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LATEST World News, Aug 11, 2011


The US Dollar Is Still the Top Choice
New York Times
A big reason is that a strong dollar remains in the world's best interest. Even though it has lost more than a third of its value in the last decade, global savers have filled their central bank mattresses with the stuff. According to the International ...
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GLOBAL MARKETS-World shares retreat as investors shun risk
Reuters
Speculation that France's AAA rating may be at risk initially rattled markets, though the three majoragencies reaffirmed the top-tier rating. Standard & Poor's downgraded its AAA credit rating of the United States last week. [ID:nL6E7JA1EQ] "I think ...
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Top global fund says ECB policy of buying bonds is working well
Irish Independent
By Donal O'Donovan THE world's biggest bond investor says the European Central Bank (ECB) policy of buying government bonds is credible and is working. In a research note published yesterday, Andrew Balls, of California-based PIMCO, said the ECB action ...
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Evotec partners P2X7 antagonist programme, EVT 401, to a top tier global ...
Reuters (press release)
Hamburg, Germany - 11 August 2011: Evotec AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT, TecDAX) today announced that it has entered into a world-wide license and collaboration agreement with a top tier animal health company that intends to develop the proprietary ...
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Where Will Growth Come From?
New York Times
Their growth spares the world utter economic stagnation. Yet developing countries are not robust enough to keep the global economy from sinking in a morass for long. Their economies remain vulnerable to financial turbulence and economic weakness in ...
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Bank of Korea Holds Interest Rate at 3.25% as Stock Rout Clounds Outlook
Bloomberg
Singapore this week reduced the top end of its growth forecast for 2011. The US Federal Reserve held rates steady in its latest policy meeting. Consumer prices rose 4.7 percent last month from a year earlier, the biggest gain in four months and ...
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Stock markets in US, Europe show major drop
Washington Post
... debt of other European countries, this has turned to alarm only in recent days, fueled by a generalized anxiety about the world economy. If major European banks were to suffer massive losses, that could ripple across the global financial system. ...
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There's a first-timer for every major, it seems
Boston Globe
Said Donald, who since May has been the world's top-ranked player: “Majors are in this day and age made out to be the biggest deal. People put a lot of pressure on the guys who haven't won, like myself and Lee and Adam and whoever else it might be. ...
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The Best International Business Schools
Forbes
I joined Forbes in 1998 as part of the statistics department after working 3+ years at Financial Worldmagazine. The global economy has stumbled badly in recent years with soaring unemployment rates and stagnant income growth. Yet most graduates of MBA ...
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Apple Inc. surpasses Exxon Mobil to become World's No. 1 company
Economic Times
The Cupertino-based technology giant on Wednesday surpassed the global leader Exxon Mobil to take this title. Exxon has held the top spot since 2005. At the close of markets Wednesday, Apple had market capitalization of $337 billion ahead of Exxon's ...
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The US still has a promising future
Los Angeles Times
Recent studies estimate that the United States has more than half of the world's best100 universities. The intellectual excellence does not end there. Of the $1.2 trillion theworld spent on research and development activities last year, $400 billion ...
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Los Angeles Times
The US remains a global powerhouse
Troy Media Corporation
The latest international ranking finds that 54 of the world's 100 best universities are located there.Top global scientists, researchers, and graduate students continue to flock to US universities, teaching hospitals and other research institutions, ...
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Obama, Bernanke discuss US and global economy
Xinhua
According to a White House statement, they were joined by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, White House chief of staff Bill Daley and top White House economist Gene Sperling. It was the third time Obama has met with Bernanke this year. ...
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Global Stocks Drop Again After Rebound
Voice of America (blog)
The decline in Europe and the United States ended a strong stock rally that began Tuesday after topofficials of the US central bank said they probably will keep interest rates at their current ultra-low level until the middle of 2013. ...
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Top U.S. money funds stood by French banks in July
Reuters
By Ross Kerber BOSTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Major US money market mutual funds continued to hold securities issued by top French banks in July, new data show, underscoring the close ties between the funds and the latest part of the financial system under ...
