Strains Across the Atlantic Coincide With Strains Across the Euro Zone Wall Street Journal | Oh, for the good old days when American Presidents would attend European Union summits. Gone. | Barack Obama, the hero of the adoring, anti-George W. Bush street crowds in Paris, Berlin and London has decided after two such summits that he would do...
Belize faces prospect of G20 sanctions over tax information The Guardian | Development could politically embarrass Conservatives, whose donor is chairman of country's biggest bank | could be hit with economic sanctions by nations for failing to abide by international tax information sharing protocols. The move could prove...
The Art of Being Santa Fe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | I CAN'T remember how or why it came to be dawn when I first saw Santa Fe from a bus window. It was my first time in New Mexico, the fulfillment of a long-held dream: to visit the land that had enflamed my imagination when as a teenager I'd read D. ...
Mexico's Walmex Jan. same-store sales up 5.5 pct The Guardian * Jan same-store sales rise 5.5 pct, beat forecast * Additional Sunday lifts results * Robust traffic, but ticket remains weak (Adds Aurrera format, background) MEXICO CITY, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Mexico's top retailer, Wal-Mart de Mexico posted on Friday...
'Vision' before budget drives the MTC The Examiner | MTC Projects. Who will pay to operate them? Photo by Guy Span, Jr. | The Metropolitan Transportation Commission is the regional planning organization in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area for roads and transit. Composed entirely of ...
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Bank reform battle dominates Davos summit Business Report | Submit your comment | Bankers and political leaders took their battle over post-crisis regulation to the World Economic Forum which started in Davos on Wednesday. | Thirty...
150,000 workers may lose jobs with fishing ban—trader Inquirer | DAVAO CITY – About 150,000 workers, who depend on the tuna industry in General Santos City, will end up jobless because of the two-year ban on tuna fishing in Western and Central...
Family helps adopted Haitian children keep their spiritual heritage The News & Observer | CHICAGO - Images of the washed out Haitian hillside where their children's relatives lived have led Peter and Paula Fitzgibbons to fear that their adopted son and daughter have no biological family left. | The strongest bond their children Odeline ...
CARBO Announces Fourth Quarter and Annual 2009 Results redOrbit Posted on: Thursday, 4 February 2010, 03:30 CST | HOUSTON, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CARBO Ceramics Inc. (NYSE: CRR) today reported income from continuing operations of $12.6 million, or $0.55 per diluted share, on revenues of $90.1 million fo...
Argentine Bank President Is Formally Dismissed The New York Times | SÃO PAULO, Brazil - President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina formally dismissed the president of Argentina's central bank on Wednesday and vowed to follow through with her plan to tap $6.59 billion of the country's reserves to pay down...
IEA pushes US on carbon price Upstream Online | The United States must adopt a carbon pricing system, like the one President Barack Obama has submitted to Congress, if it hopes to meet its UN commitments on greenhouse gas emissions, the International Energy Agency's head said today. | Nobuo Tana...
Imperial profits undershoot mark Upstream Online | Canadian integrated company Imperial Oil's fourth-quarter profit fell a worse-than-expected 19% as weak refining margins weighed on the bottom line, the company said. | Imperial, majority-owned by US supermajor ExxonMobil, earned C$534 million (US$...
Machu Picchu tourists evacuated Al Jazeera | Hundreds of stranded tourists have been evacuated from Peru's Machu Picchu region after flooding and mudslides last weekend cut off access to the area. | The heaviest rains in 15 years triggered the floods and landslides that blocked roads and railways in the area for several days. | More than 3,000 travellers had been trapped for days, many havi...
