Bloomberg
3 reactor experienced a hydrogen explosion at 11:01 am local time today, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said. Residents living within 20 kilometers were ordered indoors, Kyodo reported. An explosion March 12 at the No. ...
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Mervyn King: rebalance global economy or risk a trade war
The Guardian
Photograph Kathy Willens/AP Mervyn King will be able to see for himself the devastation wrought by the natural disaster in Japan when he gives a speech in Tokyo today* stressing the need to rebalance the global economy and to head off protectionist ...
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The Guardian
Global Academy Online Introduces New Applied Ethics Programs
Free Press Release Center (press release)
Global Academy Online, (the Academy), announced today the release of new curriculum for its non profit foundation, the Center for Ethics in Free Enterprise leading to certification in Applied Ethics. March 14, 2011 (FPRC) -- Global Academy Online, ...
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Rubber Tumbles in Tokyo, Shanghai After Japan Quake Halts Car Production
Bloomberg
... said by phone today. Japan, the fourth-largest rubber consumer, accounts for about 7 percent of global demand, while the area severely hit by earthquake and tsunami represents about 7.5 percent of the country's gross domestic product, Jacob said. ...
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Japan Adds $183 Billion to Economy, Doubles Asset Purchases
Bloomberg
The central bank pumped 15 trillion yen ($183 billion) into money markets today to assure financial stability amid a plunge in stocks and surge in credit risk. Governor Masaaki Shirakawa and his board also enlarged a program buying assets from ...
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India World's Largest Arms Importer, China at No. 2
Outlook
"India is the world's largest arms importer," according to new data on international arms transfers published today by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). "India received 9 per cent of the volume of international arms transfers ...
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China will stick to gradual appreciation of yuan: Wen
Economic Times
BEIJING: Brushing aside the US demand to allow faster appreciation of the yuan , Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao today said China will stick to its policy of gradual increase while charting out a new growth path to boost domestic consumption and reduce ...
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OPINION: Obama administration should resist calls to tap the strategic oil reserve
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
It can spur conservation and stimulate domestic oil production, thus rendering the country less vulnerable to future oil shocks. Today's US economy, in fact, consumes less than half as much petroleum and natural gas per dollar of economic output as it ...
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Silver regains peak level of Rs 54600; gold up by Rs 115
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Silver regained its peak level by rising Rs 300 to Rs 54600 per kg today on brisk buying for seasonal demand, amid a firm global trend. Gold also surged Rs 115 to Rs 21310 10 grams. Silver recovered to the peak level last seen on March 10, ...
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Economy dodged enormous bullet; quake spared industrial heartland
TODAYonline
Meanwhile, the Osaka Securities Exchange, which operates Nikkei 225 futures and options, said it planned to open as normal on today. As for the fallout on the broader world economy, Japan is no longer seen as a major engine of global growth so the ...
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Virgin Blue Again Ups Fares To Offset Rising Fuel Prices
Wall Street Journal
Australia's second biggest carrier said international long haul fuel surcharges on V Australia flights to the US will rise to A$165 each way from A$115, while domestic fares will increase by A$6-A$10 per sector. "The increases announced today go some ...
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A £60bn blow to the world economy as Japanese markets plunge 6.18 per cent
Daily Mail
By Rupert Steiner Stock markets in Japan plunged by 6.18 per cent today in response to the devastation of the world's third-largest economy. Traders are braced for a stormy start to the week as the latest estimates put the global insurance bill for the ...
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Daily Mail
Dollar Depressed by OPEC Slashing Treasuries 9% as Profits Rise
BusinessWeek
The dollar touched 80.62 per yen today in Tokyo, the weakest since Nov. 9. Oil for April delivery fell 3.1 percent last week to $101.16 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after rising more than 20 percent in the past year. ...
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China Welcomes WTO Reverse Ruling on US Steel Duties
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Today, after Beijing's appeal, judges determined that “in the four sets of anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations, the US acted inconsistently” with global trade rules. Anti-dumping duties punish dumping, the selling of goods below ...
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Precious metals gains on depreciated rupee
Commodity Online
We expect gold to trade higher today, mainly tracking poor sentiments in the global financial markets due to earthquake in Japan. This factor will make investors move towards gold as a safe-haven investment. Additionally, ongoing geo-political concerns ...
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Struggles and achievements
The Trinidad Guardian
It was Bhagwansingh's planning, ability to develop strategies, as well as set goals and make sound financial decisions, that made the group into the formidable enterprise it is today. Pennelope Beckles-Robinson is the first woman to be elected Deputy ...
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China became the world's biggest manufacturer in 2010; US loses crown held ...
FinFacts Ireland
Also last month, Mark Perry, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan, Flint - - a key automotive manufacturing centre, said in The Wall Street Journal (via blog post) that taken on its own, US manufacturing would rank today as the sixth ...
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FinFacts Ireland
Equity Research on Owens Corning and USG Corp. - Building Materials Companies ...