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Oil demand growth could stall in 2012, IEA says
CTV.ca
That means oil demand shows practically no growth during a year when the global economy grows by 2.5 to 3.0 per cent. Based on current global economic forecasts, the IEA trimmed its 2011global oil demand growth by just 60000 barrels per day (bpd) to ...
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Boost of Ericsson's global ICT capabilities in India
MarketWatch (press release)
Altogether Ericsson has more than 65000 service professionals, including an average of 15000 subcontractors, well positioned to support our customers' need for services around the world. * The Services Top 100 rank gathers data from SEC filings, ...
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Best-Performing Bond Fund Prefers Risky Assets, Bucks Trend: Japan Credit
Bloomberg
“The latest rout isn't enough to start selling corporate bonds altogether at all,” said Nobumasa Mizutani, the manager of Mizuho Trust Banking & Co.'s Credit Spread Strategy fund in an interview in Tokyo yesterday. “If anything, it did highlight the ...
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iGPS Named One of the Top 100 Companies for Working Families
PR Newswire (press release)
10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company, LLC), operator of theworld's first pallet rental service to provide lightweight, 100 percent recyclable plastic pallets with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) tags ...
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Is the world cracking up?
Foreign Policy
Second, the tools used to try and rescue the global economy in 2008 are partially to blame for what's happening right now. Despite all the gnashing of teeth about the Fed twiddling its thumbs, it's far from clear that a QE3 would actually stimulate ...
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The Top Stocks PNC Financial Services Is Selling
Seeking Alpha
Starbucks' EPS forecast for the current year is $1.52 and next year is $1.82. According to consensus estimates, its top line is expected to grow 8.50% in the current year and 10.10% next year. General Mills, Inc. is a global manufacturer and marketer ...
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US Relies on Contractors in Somalia Conflict
New York Times
A Ugandan soldier leads Richard Rouget, a military adviser with Bancroft GlobalDevelopment, to the roof of a building to monitor a firefight. More Photos » By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT MOGADISHU, Somalia — Richard Rouget, ...
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New York Times
Can Estrogen Fuel Our Global Economy?
Huffington Post
And now as I dip my toe back into the entrepreneurial world I see a very different landscape, a landscape that helps me keep my faith in the global economy. Here's what I see: Women can save the day. A 29 year-old entrepreneur Demet Mutlu, ...
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Global Information Technology Report
Cosmoworlds
Sweden and Singapore continue to top the rankings of The Global Information Technology Report 2010-2011, Transformations 2.0, released by the World Economic Forum, confirming the leadership of the Nordic countries and the Asian Tiger economies in ...
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Cosmoworlds
'It's very dangerous out there,' former spy chief tells Utahns
Deseret News
By Jasen Lee, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Even with the US making majorstrides in the global war on terror, the world is still "very dangerous," according to one of the nation's top intelligence experts. Speaking Wednesday before a capacity ...
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Deseret News
Five Best Wednesday Columns
The Atlantic Wire
Gordon Brown on Global Coordination "In a world economy driven by global, not national, flows of finance and by global, not local, sourcing of goods, what happens to the richest citizen of the richest country can instantaneously affect the poorest ...
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The Atlantic Wire
SKorean police say stock broker jumped off building after suffering heavy losses
Washington Post
By AP, SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean police say a stock broker has jumped off a high-rise residential building to his death after he apparently suffered heavy losses in the global markets turmoil. Chief investigator Lee Kang-ho said Wednesday that ...
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WNS's Group CEO Receives Social Entrepreneurship Award
MarketWatch (press release)
Asia's Best CSR Practices Award 2011 was hosted by the Asian Confederation of Businesses and was powered by the World CSR Day. The event witnessed over 300 delegates and several globalorganizations from over 15 participating countries, out of which a ...
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Global Sources purchases Shanghai office space to support growth plans
PR Newswire (press release)
It helps a community of over 1 million active buyers – including the world's top 25 retailers – to source more profitably from complex overseas supply markets. With the goal of providing the most effective ways possible to advertise, market and sell, ...
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MWW Group to Serve as Global Communications Partner to Social Media Week
PR Newswire (press release)
MWW Group CEO Michael W. Kempner Appointed to Social Media Week's Global Advisory Board, Will Serve as Strategic Advisor to Event NEW YORK, Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MWW Group (www.mww.com), one of the top ten global independent public relations ...
