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Global Finance: World'S Top 50 Safest Banks
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
As highlighted in a CNBC slideshow, Global Finance magazine publishes an annual ranking of theworld's "safest" banks based on long-term credit ratings by Moody's, S&P and Fitch, as well as total assets. While more than 40 of the top 50 last year again ...
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China overtaking US as top market for PCs
San Francisco Chronicle
The estimates highlight the growing importance of China's consumers to the global economy after the country passed the United States in 2009 as the largest auto market. Hewlett-Packard, theworld's largest PC maker, indicated this month it may pull out ...
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Top 10 Most Expensive Cities in the World
AdvisorOne
Questions are asked about the cost of 122 goods and services and about wages in 14 key professions in 73 of the world's most populous cities. The latest findings account for factors like cumulative inflation, GDP growth and changes in foreign-exchange ...
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Why London deserves to be the fashion capital of the world
Telegraph.co.uk
BY Sarah Mower | 24 August 2011 We should take the news that London has been declared the world's top fashion capital of 2011 as a giant fillip to national pride. The tally came from Global Language Monitor, a body in Texas which ranks cities on the...
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Telegraph.co.uk
At Vermont farmers' markets, it tastes global
Boston Globe
In recent years, however, two farmers' markets have attracted a surprisinginternational array of vendors serving global cuisine. In addition to local fruits, vegetables, baked goods, and cheeses, the market here and in Hardwick might feature French ...
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Boston Globe
President of a top US university to visit India
MSN India
"This trip to India is very important to the university as we continue to raise our international profile and prepare students to become leaders in an increasingly global society," Indiana University President Michael A McRobbie said in a statement. ...
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Houston Outlawz take second at USSSA Global World Series
Your Houston News
The Houston Outlawz took second at the USSSA Global World Series in Alabama. On the top row, from left, are head coach Jaime Larzabal, Josh Larzabal, Danny Silva, Luke Silva, Josh Wallace, Josh Romero and assistant coach Chico Freeman. ...
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iProspect Ranked One Of The Top Five Places to Work By Ad Age
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
iProspect is a leading global digital performance agency. The company helps many of the world'smost successful brands maximize their online marketing ROI through paid search, social media strategy, search engine optimization, display media, ...
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Why western ways are still winning
Financial Times
By Martin Sandbu Ideas are inferior to pop songs in one respect: they have no top 40 charts. If they did, the hit single to top the charts for global policy debates for three years running would have been entitled “Sunset in the west”. ...
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Financial Times
Canada's Macklem Says Global Recovery Threatened By Delays in G-20 Reforms
Bloomberg
Recent signs that the global recovery is at risk include the “intensified” European fiscal crisis, the loss by the US of its top credit rating and “a broad range of data” that indicate slowing economic growth, Macklem said. US consumer confidence in ...
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GM's Media Account Goes Into Review
New York Times (blog)
By STUART ELLIOTT General Motors is placing in review its assignments to handle media planning and buying around the world, the bulk of which are handled by three major media agencies. The total amount of money that GM spends each year to run ...
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LUMS professor among 35 'World's Top Young Innovators' 2011
The Express Tribune
He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. He is a recipient of the MIT Technovator Award (Grassroot Technologies); Mark Weiser Award for best paper award at PERCOM, the top rated conference in the field of pervasive ...
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The Express Tribune
New Confucius Institute Expands W&M's Global Reach
William and Mary News
Hanson helped implement a Confucius Institute while vice provost for global affairs at the University of Washington. “Understanding China's role in the world in the 21 st century is more important than ever before, and the Confucius Institute we are ...
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Investor Suicides Offer Clue in a Bellwether: William Pesek
Bloomberg
If our world has any place that acts like a financial early warning system, it's South Korea. With high short-term debt levels and little to cushion it from destabilizing global events, Korea is often the first of the top 15 economies to zig, ...
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DSK's Awkward Homecoming
Daily Beast
After hundreds of thousands of cover stories around the world detailed his travails with anatomic precision, his partymates are suggesting that, anyway, he will need some time to himself. At best, his comrades are suggesting en masse, as a new global ...
