Business News – Am770chqr.com
SEOUL, South Korea – World stocks sank Monday after disappointing data from the U.S. undermined hopes of a fast economic recovery and a strong yen whacked Tokyo’s market. Reports on manufacturing and home sales released Friday stoked concerns over

Overseas, Sedate Affiliates Give CNBC a Lift – New York Times
CNBC affiliates around the world make the business network a truly global enterprise, but viewers in markets like Poland, above, rarely get to see the frantic presentations of stars like Jim Cramer. Instead, the affiliates tend to provide a reliable

Sweden’s Gripen considers Thai maintenance centre – Nation – Thailand
Charnchai was speaking after after meeting the firm’s senior executives in Stockholm, which has supplied fighter planes to a number of countries. Thai News Agency said the firm wants to invest in establishing an aviation information and maintenance

Oil Breaks and the World Shakes – FXStreet.com
Oil breaks as the market shakes as the reality of tight supplies in a post Fed Meeting world. The dollar rebounds and commodity break as the market realizes that while the Fed is still supplying stimulus it is not going to last forever. With

A New Voice for Business in Northern British Columbia – PR Inside
Northern BC Business www.northernbcbusiness.com is a new website dedicated to business news from Northern BC. We will be offering interesting business news about Northern BC from a business perspective and what others around the globe are saying

Unilever to Buy Businesses From Sara Lee – New York Times
The businesses to be acquired, subject to regulatory approval, include Sara Lee s worldwide body care products business and its European detergents arm. The products include the Sanex brand of soap; Duschdas, a German shower gel maker; and several

Herald-Leader going to 3 sections most days – Lexington Herald-Leader
Starting Monday, readers will see some changes in the Herald-Leader. The most noticeable is that there will be three sections on Mondays through Saturdays. There have been three on Tuesdays, four on the other days. The current A section and City

Business news briefs: Dow cleared to sell Morton Salt – Detroit Free Press
Dow Chemical Co., the largest U.S. chemical maker, won U.S. approval to sell its Morton Salt business to K+S AG for $1.68 billion. K+S must divest its bulk deicing salt assets in Maine and Connecticut to prevent the combined company from controlling

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Business News | STLtoday
Ed Whitacre built Southwestern Bell into telcom behemoth AT&T. He helped close the deal to sell Anheuser-Busch to InBev. Can he also sell a Chevy?

Senator calls transactions by ACORN a ‘shell game’ – sign on sandiego.com
WASHINGTON Documents released by a Senate Republican yesterday show that leaders of the ACORN community-organizing network transferred several million dollars in charitable and government money meant for the poor to affiliates that have political

Geithner: US wants bigger role for China in IMF – The State
PITTSBURGH — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the U.S. supports China’s bid for greater voting rights in international organizations like the IMF and the World Bank for itself and other fast-growing economies despite European reservations

Organization promotes freethinking – Murray State News
William Zingrone, assistant professor of psychology, started the Free-Thinker Society. A new campus organization promises to give students a forum to explore and even question their religious beliefs. Known as The Free-Thinker Society, the club was

GOP: ACORN Misusing Contributions – Myfoxdc.com
WASHINGTON – The embattled community activist group ACORN appears to be collecting charitable contributions through affiliate organizations that it then uses for impermissible lobbying and political activity, says the Republican staff of the Senate

New Effort Underway to Repeal State Gay Marriage Ban – KXTV News10Net
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A group is pushing ahead with a campaign to repeal California’s same-sex marriage ban, even though some other gay rights organizations say it is too soon for another expensive ballot fight. Los Angeles-based Love Honor Cherish

YellowBrix buys Screaming Media – Washington Business Journal
After a search for the right partner, Dow Jones picked the Alexandria-based provider of news and business information services, which will absorb Screaming Media s product lines, customers and content services under the Screaming Media brand. In

Rio Tinto schedules smelter rebuild – ninemsn
Mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd will next month start rebuilding a smelter furnace at its Kennecott Utah Copper (KUC) operation in the United States. Rio Tinto said in an investor presentation on Friday it had scheduled furnace rebuilds for October 2009

Latest Business News – ABQJournal
New Mexico’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate climbed to 7.5 percent in August 2009 – a 12-year high – up from 7.0 percent in July and 4.3 percent a year ago, the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions reported on Thursday. Year-over-year

Business news briefs: Battery firm’s shares soar – Detroit Free Press
A123 Systems made its initial public offering Thursday despite years of failing to profit. Its shares soared more than 50%. The company already has huge backers in the Department of Energy and Chrysler, and the clamor for shares shows how much

Most Hong Kong Stocks Fall on U.S. Home Sales; China Banks Rise – Bloomberg
Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) — Most Hong Kong stocks declined, dragging the Hang Seng Index to its worst weekly performance in a month, after sales of existing homes in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped last month and commodity prices fell. Liquidity is

New Effort Underway to Repeal State Gay Marriage Ban – KXTV News10Net
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A group is pushing ahead with a campaign to repeal California’s same-sex marriage ban, even though some other gay rights organizations say it is too soon for another expensive ballot fight. Los Angeles-based Love Honor Cherish

Geithner: US wants bigger role for China in IMF – The State
PITTSBURGH — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the U.S. supports China’s bid for greater voting rights in international organizations like the IMF and the World Bank for itself and other fast-growing economies despite European reservations

GOP: ACORN Misusing Contributions – Myfoxdc.com
WASHINGTON – The embattled community activist group ACORN appears to be collecting charitable contributions through affiliate organizations that it then uses for impermissible lobbying and political activity, says the Republican staff of the Senate

Jewish push blamed for Egypt’s loss of election – The Washington Times
Egyptians are blaming heavy-handed lobbying by Jewish organizations and intellectuals for the failure of Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosny to win the position of UNESCO secretary general. The tightly fought race for the head of the prestigious U

Senator calls transactions by ACORN a ‘shell game’ – sign on sandiego.com
WASHINGTON Documents released by a Senate Republican yesterday show that leaders of the ACORN community-organizing network transferred several million dollars in charitable and government money meant for the poor to affiliates that have political