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Jul 16, 2011

LATEST World News, Jul 16, 2011


Top Murdoch aides quit over hacking scandal
Boston Globe
(Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) By John F. Burns and Alan Cowell LONDON - The crisis rattling Rupert Murdoch's global media empire claimed the two highest-level executives yet yesterday after days of mounting pressure from politicians and investors on ...
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Boston Globe
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the ...
Washington Post
Deutsche Boerse AG said in February that it would buy NYSE Euronext for $10 billion, creating theworld's largest exchange operator. MEXICO CITY — Mexican researchers say the average income in Mexican homes fell just over 12 percent during the global ...
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COPPER-Major market developments in June
Reuters
June 22 - The global refined copper market was in a supply deficit of 33000 tonnes in the first quarter of 2011, according to the Lisbon-based International Copper Study Group (ICSG). June 19 - Chile's Escondida, the world's biggest copper mine, ...
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Revolutionizing the Rankings: A Look at the Global Poker Index
PokerNews.com
Have you ever wondered: “Who are the best live tournament poker players in the world today?” Federated Sports + Gaming (FS+G) recently announced that it will attempt to answer that question with the creation of the Global Poker Index (GPI), ...
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Artezio is Selected to the Global Services 100 World Best ITO-BPO Providers
PR.com (press release)
One of the newest achievements is Artezio's inclusion into the Global Outsourcing 100 rating by theInternational Association of the Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). Artezio is an ISO 9001:2008 certified software development and consulting company. ...
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Women's soccer: The best kept secret in sports?
Fortune (blog)
But after the game is over and the fans have changed the channel, it's going to be another four years before another World Cup. What happens to women's soccer in the US until then? Many globalplayers have already migrated to Women's Professional ...
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Gilmore wins Roxy Pro Biarritz, Moore takes World title
Global Surf News
Gilmore, who was ousted from the ASP Women's World title race after event No. 5 in Brazil, came to Biarritz relaxed, bringing her stylish forehand attack, on-the-rail cutback and vertical top-turn lethal weapons to make her way through to the final and ...
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Global Unease on US Debt Impasse
Council on Foreign Relations
The latest Pew Global Attitudes poll finds: "In fifteen of twenty-two nations, the balance of opinion is that China either will replace or already has replaced the United States as the world's leading superpower." The poll says the "United States is ...
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Council on Foreign Relations
Ashoka Changemakers Launches Global Innovation Competition
Bradenton Herald
... July 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ashoka Changemakers, with the support of Google, launched Citizen Media: A Global Innovation Competition to discover ground-breaking solutions that boost media access and participation around the world. ...
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Could News of the World scandal be Rupert Murdoch's Watergate?
Taunton Daily Gazette
News of the World was always Murdoch's "baby," one of the largest newspapers in the English-speaking world, with 2.6 million readers. As anyone in the business will tell you, the standards and culture of a journalistic institution are set from the top ...
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Top 10 Tablets of 2011 in India
MSN India
Tablets are the latest buzz every where in the technology world. Every smartphone manufacturer is now introducing its tablet. In-fact, almost every other day we hear about the launch of some tablet, either global player or the local one every one wants ...
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At America's Best Workplaces, Good Design Reigns Supreme
Forbes (blog)
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers' 2011 Annual Global CEO Survey, attracting and retaining talent is “at the top of the agenda” for execs everywhere. The global war for talent was a hot topic this year at the annual meeting of the World Economic ...
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GLOBAL MARKETS-Gold rises on US debt talks; stocks up slightly
Reuters
The two major ratings agencies warned they will strip the United States, the world's biggest economy, of its top-notch credit rating if it does not increase its borrowing limit to avoid a default. "Everything that's bad is good for Treasuries even if ...
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Reinhart, Rogoff, and Bhide Warn America and World
Wall Street Pit
On a daily basis we suffer from the charlatans roaming the halls of Capitol Hill to those occupying the offices of global media moguls. Some of the individuals in Washington (hello Barack!!) may believe the public does not and can not understand the ...
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Bear Surfboards behind ASP World Longboard event
Global Surf News
Gathering the world's best thirty-two longboarders aiming at the prestigious Bear Pro WorldLongboard Title 2011, Levanto will witness a spectacular competition led by reigning ASP WorldLongboard champions Duane DeSoto (HAW) and top European contender ...