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African Markets - Factors to watch on Aug 11
Reuters Africa
WORLD COCOA Better-than-expected cocoa production in West Africa will boost global output to 4.2 million tonnes in the 2010/11 season, creating a surplus of 325000 tonnes, the InternationalCocoa Organisation (ICCO) said. For the latest precious metals ...
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Global ICT Co to open telecom centre at UET | Pakistan Today ...
By fraaz
Under the contract, Huawei is providing latest networking equipment to UET Lahore, worth $0.5 million which will be set up in the Huawei-UET Telecom center and will be used to train and certify engineers on enterprise networking technology. It is to be noted that Huawei ... Al Jazeera English, Geo TV, BBC News, The Guardian, Xinhua, Long War Journal, Monsters and Critics, Pakistan Today, SATP Tweet Related links:Obama 2011 StrikesThe Bush Years 2004 – 2009'Hard and [...] ...
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UN: Hundreds of thousands face starvation - World news
August 10, 2011 — UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations warned that the famine in East Africa hasn't peaked and hundreds of thousands of people face imminent starvation and death without a massive global response. ...
Mail.com: Breaking News
Atlanta Runs World's Most Fiscally Efficient Airport, Guangzhou ...
Global health experts today published a landmark collection of papers that together provide a unique microscope on the experience of countries, companies and organizations in sub-Saharan Africa addressing neglected health problems with homegrown drugs, vaccines, diagnostics and other creative ... WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Research Council offers a framework for evaluating the effects of a 2007 reform law on the District of Columbia's public schools. ...
ScienceNewsline - Top Science News
NewsDaily: Rupert Murdoch endorses Carey as next in line
Rupert Murdoch said top lieutenant Chase Carey would replace him should anything happen to the 80-year-old News Corp CEO. ... NewsDaily: Your best source for breaking newsTOP NEWS. Share Blog Subscribe Print Email Bookmark ...
NewsDaily: Top Headlines
6 ways to follow, and report, breaking news events online
By Martin Bryant
Break the news! When a big news event is unfolding quickly, it can difficult to keep track of the latest news updates. Here we take a look at ways to keep on top of breaking news, and to cover it yourself.... Breaking News monitors events around the world, publishing new events on its homepage as they occur and giving major developing stories their own pages, curated by editors where credible reports are pulled in from around the Web. Sources include published news ...
The Next Web
MINING.com News – The Latest Mining News on the Web
By MINING.com Editor
Worldwide mining and mineral industry news. Explore related articles and find more information. ...The Latest Mining News On The Web. Exxaro's Tshikondeni Coal Implements Gemcom InSite Mine Production Management Solution. MINING.com Editor - August 10, 2011 - PERMALINK. Gemcom Software International Inc., the largest global supplier of mining software solutions, said Exxaro's Tshikondeni Coal has implemented Gemcom InSite™ as its mine production management solution....
MINING.com News
Global Warriors Prepare for First Battle | Top MMA News at ...
By Press Release
With a 10 fight card, packed with the best talent southern Ontario has to offer, Global Warriors: Uprising is poised to make a big impact in the world of mixed martial arts and lay the groundwork for a top end MMA promotion that will call southern ... In the main event Adrian “The Bully” Wooley (7-2) will look to shake off his recent loss and show why he is one of Canada's top prospects when he steps in the cage to face off with the Motor City's David “Bo” Harris (5-2-1). ...
Top MMA News at topmmanews.com
World News Brief, Thursday August 11 | Pundit
By Daily Digest
World News Brief, Thursday August 11. Global markets go down, up, then down again in quest for answers (+ analysis); US Fed looks to offer assurances and break panic; Cameron says police in "fightback" after more English violence; ... Top of the Agenda: Global Market Rebound on Fed Statement, then slump again. Following a statement by the US Federal Reserve that said it planned to keep interest rates near zero for the next two years, investors sent Wall Street's Dow Jones ...
