutinised by a "super detective" with the combined powers of a swathe of economic crimebusters including the Serious Fraud Office and Financial Services Authority under radical plans by the Conservative Party.
Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 24 Apr 2010 | 3:43 pm

Coast Guard: Oil leaking from well at blast site

The Coast Guard says oil is now leaking from the damaged well that fed a massive rig that exploded this week off Louisiana's coast. Guard officials on Saturday estimated that as much as...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 24 Apr 2010 | 3:37 pm

New flagship store for Apple in central London

Apple is finalising plans to open a new flagship store in central London as it prepares for the British launch of its new iPad tablet computer.
Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 24 Apr 2010 | 3:34 pm

Greece 'should not fear IMF'

International Monetary Fund gives Greeks reassurance as it prepares to take charge of overhauling the country's economy.
Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 24 Apr 2010 | 3:27 pm

E-mails from Goldman trader on subprime collapse

First, the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released e-mail threads among Goldman executives showing them boasting at the money they were making by betting against the...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 24 Apr 2010 | 3:27 pm

iPad theft risk shown in Colorado incident


Source: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com | 24 Apr 2010 | 3:25 pm

Powerful Banking Group Rejects Global Reform Plan

A number of the finance ministers and central bank managers in Europe support the creation of a bank tax to handle financial firm bailouts in the future. A related levy has been discussed by some members of Congress to build a $50 billion fund to take care of the cost of bank “wind downs” in the US.  [...]

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Source: 24/7 Wall St. | 24 Apr 2010 | 3:24 pm

Barclays set to announce £2bn profits

Barclays will continue its run of record beating results when it unveils first quarter numbers on Friday, with profits at the bank expected to have reached £2bn in the first three months of the year.
Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 24 Apr 2010 | 3:06 pm

Goldman hits back over fraud claims

Goldman Sachs has launched an all out attack on the US Senate committee investigating the collapse of the mortgage market in America after the investment bank was accused of profiting from falling house prices.
Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 24 Apr 2010 | 3:02 pm

Germans must prepare for tough times to cut deficit: minister

Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned Germans to prepare for drastic economic measures over the next few years to get control of public finances, in a magazine article to...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 24 Apr 2010 | 3:01 pm

RBS bows to shareholder pressure over bonuses

Government-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland will this week overhaul its controversial executive pay scheme.
Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 24 Apr 2010 | 2:56 pm

Astra banks on emerging markets sales

AstraZeneca will for the first time report on its products' emerging markets sales when it unveils its first-quarter results on Thursday, as part of the drug maker's strategy to increase its business in the new powerhouse markets of China, India and Brazil.
Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 24 Apr 2010 | 2:33 pm

3D TV 'heralds the end of the couch potato'

What uses technology associated with 1950s cinema, can cost twice as much a second-hand car and means the end of the TV couch potato?
Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 24 Apr 2010 | 2:29 pm

Six-day flight ban cost London £100m

The eruption of the volcano in Iceland and the consequent six-day shutdown of Britain's air space cost London £100m in lost tourism spending, early estimates show.
Source: Finance and Business. Latest breaking news, stocks and shares from the UK and world | 24 Apr 2010 | 2:16 pm

Shops to remain closed until 1pm

The Department of Labour is reminding anyone looking for a spend-up today that shops are closed until 1pm.It is also urging retailers, including market stall holders, to seek legal advice if they plan to open this morning. They...
Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:58 pm

Minn. judge approves sale of Petters' mansion

A judge has approved the sale of the Minnesota mansion that once belonged to convicted businessman Tom Petters. Court documents say a couple identified as Brian and Carolyn Taylor...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:58 pm

Volunteers asked to miss flights

UK airlines are seeking volunteers to change flights so people stranded since the ash cloud disruption can return home.
Source: BBC News | Business | World Edition | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:54 pm

Eye on Greece, finance leaders to attack debt

Financial leaders, with a nervous eye on Greece, pledged on Saturday to address the risks posed to the global recovery from high government debt. The policy-setting panel of the...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:39 pm

Putin wins Austrian gas deal, scorns EU pipeline

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria signed up to build part of Russia's South Stream gas pipeline on Saturday, and visiting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin scorned the EU's rival Nabucco project as...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:28 pm

Graham blasts Reid's 'cynical ploy' on immigration

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is lashing out at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for apparently putting immigration reform ahead of climate change as a Senate priority. Graham, of...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsBusiness | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:09 pm

AXA Rosenberg finds coding error in risk program

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Equity Investment management firm AXA Rosenberg LLC has found an error in its risk-modeling program that caused it to understate some common risks in its portfolio optimization system, according to a letter to investors posted on the company's website.



Source: Reuters: Business News | 24 Apr 2010 | 12:49 pm

Stocks to Watch: Stocks to watch Monday

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday's session are Caterpillar Inc., Texas Instruments Inc. and BlackRock Inc.



Source: MarketWatch.com - Top Stories | 24 Apr 2010 | 12:38 pm

UBS, Ernst settle HealthSouth cases for $250.5 million

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Swiss bank UBS AG and the accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP have agreed to $250.5 million of settlements to resolve investor lawsuits over a fraud that nearly destroyed the hospital operator HealthSouth Corp.



Source: Reuters: Business News | 24 Apr 2010 | 12:12 pm

Goldman CEO lauded profit from subprime shorts

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc's top executive boasted in late 2007 about the money the investment bank was making from betting against risky mortgages, according to a collection of e-mails released by a Senate panel on Saturday.