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Barclays wins top banking award
The Standard
Barclays Bank of Kenya has won World's Best Emerging Markets Bank sponsored by GlobalFinance magazine. The judging panel, comprising of industry analysts, corporate executives and banking consultants, selected Barclays Kenya in recognition of the ...
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Rainbow toad: Found after 87 years, first photo ever
Christian Science Monitor
It was one of the world's top 10 most wanted lost amphibians. For the first time ever, an adult female Borneo rainbow toad has been photographed. This amphibian species, spanning just 2 inches (51 mm) in length, hadn't been spotted for 87 years. ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Race between China and US for Top Nation trophy not over yet
Irish Times
Sellar and Yeatman's book, a hilarious pastiche of conventional history teaching, suggests that America achieved Top Nation status at the end of the first World War. That sounds about right. The Great Depression put the brakes on US hegemony, but, ...
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G20 task force expected to endorse bank surcharges
Reuters
The proposal for a capital surcharge on the world's biggest banks by 2019 -- referred to as systemically important banks or SIBs -- was drafted and announced by the global Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in June. "I don't expect any major tweaks ...
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LME Doubles Minimum Delivery Rates for Top Metal Warehouses
Bloomberg
By Agnieszka Troszkiewicz - Fri Jul 15 12:41:29 GMT 2011 The London Metal Exchange will double the amount of metal required to be delivered from the biggest stockpiles to ease a backlog in Detroit, home to a quarter of global stockpiles. ...
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Summer offers fusion of fun from festivals to food
Baltimore Sun
By Jennifer Davis, The Baltimore Sun Global Fusion Festival: Journey to Philadelphia for one day of non-stop entertainment that celebrates bringing diverse communities together for a cultural fusion of the world. This year's theme is "Carnival," ...
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Baltimore Sun
BARN added to Exchange Traded Fund world
High Plains Journal
Last month the Exchange Traded Fund world added another agriculture-based ETF to its lineup.Global X Funds (www.globalxfunds.com) brought this particular ETF to the market. The name of the fund is the Global X Farming ETF and it has a catchy, ...
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WWE News: CM Punk's Dream Match Is Every Fan's Wildest Fantasy
Bleacher Report
With CM Punk on top of the wrestling world, there isn't much more he could do to exceed fans expectations. A feud with Stone Cold Steve Austin would do the trick. Could you imagine the promos between those two leading up to the event? ...
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Bleacher Report
Japan's Biggest Social Player Turns Its Eyes On the US
Gamasutra
Since January, GREE's CFO Naoki Aoyagi has been living and working in the US Serving as CEO of GREE International, he's had his eye on global expansion for the company, and has been aggressively recruiting development and management talent as the ...
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Global ATM Skimming Ring Busted
BankInfoSecurity.com
Terrie Ipson, manager of ATM security at Diebold Inc., one of the world's top three ATM manufacturers, says ATM skimming is a borderless crime. "These reports reinforce that the ATM security landscape is a global one," she says. ...
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BankInfoSecurity.com
WISeKey Named Winner of the Silicon Valley Innovation Summit Global 250 Top ...
Sacramento Bee
WISeKey has also been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Global Growth Company. WISeKey secures the digital lives of people by providing specialized digital identification technologies for personal data protection, effective identification and ...
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Kuhner Latest Right-Wing Media Figure To Downplay Default Consequences
Media Matters for America
In a post-default world, financial markets would unravel and the US and global economy would enter another severe recession. The nation's already daunting fiscal problems would spiral out of control as tax revenue plunged and demand surged for ...
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Asian Commodity Stocks Decline on Concern U.S. Will Stall Global Recovery
Bloomberg
Last week, the gauge extended its rally for a third week as European leaders hammered out proposals to roll over debt to stop Greece defaulting, China's latest interest-rate increase sparked speculation a tightening cycle may soon end, ...
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US AAA credit rating in jeopardy as risks get reality check
Los Angeles Times
Moody's and S&P warned this week that they might soon cut the government's top-rung debt rating because of the political battle over the debt ceiling and spending cuts. Yet so far, that hasn't scared off Treasury bond buyers. President Obama with House...
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Los Angeles Times
Recognizing America's Less-Than-Perfect Credit
Palisades Hudson Financial Group
We need only look to the recent example of Greece to see this for ourselves. The United States, alone among the world's economies, has a third way to repay its debts – by printing more dollars. The greenback's global role as the primary reserve ...
