Saturday, January 31, 2009

US BUSINESS NEWS - 15 lawmakers to join Obama to watch Super Bowl - News-Democrat

WASHINGTON -- He met at the White House with congressional leaders from both parties. He went to Capitol Hill for private meetings with House and Senate Republicans. President Barack Obama even schmoozed with a group over cocktails at the executive in New York Shares News

ARIZONA COMPANIES - Beacon Federal Bancorp, Inc. Announces Financial Results for the ... - MSNBC


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Beacon Federal Bancorp, Inc. Announces Financial Results for the ...
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SNAPSHOT - Financial Crisis - 1700 GMT
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- US stocks closed out worst January ever with another slide on Friday. Dow .DJI fell 148.15 points, or 1.8 percent, to 8000.86. ...
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Apply for college financial aid in tough economy
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DENVER COMPANIES - Obama pledges mortgage help with new financial plan - Forbes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama promised Saturday to help lower Americans' mortgage costs with a new plan, coming soon, that would revive the financial system and "get credit flowing again." Obama, who has made fighting the country in Dow Jones News >

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to lower mortgage costs, offer job-creating loans for small businesses, get credit flowing and rein in free-spending executives as he readies a new road map for spending billions from the in Dow Jones News >

Who do you trust? One creeping consequence of today’s complicated financial world is that we trust fewer people than did our grandparents, who were unlikely to have even a bank account, let alone a structured investment based on put and call in Dow Jones News >

The Wall Street crowd that packed into the ballroom of the fancy Times Square hotel didn't know what was about to hit it. As the bankers and analysts sliced into their grilled beef tenderloin and chicken, Sheila Bair stepped up to the microphone and in Dow Jones News >

WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - The Obama administration is unlikely to impose tougher restrictions on executive pay on most firms receiving aid under the government's $700 billion financial rescue program, The Washington Post reported on Saturday in Dow Jones News >

I told you so. That’s the cry from a growing band of financial doomsayers. While only weeks ago nobody could possibly have foreseen the crisis — or so it was said — now, apparently, many people did. Everyone from David Blanchflower, maverick in Dow Jones News >

- Chinese Premier Wen, in Britain, says buying of U.S. Treasuries to depend on need to protect value of foreign investments "Soon my treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, will announce a new strategy for reviving our financial system that gets credit in Dow Jones News >

DOW JONES NEWS - Rallying-Rally of Ireland second leg classification - Reuters


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Rallying-Rally of Ireland second leg classification
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Matthew Wilson (Britain) Ford 09:51.300 8. Khalid Al Qassimi (United Arab Emirates) Ford 11:50.000 9. Eamonn Boland (Ireland) Subaru 12:40.400 10. ...
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Honey? Can we fit a Ford in the living room?
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The Ford Mustang, you say? Just park it over there on the table with Ferrari Testarossa and the Crown Vic police car. Together, they take up a little more ...
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US BUSINESS NEWS - Brown Warns Global Economy Is Slipping into Financial Protectionism - Wall Street Journal


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Brown Warns Global Economy Is Slipping into Financial Protectionism
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By CARRICK MOLLENKAMP British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday warned that the global economy is slipping into a dangerous form of financial ...
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Assisted Living Concepts, Inc. Schedules Fourth Quarter Financial ...
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MENOMONEE FALLS, WI - Assisted Living Concepts, Inc. (NYSE: ALC) announced that it plans to release its 2008 fourth quarter financial results prior to the ...
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DALLAS COMPANIES - Government Finalizing Bank Plan - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has finished drafting the central elements of its plan to rescue the financial markets and is gathering feedback from regulators and Wall Street executives, sources familiar with the matter said Friday. While in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

Gaza, Jan 31 (Xinhua) The Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas slammed Saturday its arch-rival Islamic Hamas movement for seeking to form a new leadership for the Palestinians.”Hamas calls for new leadership aimed at replacing the Palestine in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

NEW YORK (AP) — Most Republican governors have broken with their GOP colleagues in Congress and are pushing for passage of President Barack Obama's economic aid plan that would send billions to states for education, public works and health care in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

Play Video Barack Obama Video: Durham MLK parade kicks off Saturday WRAL Raleigh Play Video Barack Obama Video: Obama discusses economic plans in weekly address AP Play Video Barack Obama Video: 'Tax Issues' FOX News WASHINGTON – The " War on in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