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Chicago-based USG Corp. has strong overseas operations but could benefit from a comeback for domestic construction figures. Owens Corning and USG Corp. reports are accessible for free by registering today at ...
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Cause of Piracy Study (and a lil bit of effect)
VGChartz
Today, commercial pirates and transnational smugglers face the same dilemma as the legal industry: how to compete with free.” One of the main conclusions of the report is that competition rather than enforcement is the key to dealing with piracy. ...
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A strategy, but for what?
Albany Times Union (blog)
Today's editorial: There's talk, yet again, of raiding the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Higher gas and heating fuel prices don't constitute a crisis. There's a good reason, we've long thought, why the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is called just ...
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Soybean rises on short covering
Commodity Online
Higher production estimates of China's soybean coupled with inflationary concern may decline demand of global oilseeds. . USDA's Monthly supply & demand Report: The US Department of Agriculture today revised 2010-11 global soybean output estimate to ...
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Mortgaging Irish Independence
Monthly Review
However, in order for these types of initiatives to do more than temporarily fill gaps, they need to be explicitly connected to the political struggle against both foreign and domestic political and financial elites. Ireland's struggle today is just as ...
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Quake Costs Threaten to Extend Bond Bear Market: Japan Credit
BusinessWeek
While the yield on benchmark government five-year notes plunged the most since October 2008 today, Japan's bonds have lost 2.81 percent this year, the third-worst performance among the 26 sovereign debt markets tracked by Bloomberg/EFFAS indexes when ...
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European Stocks Seen Subdued
RTT News
Japan's chief cabinet secretary said today that a hydrogen explosion has occurred at Unit 3 of the earthquake-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. The blast was similar to an earlier one at a different unit of the facility. ...
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Oil price falls back below $US100 a barrel
The Australian
OIL prices fell below $US100 a barrel today as damage to refineries in Japan and shuttering of factories, following a huge earthquake and tsunami, looked likely to outweigh any boost to oil demand from reconstruction work for several months to come. ...
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TOPIX drops in quake aftermath that could linger
Reuters
The broader TOPIX index closed down 7.5 percent, the largest daily decline since October 2008, when global markets reeled in the wake of the Lehman Brothers failure, to 846.96. "Domestic investment trusts and funds are dumping everything today. ...
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Nuclear Renaissance Threatened as Japan's Reactor Struggles : In ...
By Martin Lejeune
3 reactor, increasing the possibility of a hydrogen explosion at that reactor's building, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said in Tokyo today. Engineers are also injecting boric acid water into the Daiichi No. ... “the global nuclear industry will speed up phasing out first-generation power units and start building new ones,” Novikov said. Rosatom is building 15 new reactors worldwide, more than any other international supplier, five of them outside Russia. ...
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Making specific changes in curricular offerings -- such as providing more courses in English -- to attract more foreign students. Subsidizing those foreign students by keeping fees for them at the same level as for domestic students. ... One of the first sessions today demonstrated these points. The British Council gathered a group of foreign students enrolled for a semester or year in Hong Kong to talk about policies that helped or hurt their efforts to study here. ...
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XE.com - CEE MARKETS 3-PLN at 3-month lows on global worries,other ...
today in 2011. Czech crown 24.286 24.347 +0.25% +2.94%. Polish zloty 4.03 4.01 - 0.5% -1.79%. Hungarian forint 272.35 273.35 +0.37% +2.07%. Croatian kuna 7.389 7.39 +0.01% -0.12%. Romanian leu 4.185 4.194 +0.22% +1.15%. Serbian dinar 102.91 103.09 +0.17% ... *Benchmark is German bond equivalent. All data taken from Reuters at 1557 CET. Currency percent change calculated from the daily domestic. close at 1600 GMT. For related news and prices, click on the codes in brackets: ...
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Going global? Expand internationally? ? a money pit for American ...
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Companies that succeed in Asia today will surpass competitors that do not by leveraging Asia's efficiencies, skill and capital sources and rapidly growing markets. With Asia's hunger for innovative products being the highest it has ever ... Asia is probably the largest potential for revenue growth, especially now with the current downturn of the US domestic market. Check out the stats about the growth of Asian markets. Investors are keen to participate in this growth. ...
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REDD in the news: 7-13 March 2011 | redd-monitor.org
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By Fraces Seymour, CIFOR Forests Blog, 8 March 2011 | Today we celebrate International Women's Day, “a global day celebrating the economic, political, and social achievements of women past, present, and future.” According to the day's official website, ..... The Brazilian government says the dam is urgently needed if the country is to keep pace with soaring domestic energy demand resulting from a booming economy that grew 7.5% last year. 11 March 2011 ...
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Carrie Heiden Named Vice President Of Sales At GEP | Persons
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Can Japan find “new deal” after triple whammy? | Free Malaysia Today
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At least six Japanese seaports handling international trade have sustained major damage, with most likely to be out of operations for months, said an industry official on Monday. That could pose challenges for global supply chains. The Bank of Japan pumped record funds into ... But the cost of rebuilding will also worsen Japan's already worryingly high public debt burden, the largest among advanced economies and double the size of its $5 trillion gross domestic product . ...