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Daily Beast
In Visit to Japan, Biden Seeks to Inspire Recovery
New York Times
Mr. Biden said it was in the United States' interest for Japan to recover and help lift the saggingglobal economy. “Some around the world are betting on the decline of America and the inability of Japan to recover,” Mr. Biden said at a speech at the ...
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Top Myths and Misconceptions About Earthquakes
ForexTV.com
This is because of the tremendous increase in the number of seismograph stations in the world and the many improvements in global communications. In 1931, there were about 350 stations operating in the world; today, there are more that 4000 stations ...
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PRESS DIGEST - New York Times business news - Aug 24
Reuters
Surveys of industrial managers released Tuesday showed that growth could be slowing in China and Germany, raising questions about whether two of the world's most dynamic economies could continue to underpin global output and compensate for weakness in ...
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Analyzing The Top 5 Stocks By Market Capitalization
Seeking Alpha
IBM Corporation (IBM) – “International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) provides information technology (IT) products and services worldwide. Its Global Technology Services segment provides IT infrastructure and business process services, ...
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Top Goldman Banker to Join Man Group
New York Times
By DEALBOOK Jonathan Sorrell, a top executive at Goldman Sachs, will join the Man Group as head of strategy for the European hedge fund giant, a spokesman for Goldman Sachs confirmed. The move comes as the Man Group aims to bolster its global ...
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USTA Aims to Bring American Tennis Back to Top
The Epoch Times
'Tennis has become more global. Basically the rest of the world has caught up.' He hope the development plan will get Americans back on top in the world of tennis. (Amal Chen/Epoch Times) In 2008 Patrick McEnroe was hired as the General Manager of USTA ...
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Rioting serves as wake-up call for London
Boston Globe
Ducks in row? If things go smoothly, the US flotilla could win five medals in the Olympic events at next week's world rowing championships in Slovenia. Odds-on to win a sixth straight global title (including the 2008 Games) is the women's eight. ...
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Boston Globe
What they said: Padraig Harrington
PGA Tour
1 player in the world and it probably would take the No. 1 player in the world to do it. So if anybody is going to do it, Luke's in that position. He's the best player for a period of time now, so it's very difficult, but I suppose that's what it takes ...
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Barclays's Kantor Says Double Dip `Very Unlikely'
Washington Post
24 (Bloomberg) -- Larry Kantor, head of research at Barclays Capital, talks about US equities, Federal Reserve monetary policy and the outlook for the global economy. US stocks rallied, driving the Standard & Poor's 500 Index up from the cheapest ...
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TAXI! Hotels.com Reveals Best Cities to Hail a Taxi
Sacramento Bee
London's taxis beat competition from other top international destinations including New York (favorite among nine percent of travelers) and Hong Kong (third with seven percent of the vote). Tokyo and Singapore completed the global top five receiving 7% ...
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AP, Corbis Team Up In Bid To Profit From Pictures
NPR
As a not-for-profit cooperative started by newspaper publishers 165 years ago, the AP's photographic strengths are breaking news, sports and entertainment. The global news organization is based in New York. Since its inception in 1989, ...
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Phoenix Mart's pros, cons
TriValley Central
Schotter is assistant professor of strategic management at Thunderbird School of GlobalManagement in Glendale, considered one of the top post-graduate business programs in the nation, if not the world. Formerly a senior executive with several ...
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Giants-Jets Home Now MetLife Stadium
New York Times
And each time, it said no. The latest news, notes and analysis of the NFL playoffs. Nothing was better, year after year, than having the MetLife blimp, Snoopy 1, floating above major sports events. Nothing produced a better return on investment. ...
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Mouser Electronics and Mitsubishi Electric Join Forces to Distribute the ...
Business Wire (press release)
Mouser offers customers 17 global support locations and the latest, most technologically advanced components for their newest design projects. Mouser Electronics' website is updated daily and searches more than 8 million products to locate over 2 ...
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BBC America Launches On Cablevision This Week
Daily Markets
BBC AMERICA brings US audiences the latest hits and biggest stars from the UK with a new generation of award-winning dramas, comedies, and groundbreaking non-fiction shows. The channel combines established hits such as Doctor Who, Top Gear, ...
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Forex: The US dollar plumbed a record low against the yen
FXstreet.com
The rebound in industrial commodities and grains helped shore up prices after another deep selloff on Thursday, spurred by data showing factory activity in the US Mid-Atlantic region fell to the lowest level since March 2009, when the world's top ...
