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Shaken Global Financial Markets Prompt Look at African Economies
Voice of America
The recent global stock market decline affected Africa's major stock markets. But many economists say that even though some the world's major economies will continue to struggle in the near-term, there is no sign of a slowdown for Africa's economies. ...
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Double dip recession: US turns other cheek at China debt lashing
Economic Times
The rhetorical barrage has included claims that Washington has shirked its global responsibilities and should feel "shame" about its addiction to debt, in unusually cutting commentaries savaging theworld's largest economy. Top US officials have ...
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CNN International Chief: We Are Heavily Committed to London Coverage
Broadcasting & Cable
But London burning and the spread of violence to a number of other British cities, is just one of several major international news stories exploding into public view, any one of which would have topped the newscasts in a normal week. Global financial ...
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Broadcasting & Cable
Emerging Stocks Priced for Profit Tumble Signal Bottom to Morgan Stanley
Bloomberg
The six-day drop in the MSCI gauge is the biggest since October 2008, a month after Lehman's bankruptcy roiled world markets and helped spark a global recession. Weaker-than- estimated US economic data, the unprecedented downgrade of America's top ...
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RPT-UPDATE 2-China's Wen urges global action to calm mkts
Reuters
Some economists believe this is among the top risks threatening the world's No. 2 economy as they estimate that up to a quarter of loans could sour, saddling banks with bed debt. "So far, China's economy continues to maintain the good growth momentum ...
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Who is funding climate change sceptics?
Sydney Morning Herald
The top question so far, with more than 230 votes, listed by Jason Fong soon after the project opened on Sunday, asks: ''The very point of Australia's carbon tax is to reduce global warming. How much will reducing 5 per cent of Australia's around 1.5 ...
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Asia faces tougher battle in new world slowdown
AsiaOne
SINGAPORE - Asian economies still scarred by the 2008 world recession are likely to have a harder time grappling with a new round of turmoil than they did three years ago, regional analysts said. Fears of a new global meltdown are growing after the ...
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AsiaOne
Home grown vines produce top-quality wines
China Daily
The world's wine producers have been looking for a bigger share of the Chinese market because of its immense potential among an increasingly aware population, in recentyears. Meanwhile, here at home, the Changyu Pioneer Wine Co Ltd, faced with an ever...
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China Daily
Major protests erupt against Chile's Pinera
Reuters
Battered by protests by students, environmentalists and miners in the world's top copper producer, billionaire Pinera is the least popular leader in two decades since Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship, one recent poll showed. ...
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Opinion: Five Reasons Why the US Will Remain the Strongest Country in the ...
Fox News
Still, the current US advantage over its rivals is so large that these cuts will not threaten its position at the top. For example: America's Coast Guard has more ships than the entire fleets of the 12 largest navies in the world. ...
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New water plant to give West Palm Beach global status
Palm Beach Post
"We'll always have issues because we live in a mechanical world, but we're staying ontop of things." The new treatment plant will improve water quality but not quantity. Thecurrent drought, which at its worst left the city with a 23-day water supply, ...
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Palm Beach Post
Taiwan stocks post best daily pct gain in over 2 yrs
Reuters
To what extent the recent turmoil in global stock markets points to the slowdown of the globaleconomy is not clear," said Hsu, adding his firm was buying stocks on Wednesday. The main TAIEX index closed 243.20 points higher to 7736.32 points, ...
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China's export jump swells surplus
Sydney Morning Herald
Many economists agreed that the latest trade data showed China's growth engine is whirring along, keeping domestic demand solid. That should comfort investors looking to China to pick up some slack in global demand should other major economies sputter. ...
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African Markets - Factors to watch on Aug 10
Reuters
WORLD ECONOMY The chances of another US recession are rising and Europe's recovery is also at risk, according to the latest Reuters poll, taken during the worst stock market selloff since the nadir of the financial crisis. WORLD OIL CONSUMPTION OPEC, ...
