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Bloomberg to Snap Up BNA
Wall Street Journal
By RUSSELL ADAMS Bloomberg LP agreed to acquire legal-research firm BNA in a deal valued at about $990 million, a bold move in the financial information company's evolving efforts to diversify its business. The deal, announced Thursday for $39.50 a ...
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Mayor Bloomberg Says to Decide by 8 am Saturday on Hurricane Evacuations
Bloomberg
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said service would likely be restricted along with access to tunnels and bridges during the weekend. “Fundamentally you are not going to have mass transit take you around Saturday late in the afternoon, into Monday,” the mayor ...
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Garner Says Asia, Emerging Markets to Outperform Europe
Washington Post
26 (Bloomberg) -- Jonathan Garner, Morgan Stanley's chief emerging-market and Asia strategist, talks about the outlook for Asian stock markets. Garner also discusses Japan's yen, Federal Reserve monetary policy and investment strategy. ...
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Asia Stocks Swing Between Gains, Losses
Bloomberg
Photorapher: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg A pedestrian is reflected in an electronic stock board in Tokyo, Japan. Photorapher: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Pu Yonghao, chief investment strategist for Asia-Pacific at UBS Wealth ...
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Treasuries Heading for Weekly Loss Before Bernanke Speech Today
San Francisco Chronicle
26 (Bloomberg) -- Treasuries headed for their steepest weekly loss in almost two months on speculation the economy is growing enough to keep Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke from announcing a third round of quantitative easing today. ...
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China Cosco Has Wider-Than-Estimated $432 Million Loss on Shipping Slump
Bloomberg
Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg China Cosco Holdings Co., the shipping line that's had at least three vessels seized in payment disputes, slumped to a larger-than-expected first-half loss because of plunging cargo rates and rising fuel costs. ...
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Irene May Require Evacuations of Some New York City Areas, Bloomberg Says
Bloomberg
He speaks from Wilmington, Delaware, on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness With Margaret Brennan." (Source: Bloomberg) Irene, the strongest Atlantic storm to threaten the US since 2005, battered the Bahamas today with 113 mph winds on a course that's ...
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Gold May Rebound After Plunge From Record Price, Survey Shows
Bloomberg
Thirteen of 26 traders, investors and analysts surveyed by Bloomberg, or 50 percent, said bullion will rise next week. Eight predicted a drop and five were neutral. Gold for December delivery was down 5.9 percent for this week at $1742 an ounce by ...
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Jobs's Apple Exit Follows Eight-Year Health Fight After Cancer
Bloomberg
25 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Jobs announced his resignation as chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs has battled a rare form of cancer since 2003, and has been on medical leave at Apple since January. He leaves a legacy for his ability to bring new, ...
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Santorum smacks...Bloomberg over 911
Politico
Mike Bloomberg still isn't running in the 2012 presidential race. Nonetheless, he's the subject of a slam from Rick Santorum, who uses New York City's 9/11 tenth anniversary ceremony and the reports about clergy being excluded to slam him: "James ...
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Swaps Below RBI Rate for First Time in 15 Months: India Credit
Bloomberg
Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg For the first time in 15 months, traders in the swap market are anticipating the Reserve Bank of India will stop raising interest rates and may start to ease policy in the next year as the economy slows. ...
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Crude Oil Drops From Two-Day High on Signs of Slowing U.S. Economic Growth
Bloomberg
24 (Bloomberg) -- James Burkhard, managing director for global oil at IHS-Cambridge Energy Research Associates, talks about the impact of political unrest on Libya's oil production. He speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line. ...
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US May Snap Up Qaddafi's Missiles in Mali Black Market to Soak Up Supply
Bloomberg
24 (Bloomberg) -- Richard Falkenrath, a principal at the Chertoff Group and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, discusses the political unrest in Libya and the outlook for the country's oil industry. Falkenrath talks with Erik Schatzker on ...
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Japan Premier Kan Resigns After Quake Backlash
Bloomberg
26 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Margaret Conley reports from Tokyo on the resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan after 14 months on the job. Kan was undone by a backlash over his leadership after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami spawned the ...
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German Shortage of Engineers Seen Threatening Automakers: Cars
Bloomberg
Photographer: Jochen Eckel/Bloomberg Porsche aims to enhance its lineup to seven models from four, increase a 14000-workforce by half through 2018 and double deliveries to 200000 cars and sport-utility vehicles. Porsche aims to enhance its lineup to ...
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Apple Without Jobs as CEO Gives Cook $28 Billion to Make a Deal: Real M&A
Bloomberg
Photographer: Tony Avelar/Bloomberg Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Leander Kahney, editor of the website Cult of Mac, and Jay Elliot, a former senior vice president at Apple Inc. and author of "The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation," talk about ...