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Sebastian Professional Announces Launch of The First-Ever Global Online ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
The top 20 finalists who make the cut will compete at a live event in Berlin, Germany on January 15, 2012 where the two most fearless style visionaries (one hair stylist winner and one artistic talent winner) will take home the grand prize of tickets ...
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Shaky News Coverage of Libya | Texifter, LLC. Blog
By Joe Delfino
Simultaneously, a global news war also waged, as news sources sought to be the shining star in broadcasting the latest from Tripoli. Some of the best news came directly from Twitter, which, to no surprise, exploded with information ... Using the collected posts, my goal was the find which global news source had the highest public satisfaction. To calculate this, I searched my “Libya” archive formajor world news outlets, including, “CNN,” “Fox News,” “MSNBC,” “Al-Jazeera ...
Texifter, LLC. Blog
Ban Stresses Need to Accelerate Efforts for Global ... - News Blaze
Breaking News: 5.9 Earthquake Rattles Virginia and Eastern US. Find more stories recommended by Stumbleupon. ... Mr. Ban also spoke at the opening in New York of an international photo exhibition sponsored by the Yonhap News Agency of the Republic of Korea on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the global plan to reduce extreme poverty and hunger, infant and maternal mortality, disease, and promote universal access to basic education and health care. ...
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Pakistani scholar named among world's top young innovators by MIT ...
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News Comments (11585365http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pakistantoday.com.pk%2F2011%2F08%2Fpakistani-scholar-named-among-world%25e2%2580%2599s-top-young-innovators-by-mit%2FPakistani+scholar+among+world%E2%80%99s+top+young+innovators2011-08-23+07%3A44%3A37 faizanhttp%3A% ... Dr Saif has won numerous awards for his innovative technology solutions for the developing-world. He was named a Young Global Leader by the WorldEconomic Forum in 2009. He is a recipient of the MIT Technovator Award, ...
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World Market Snap Shot | Live Stock Trading News | Equities, Forex ...
By Shayne Heffernan
World Market Snap Shot. Red's Bull Trader Alert: Stocks continued their recent upturn and the DJIA and S&P 500 finished at their best levels of the session. The big-cap tech stocks are fueling the NAS to outperform its counterparts. ... The rally briefly stalled in the afternoon on news of a magnitude of 5.9 earthquake, which struck in Virginia and forced some building evacuations along the US East Coast and Canada, but no major damage or injuries were reported. ...
Live Stock Trading News | Equities,...
VIKING cuts no corners on safety
“All VIKING production facilities around the world must live up to the same, consistent safety standards. As a global organization, our people need to feel secure and confident about their own workplaces and those they visit in other regions as part of their work. ... People & Company News ...Sonardyne's Calibration-Free Acoustic Positioning Delivers Major Savings for CSA International. CSAInternational Inc, an environmental survey company working in the Gulf of Mexico, ...
Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuildi...
CIO of the NRO to Present at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley | Cloud ...
Elizabeth is an assistant news editor at SYS-CON Events, Inc. where annual high-energy conferences are created with industry-leading players. Elizabeth works on the SYS-CON Events team behind Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, ... SYS-CON Events announced today that Bestin Cloud, a competition and conference hosted by Germany's number one IT weekly “Computerwoche,” has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 9th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November ...
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Japan's credit rating to Aa3 from Moody's Cut – Los Angeles Times ...
By Staff
another sign of the suffering of debt weighing on the world's developed countries, Japan credit rating was downgraded early Wednesday morning by Moody's Investors Service. ... The latest trending andbreaking news ... Japan's credit rating one notch was cut to Aa3 from Aa2, because the “huge budget deficits and the scheme of Asian polity debt since the 2009 global ceding,” said Temperamental. Japanflag Japan, is now rated the same as China, Taiwan, Macau and Chile. ...
Digital Crossroads News
Ghana ranked third most peaceful country in Africa | Ghana News ...
By VibeGhana
Botswana, Malawi and Ghana in that order have been ranked the most peaceful countries in Africa in a study of 153 countries, the 2011 Global Peace Initiative has indicated. ... Iceland, New Zealand, Japan, Denmark, Czech Republic, Austria, Finland, Canada, Norway and Slovenia are the top 10 most peaceful countries. Ghana ranked 42 worldwide as the most peaceful country in the world. There are 23 indicators that make up the Global Peace Index. Countries are scored on these ...
