Archive

September 17, 2011

• Australia Says Second Draft Mining Tax Bill Tightens Loopholes
• China Aug. New Home Prices Gain in All of 70 Cities on Year
• Beijing Aug. New Home Prices Rise 1.9% From Year Ago
• Japan Targets 5 Trillion Yen in Non-Tax Revenue, Kyodo Reports
• Clemson University Upsets No. 21 Auburn, Ends Tigers’ 17-Game Win Streak
• Yankees Beat Toronto as Rivera Ties MLB Record With His 601st Career Save
• Palestine May Win a Vote, But Won’t Be a State: Jeffrey Goldberg
• BMI Pilots Union Asks U.K. Government to Safeguard Members’ Jobs
• Venezuela’s Chavez to Travel to Cuba for Cancer Treatment
• Boeing 747-8 Hits ‘Horrendous’ Setback as Cargolux Puts Off First Delivery
• Berlin Goes to the Polls as Merkel’s CDU Faces 2011 State Election Endgame
• Protesters Converge on Lower Manhattan, Plan ‘Occupation’
• NexBio Anti-Flu Drug Reduces Virus in Trial to Seek New Therapy
• Bristol-Myers’s Once-Daily Hepatitis C Drug Cures 83% of People in Study
• Yankees’ Reliever Rivera Ties Major-League Record With 601st Career Save
• GM Said to Increase Entry-Level UAW Wage by $2 to $3 an Hour
• Venizelos Says Greek Government Prepared for ‘Serious’ Decisions
• U.S. Open Winner Novak Djokovic Withdraws From Davis Cup With Back Injury
• Syracuse, Pitt Apply to Join Atlantic Coast Conference, NYT Says
• Qatar Seeks to Buy Part of Daimler Stake in EADS, Spiegel Says
• Blackburn Beats Arsenal 4-3 for First Premier League Victory
• Mauritius Central Bank, Lenders Create Interest Rate Committee
• Ford Minivan Jack Defect Probed by U.S. Following Accidents
• Libyan Forces Engage Loyalists at Sirte
• CSU’s Seehofer Sees Greek Euro Exit ‘Conceivable,’ Spiegel Says
• Cable Says 50% U.K. Tax Rate Is Justified by Abnormal Conditions
• Codelco’s New Unit to Focus on Overseas Activities, Tercera Says
• UBS Trader Adoboli Charged With Fraud, False Accounting Dating to 2008
• Weidmann Sees Considerable ECB Balance Sheet Risk, Spiegel Says
• Sri Lanka Reaches 166-2, Trails Australia by 150 in Cricket Test
• HSBC Favors Brazil Inflation Bonds for Investors, Folha Reports
• Netherlands Plan to Cut Stake in Banking Industry May Be Delayed
• Geithner Warning of ‘Catastrophic Risk’ Highlights Gap With EU
• UBS Chairman Villiger Tells NZZ Investment Bank Is Necessary
• Germany Rejects Using ECB Leverage to Increase European Rescue Fund’s Size
• Argentina Budget Assumes Growth to Slow to 4.7%, Pagina 12 Says
• Greece’s Papandreou Cancels Planned Trip to U.S., Office Says
• Zambian Growth Hasn’t Helped Ease Poverty, Sata Tells Muvi TV
• Several Injured After Blast at Hospital in Agra, PTI Reports
• Indian Inflation to Slow to Around 7% by March, Rangarajan Says
• French People Oppose Second Greek Bailout, Ifop Poll Shows
• Belgium, Spain Call for Euro-Area Transactions Tax If No EU Deal
• Blackburn Defeats Arsenal 4-3 to Claim Its First Premier League Victory
• Rangarajan Says Indian Inflation to Start to Slow in Early 2012
• Saudi Arabian Shares Rise for Third Day on Optimism Over European Debt
• U.K. Top Rate Tax Cut ‘Won’t Happen,’ Clegg Tells Independent
• Ireland May Reconsider Plan for Anglo Irish Bondholder Losses, Noonan Says
• EU’s July 21 Decisions Must Be Applied, Greece’s Venizelos Says
• Record $197,000 Paid for Bottle of Scotch Whisky, FT Reports
• Pakistan Central Bank to Make Monetary Policy Statement Oct. 8
• Yanbu Cement Says Production Line to Be Delayed on Fuel Shortage
• U.K. Retailer Takes Lessons Serving Chinese Tourists, FT Says
• Salgado Says EU Finance Chiefs Didn’t Consider Greek Default
• Dutch Economy May Shrink 7.8 Percent With Global Crisis