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WSJ publisher quits in phone-hacking scandal - World News - IBNLive
By IBNLive.com
A new chief executive untainted by the UK problems, Tom Mockridge, was installed to replace Brooks at News International, the British arm of Rupert Murdoch's global News Corporation Mockridge, a 55-year-old New Zealander, joined News ... Dow Jones President Todd Larsen will maintain his title but will temporarily be the top executive there. The moves came after NewsCorporation brought in Edelman Communications to help with public relations and lobbying - an admission, ...
IBN Top Headlines
WSJ publisher quits in phone-hacking scandal - Lifestyle news
"That I was ignorant of what apparently happened is irrelevant, and in the circumstances I feel it is proper for me to resign from News Corp. and apologize to those hurt by the actions of News of theWorld," he said. ... Tom Mockridge, was installed to replace Brooks at News International, the British arm of Rupert Murdoch's global News Corp. Mockridge, a 55-year-old New Zealander, joined NewsCorp. in 1991 and has been in charge of Sky Italia since 2003. ...
Mail.com: Breaking News
WSJ publisher quits in phone-hacking scandal
Minn. leaders make deal to end government shutdown. Minnesota governor, top GOP lawmakers make deal to end government shutdown, but not done yet More>> .... A new chief executive untainted by the U.K. problems, Tom Mockridge, was installed to replace Brooks at News International, the British arm of Rupert Murdoch's global News Corp. Mockridge, a 55-year-old New Zealander, joined News Corp. in 1991 and has been in charge of Sky Italia since 2003. The moves came after News ...
KLAS - National News
Another top News Corp exec, Hinton, resigns - seattlepi.com
Just a day after asserting that News Corp. had made only "minor mistakes," Murdoch issued an apology to run in Britain's national newspapers for "serious wrongdoing" by the News of the World, which he shut down last week amid ... Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. struggled but failed to contain a U.K. crisis undermining his global media empire. Photo: STR / AP. Tom Mockridge, the newly appointed CEO of News International is... Tom Mockridge, the newly appointed CEO of News ...
Business Heds Index
Top News Corp. exec Les Hinton latest to fall in hacking scandal ...
By Joe Flint
Brooks and Hinton are the latest casualties of the News of the World scandal. The paper itself was closed earlier this week and News Corp. also pulled the plug on its ambitions to acquire the 60% stake of British Sky Broadcasting it ...
Company Town
Embattled News Intl CEO Rebekah Brooks resigns - Standard-Examiner
By jmmiller
He made an abrupt switch, however, as his News Corp. company struggled to contain a U.K. crisis that is threatening his entire global media empire. Brooks was editor of the News of the World tabloid between 2000 and 2003, when the paper's employees ... That allegation last week provoked outrage far beyond previous revelations of snooping on celebrities, politicians and top athletes, and knocked billions off the value of News Corp. .... Latest Tweets. follow us on Twitter ...
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Rupert Murdoch apologises for hacking scandal | MAARS News
By Valkyries
MAARS News Global - The Hot Breaking News, Sport, Financial, Entertainment, Politics and everything on the headlines. Top Global Headlines! ... RUPERT Murdoch issued an apology to the British public overnight for the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World newspaper after accepting the resignation of the woman who had been his most trusted lieutenant in the UK. photo: heraldsun.com.au. The apology, personally signed by the News Corporation chairman and chief ...
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Murdoch's top executives quit over hacking - News
A new chief executive untainted by the UK problems, Tom Mockridge, was installed to replace Brooks at News International, the British arm of Rupert Murdoch's global News Corp Mockridge, a 55-year-old New Zealander, joined News Corp in ...
National Nine News
News Corp. Scandal: Why Chase Carey Could Emerge as New Leader ...
By Alex Ben Block
However the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal plays out, it will leave Rupert Murdoch's reputation tarnished and his son James's future role in the global conglomerate in question, at least in the short term. our editor recommends ... STORY: Rebekah Brooks Resigns From News International Over Phone Hacking Scandal. But despite the evolving problems, the reputation of one top News Corp. executive has actually been enhanced by his role in the messy affair. He is Chase Carey, ...
Hollywood Reporter - Top Stories
Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: June 15, 2011 « Stop NATO
By richardrozoff
U.S.'s Second Top Military Chief: Budget Cuts Could Force Return To Draft. NATO-Georgia Commission Discusses “Energy Security”. “Global Energy Security”: Sixth Annual Silk Road Conference In Chicago. Germany Sued Over U.S.-NATO Nuclear Bomb Flights ... “I encourage all allies that have aircraft at their disposal to take part in that operation as well,” French news website 20minutes.fr quoted Rasmussen as saying during his meeting with the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. ...