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Dollar Trades Near Week High as Easing Bets Fade Before Bernanke Speech
Bloomberg
25 (Bloomberg) -- David Malpass, president and founder of Encima Global, talks about the US dollar and outlook for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, tomorrow. He speaks with Matt Miller on Bloomberg ...
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China Channels Shakespeare to Pan Pentagon Report on Military
Bloomberg
By Bloomberg News - Fri Aug 26 07:24:36 GMT 2011 China criticized an annual US report on its military, with the state-run Xinhua News Agency citing William Shakespeare in calling it “much ado about nothing.” A military spokesman said it “severely ...
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Bond Market Slams Shut With Spreads Widest in 10 Months: Australia Credit
Bloomberg
The notes were sold at a 105 basis-point spread in March, Bloomberg data show. The cost of insuring Australian corporate bonds from non- payment surged 57 basis points in August to 176.2 on Aug. 24, CMA prices show. That was the highest level for the ...
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Corn, Soybean Yields Shrink in Hottest U.S. Summer Since 1955
Bloomberg
24 (Bloomberg) -- Greg Smith, executive director of Global Commodities Ltd., an Australian investment company, talks about the outlook for precious metals, energy and agricultural commodities. Smith speaks from Singapore with John Dawson on Bloomberg ...
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When Schools Depend on Handouts
New York Times
By MICHAEL A. REBELL and JESSICA R. WOLFF EARLIER this month, Mayor Michael R.Bloomberg announced that he and five other wealthy individuals had raised $1.5 million to reinstate the January Regents exams, which New York State had canceled because of ...
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Bloomberg Admits NYPD Is Spying With Working With CIA To Fight Terror
Gothamist
... Muslim communities as part of counter-terrorism efforts—with possibly civil liberties-infringing tactics, like sending informants to mosques where there's no evidence of wrong-doing—Mayor Bloomberg admitted that the NYPD is working with the CIA. ...
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Japan Consumer Prices Unexpectedly Rose 0.1%
Bloomberg
Photographer: Haruyoshi Yamaguchi/Bloomberg Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Naka Matsuzawa, chief strategist at Nomura Securities Co. in Tokyo, talks about Japanese politics, the nation's economy and financial markets. Matsuzawa speaks with John Dawson on ...
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Gold Set to End Best Weekly Run in More Than 4 Years, Dropping From Record
Bloomberg
Data today may show the US grew 1.1 percent in the second quarter, down from a previous estimate of 1.3 percent, according to the median estimate by 80 economists in a Bloomberg survey. Speculation that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke may ...
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Glencore, Rio Speed Partner Deals
Bloomberg
23 (Bloomberg) -- Catherine Raw, who helps manage BlackRock Inc.'s $17 billion World Mining Fund, discusses the outlook for miners including Rio Tinto Group and BHP Billiton Ltd. She talks with Andrea Catherwood on Bloomberg Television's "Last Word. ...
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An Englishman's Home Is His Flat-Packed Delivery From a Factory in Germany
Bloomberg
Photographer: Hannelore Foerster/Bloomberg Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Factory-made houses, popular for decades among Germans and Americans, are becoming more prevalent in the UK as homebuyers and property developers try to avoid turbulence in the ...
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Big Brother Bloomberg
National Review Online
In keeping with that very modern desire to find complex solutions to problems that don't exist, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed his desire on Monday to put cameras on “every corner of the city” to enforce observance of red lights and, ...
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Buffett's BofA Investment, Bernanke Speech and Fed
Bloomberg
25 (Bloomberg) -- Douglas Borthwick, managing director at Faros Trading, and Peter Tchir, managing director at TF Market Advisors, talk about Warren Buffett's $5 billion investment in Bank of America Corp., Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's ...
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New York Buildings Face Storm Damage as Property Managers Plan for Irene
Bloomberg
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he is considering evacuations in areas including Brooklyn's Coney Island, lower Manhattan's Battery Park City and parts of Staten Island. He is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP. ...
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Japan's Shift to Solar Power Hinges on Banks Ending Loan Drought
Bloomberg
Photographer: Toshiyuki Aizawa/Bloomberg Atsuhiko Hirano, senior vice president of Solar Frontier. Atsuhiko Hirano, senior vice president of Solar Frontier. Photographer: Kimimasa Mayama/Bloomberg Japan is beginning a shift to solar energy that lacks ...
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Bloomberg LP Makes Big Acquisition - WNYC
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's media and financial services company, Bloomberg LP, is spending almost a billion dollars to buy a law ...
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Bloomberg Schedules Steve Jobs Version of ... - Inside Cable News
By icn2
Bloomberg announced that it's doing a special Steve Jobs edition of Bloomberg West tonight…BLOOMBERG TV: SPECIAL STEVE JOBS EDITION OF “BLOOMBERG WEST”. – 6PM ET/3PM PT –. Repeat 11pm ET/8pm PT. **Featuring Apple co-founders Steve ...
