DALLAS COMPANIES - China Names New Regulator for Foreign News Agencies - Wall Street Journal DALLAS COMPANIES - China Names New Regulator for Foreign News Agencies - Wall Street Journal

Sunday, February 1, 2009

DALLAS COMPANIES - China Names New Regulator for Foreign News Agencies - Wall Street Journal

BEIJING -- China has named the State Council Information Office, a cabinet-level agency, as the new regulator of foreign news agencies and financial-information providers, replacing the official Xinhua News Agency, Xinhua reported. The announcement in BUSINESS NEWS >

A new round of government stimulus for the ailing U.S. economy seems inevitable, but investors will be anxiously following the form it takes this week as the Senate begins debating President Barack Obama's nearly $900.0 billion package next week. The in BUSINESS NEWS >

THE stock market is expected to open lower today after another fall on Wall Street on Friday but the effect might be offset by expectations of a larger than forecast cut to interest rates tomorrow. Economists expect the Reserve Bank to cut the cash in BUSINESS NEWS >

BOSTON - Fourteen news organizations, including The Associated Press and The New York Times Co., are urging a federal appeals court to allow online streaming of a hearing in a music downloading lawsuit the recording industry filed against a Boston in BUSINESS NEWS >

I envy Sports Man. He can rise above his own problems by focusing on the triumphs or setbacks of The Team. Last October, the stock market was tanking and so was Sports Man's beloved Red Sox. Did Sports Man worry that his dreams of easy living were in BUSINESS NEWS >

(Adds more comments from State Council statement; China's goal of rural reform; China's economic situation.) BEIJING (Dow Jones)--China's State Council said it will take decisive actions to maintain reasonable rural product prices and prevent farmers in BUSINESS NEWS >

WHAT is expected to be a particularly brutal reporting season ramps up this week, with all eyes on the commodities outlook of Australia's largest company, BHP Billiton, to provide an important health check on the state of the economy. Fresh from in BUSINESS NEWS >

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