Stop NATO
Israel Navy Attacks International Boat in Gaza, page 1
By Corruption Exposed
Seriously, this is encouraging news if true, the Israelis are bowing to international pressure and using non-lethal force, seem they have finally realized that the world will not sit by and watch as they murder people arbitrarily anymore. ... Its the equvilant of a global pillow fight. Water Cannons? Sounds like they were NOT attempting to cause bodily harm but rather drive them away. At least this time, I guess they got to much bad press when they just opened fire on the ...
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Meet Rupert Murdoch's Rescue Team - Global - The Atlantic Wire
Meanwhile, top brass at News Corp. are doing everything they can to build a good defense. So far it seems like Murdoch is burning money on a hilltop, as a beacon to light the way for his newly recruited rescue squad. ...
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Humbled Murdoch says sorry as protege Brooks quits - World news
A new chief executive untainted by the U.K. problems, Tom Mockridge, was installed to replace Brooks at News International, the British arm of Rupert Murdoch's global News Corp. Mockridge, a 55-year-old New Zealander, ... Donald Yacktman, president of Austin, Texas-based Yacktman Asset Management Co., which owns a 2 percent stake in News Corp. worth about $450 million, said therecent scandal hasn't soured his outlook. While he doesn't condone illegal activity, ...
Mail.com: Breaking News
Rebekah Brooks latest to fall in News Corp scandal | Corporate ...
Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch's most senior newspaper executive in Britain and close confidante, quit News Corp on Friday over a phone hacking scandal that has rocked his global media empire.
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WSJ publisher quits in phone-hacking scandal - Business Wire - The ...
A new chief executive untainted by the U.K. problems, Tom Mockridge, was installed to replace Brooks at News International, the British arm of Rupert Murdoch's global News Corp. ... Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief and an ex-royal reporter were arrested Friday in a phone hacking and police corruption scandal that has already toppled a major tabloid and rattled the cozy relationship between British politicians and the powerful Murdoch media empire ...
The Olympian Online -- Nation & World
Murdoch apologizes to family of slain schoolgirl | SeacoastOnline.com
Top Photo. In this file photo from July 10, 2011, chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch, left, and Chief executive of News International Rebekah Brooks as they leave his residence in central London. Brooks resigned as Chief executive of News International Friday July ... A new chief executive untainted by the U.K. problems, Tom Mockridge, 55, was installed to replace Brooks as atNews International, the local unit of Rupert Murdoch's global News Corp. media empire. ...
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GLOBAL NEWS TODAY -: U.S. Top News Early Edition: Murdoch fights ...
LATEST NEWS. Murdoch fights for control after Brown allegations ... and the metal could be set for another leg higher if the world's biggest economy, ...
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UPDATE - Latest News | Global Finance
Latest News | Global Finance. UPDATE: News Corp's UK CEO Brooks Quits Amid Phone Hacking... s (NWS) top U.K. executive Rebekah Brooks resigned Friday, ... Brooks, chief executive of NewsCorp.'s U.K. division News International, ...
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ANU News » ANU in global top ten in latest international rankings
ANU has been ranked in the global top ten across seven different subject areas, according to thelatest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings ...
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HEALTH News, Fitness, Wellness, Diets, Jun 16, 2011

Jawbone Off to Healthy Start With Up Fitness Wristband
RollingStone.com (blog)
Bluetooth wireless accessory manufacturer Jawbone is moving beyond hands-free headsets and speakers into health and fitness gadgets with UP, a wristband that connects with mobile smartphone apps to monitor diet, exercise and sleeping habits....
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Research Shows Most People Gain Weight Back After Fitness Camp Experience ...
RedOrbit
Linda Mullins, founder and CEO of Core Fitness Solution (http://www.corefitnesssolution.com), says that's because while ordinary fitness camps focus mostly on diet and exercise, they fail to help participants achieve long-term health and wellness when ...
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Glam Media Launches Next Hot Vertical???Bliss.com for Health and Wellness ...
IT Business Net (press release) (subscription)
Bliss.com channels include Health (Diet & Nutrition, Fitness & Exercise and Condition & Care),Wellness (Mind, Body, Spirit; Health Planet and Empowerment) and Family & Moms (Pregnancy, Parenting and Moms & Communities). "Traditional health and ...