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Apple's rise to the top offers insight for start-ups
StartupSmart
Earlier today, Apple edged past long-time leader Exxon Mobil to become the most valuable company in the world before Exxon quickly regained the top spot. Apple's ascension caps a 14-year transformation from a PC retailer into a global market leader of ...
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Singapore Cuts Export Growth Forecast as Risks to Global Recovery Increase
Bloomberg
Inflation is still going to be with us in the second half so the central bank will maintain a strong Singapore dollar policy at about the current pace.” The currency, the best performer in Asia this year among currencies tracked by Bloomberg, ...
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World's Highest Port Costs Drive Trade From South Africa: Freight Markets
Bloomberg
That's more than double a global average of $86251 and the highest of 100 top harbors. Things may get worse next year with Transnet's application to increase fees for port services and facilities by 18 percent. Combined with the rand's strength and ...
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GM to halve vehicle platforms, build Cadillacs 'in volume' in China
The Detroit News
Two years out of bankruptcy, the Detroit-based automaker wants to further streamline how it designs and builds vehicles around the world. The effort, GM's top executives told some 200 Wall Street investors and financial analysts at GM's Warren Tech ...
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EDITORIAL: Countries need to work together to avert another global financial ...
Asahi Shimbun
For many years, US government bonds have been regarded as the safest financial assets in theworld. But Standard & Poor's, one of the three major credit-rating agencies, has--for the first time ever--lowered its rating of long-term federal debt one ...
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NSF International's Global Food Safety Certification Division Earns Five-Star ...
PR Web (press release)
“I am very proud of our auditors and operations team for placing us in the top five percent with our score of 100, which helps us fulfill NSF's mission of protecting and improving human health worldwide.” For more information visit NSF's Global Food ...
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PR Web (press release)
Asia's Economy Remains Uncertain Amid US, Europe's Financial Jitters
Bernama
Standard and Poor's (S&P) downgraded on Aug 5 the US credit rating from triple A to double A-plus, a move that fueled fears that the global recovery from the 2007-2009 financial crisis could be derailed and the world's economy is headed for a ...
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Global policy actions fail to halt stocks rout
Stabroek News
By Stabroek staff | 0 Comments | World News | Tuesday, August 9, 2011 WASHINGTON/LONDON, (Reuters) – Political leaders failed to halt a global stock market rout that gathered steam yesterday as investors lost confidence that Europe and the United ...
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How a Faltering Dollar Starves Food Aid
Council on Foreign Relations
And we don't really have any mechanism in place whereby the world has any right to tell Russia to let its wheat out in the global market or to tell Vietnam not to hoard rice. So we've not succeeded inbreaking through any of the trade issues that have ...
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Investors re-evaluate risks, adjust to post-downgrade world
Xinhua
9 (Xinhua) -- After Standard & Poor's Friday night downgraded the US credit rating from AAA to AA+, making Uncle Sam lose his top rating for the first time in history, global financial markets panicked. On the first trading day after the news was ...
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Institutions turn to independent advisers
ABC Online
One such firm, Towers Watson, is a global independent, itself listed on the New York Stock Exchange, with funds under advice of over US$2.1 trillion for clients like top sovereign wealth funds and big super-funds. Carl A Hess is Towers Watson's global ...
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Downgrade tarnishes Washington's domestic and international reputation
Deutsche Welle
At the same time, its reputation as a leading global power is taking a battering on the world stage. The in-fighting and gridlock which contributed to the United States losing its top-tier AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's on Friday continued ...
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Bridget Shea Promoted to VP, Global Client Services at Kenshoo
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Kenshoo powers five of the top ten retailers in the world and eight of the ten largest ad agency networks. With campaigns running in more than 100 countries, Kenshoo customers include Barnes & Noble, CareerBuilder, Facebook, Havas Digital, Hitwise, ...
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The World From Berlin: 'The Western World Is Deeply Shaken'
Spiegel Online
"The downgrade of the US credit rating and the debt crisis in the European currency union obscure the fact that the global economy had already weakened significantly inrecent months. Taken by itself, the slowdown had been interpreted as a subdued ...
