The US energy company is the latest to announce a shift to more profitable oil reserves after weak demand sparks a drop to 10-year low in natural gas prices
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Conoco to cut North American gas output
Simplification is way forward in the latest bid by television manufacturers to return their sets to the heart of the living room
Jesse Bhattal, the broker’s wholesale banking chief, is the latest casualty of its surfeit of international ambition over execution ability
Allegations that Countrywide overcharged borrowers on race, the latest in a series of legal problems BofA inherited from its troubled unit
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BofA to pay $335m over discrimination claims
The fruit producer is the latest company to move to stop using oil from Canada’s tar sands in its fuel supplies, after a campaign by an environmental group
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Chiquita to stop use of tar sands oil
The move is the latest step in dismantling the ‘financial supermarket’ put together by Sandy Weill in the 1990s
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Citigroup offloads remainder of Primerica
In the latest setback for banks in Europe, Moody’s Investors Service has put the subordinated debt of nearly 90 of them under review for a possible downgrade
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The failed appeal at the Strasbourg-based court is the latest twist in a nine-year battle by the 81-year-old billionaire hedge fund manager
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Soros fails to quash insider trading conviction
Oil assets set to be fetch about $5bn in the latest attempt by oil and gas explorers in the region to attract investment
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Anadarko sounds out Brazil buyers
The withdrawal of Hapag-Lloyd and Siemens’ Osram unit is the latest instalment in what has been a miserable year for global equity markets
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German listing delays add to IPO gloom
Group beefs up its subsea pipeline business with the purchase of Global Industries, the latest in a flurry of oil and gas services deals
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France’s Technip acquires US rival for $1.1bn
If you grant it permission to access your information and post to your wall (which you obviously shouldn't do), it will immediately begin posting links to itself on your wall while distracting you with a scam survey that earns a commission for … Latest Scam Claims Facebook is Deleting Accounts
The Olympus Pen E-P3 is one of the latest digital cameras to allow users to transfer images without cables or wires
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Be on guard for new, more sophisticated work -at- home scam , local banker warns News-Reporter A sophisticated work -at- home scam has taken a Wilkes County man for some $3000, and his banker wants to warn others to watch out for the latest twist on an ongoing con game. You must be an online subscriber to view this story. … and more
Democracy Now Matt Taibbi's Must-Read Hatchet Job on the SEC Business Insider I did not see on his latest piece, “Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?” on businessinsider so I decided to post it. Against National Archive rules, the SEC has been destroying documents from MUI (investigations that did not result in … Covering Up Wall Street Crimes: Matt Taibbi Exposes How SEC Shredded Thousands … Democracy Now all 2 news articles
Japanese group is preparing to unveil the latest version of US top-seller which now faces a much tougher stable of rivals
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Toyota looks to new Camry to help recovery
Allegations are the latest in a series to cast doubt on the corporate governance and accounting of Chinese companies listed overseas
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SinoTech forced to defend governance
Post Newsletters & Alerts Washington Post (blog) Your essential source for the latest news on the intersection of Wall Street and Washington. A weekly, close-up look at the gadget universe. By Hayley Tsukayama Airbnb has apologized to its customers and set up an insurance fund. … and more
Carmaker struggles to lead the field in its quest to make cars communications hubs on wheels after many drivers complain that the latest gadgetry is too complicated
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Complexity stalls Ford’s high-tech drive
Bookselling is the latest industry to be streamlined by online competition
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Borders collapse signals a new retail chapter
US IT services company’s purchase of Zeus is the latest acquisition involving companies in the fast-growing remote data handling sector
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Riverbed buys UK cloud company for $140m
The battle of the beverage brands has been ratcheted even higher with the latest advertising campaign of PepsiCo having gone viral
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Pepsi takes aim at Coca-Cola’s ad icons
As stress test detail come in, the more ridiculous the latest results look. For example, the four largest French banks have $425 billion in loans to institutions and individuals in Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain. That is on top of whatever sovereign debt they are holding. Please consider the Wall Street Journal report It Isn’t Just Sovereigns Stressing Europe’s BanksDuring Europe’s 15-month financial crisis, investor and analyst fears have centered largely on banks’ holdings of …
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Details Cast More Suspicion on Latest European Bank "Stress Tests"
The US stock market’s plan to end its inverted pricing model is the latest move by exchanges to drum up activity amid low trading volumes
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Direct Edge changes pricing to boost trading
This latest round of cost cutting was as predictable as sunrise as bank bosses look to guard their personal fortunes
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I cannot help but laugh at the latest nonsense out of ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet. Please consider Trichet: Need to prevent oil-fed inflation spiral.Speaking at an event organized by the London School of Economics, Trichet said the recent surge in energy and commodity costs had driven the sharp increase in headline euro zone inflation over the last year. “In those circumstances, the central bank must prevent increases in the prices of raw materials from being incorporated into the …
