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Nissan to assemble three subcompacts in Mexico
The Times Of India
Nissan Motor Co will start production of three new low-cost subcompacts in the Mexican market, and will invest about 52 billion yen to upgrade its existing plants in the Latin American country for this, the Nikkei business daily reported. | The Japanese automaker plans to start assembly of Micra, kn...
Trade rep lauds Obama on jobs
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk told workers at a Washington County steel plant Friday that the Obama administration was living up to its promises to protect U.S. manufacturing jobs. | Mr. Kirk, appearing at Allegheny Technologies' specialty pla...
U.S. Plans to File a Trade Complaint, Citing Labor Violations in Guatemala
The New York Times
| WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced Friday that it would file a complaint against Guatemala claiming labor law violations under the Central America Free Trade Agreement, the first time Washington has pursued such a case against a ...
48 Hours In: Rio de Janeiro
The Independent
| Click here for In...Rio de Janeiro map | Travel essentials | Why go now? | The sun is shining again in Brazil's most flamboyant city - and new flights should mean lower fares. After landslides devastated parts of Rio in April, the former capital is...
The Muni-Bond Debt Bomb
Wall Street Journal
By STEVEN MALANGA | From the City Journal | In the early 1970s, New Jersey officials decided to build a sports facility in the Meadowlands, the state's wetlands just outside New York City. To help pay for it, they formed the New Jersey Sports and Exp...
General Maritime Corporation Announces Completion of Exchange Offer for Its 12% Senior Notes Due 2017
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| NEW YORK, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- General Maritime Corporation ("General Maritime" or the "Company") (NYSE: GMR) announced today that it has completed its offer to exchange (the "Exchange Offer") up to $300 million principal amount of 12%...
U.S. Trade Representative confronting Guatemala over labor
Business Journal
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A woman reacts in a street of Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010. Relief groups and officials are focused on moving aid flowing into Haiti to survivors of the powerful earthquake that hit the country on Tuesday.
AP / Ariana Cubillos
IMF cancels Haiti's $268m debt
Al Jazeera
| The International Monetary Fund has cancelled Haiti's $268m debt and approved a new loan worth $60m to boost international reserves in the earthquake-devastated nation. | The IMF...
New British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg hold their first joint press conference in the garden of 10 Downing Street in London, Wednesday May 12, 2010.
AP / Christopher Furlong, pool
British PM regrets BP oil spill
Al Jazeera
| It has been three months since British energy giant BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 men and sparking the worst environmental disaster in...
For Gulf, renewal is a tall order
Herald Tribune
| HOUMA, La. - Loulan Pitre Sr. was born on the Gulf Coast in 1921, the son of an oysterman. Nearly all his life, he worked on the water, abiding by the widely shared faith that the resources of the Gulf of Mexico were limitless. | As a young Marine ...
A look at global economic developments
The News & Observer
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Thursday: | --- | LONDON - The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed down 0.1 percent, Germany's DAX fell 0.7 percent and the CAC-40 shed 0.5 percent. | ...
A look at global economic developments
Kansas City Star
More News | A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Thursday: | --- | LONDON - The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed down 0.1 percent, Germany's DAX fell 0.7 percent and the CAC-40 shed 0.5 p...
Hornbeck Offshore Announces Second Quarter 2010 Results
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| COVINGTON, La., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. (NYSE: HOS) announced today results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010. Following are highlights for this period and the Company's future outlook: | Company ...
Coal Division Drives CONSOL to Record Revenue of $1.289 Billion; Quarterly Gas Production Grows 42% ...
redOrbit
| PITTSBURGH, July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNX), the leading diversified fuel producer in the Appalachian Basin, reported record revenue of $1.289 billion in the quarter ended June 30, 2010, or 20% higher than the reven...
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The Development Driller II, right, and Development Driller III, which are drilling the relief wells, are seen at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast, Thursday, July 22, 2010.
(photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)
BP accused of 'buying academic silence'
BBC News
The head of the American Association of Professors has accused BP of trying to "buy" the best scientists and academics to help its defence against litigation after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. | "This is really one huge corporation trying to buy faculty silence in a comprehensive way," said Cary Nelson. | BP faces more than 300 lawsuits so far. | ...



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