Pundit
Video advertising company seeks lift | World news and information
Anthony Rushton, co-founder of telemetry, comfortable with the current valuation of around £ 175 for the video advertising business analytics has helped launch two years ago. Traffic is running at about £ 25m and major customers in the ... L – News) and Budweiser sign. What's next.? He is ambitious and has been encouraged by consultants Deloitte predictable estimates that telemetry can reach out and become a global operation of the value of £ 750 in two or three years. ...
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Corinthians claim top spot in Brazil | World News: the latest ...
By admin
... having 10 wins to Flamengo's nine, Corinthians take over first place. The draw nudges Santos to 15 points, up two places to 14th in the 20-team league. Corinthians claim top spot in Brazil. Source:Latest Sports News and Results. Top news ... 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 ...
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Fedor Emelianenko vs. Kevin Randleman on M-1's radar for fall ...
By Pedro Carrasco
MMA News. August 10th, 2011. 25 comments » ... will now fight for the Russian based M-1 Global(who also have a broadcasting deal with Showtime). With a career on ice, is Kevin Randleman thebest possible match-up for the fallen emperor or should his management team seek a more relevant and higher tiered fighter to prove to the world that their star still has what it takes to compete at the highest level? Tags: featured, MMA NEWS, Strikeforce, strikeforce news, ufc news ...
MMA News
Global Banking Crisis Fears Lurch to the Foreground - CNBC
CNBC Executive News Editor. Twitter; LinkedIn; More Share. Fears of a new global banking crisis moved to the foreground Wednesday and are driving investors out of stocks and into safe-haven Treasurys, gold and Swiss francs. ...
CNBC Top News and Analysis
Honda Launch Honda CR-Z Alpha Black Label ... - The Daily News Global
By davidchow
Honda Launch Honda CR-Z Alpha Black Label Edition - The Daily News Global Give you the latest news In a minute to your PC ... Honda Launch Honda CR-Z Alpha Black Label Edition. Thursday, August 11th, 2011 | Featured News ... In addition, the Honda CR-Z has also received several awards at international level such as: E-Drives's Top Car of 2010 and the Eco Gadget of The Year from Stuff Magazine Gadget Awards, and Most Economic & Environment Friendly Sports HEV from Brighton ...
The Daily News Global
Kazor.com World Community News » Samsung Accessories Outstripped ...
By admin
The newest research data of International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker 2Q11 showed that Apple and Samsung had gone to the top of the list of global smart phone vendors during the second quarter of this ...
Kazor.com World Community News
Emergency Meetings on US Economy | Live Stock Trading News ...
By Shayne Heffernan
The news boosted the stock market but the gains were erased Wednesday as investors are worrying about the US and EU's economic prospects. US economy, which grew only 1.3% in Q-2 this year after a 0.4% gain in Q-1, is not expected ... Paul A . Ebeling, Jnr. writes and publishes The Red Roadmaster's Technical Report on the US Major Market Indices, a weekly, highly-regarded financial market letter, read by opinion makers, business leaders and organizations around the world. ...
Live Stock Trading News | Equities,...
Future of Fox News in Jeopardy : USACTION NEWS
By Editor
Hiring and keeping Glenn Beck on the air, as long as he did, will probably go down in publishing history as one of the truly game breaking decisions in the history of political media. Without Beck on Fox News, the Tea Party movement would almost certainly not have been as successful as it has been; and for this, I have to say that America and the world should be very grateful.” By Cliff Kincaid. A former competitor of Rupert Murdoch is coming to the defense of the media ...
USACTION NEWS
Started with borrowed money, Apple becomes world's No ... - News One
By Staff
The Cupertino-based technology giant Wednesday surpassed the global leader Exxon Mobile Corp. to take this title. Exxon has held the top spot since 2005. At the close of markets Wednesday, Apple had market capitalization of $337 billion ...
News One
Global Economy News: Important & Beneficial
Global economy news is arriving in all major business news channels. ... The economy news is broadcasting all over the world up to date and each and every aspects .most of the news channels... Latest Business Opportunities Articles ...
www.articlesbase.com/.../global-economy-news-important-ben...
Asean among victims of global cyber attacks - One News Page World
World on One News Page on Wednesday, 3 August 2011. ... Many of latest attacks identified by McAfee began with 'spear phising' emails tailored to appear ...
www.onenewspage.com/.../Asean-among-victims-of-global-cy...

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