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Spiegel Online
Cisco nabs Juniper sales execs
ITWorld Canada
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BNP's Sanft Sees Opportunity in Japan, China Stocks
Washington Post
10 (Bloomberg) -- Erwin Sanft, head of China and Hong Kong research at BNP Paribas SA, talks about global stocks and economies. Sanft, who also discusses Federal Reserve monetary policy and China's currency policy, speaks in Hong Kong with Rishaad ...
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Levi's Takes Go Forth Campaign Global
brandchannel.com
To that end, Levi's has been beefing up its human capital, the better to bring its global campaign and corporate citizenship message to the world. The brand just hired Beto Guajardo from Avon to serve as global VP of strategy, following its recent ...
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Economic Uncertainty Leading to Global Unrest - Yeshiva World News
By Y.W. Editor
In late June, half the public schools in Britain where closed by a massive protest over public pensions cuts, including three major teachers' unions, customs and immigration officers, and air traffic controllers.... But as one man told NBC News about an economic protest two months ago, “There was not a word in the press about our protests. Last night (Saturday) a bit of rioting and looting and now look around you.” In response to the violence, Prime Minister David ...
Yeshiva World News
China's long march to world's economic top spot almost complete — RT
By RT
Many have thought this likely for quite a while, and the latest news regarding the US debt-ceiling debate and the US's credit rating being downgraded is leading even more people to believe that this is going to happen even sooner than ...
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Breaking News - "Top Chef: Texas" Set For Season Nine With New ...
Source: Nielsen Media Research, L7 data, #1 food show: among P18-49, includes regular season episode premieres of most recent completed season. Bravo is a program service of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a globalaudience. Bravo has been an NBCUniversal cable network since December 2002 and ...
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As euro teeters, national leaders take vacations - World news
In the last few days, markets around the world have been rocked and many experts say the globaleconomy risks falling into a second recession. Traders are something worse than jittery and, the argument goes, having national governments run on ... French news reports quote an aide as saying that Sarkozy is not returning to Paris because he doesn't want to panic the public. And some offer no explanation at all. On Sunday, the Belgian finance minister, Didier Reynders, ...
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Asian stocks rebound after US Fed puts rates on hold - MAARS News
By Valkyries
MAARS News Global - The Hot Breaking News, Sport, Financial, Entertainment, Politics and everything on the headlines. Top Global Headlines! ... Asian markets have rebounded after the US Federal Reserve said it will keep interest rates on hold and Wall Street had its best day in two years. Photo: marketwatch.com. The decision by the US central bank to keep rates at current levels until at least 2013 helped stem one of the biggest sell-offs in recent years. ...
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Terrorism Risk Index 2011 | Pakistan Today | Latest news, Breaking ...
By Pakistan Today
News Comments (1119470http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pakistantoday.com.pk%2F2011%2F08%2Fterrorism-risk-index-2011%2FTerrorism+Risk+Index+20112011-08-09+15%3A24%3A43Pakistan+Todayhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.pakistantoday.com.pk%2F%3Fp%3D111947)... According to a ranking by global analysts Maplecroft, Pakistan is declared as the second most dangerous country in the world after Somalia. The UK based company's index rates 198 countries on the number, frequency and intensity of terrorism attacks, ...
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Syria under fire for brutal crackdown | World News: the latest ...
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Syria's president held talks with neighbouring Turkey's foreign minister Tuesday as the regime faced a chorus of global reproach, with envoys from India, Brazil and South Africa also heading to Damascus to press for an end to the violent ... Turkey's state-run news agency confirmed that Mr. Assad was meeting Mr. Davutoglu, but there were no details. In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner lauded the visit and said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham ...
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NewsDaily: China's Wen urges global action to calm markets
By Don Durfee and Chris Buckley
China's Premier Wen Jiabao urged nations to work together to stabilize turbulent financial markets on Tuesday as global stocks stumbled on fears that the world economy is headed for a downturn. ...NewsDaily: Your best source for breaking newsTOP NEWS. Share Blog Subscribe Print Email Bookmark .... Find with keyword(s): Enter a keyword or phrase to find the latest news stories, plus related articles, videos, blog posts, and podcasts. ...