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Summer is here, the BBQs are out - try a veggie burger
Royal Gazette
“We wanted to see an improvement in overall health and wellness,” said Ms Kamara. “We call ourselves vegans, but we are wholefood vegans which means we are very careful about what we eat. “Through our research, we found that a vegetarian diet was the ...
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Summer Happenings at the JCC
Patch.com
Overall wellness requires exercise and proper nutrition. So try eliminating as many processed foods as possible and focus your diet on lean protein (chicken, fish, eggs, yogurt), complex carbohydrates from whole grains, vegetables and fruits. ...
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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Jul 16, 2011

Europe, stressed, awaits bank tests
Washington Post
By Howard Schneider, ROME — Tests of the health of dozens of European banks will be released Friday, a step that could mark a positive turn in the region's economic crisis by reassuring that thefinancial system is healthy — or make it worse by ...
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The global glums are here to stay
Sydney Morning Herald
With the stakes so high for the euro area, officials in crisis talks are under pressure to find another bailout that can prevent financial disaster. But to do this, leaders face a seemingly intractable list of economic and political problems. ...
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North Carolina Economist Offers A Brief Chronological Explanation of The ...
Citybizlist (press release)
The prior Fed goals of achieving price stability and full employment have been replaced by the Fed aiming at global financial market stability goals targets and coordinating policy with other centralbanks for the benefit of global trading partners. ...
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Economic Outlook Grim If No Debt Deal Reached
NPR
Default would be a "major crisis" that would radiate "shockwaves" through the financial system, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress recently. But putting a priority on paying interest on maturing debt to avoid a default would simply ...
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Stop Blaming Wall Street
New Republic
The Federal Reserve reports that, while banks are easing their lending terms, businesses are reluctant to take out loans to expand. That's partly due to the overhang of private debt created by thefinancial crisis, but it's also because American ...
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Showdown on debt: Geithner demands deal in days as Republicans propose cuts to ...
Daily Mail
A lower US credit rating would cause further havoc in financial markets around the world, as the country's bonds serve as a benchmark for international interest rates. Speaking at the White House today, the President said: 'We have a unique opportunity...
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NBR Transcripts-July 14, 2011-Full Episode
PBS Nightly Business Report
GHARIB: You know, Sallie, Europe is part of the reason that US bank stocks are down. You know, what`s it going to change investors` concerns about financial stocks? KRAWCHECK: In order for investors to return to financial stocks, investors are looking ...
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Why Wall Street doesn't seem worried about default
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The bigger fear is that a default could freeze the short-term lending markets that keep money moving throughout the global financial system. Treasurys and other government-backed debt are the most widely used collateral for loans in these markets. ...
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Is this the time of a new 'Golden Age'?
Equitymaster.com
Indeed, a downgrade for US debt will have serious repercussions for the global financial markets as given that US bonds are perceived to be the safest investment in the world. But that is a perception that the countries across the world will have to ...
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Will Fed's QE infinity work?
People's Daily Online
The Federal Reserve bought a total of $600 billion government securities in 10 months from September to June in a desperate attempt to arrest US economy, wounded seriously in a self-inflicted financial crisis, from slipping back to a double-dip ...
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Debut of Made-in-China Social Security Checks
Canada Free Press
... in US stocks and bonds. Rising interest rates alone could plunge the world into aglobal financial crisis. Voracious government demand for credit can “crowd out” private sector investment, causing high unemployment and lack of capital formation....
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Citigroup Profit Beats Analysts' Estimates on Higher Investment-Bank Fees
Bloomberg
The sovereign debt crisis in Europe and slowing economic growth in the US depressed trading volume and curtailed revenue in the second quarter as investors bought and sold fewer bonds and equities, according to analysts including Chris Kotowski at ...
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Stocks, Treasuries Decline on Bernanke Talk
Bloomberg
(Source: Bloomberg) July 11 (Bloomberg) - Arjuna Mahendran, Asian head of investment strategy at HSBC Private Bank, talks about the global economy and financial markets. Mahendran speaks from Singapore with John Dawson on Bloomberg Television's "First ...
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EUROZONE Debt Crisis News, Jul 16, 2011

EU's rescue is in it own hands, says trade chief
The National
Sean Gallup/Getty Images BEIJING // Karel De Gucht, the EU trade commissioner, yesterday warned that China's purchase of European sovereign debt should not be seen as a solution to the euro-zone's growing economic crisis. Mr De Gucht's comments were ...
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