 Stern Hu and colleagues to face trial in MarchRio Tinto has been made aware of a trial date for four of its workers in... | |
 Japanese government lending at 0.1%Japan's central bank has been encouraging financial institutions to lend more with a new stimulus... |
 Boeing 777 software gets fault reportThe Federal Aviation Administration in the US has ordered Boeing to fix software in hundreds of 777... |
 Irish air travellers stay homeAir traffic in Ireland has slumped considerably over the past... |
 U.S. stocks end solidly higherU.S. stocks ended the day higher Wednesday, with solid demand foir financial shares taking... |
 British advertising watchdog bans climate adsTwo government advertisements in Britain have been banned because of... |
 US man accused of Ponzi-like behaviourA Colorado man has been accused of running an investment-fraud scheme while still under investigation for an earlier securities-fraud... |
 Business class fliers being wooed by airlinesElite travellers are expected to start flying again soon, with airlines now gearing up for business... |
| Microsoft Rival: Browser Downloads Double BRUSSELS Norway's Opera said Thursday that downloads of its browser more than doubled after Microsoft Corp. was forced to give European users a choice of Web software to settle European Union... |
| Pelosi Says Gop, Insurance Companies Will Mount All-out Assault On Democrats' Health Overhaul WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is predicting an all-out assault by Republicans and the insurance industry as Democrats prepare to push their health care overhaul through Congress. The... |
| House Dems: Health Care Bill Will Reduce Deficit By More Than $100b Over 10 Years WASHINGTON - House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously deliver on President Barack Obama's promise to expand... |
| Hawk Associates Investor Relations Names Wall Street Professional Tom Fox As Senior Associate KEY LARGO, FL and NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - March 18, 2010) - Hawk Associates Inc., a full service international investor relations and financial media relations firm, announced today the... |
| Microsoft To Launch Office 2010 For Indian Users In June Global software giant Microsoft Corp will launch the latest version of its popular application suite MS Office 2010 for Indian users in June, a top official said on Thursday. "The Office 2010 will... |
| University Cuts Are Already A Reality | Alex Callinicos £500m worth of cuts in higher education. Everyone expects these to be only the beginning of a brutal squeeze in state spending on universities over the next few years.But the cuts are already a... |
| Timberland Boss Jeffrey Swartz Puts The Boot In – Over His Own Failures Jeffrey Swartz, chief executive of Timberland, admires the way Nike spins a brand image into an 'experience' Photograph: Tim Knox As a general rule, captains of industry shun exhibitions of... |
| Markets News Afternoon: Irish Services Producer Prices Down 4.1% In 2009; Eu Trade Deficit Up; Initial Weekly Jobless Benefit Claims Fall 5,000 In Us See Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it's a problem that developed when... |
| Blacks Irked By Wal-mart Loudspeaker Incident Victoria Arter was stunned by the loudspeaker announcement."Attention, Wal-Mart shoppers," she recalled hearing the calm male voice begin. "Will all the black people please leave the store. Thank... |
| Non-us Stocks Should Be Over Half Of Portfolio: Advisor While emerging market investing is a universally popular theme this year, one advisor is going full-bore and advising clients to put more than half their stock portfolios... |
| Traders’ Cell Phones Would Be Recorded Under U.k. Fsa Proposals March 18 (Bloomberg) -- Traders’ cell-phone conversations should be taped in an effort to stamp out insider trading, according to proposals from the U.K. financial... |
| El-erian Says Imf To Aid Greece After ‘chicken’ Game March 18 (Bloomberg) -- The International Monetary Fund will come to the rescue of debt-strapped Greece after a “game of chicken,” according to Mohamed El-Erian, co-chief investment... |
| ‘jihad Jane’ Pleads Not Guilty To Terror Plot Charges March 18 (Bloomberg) -- A Pennsylvania woman who used the alias “Jihad Jane” pleaded not guilty to charges she plotted to recruit jihadist fighters and conspired to murder a Swedish... |
| U.s. Economy: Consumer Prices Stagnate, Leading Index Climbs March 18 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy will keep expanding without a pickup in inflation that would require the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, reports today... |
| Hewlett-packard Wins Ink Cartridge Patent Resolutions said Thursday that patent complaints it filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission against 11 ink cartridge suppliers have been resolved. Companies named in the complaint... |