Syria's president is calling for a "positive" dialogue with Washington whose relations with Damascus have long been strained. The official news agency reports Bashar Assad spoke Saturday with a U.S. congressional delegation visiting Damascus. Assad in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi is the latest state trying to unload pricey property because of the economic meltdown. The state House voted Thursday to sell an eight-seat jet valued at $3.7 million that's used to haul Gov. Haley Barbour and other in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

Obama steps down. Photo: Stan Honda, Getty Images US President-elect Barack Obama is relinquishing his seat as the junior senator from Illinois, leaving it up to Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich to name a replacement. His resignation is effective in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

PRINCETON, N.J. - Riku Helenius became the 391 st player to play in the National Hockey League after the ECHL when he made two saves for Tampa Bay after replacing former ECHL All-Star Mike Smith in the third period on Friday. Selected in the first in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

This morning I'd like to talk about some good news and some bad news as we confront our economic crisis. The bad news is well known to Americans across our country as we continue to struggle through unprecedented economic turmoil. Yesterday we in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

CITI NEWS - Quinn admits he was too greedy as losses hit €1bn - Independent

The impressive headquarters of Quinn Insurance in Blanchardstown, Co Dublin. IRELAND'S richest man, Sean Quinn , admitted yesterday that his family were "too greedy" and lost well over €1bn on their ill-fated investment in Anglo Irish Bank . But in in New York Shares News

Jim Cramer fills his blog on RealMoney every day with his up-to-the-minute reactions to what's happening in the market and his legendary ahead-of-the-crowd ideas. This week he blogged on: the importance of housing, the crucifixion of Buffett, and in New York Shares News

WASHINGTON COMPANIES - Obama to sign bill on analog shutdown delay - Guardian Unlimited

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says President Barack Obama will sign a bill to give consumers more time to get ready for the switch from analog to digital television broadcasts. The switch under current law is set for in BUSINESS NEWS >

Chicago's push for the Olympics makes Washington Park a prime candidate for redevelopment, but even if the 2016 Games don't happen here, some people think the neighborhood can make a profitable comeback. Read more about Washington Park, Chicago IL in BUSINESS NEWS >

WASHINGTON— Companies are cutting jobs by the tens of thousands. State and local governments are penny-pinching, too. So what about Uncle Sam? Tough times for him as well? Not exactly. In fact the number of federal workers is on the rise. That in BUSINESS NEWS >

Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Friday it will not renew Blackwater Worldwide's contract to protect American diplomats in Iraq when it expires in May. "The department notified Blackwater in writing on Jan. 29 in BUSINESS NEWS >

Bruce O Riedel, an expert on South Asia who has worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Pentagon and National Security Council, says new special envoy Richard Holbrooke needs to reverse the negative momentum in both Pakistan and Afghanistan in BUSINESS NEWS >

VIENNA, Austria (AP) — A new survey suggests three in four Austrians don't want their country to take in prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. The poll by the OGM institute was conducted for the news magazine Profil. It says 73 percent of respondents are in BUSINESS NEWS >

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi is the latest state trying to unload pricey property because of the economic meltdown. The state House voted Thursday to sell an eight-seat jet valued at $3.7 million that's used to haul Gov. Haley Barbour and other in BUSINESS NEWS >

Saturday, January 31, 2009 (01-31) 06:44 PST JERUSALEM, Israel (AP) -- Palestinian militants fired a rocket from Gaza on Saturday that exploded close to the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon without causing any damages or injuries, an Israeli in BUSINESS NEWS >

Syria's president is calling for a "positive" dialogue with Washington whose relations with Damascus have long been strained. The official news agency reports Bashar Assad spoke Saturday with a U.S. congressional delegation visiting Damascus. Assad in BUSINESS NEWS >

But it's almost February, and these aren't your early-season Sixers - although for much of last night's game you would be hard-pressed to tell the difference. Last night, the Sixers avoided one nightmare - they defeated Washington, 104-94 - but found in BUSINESS NEWS >

DALLAS COMPANIES - USC's Tim Floyd hopes team will have something in reserve - Los Angeles Times