Inside Cable News
Asia Stocks Swing Between Gains, Losses – Bloomberg | Financial News
By asia economy - Google News
Asia Stocks Swing Between Gains, Losses Bloomberg ... after a report showing an increase in jobless claims added to signs the US economy is weakening, and selling in German futures sparked a rout in global equities. ...
Financial News
Bloomberg to Snap Up BNA – Wall Street Journal | Wall Street ...
By Google Inc.
The deal, announced Thursday for $39.50 a ... Bloomberg gobbles up micro-news sitesWashington Post A Big Purchase for BloombergNew York Times Bloomberg Agrees to Buy Bureau of National Affairs for About $990 MillionBloomberg ...
Wall Street Financial News
Bloomberg to buy BNA for $990M - FishbowlDC
By Chris Ariens
The acquisition gives a shot in the arm to Bloomberg's Washington, DC presence especially for the recently launched Bloomberg Government as well as Bloomberg Law and, of course, Bloomberg News. BNA has more than 600 reporters, lawyers, ...
FishbowlDC
Bloomberg Buys Legal Database Provider BNA For $990 million
By Cass
Bloomberg is in the process of acquiring legal information services company BNA for $990 million. As competition among the three largest financial news services continues to intensify, the legal.
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Bloomberg Enters Agreement to Acquire BNA | Bloomberg Government
By admin
The acquisition would significantly grow Bloomberg's presence in the Washington, DC area through its multiple operating units, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg Law and BNA — which would work together to provide ...
Bloomberg Government
Bloomberg to NYers: Plan ahead for Hurricane Irene | The ...
By The Associated Press
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is urging New York City residents living in low-lying areas to line up a place to stay on high ground ahead of possible evacuations this weekend due to Hurricane Irene.
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9/11 memorial service to be secular, Bloomberg announces | Secular ...
By Mike Daniels
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced yesterday that the 10th anniversary memorial ceremony of the 9/11 terror attacks on the Twin Towers will include no clergy. Christian Dominionists are predictably horrified and outraged.
Secular News Daily
Breaking News » Blog Archive » Bloomberg Bans Religion From 9/11 ...
By SBrinkmann
Bloomberg Bans Religion From 9/11 Anniversary. August 25, 2011 8:49 am SBrinkmann BreakingNews. By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is causing outrage by his decision to ban all clergy from ...
Breaking News
Mayor Bloomberg Tells Newyorkers To Prepare For Evacuation ...
By Daniel
The decision would be based on the strength, path and speed of the storm, Bloomberg told reporters today at a news conference in a flood-prone section of Queens. The city would offer “an enormous shelter system” for those without a ...
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Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Bloomberg: Jobless Claims ...
By ZIP
Bloomberg never fails to disappoint. (Bloomberg News) — Claims for U.S. unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, pushed up for a second time by a labor dispute at Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ). Jobless claims climbed by ...
Weasel Zippers
Bloomberg to acquire BNA | Government Information Division
By Peggy Garvin
Bloomberg LP, the closely held news and financial information provider, agreed to buy BNA for about $990 million to add legal, tax and regulatory research and analysis. … BNA shareholders, who are current and former employees, ...
Government Information Division
Acquisitions: Bloomberg is Buying BNA for $990 Million « INFOdocket
By Gary D. Price
The acquisition will significantly grow Bloomberg's presence in Washington, whose Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg Law divisions already have a presence here. Advertisement...
INFOdocket
XE.com - UPDATE 2-Bloomberg to buy legal research firm for $990 mln
Bloomberg LP plans to buy legal tax and regulatory research company BNA for about $990 million as it shores up its legal business in a direct aim at rivals Thomson Reuters and Reed Elsevier .
XE Forex News
Market Outcomes And Political Power at Reports from the Economic Front
By Martin Hart-Landsberg
Thanks to Bloomberg News we have yet another example of this reality. In brief, as a result of Congressional and media pressure the Federal Reserve was recently forced to reveal its lending activity for the period August 2007 through ...
Reports from the Economic Front
Samsung loses Dutch ruling in dispute with Apple
Bloomberg News. Bloomberg August 25, 2011 04:00 AM Copyright Bloomberg. ... SeongJoon Cho / Bloomberg. Samsung will have to halt some sales of its smart ...
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Blackberrys to run Google's Android apps - San Jose Mercury News
Bloomberg News. Posted: 08/24/2011 07:17:53 PM PDT. Updated: 08/25/2011 04:18:40 AM PDT. Research In Motion, seeking to boost the appeal of its BlackBerrys ...
www.mercurynews.com/rss/ci_18751399?source=rss
3 Geeks and a Law Blog: Breaking News: Bloomberg is Acquiring BNA ...
The acquisition would significantly grow Bloomberg's presence in the Washington, DC area through its multiple operating units, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg ...
www.geeklawblog.com/.../breaking-news-bloomberg-is-acquir...
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