Source: Reuters: Business News | 24 Apr 2010 | 11:52 am

Goldman Sachs reportedly preps detailed defense

Goldman Sachs is circling the wagons, armed with reportedly its most detailed defense yet against the allegations that it intentionally misled clients in its mortgage securities business.



Source: MarketWatch.com - Top Stories | 24 Apr 2010 | 11:34 am

Nick Godt's Market Medics: Animal spirits are back

Bulls led by earnings, green shoots, stampede past Goldman.



Source: MarketWatch.com - Top Stories | 24 Apr 2010 | 11:16 am

Profits still hold key; Greece could temper

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street is heading into another earnings blitz next week and the prospects of strong results from bellwethers like Caterpillar Inc and 3M Co should propel indexes to new recovery highs.



Source: Reuters: Business News | 24 Apr 2010 | 11:03 am

Obama lauds auto sector rebound, pushes reform

In weekly Internet speech, president renews call for financial reform.



Source: MarketWatch.com - Top Stories | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:24 am

Geithner: give emerging markets more IMF power

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Emerging-market economies should be given an increased say in global financial institutions at the cost of rich countries, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Saturday.



Source: Reuters: Business News | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:23 am

NUMMI will not be repaid by California agency

The closed auto plant in Fremont was denied reimbursement of $2 million in training funds by a state agency that said the money would be better spent training workers at companies still in business. ...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNPaperBusiness | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:05 am

Back to finance school

Virtually every financial adviser in the country will be back at school in the next few months studying for a qualification which will allow them to stay in business.Up until now there has been no requirement at all for people...
Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:00 am

Spinal surgery a pain for Watson

They can rebuild him - multi-million-dollar businessman Eric Watson has had eight large screws inserted in his back as he recovers from a skiing accident.A source close to Watson said he was in constant pain after having the screws...
Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:00 am

Island cuts it close

A budget vacuum at New Caledonia Tourism has seen media chef Julie Le Clerc's role as gourmet ambassador to the Pacific Island nation halted and marketing work taken in-house.As the tourism industry heads into prime winter holiday...
Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:00 am

More options for mums

Leading local businesswoman Sarah Trotman has weighed in on the latest controversy over working mothers, backing an Australian columnist who says working mums have never had it so good.The founder and managing director of the...
Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:00 am

Investors to sue company

Dozens of people who claim they are missing up to $60,000 each on property deals are planning a class legal action after a judge described one of the scheme's contracts as "crafty".The case has been greeted as a victory for those...
Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:00 am

Plan for rise in GST

A GST hike has been on the agenda since Prime Minister John Key's opening speech to Parliament in February.What can small to medium-sized businesses do to get on top of a change? * Accounting systems: Businesses need to check...
Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:00 am

Bernard Hickey: Boomers' tastes hobble a generation

Baby boomers have just experienced the best financial decade of their lives. The equity in their houses rose by more than $200 billion to over $400 billion and they went on a debt-fuelled spending spree to celebrate. They...
Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:00 am

Deborah Hill Cone: Let's chart our own course

As a nation, the idea of success terrifies us. The other day I thought I would save time by listening to my self-hypnotism CD in the car while I was driving to pick up my daughter from Snowplanet. I've been moving from the marital...
Source: nzherald.co.nz - Business | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:55 am

Goldman profited on shorts, emails show

Goldman Sachs made big profits betting against the mortgage market even though it stated in its 2009 annual report to investors that it ‘did not generate enormous net revenues by betting against residential related products’
Source: Financial Times - US homepage | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:45 am

How credit watchdogs fueled the crisis

As the real estate market came crashing down, widespread packaging of toxic mortgages into complex financial products, blessed by credit rating agencies, caused the crisis to spread to the larger economy.
Source: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:44 am

60,000+ jobs: They're hiring!

These Fortune 100 employers have at least 200 openings each. What are they looking for in a new hire?
Source: Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:41 am

Thai PM rejects protesters’ peace offer

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva a rejected a new, compromise offer by anti-government red-shirt demonstrators to end weeks of increasingly violent protests in return for early polls
Source: Financial Times - US homepage | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:05 am

Personal Finance Daily: The week's 10 best Personal Finance stories

In case you missed them, here are the top 10 Personal Finance stories from MarketWatch for the week of April 19-23:



Source: MarketWatch.com - Top Stories | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:01 am

Top Ten: The week's Top 10 videos on MarketWatch

In case you missed them, here are the top 10 videos that appeared on MarketWatch for the week of April 19-23:



Source: MarketWatch.com - Top Stories | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:01 am

The Unusual Suspects (ARMH, DEAR, ETFC, GE, GES, MED, PALM, RSH, RIG, USG)

This week’s big coming attractions via The Unusual Suspects could have been all about earnings again as the earnings onslaught continues.  Our big events we are watching for this coming week based on upcoming news or based upon follow-on trading from last week includes ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH), Dearborn Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ: DEAR), E*TRADE [...]

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Source: 24/7 Wall St. | 24 Apr 2010 | 5:45 am

Earnings Outlook: Ford to keep rolling with quarterly check-up

Wall Street is expecting to see further concrete evidence of the resurgent automaker’s recent strides.



Source: MarketWatch.com - Top Stories | 24 Apr 2010 | 5:00 am

'Chinese games'

US politicians accused of playing with China.
Source: BBC News | Business | World Edition | 24 Apr 2010 | 4:36 am