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USC's Tim Floyd hopes team will have something in reserve
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Nikola Vucevic showed up with eight points and five rebounds last week in a 46-44 victory over Washington State. But while many teams long ago settled into ...
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Friday's Kingston-area quake revealed cracks in alert system
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By Sandi Doughton When an earthquake larger than magnitude 3 strikes the Northwest, an automated system is supposed to page University of Washington ...
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New Jersey
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... center Samuel Dalembert against the Nets after he sprained his left ankle and exited in the first half of Friday's 104-94 victory over Washington. ...
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BOSTON COMPANIES - Tricap Management Limited Acquires Common Shares and Non-Voting ... - MSNBC


Tricap Management Limited Acquires Common Shares and Non-Voting ...
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TORONTO, ONTARIO - Tricap Management Limited ("Tricap") today announced that it has acquired 4303788 additional common shares and 254374654 non-voting ...
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PHILADELPHIA COMPANIES - Some old treasures shine as cash - News Sun

GURNEE -- The auburn-haired and chatty Judy Winters opened a plastic pouch and poured her old loves onto a hotel counter: a cultured pearl ring from the boy who asked her to go steady; a gold pendant from an old flame who was "president of some big in Stock and Shares News

In the four months to December 2008 the East Yorkshire company said its share of the total UK registrations of motor homes rose to 9.5 per cent. "There are people out there with money," said finance director Neil Harwood. "I think the British holiday in Stock and Shares News

Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said his administration is readying a plan to unlock credit markets and lower mortgage rates, and vowed that company executives will be stopped from siphoning money intended for economic recovery. “Soon in Stock and Shares News

Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen saw great hope in cable providers in the years following his departure from the software company he helped start. He believed that the convergence of high-bandwidth networks and personal computers held great promise in Stock and Shares News

MAINE COMPANIES - Obama unlikely to widen Afghan war - Yahoo News

Play Video Barack Obama Video: 'Tax Issues' FOX News Play Video Barack Obama Video: Wall Street bonuses under scrutiny Reuters Play Video Barack Obama Video: Obama gets big win in week two Reuters WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama campaigned on a in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

Friday, January 30, 2009

OHIO COMPANIES - The Ford discovery: Council workers find Escort buried in back garden - Daily Mail

In Slough, Sir John Betjeman assured us, 'there isn't grass to graze a cow'. While that may be true, there was certainly enough in one resident's back garden to completely engulf a car. The silver Ford Escort, dating from the early 1980s, was in New York Shares News

FINANCIAL NEWS - Obama Slams Wall Street Over Bonuses - San Francisco Gate

"It is shameful," Obama said from the Oval Office Thursday. "And part of what we're going to need is for the folks on Wall Street who are asking for help to show some restraint, and show some discipline, and show some sense of responsibility." The in Dow Jones News >

NEW YORK, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Overstock.com Inc posted a small quarterly profit on Friday instead of an anticipated loss, as the online retailer avoided heavy discounts during a competitive holiday shopping season, pushing its shares up nearly 21 in Dow Jones News >

Digital River Inc ( DRIV ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of Digital River Inc., an e-commerce software service provider, surged Friday after the company posted better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the in Dow Jones News >

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Procter & Gamble Co ( PG.N ) lowered its expectations for the year on Friday after sales slowed in its second quarter, the latest signal that consumers and retailers are cutting spending in the recession. Shares of P&G, the world in Dow Jones News >

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania says drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co. formally pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor tied to the marketing of its top-seller, the anti-psychotic Zyprexa. A statement from the in Dow Jones News >

(AP) — Shares of Fortune Brands Inc. tumbled on Friday after ratings agency Standard & Poor's lowered its long-term ratings on the maker of Jim Beam, Titleist and Moen brands, saying weakness in the U.S. housing market will continue to pressure in Dow Jones News >

SEOUL : North Korea sharpened its hostility toward South Korea on Friday by abruptly declaring that it was scrapping a nonaggression pact and all other agreements the two Koreas have signed to ease military and political tensions on the divided in Dow Jones News >

NEW YORK (AP) - Stock futures pointed toward a slightly higher open Friday following a better-than-expected reading on the economy's fourth-quarter performance. The Commerce Department said Friday the gross domestic product _ a widely followed in Dow Jones News >

