China's Exports Rise 46% The New York Times | BEIJING —China announced Wednesday that its exports climbed 46 percent in February from a year earlier. Economists said the data signaled a rebound in consumer demand from the United States and other Western markets after the financial crisis last year. | It was the third consecutive month o...
E.on Net Income Up Sharply The New York Times | Filed at 4:41 a.m. ET | FRANKFURT (AP) -- Germany energy company E.On AG said Wednesday that 2009 net income rose sharply to euro8.4 billion ($11.4 billion) partly as a result of the disposal of assets. | E.On, based in Duesseldorf, earned euro1.3 ...
Richmond not on list of Chevron cuts San Fransisco Chronicle | Oil giant Chevron Corp. has revealed where it plans to cut its worldwide refining and marketing operations - and Richmond is not on the list. Get Quote | Symbol Lookup | Chevron executives told a gathering of Wall Street analysts Tuesday that the o...
China February Exports Jump 45.7 Percent The New York Times | Filed at 12:54 a.m. ET | BEIJING (AP) -- China's exports rose in February in a new sign of growing global demand that could help persuade officials to let the Chinese currency rise. | Exports were up 45.7 percent over a year earlier, the Chinese cu...
Business briefs: March 10 Knox News | Meeting Tuesday on coal ash storage plan | TVA will hold a public meeting Tuesday in Kingston to gather views on changing the handling of coal fly ash from a wet system to a dry storage system at the Kingston Fossil Plant. | The meeting will be fro...
Time to Celebrate? Not in a Big Way The New York Times | Anniversaries are a good time to reminisce. The global stock market rally is now a year old — the lows were hit on March 9, 2009 — and that certainly brings back memories. It’s easy to see why the MSCI World Index has surged 71 pe...
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Japan DPJ elder: PM may have to quit over base feud The Star | TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama may have to resign if he fails to resolve by the end of May a feud over a U.S. airbase that is eroding his support rates ...
Mexico's peso firms, stocks hit 6-week high The Guardian * Peso firms, stocks close at 6-week high * Greece austerity plan raises hopes of EU aid (Adds closing stock prices, adds central bank purchase) MEXICO CITY, March 3 (Reuters) - Me...
MySpace Outlines Makeover After Exec Shake Up The New York Times | Filed at 10:33 p.m. ET | LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Long-ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users' posts to...
Soaring China Home Prices Thwart Ordinary Buyers The New York Times | Filed at 10:14 p.m. ET | SHANGHAI (AP) -- The luxury apartment buildings Yang Xuhua passes on her way to work are a daily reminder of her own frustrated efforts to buy a home. Prices for even modest apartments in Shanghai have soared, putting home ...
Beijing seeks a shift in geopolitics Asia Times | By Willy Lam | China's ongoing tussles with the United States over issues including Taiwan, Tibet and trade are in a sense nothing new. For more than two decades, Sino-US relations have periodically gone through rough patches over these and related causes of disagreement. What is new is China's much-enhanced global clout in the wake of the world ...