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Wendy’s/Arby’s will sell a controlling stake in Arby’s to Roark Capital Group for $130m, the latest chain to be scooped up by private equity
Update on the latest in business: NECN NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street has been unable to break out of a losing streak for more than a month. The Dow and the S&P have dropped for five straight weeks. In last week's trading, the key average dropped more than 2 percent. The culprit recently has … and more
The €2.1bn deal is the latest in a string of spin-offs for the French private equity group, which continues to hive off companies in preparation for a new fundraising
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PAI sells Spie to buy-out consortium
NAR chief economist Lawrence Nun blames banks for “holding onto huge cash reserves” as the primary reason for the latest plunge in housing. He also cites the weather, oil prices, a temporary soft patch, and everything but motherhood and apple pie. Please consider April Pending Home Sales Drop After Two Monthly Gains.Pending home sales fell in April with regional variations following increases in February and March, with unusual weather and economic softness adding to ongoing …
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Pending Home Sales Plunge 11.6%; NAR Blames "Tight Credit", Weather, Temporary Soft Patch; Excess Reserve Nonsense Yet Again
Samir Barai, who directed his analyst to “shred as much as u can” weeks before his arrest, is the latest Wall Street trader to fall in a crackdown on insider trading
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Yandex, Russia’s largest search engine, is the latest beneficiary of investors’ appetite for hot web companies
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Today the Institute for Supply Management issued the April 2011 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business
Reuters (blog) Examining Bernie Madoff, 'The Wizard Of Lies' NPR By Diana B. Henriques Henriques was not duped by Madoff financially, but she did know him in the 1990s on Wall Street as one of the key figures reshaping the American stock market through automation and computerization. In late 2008, when news of his … 'The Wizard of Lies' – The Latest Book On Bernie Madoff Here Is The City all 14 news articles
Sam Antar, former CFO of massive fraud Crazy Eddi talks on Fox Business Network about how the U.S. government uses accounting tricks to conceal the reality of the federal budget. Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
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U.S. government lies to taxpayers using accounting gimmicks
Buy-out groups Barclays Private Equity and LBO France will sell their 90% stake in the electrification equipment specialist in the latest energy sector acquisition by General Electric
Nomura has replaced its head of investment banking in the US, in the latest management change to hit the Japanese investment bank
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The investment firm becomes the latest Silicon Valley institution to be tarnished in a scandal after a consultant it hired to advise on buy-out ideas was charged by the SEC
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It may surprise you to learn that job losses in the most recent decade ending February 2011 are reasonably comparable to the job losses from 1929-1939. Moreover, if we exclude government and “quasi- government” jobs, the latest decade is the worse ever, by far. Please consider A Decade of Labor Market Pain by Mike Mandel.In February 2001, nonfarm payrolls hit their business cycle peak of 132.5 million. Ten years later, the latest data pegs February 2011 payrolls at 130.5 million, a …
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Don't Get Torpedoed by the Latest Stock Scam Stock Market Weekly Wall Street is lying to you. The talking heads on television are lying to you. Your banker is lying to you. Your local Congressman is lying to you. Even your own broker is lying to you (mostly because he's being lied to). Realize that I wouldn't make …
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Companies have long used consumer data to understand behaviour, and social media is the latest tool to getting the inside track on what punters want
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Higher petrol prices helped fuel sales at Costco and BJ’s Wholesale Club in the latest quarter, as US shoppers sought out discounts amid growing signs of inflation
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Rising fuel prices aid US retail clubs
Behind on Your Mortgage – Pay Your Association Dues (HOA) http://wp.me/p1jXmb-29 Tweeted 1 hour ago; Improvements in Fannie and Freddie Delinquency Rates: http://t.co/hvBzyD2 RE/MAX Results Tweeted 1 hour ago; Latest Foreclosure Scam …
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Listen up, here comes the latest scam . I can see the Treasury paying for all the bad mortgages (see more debt) to scam the taxpayer. That is the only reason to defund Fred and Fanny . Besides al the fat cats bonuses will be paid for …
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Archer Daniels Midland, the US-based agricultural trading house, has reported $732m in net profit in the latest quarter, up from $567m, as food importers stepped up purchases from foreign sources
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Shortfalls spark record ADM grain shipments
(From WSJ.com) Times are good for Web- and mobile-application developers. The number of online listings containing the keywords “HTML5,” “Mobile app,” and “Android,” have skyrocketed over the past year, making them the fastest growing keywords in jobs posted online, according to data tracked by jobs search engine Indeed.com. The number of job listings requesting HTML5, the latest version of the language used to display Web pages, increased 13-fold between the first and fourth quarters of last year, according to Indeed. “Twitter” and “jQuery,” which is used in JavaScript programming, rounded out the top five fastest growing keywords. Read more.
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How’s Your HTML5? App Skills in Demand
The software group reports strong sales of its Kinect controller and the latest Office version but fails to dispel concerns over the iPad’s impact on its core operating system business
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Sales and earnings boost for Microsoft
Mortgage Lenders Committed Massive Fraud and Now Wall St. Wants to Escape the Law AlterNet We need to repeat a simple mantra: No more bailouts for Wall Street . Sign up to stay up to date on the latest News & Politics headlines via email. … and more