Norway's state investment fund has blacklisted US firm Textron, owner of top planemaker Cessna, and Canadian mining firm Barrick Gold. The fund, an ethical investor, sold shares in the firms because Textron makes cluster bombs and because of in Dow Jones News >

SAN DIEGO COMPANIES - Stocks Continue Slide On Economy Worries - WCCO

Stocks turned lower Friday as investors worried that the economy, though perhaps not as troubled as feared in late 2008, is only getting worse. The Commerce Department said gross domestic product, the widely followed measure of the economy, shrank at in New York Shares News

BOSTON COMPANIES - Stocks Set to Move Higher - BusinessWeek


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Stocks Set to Move Higher
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US stocks were indicated to open a bit higher Friday as index futures edged up in premarket trading following a report that showed US economic output ...
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Stocks fall on GDP and earnings
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks slipped Friday morning in volatile trading as investors eyed the economy's biggest quarterly decline in 26 years and a ...
Stocks tumble on housing, unemployment and durable-goods worries Los Angeles Times
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US Stocks Drop on Earnings, Economy Concern; P&G, Alcoa Fall
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30 (Bloomberg) -- US stocks fell, paring the first weekly advance in a month for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, as more companies reported disappointing ...
US Stock Futures Advance as GDP Tops Economists’ Forecasts Bloomberg
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HONG KONG BUSINESS - 'Monaco Telecom, Alvarion, Cisco launch Centre of Excellence' - TMCnet

Workforce Management: At the Heart of the Contact Center Learn more, download free white paper. The Modern Contact Center and Workforce Management�s Vital Role Learn more, download free white paper. Realizing the Full Promise of Workforce in Stock and Shares News

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) will host a free virtual workshop in which application developers, network and IT solutions architects can gain in-depth knowledge of Cisco's Application Extension Platform (AXP) , the company's new application in Stock and Shares News

When asked on the conference call about the source of the expected first-quarter sales shortfall, the executives pointed to the phone companies. As suspected , spending cuts earlier this week by Verizon ( VZ Quote - Cramer on VZ - Stock Picks ) and in Stock and Shares News

CISCO Systems Inc has invested US$100mil (RM350mil) in small-­business networking solutions. It used the investment to create its Small Business Technology Group (SBTG) and a Cisco small-business portfolio last November. SBTG is focused on in Stock and Shares News

In this May 1, 2008 file photo, a truck passes a pump at an Exxon Mobil station in Williamsville, N.Y. ExxonMobil Corp. shatters U.S. record with $45.2 billion annual profit Friday, Jan. 30, 2009, despite year-end oil plunge. (AP Photo/David Duprey in Stock and Shares News

SEATTLE, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- WatchGuard Technologies Highlights / News Facts: -- FREE PCI DSS Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) Tool -- Developed for WatchGuard by the ReymannGroup, the WatchGuard PCI DSS SAQ tool automates and streamlines the in Stock and Shares News

In other earnings, consumer products giant Procter & Gamble ( PG Quote - Cramer on PG - Stock Picks ) said profits rose 53% in its fiscal second quarter to $5 billion, including a substantial benefit from the sale of its Folgers coffee business. More in Stock and Shares News

LOS ANGELES COMPANIES - Cisco creates products specific to SMB needs - Malaysia Star


Cisco creates products specific to SMB needs
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - 5 hours ago
By JO TIMBUONG CISCO Systems Inc has invested US$100mil (RM350mil) in small-business networking solutions. It used the investment to create its Small ...
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A Cisco Server: Sheer Brilliance or Act of Desperation? - Cisco
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By Sharon Linsenbach Cisco is breaking new ground by launching a line of servers to compete against friendly rivals HP, IBM and Dell. ...
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Cisco Hosts Free Virtual Workshop for Developing Applications on ...
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DENVER COMPANIES - $5000 Forex Account Bonus from United World Capital Limited - PR Web (press release)


$5000 Forex Account Bonus from United World Capital Limited
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FXCM Acquires Certain Assets of Hotspot FXr's Retail Forex ...
SYS-CON Media, NJ - 1 hour ago
Hotspot FXr's retail forex business is a perfect fit with FXCM's focus on expanding its Active Trader Group. FXCM's Active Trader platform was developed to ...
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FOREX-Risk-wary investors favour yen, dlr ahead of US GDP
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By Veronica Brown LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Growing investor caution towards risk fuelled broad dollar and yen gains on Friday, with poor economic data ...
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SHARE NEWS - Ford Lost $14.6 Billion in 2008 - Washington Post