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TODAYonline | World | Economy dodged enormous bullet; quake spared ...
Meanwhile, the Osaka Securities Exchange, which operates Nikkei 225 futures and options, said it planned to open as normal on today. Supply chain disruption. As for the fallout on the broader world economy, Japan is no longer seen as a ...
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Oil prices have become hostages of speculation
By sohbet karbuz
Today oil market behaves irrationally and dominant players take advantage of it. I simply do not understand why media and many oil market analysts blame on market fundamentals for the increases in the oil prices again. .... Time also has come to question the representativeness of the WTI and Brent crude benchmarks for the world's internationally traded crude oil. Their combined output, corresponding to less than five percent of global oil production, is declining.
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Major Bounce On WRIT - Sunday, March 13, 2011 : Stock Picks on ...
He has a nearly forty-year career in music and video production and distribution and has produced domestic and international TV for some of the largest music events in history, including specials with Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, The Rolling Stones ... A Hollywood Industry group has said that the global box office hit a record $31.8 billion in 2010, growing 8% from the year before on the strength of 3D ticket sales and a hot Asia-Pacific market . ...
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The American Dream, Buddhism, and the New Emerging World Civilization
Hilgendorf is a practicing Buddhist, a member of the SGI, or Soka Gakkai International, the largest Buddhist lay organization in the world today, with 13000000 members in 192 countries. His blog, "Buddhism and the American Dream", ...
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York: Trouble Ahead For GOP's “All-Of-The-Above” Energy Policy ...
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I don't think right after a major environmental catastrophe is a very good time to be making American domestic policy. I think we ought to just concentrate on helping the Japanese in any way that we can.” ...
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New Jersey Nets go global to help domestic image - USATODAY.com
Yormark began an aggressive pursuit of international brands the Nets could partner with, .... 2011 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. ...
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International and Comparative Law: Meeting Today's Challenges ...
Our News & Stories ... Lawyers today are called upon as leaders to address some of the most ... “Penn Law's curriculum is infused with global analysis at all levels of study,” said Amy Gadsden, Associate Dean of International Affairs at Penn Law. ... clients before a variety of international and domestic venues. ...
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Looking beyond borders - Business Today - Business News
Buoyed by liquidity, global funds have beaten domestic ones over the past six months. ... For long-term investors, diversified international equity funds could also ... it is time to look beyond Indian bourses. Courtesy: Money Today ...
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U.S. Stocks: Decoupling from Domestic Economy, Coupling to Global ...
The USA economy is linking more and more with the international market place. This is an imperfect link today - but with globalization and free trade, ... Economic News this Week: Econintersect's economic forecast for March 2011 points ...
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Tweedie Urges U.S. Acceptance of IFRS
International Accounting Standards Board chairman Sir David Tweedie made the case ... will make a decision on the use of IFRS by U.S. domestic companies.” ... “Today, more than 100 countries either require or permit the use of IFRS for ... “None of this is to suggest that IFRS are yet a global standard,” he said. ...
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Gas price too high? Here's whom to thank
The real reason ANWR remains closed to needed domestic oil production is ... Global Governance," chairman of Sovereignty International and founder of ... Today's WND News Highlights. Senator wants to sniff your breath before you drive ! ...
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100 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY: DONEGAL-BASED CAMPAIGNER ...
Donegal Daily - News as it happens across Donegal ... “The Women's Council has today launched a series of cards showing the work women did in and for ... Trade unions and domestic worker organisations globally have been battling to get ...
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The Next $5 Billion: VF Corporation Announces New 5-Year Growth ...
... a global leader in branded lifestyle apparel, today is announcing new 5-year ... profitable domestic, international and direct-to-consumer platforms, ...
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Making a difference on International Women's Day - Domestic ...
Domestic Violence: Today is International Women's Day--as Google (GOOG) notes by ... Cable News Network Stephanie Coontz Last week the White House released a ... A year ago, the United States was in a position of global leadership on ...
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Development at home and abroad | Jonathan Glennie | Global ...
Today's hot topics · guardian.co.uk home. guardian.co.uk, Global ... So the step from international policy advocacy to domestic policy .... Zeitgeist is an experiment in showing trending news, topics and articles from the Guardian. ...
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Gillard & Bligh Government Launch $10 Million Global Tourism ...
Details of the $10 million domestic and international marketing initiatives include: ... than 100 international and domestic travel writers, news journalists and ... Today's announcement brings the total support for Queensland's tourism ...
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Jet plans to expand domestic, global operations from April-May ...
Mumbai, Mar 3 (PTI) Jet Airways plans to expand its domestic and global ... Besides, we are also mulling increasing the capacity on international ... Now, check out minute by minute update on national, global & business news on Twitter . ... when he was beaten up for stalking her three years ago, police said today. ...
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