| Microsoft Cuts And Pastes An Egg blogger Long Zheng reports he was told by Microsoft that cut and paste is something the company hopes will find a place in Windows Phone 7 Series at some future point.Now, the initial excuse the... |
| Microsoft Slashes Virtual Desktop Licence Cost Microsoft is lowering the price of licensing the Windows operating system in a virtual desktop deployment, and announcing new bundles with partner Citrix. Microsoft customers have complained that... |
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| Racist Pa Remark Stuns Wal-mart Store "I can't go back in," said Patricia Covington, who was also in the store and spoke to Philly.com. "I went to Target instead. I can't bring myself to go back in... |
| Barclaycard Confirms Job Losses Barclaycard has confirmed that it is to close an office in Scotland with the loss of about 350 jobs.The company revealed plans to relocate its loan centre Barclays Partner Finance in Glasgow to other... |
| Mbna To Stop Credit Card Cheques The biggest issuer of credit card cheques in the UK - MBNA - is to stop issuing them to customers from 31 March.The decision comes ahead of a ban on unsolicited credit card cheques that will become... |
| Cartel Client Review Closed Down One of the biggest claims management companies, Cartel Client Review, has been shut down by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).The MoJ has been investigating Cartel since February after complaints from... |
| Fraud Squad Questions Former Irish Banker Sean FitzPatrick - former chairman and chief executive of the now nationalised Anglo Irish Bank - was arrested in a dawn raid at his house in Greystones, Co Wicklow. Officers searched his house and... |
| Apple Board Member Jerome York Dies At 71 SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple Inc. board member Jerome York has died, the company said Thursday. York, 71, was hospitalized Wednesday after reportedly suffering from a brain aneurism. He joined Apple's... |
| National Bank Of Greece Profit Slumps 40% LONDON -- National Bank of Greece said its annual profit slumped 40% to 923 million euros, hurting by 1.06 billion euros of provisions and 238 million euros of write-offs in its bond and equities... |
| Money-market Fund Assets Hit New Lows NEW YORK -- Total assets in money-market funds have fallen below $3 trillion for the first time since late 2007, as higher federal funds rates coaxed investors back into the broader market.Assets... |
| Epa Launching Water Study Of Hyrdaulic Fracturing NEW YORK -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it'll conduct a study to investigate any potential adverse impact that hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas may have on... |
| Air Products Raises Quarterly Dividend For 28th Straight Year APD ) raised its quarterly dividend for the 28th straight year, saying the latest increase will be 8.9%. The industrial gas maker's increase to 49 cents a share will add $35 million a year to the... |
| Update: Price Guidance Out On Cnh Global's $822.5 Million Bond (Adds issuance details in the last two paragraphs.) NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Price guidance is out on farm and construction machinery manufacturer CNH Global NV's (CNH, NHL.BE) $822.5 million deal,... |
| Alternative Core Cpi Measures Unchanged In Feb. WASHINGTON -- Core inflation was flat in February, according to two alternative methods of figuring underlying inflation that don't automatically exclude food and energy costs, the Cleveland Federal... |
| Dollar Extends Gains Versus Euro NEW YORK -- The dollar extended gains against the euro in late morning trading on Thursday after a spokeswoman for the International Monetray Fund said Greece hasn't approached the IMF for... |
| Correct:2nd Update: Aegis Appoints Jerry Buhlmann Ceo ("=2nd UPDATE: Aegis Appoints Jerry Buhlman CEO; Sees Modest Growth" published at 1238 GMT incorrectly spelled the last name of the new CEO in the headline and throughout the story. The error was... |
| Imf Spokeswoman: Portugal Budget Plan Seems Appropriate Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Portugal's budget plan seems appropriate, with realistic macroeconomic assumptions and goals, a spokeswoman at the International Monetary Fund said... |
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| Toyota, Lexus Slip In Key Dependability Study DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota and its luxury Lexus brand slipped for the second consecutive year in an influential vehicle dependability study released on... |
| Loonie Ripe For A Correction: Rosenberg The Canadian dollar is overvalued by at least six cents, according to David Rosenberg, chief economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff + Associates. With net speculative long positions for the loonie... |
| Canadians Need To Save More, Dodge Warns Canadians hoping to "replace" 70% of their working income when retiring at 65 will need to save a "very high" portion of their annual pre-retirement earnings, says a C.D. Howe... |