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Ford Lost $14.6 Billion in 2008
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Ford's outlook "is very rosy," an auto analyst said, as the automaker assumes the industry will sell 11.5 million to 12.5 million vehicles in the US this ...
Ford Has Its Worst Year Ever but Won’t Ask for Aid New York Times
Ford Spends $5.5 Billion in Cash, Ends Worst Year Bloomberg
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'Christina' comes to Chadds Ford
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(more) Andrew Wyeth's masterpiece, "Christina's World," is coming to Chadds Ford this weekend. Devotees of the artist, who died Jan. ...
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FORT WORTH COMPANIES - UPDATE 1-Henderson bids for troubled rival New Star - Forbes

LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Anglo-Australian fund manager Henderson Group on Friday unveiled a 115 million pounds ($162.3 million) offer for struggling rival New Star Asset Management. Henderson said it would pay 22 million pounds for New Star's in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were unchanged at 8,112. S&P 500 index futures rose 0.70, or 0.08%, to 843.50, while Nasdaq 100 index futures rose 3.50, or 0.3%, to 1,209.50. More on The Market Story Indices Plunge on Weak Data Indices Plunge on in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

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BARCELONA (Dow Jones)--La Caixa, Spain's top savings bank by assets, said Friday 2008 net profit fell 28% as weaker economic conditions resulted in higher non-performing loans and hefty provisions. La Caixa said in a presentation that net profit for in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

DAVOS, Switzerland (Dow Jones)--Turkey is near to reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund providing financial backup in the global credit crunch, Economy Minister Mehmet Simsek said Friday. In an interview with Dow Jones Newswires in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

WASHINGTON — Whole Foods Market, the largest U.S. natural-foods grocer, has begun talks with the Federal Trade Commission to resolve the government's antitrust review of its $565 million purchase of Wild Oats Markets. The FTC agreed to a company in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

FRANKFURT, Jan 30 (Reuters) - European shares recovered on Friday, led by pharma stocks as Roche lowered its takeover bid for Genentech, but also ahead of economic data from the United States and Europe which is expected to be bleak. At 1003 GMT, the in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

WACO COMPANIES - Wall Street appears headed for lower opening - WTOP Radio

NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street pointed toward a slightly lower open Friday, as investors awaited a reading on just how weak the economy was during the fourth quarter. The Commerce Department is expected to report Friday that the gross domestic product in New York Shares News

FRANKFURT, Jan 30 (Reuters) - European shares recovered on Friday, led by pharma stocks as Roche lowered its takeover bid for Genentech, but also ahead of economic data from the United States and Europe which is expected to be bleak. At 1003 GMT, the in New York Shares News

PHILADELPHIA COMPANIES - Al Gore says Obama is 'greenest person in the room,' urges fast - Los Angeles Times

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore urged President Barack Obama and other world leaders to seal a quick deal to fight global warming despite the pervasive financial crisis. Gore called Obama "the greenest person in the room in Dow Jones News >

WASHINGTON — Weeks before the earliest signs of a national salmonella outbreak that now has been traced to peanuts from a Georgia processing plant, peanuts exported by the same company were found to be contaminated and were returned to the United in Dow Jones News >

Copyright Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters. Neither in Dow Jones News >

NEWS - Record Japan industrial output fall, inflation almost zero - U.S. awaiting Q4 GDP, growth seen at weakest in 26 years - Honda cuts forecasts, Toyota losses seen ballooning - Obama, Congress seek deal on economic stimulus - U.S. to unveil in Dow Jones News >

The Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter-day Saints will host a free Financial Preparedness Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the LDS meeting house, 411 N. Saliman Road. “Staying Afloat in a Changing Economy” features classes and exhibits in Dow Jones News >

Asked if the military option was still on the table, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said: "The president hasn't changed his viewpoint that he should preserve all his options." Gibbs told reporters that Obama believes "we must use all elements of in Dow Jones News >