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Pakistani Umar Saif Named One of The World's Top Young Innovators ...
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Our Poor Man's broadband system for the developing-world was featured in the New Scientist and the MIT Technology Review. Our paper was selected to appear in a compendium of best papers from ICTD'07 in a special issue of the ITID ...
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August 24: Molly Huddle On the Global Stage … For ... - Racing News
By Peter Gambaccini
Racing News presents the most important news from the worlds of marathoning, road racing and track/field, plus exclusive interviews with leading athletes. Written and edited by Peter Gambaccini. Skip to content .... Jeter won 100-meter bronze medals at the 2007 and 2009 World Championships but she's been quite clearly the top performer in her event for 2010 and now 2011 – and she's actually history's second fastest woman ever in the 100 behind Florence Griffith- Joyner. ...
Racing News
China Overtakes U.S. In Global PC Market - John Paczkowski - News ...
By John Paczkowski
This is the first time China has overtaken the U.S. to become the world's largest market for personal computers and while it's not likely to hold that title on a full year basis in 2011 thanks to the holiday buying season in the States, it will probably claim it ... Vampires have often found it advantageous to maintain a hidden presence in humanity's most powerful institutions. In the 1600s, it was the Catholic church, and today, as you all know, it's Google and Fox News. ...
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Apl.de.ap: Proud to be Filipino | U.S. News Las Vegas
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By Shiela Reyes, abs-cbnNEWS.com and U.S. News Agency / Asian. Despite his wealth and globalsuccess, Black Eyed Peas member apl.de.ap has not forgotten his native country — the Philippines. In an interview on ANC's “View from the Top,” ...
U.S. News Las Vegas
Economic views and news - Tuesday, 23 August - sharechat.co.nz
GLOBAL MARKETS: A quiet session overnight in northern hemisphere markets, with no economic data to drive direction there was a positive tone to sentiment with markets looking ahead to the Jackson Hole meetings. ... World leaders have added to calls by the rebels for a ceasefire and for Qaddafi to surrender. The rebel council have announced they will appoint a transitional government, with the intention of putting in place a democratic government and ... FREE Email News ...
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Kazor.com World Community News » Special Rakhi hamper and gifts to ...
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Posted by Kazor News on Aug 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment. DATE – 22/06/11 CITY-Kolkata, STATE -west Bengal (Kazor.com) -. Exchanging gifts among one another is one of the most popular customs that everyone look forward to during any festival or occasion and the ... Latest models of digital cameras, mp3 players, iPods and video cameras are displayed in GiftstoIndia24x7.com. We also have watches offered by top-class brands in our website which you can send as rakhi gifts. ...
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Toxic chemicals found in branded clothing, new research shows
Toxic chemicals with “hormone-disrupting properties,” harmful to humans and the environment even at low levels, have been found in clothing and some fabric-based shoes of leading international clothing brands, new research has found. ... A new report launched on Tuesday, Dirty Laundry 2: Hung Out to Dry (pdf), reveals leading clothing items carrying such global brands as Adidas, H&M, Abercrombie & Fitch, Calvin Klein, Lacoste and Ralph Lauren, among others, were found ...
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XE.com - CANADA STOCKS-TSX rallies more than 2 pct on resources, BMO
Keywords: Search for a news provider, date, or keywords. News Providers: Thompson Financial, AP, XFN-Asia, Daily FX, Reuters Date format: yyyy-mm-dd. Refresh Articles. CANADA STOCKS-TSX rallies more than 2 pct on resources, BMO. Top Articles ... markets revenue and a recentacquisition. 'Investors are just desperate for some good news out there. and they've been buffeted by the volatilities from the. political inertia both in Europe and the U.S. to deal with some ...
XE Forex News
Invest in emergence: the future is now - economist — RT
By RT
The current wave of crisis will disrupt markets and moderate prospects for the US and EU, but there will be no going back to 2008, shares Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of the Republic of India. ... India to out-trade America by 2050. Asian nations are on the rise with world trade, a new report says, and emerging markets in the east are expected to overcome advanced economies by the middle of the century. ...
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