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Guido Mantega on Global Crisis | Live Stock Trading News ...
By Shayne Heffernan
Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said Monday the Global economic crisis entered a “chronic phase,” and “the advanced countries will not recover soon.” The sharp falls in the stocks all over the Worldare caused by fears that the World is moving .... indicating Tokyo's readiness to maintain its massive holdings of U.S. government bonds. Noda also said the Group of Seven finance leaders agreed on a Monday telephone call that excess [...] Recent News; Popular News ...
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Top Chefs to tour Kilmarnock as Global Market returns / News ...
... early June as the first ever Global Market came to Ayrshire - an event so successful that Top Chefs are lining up to come and visit when it returns, by popular demand, to the town from 1st to 4th September. , Byline: Editorial, Category : News, ... And now, having heard about the wealth of exotic foods and ingredients offered by the traders - who come from all over the world - a team of chefs, led by Jacqueline O'Donnell, TV chef and owner of the Sisters Restaurants in ...
Cumnock Chronicle | News Headlines
BREAKING FART NEWS: Barney Frank (D-MA) Farts! | Videogum
By Gabe
It has been awhile since we've had any breaking fart news (and the last story was a blind item). Hard to pinpoint why, exactly. Certainly the world's latest.
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Market rout deepens global economic crisis (Reuters) | Financial News
By fifee
Even as Asian equity markets pulled back from another day of staggering losses as they closed, European shares tumbled for an eighth session running, with news of an unexpected drop in British factory output in June highlighting the ... As of Monday, stock losses had wiped some $3.8 trillion from investor wealth globally in the recent rout as buyers rushing for perceived safety in the Japanese yen, the Swiss franc and gold, which hit another record high on Tuesday. ...
Financial News
Asia stocks bounce after Fed move stems rout - Business News - IBNLive
World stock markets had been tumbling since the start of August on fears of a slide back into recession for the United States, reinforced by a downgrade of the US credit rating on Friday, and the ever-expanding euro zone debt crisis. ... Gold firmed from late New York levels to around $1755 an ounce, after striking the latest in a string of records around $1778 on Tuesday. US crude oil climbed back above $80 a barrel, rising more than 2 percent to trade around $81.05. ...
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Swan confident about strong China outlook | WA Business News
By dan.wilkie
News. Treasurer Wayne Swan is confident the Chinese economy will continue to grow strongly, providing a major plank of support for Australia in a turbulent world economy. Mr Swan was on Wednesday again trying to soothe investor concerns ahead ... "That is another reason why Australia will be strong and continue to be strong in the circumstances that we find ourselves with the turbulence in the globaleconomy, particularly in Europe and particularly in the United States. ...
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Mining Journal - E&Y: Mining at risk
Resource nationalism is the greatest business risk faced by mining and metals companies around theworld. This is the key finding in the latest 'Business Risks' report from Ernst & Young. Mike Elliott, globalmining and metals leader for E&Y, said "through our discussions with mining and metals leaders, and from our analysis of organisations around the world, we've been able to identify the top ten global business risks in the mining and metals sector at this time". ...
Mining Journal - Breaking News
Gold tops $1770 as economic fears intensify | China business news
By CBN
Top asset manager BlackRock will use profits it is making in gold and bond markets to seek out bargains in falling global equity markets, James Holt, investment strategist at the world's largest money manager, said on Tuesday. ... Comex net longs may be at record levels, but current gold buying is very broad-based, with a strong physical bias which provides much support,” it added. Elsewhere silver fell 2.8 per cent on the day to $37.87 an ounce, pushing the gold/silver ...
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FAA shutdown: Obama urges Congress to settle latest row (BBC) ... http://www.bbc .co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14391886 ... (7/16/10) that a 1-degree Celsius increase in globaltemperatures—just half the best-case scenario in most climate ...
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