HSBC chairman Stephen Green has said that the current financial rules must be "fundamentally revised" as they had deepened the financial crisis. The rules, such as capital adequacy regulations and fair value accounting, were "well intentioned", but in Dow Jones News >

LOS ANGELES COMPANIES - FXCM Acquires Certain Assets of Hotspot FXr's Retail Forex Business to - Market Wire

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - January 30, 2009) - Forex Capital Markets LLC ( www.fxcm.com ) today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire certain assets of the U.S. retail forex business of Hotspot FXr LLC to further expand the deep liquidity in New York Shares News

Jan 30 - Short-Term Forex Technical Outlook: NZD/JPY (Update) Jan 30 - A Contraction In U.S. GDP Supports Euro Bullish Technical Outlook Jan 30 - Euro Zone Inflation to Hit Record Low - Will ECB Cut Rates in February? (Euro Open) Jan 30 - Identifying in New York Shares News

Finance Minister Audley Shaw speaking Wednesday at the Jamaica Stock Exchange's capital markets and investment conference underway in Montego Bay, January 27-30. Seated at right is Robert Drummond of First Global Financial Services. - photo by Adrian in New York Shares News

FRANKFURT, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should take into account that deflation is not such a great threat in Europe as it is in the United States when setting interest rates, Governing Council member Erkki Liikanen said. 'The in New York Shares News

NEWS - Record Japan industrial output fall, inflation almost zero - U.S. awaiting Q4 GDP, growth seen at weakest in 26 years - Honda cuts forecasts, Toyota losses seen ballooning - Obama, Congress seek deal on economic stimulus - U.S. to unveil in New York Shares News

On Thursday, the dollar closed in on weekly intraday highs against the euro while slipping slightly against the yen in a day dominated by sustained economic gloom and the resurgence of risk aversion. Poor risk appetite typically works to the benefit in New York Shares News

LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Growing investor caution towards risk fuelled broad dollar and yen gains on Friday, with poor economic data concentrating minds on deepening global concerns ahead of key growth figures later in the day. The rush to dollar in New York Shares News

WACO COMPANIES - Review: Ford F-150 4X4 Lariat King Ranch pickup truck - Newsday


Review: Ford F-150 4X4 Lariat King Ranch pickup truck
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It was the Ford F-150 full-size pickup. The third-best seller that month, by the way, was the F-Series' "arch enemy," the Chevrolet Silverado full-size ...
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WACO COMPANIES - Rocky economy leads to more use of public libraries by those seeking - Minneapolis Star Tribune

CINCINNATI - Since being laid off when Circuit City closed the store where he worked, Vincent Self heads to the public library every chance he gets to search for a job. Libraries around the country report significant increases in visitors like Self in Stock and Shares News

US President Barack Obama is not ruling out military strikes against Iran to stop its nuclear program, the White House said Thursday. Asked if the military option was still on the table, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said: "The president hasn't in Stock and Shares News

Europe's biggest bank, HSBC , said fair value accounting and capital adequacy rules had worsened the financial crisis and called for a new set of principles and rules to boost financial market transparency. "The current financial framework, though in Stock and Shares News

Weeks before the earliest signs of a national salmonella outbreak that now has been traced to peanuts from a Georgia processing plant, peanuts exported by the same company were found to be contaminated and were returned to the United States, The in Stock and Shares News

As easy a mark as Wall Street bonuses have become for those critical of corporate greed and corruption, President' Obama's calling them "shameful" and citing Wall Street's actions as the "height of irresponsibility" may signal a significant shift in in Stock and Shares News

PLANO COMPANIES - Cisco creates products specific to SMB needs - Malaysia Star


Cisco creates products specific to SMB needs
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - 1 hour ago
By JO TIMBUONG CISCO Systems Inc has invested US$100mil (RM350mil) in small-business networking solutions. It used the investment to create its Small ...
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FORT WORTH COMPANIES - China, EU to discuss financial crisis, climate change, rights - Space Daily

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao holds talks Friday with top European Union officials focused on the financial crisis, climate change and bilateral relations with the 27-nation bloc. Wen, on his first visit here in five years, is due to sign a raft of in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Europe's biggest bank HSBC Holdings said fair value accounting and capital adequacy rules had worsened the financial crisis and called for a new set of principles and rules to boost financial market transparency. HSBC (nyse in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

It is a grim indicator of the depth of despair the economic downturn has wrought: a rare spate of murder-suicides in which entire families have been killed by desperate parents suffocating beneath hopelessness and debt. This week alone, the United in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

LONDON NEWS - Shaw promises curtailment of forex market - Jamaica Gleaner

Finance Minister Audley Shaw speaking Wednesday at the Jamaica Stock Exchange's capital markets and investment conference underway in Montego Bay, January 27-30. Seated at right is Robert Drummond of First Global Financial Services. - photo by Adrian in BUSINESS NEWS >

LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Growing investor caution towards risk fuelled broad dollar and yen gains on Friday, with poor economic data concentrating minds on deepening global concerns ahead of key growth figures later in the day. The rush to dollar in BUSINESS NEWS >

Mihai holds a BA in Political Science, and before becoming active in the investment sector worked for almost 3 years as web designer and IT trainer for his own small company. He thinks that trading has always been somewhere at the back of his head in BUSINESS NEWS >

TOKYO, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The dollar rose against the euro on Friday as deepening concerns over the global recession prompted investors to shed risky assets and seek the harbour of the world's most liquid currency. The yen climbed across the board as in BUSINESS NEWS >

Jan 30 - U.K. Mortgage Approval Better Than Expected Jan 30 - Forex Market Update: Dollar and Yen Gain as Risk Aversion Dominates the Asian Session Jan 30 - Overnight Interest Rate Update 01.30.09 Jan 29 - Asian Economic Data: 01-30-09 Jan 29 in BUSINESS NEWS >

Is anybody there? Are there real people behind the phone (or the e-mail box)? Do I have a one-on-one relationship with an individual who knows my account and is able to provide continuity of service online? Expert Easy-Forex® team members are in BUSINESS NEWS >

Senior officials from major powers will meet in Germany next week to discuss the conflict with Iran over Tehran's nuclear programme, the German Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Political directors from the United States, Russia, Britain, France in BUSINESS NEWS >

On Thursday, the dollar closed in on weekly intraday highs against the euro while slipping slightly against the yen in a day dominated by sustained economic gloom and the resurgence of risk aversion. Poor risk appetite typically works to the benefit in BUSINESS NEWS >

Thursday, January 29, 2009

US BUSINESS NEWS - The Ford discovery: Council workers find Escort buried in pensioner's - Daily Mail

In Slough, Sir John Betjeman assured us, 'there isn't grass to graze a cow'. While that may be true, there was certainly enough in one resident's back garden to completely engulf a car. The silver Ford Escort, dating from the early 1980s, was in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

Ford vehicles are lined up on a dealer's lot in Omaha, Neb., Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. Ford reported $5.9 billion fourth-quarter loss, Thursday Jan. 29, 2009 and says it still has no plans to seek federal aid. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) DEARBORN, Mich in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

Brown got additional court time after a first half injury and made it count with 6 of 7 shooting, lifting New Orleans to within a game of Southwest Division leader San Antonio. Peja Stojakovic matched a season high with 26 points for the Hornets in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

Brook Lopez was sort of looking forward to relaxing and doing nothing over All-Star weekend. His play squashed that. Lopez yesterday was selected for the rookie-sophomore game at the All-Star weekend in Phoenix. And while it is in no way a time to in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

FORD posted a quarterly loss of $US5.9 billion ($8.8 billion), capping a nightmarish year, but said it had "sufficient liquidity" to fund its turnaround plan without US government aid. The number two US carmaker's results showed a sharp widening of in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

New York: U.S. automotive concern Ford reported Thursday that it lost $5.9 billion in the final quarter of 2008, boosting the full-year losses to $14.6 billion. The quarterly loss amounts to $2.46 per share, and is nearly double the net loss of $2.8 in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

With the trading deadline exactly three weeks away, there have been reports that Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo has been the most aggressive of league GMs in trying to make a deal. Colangelo expected the Raptors to be a top four team in the in STOCKMARKET NEWS >

Q4 auto cash burn $5.5 billion Ford drawing on $10.1b available credit Expects to fund turnaround without government loan Cutting 2,500 white-collar jobs Shares down 3 per cent on NYSE DETROIT - FORD Motor Co reported a record $14.6 billion (S$22.08 in STOCKMARKET NEWS >