• U.K. Poll Shows Confusion About Lib-Dem Policies, Sun Reports
• Alenia Cuts 1,200 Jobs, Invests 3 Billion Euros in Recovery Plan
• Germany Euro Rescue Fund Risk May Reach $642 Billion, Ifo Says
• Fortis Healthcare to Make Strategic Announcement on Sept. 19
• U.K. Fund Plans to Raise $82 Million to Buy 3 Solar-Energy Farms, FT Says
• BA’s Walsh Not Interested in Aer Lingus Bid, Guardian Reports
• Geithner at European Meeting ‘Very Positive,’ EU’s Barnier Says
• CIEL Agro Full-Year Profit Advances 10% on Tanzanian Sugar
• Georgia Registers 37 Foods and Beverages to Prevent Copying
• Russia Seeks ‘Firm’ Promises From U.S., NATO on Missile Defense
• London Metal Exchange Hires Moelis as Strategic Adviser, FT Says
• De Vere Group CEO, Financial Officer to Leave, Times Reports
• Libyan Forces Capture Sirte Airport
• German SPD Seeks Election Not Merkel Coalition, Frankfurter Says
• Schaeuble Says Monetary Policy Can’t Solve Real World Problems
• Bombardier Trains Contract Could Save U.K. Jobs, Times Reports
• ECB’s Weidmann Says Risks to Economic Outlook Rise Considerably
• Russia’s VEB May Seek Embraer, Bombardier Help to Make New Plane
• Germany’s Schaeuble Says Greece Situation ‘Not That Urgent’
• EU Situation Better Than Other Advanced Economies, Trichet Says
• India’s Mukherjee Says No Decision on Raising Diesel, LPG Price
• Italy Needs a 10-Year ‘Vision’ for its Economy, Tremonti Says
• Ukraine to Pay Russia Current Gas Price Till Accord Review
• U.K. Fashion Chain Peacocks Plans Capital Restructure, FT Says
• German Minister Schaeuble Says ‘We Don’t Have a Euro Crisis’
• Weidmann Says EFSF Shouldn’t Refinance Itself Through ECB
• Noonan Says He Expects Greece to Get Next Payment, Dodge Default
• EU’s Barnier Says Financial-Transaction Tax Would Be Valuable
• Ireland Upsets Australia 15-6 in Rugby World Cup; South Afrcia Tops Fiji
• ECB’s Trichet Says Global Central Banks Are United in Purpose
• EU’s Barnier Says Geithner at Ecofin Was ‘Positive, Useful’
• Barnier Sees ‘No Consensus’ in EU on Financial Transaction Tax
• Trichet Says EU Situation Better Than Other Advanced Economies
• Urpilainen Says EU Finance Chiefs Didn’t Reach Collateral Deal
• Schaeuble Says There Will Be No Economic Stimulus Programs
• Germany’s Lindner Expects FDP Member Vote on ESM, Hamburger Says
• Sweden’s Riksbank Hampered Recovery, Deputy Svensson Says
• Obama Says U.S. Still Hurting From Wall Street Crisis of 2008
• BP Hopes to Settle Macondo Spill Fines Early Next Year, FT Says
• Baroin Says Collateral Deal on Greek Aid Is ‘Within Reach’
• LVMH Sees No Slowdown in Luxury Goods Demand
• Blackstone Wants to Sell Student Housing Unit, Independent Says
• United Arab Emirates Inflation Slows to Annual 0.6% in August
• Schaeuble Seeks Euro Area Transaction Tax This Year, Bild Says
• IDFC, LIC Sign Agreement for Infrastructure Financing
• Euro ‘Will Always Remain Stable Currency,’ Stark Tells La Stampa
• U.K.’s Iceland Foods Auction Set to Start Next Week, FT Reports
• Greek Collateral Discussions Are Ongoing, Katainen Tells Diena
• Germany’s Schaeuble Sees No Euro-Skeptic Coalition, Bild Says
• Pakistan to Cut Duty on Palm Oil Imports by 15%, Mahmood Says
• UBS Honorary Chairman Says Gruebel Won’t Be Able to Stay as CEO
• South Africa Routs Fiji 49-3 at Rugby World Cup; Argentina Beats Romania
• UBS Losses Represent ‘A Shocking Case,’ Osborne Tells Sky News
• Samsung Seeks to Lift German Sales Ban, Sues Apple in Australia
• Oil Demand Will Drop on Weak U.S., European Growth, Shana Says
• Four Charged After Ferry Sinks Off Zanzibar, The Citizen Reports
• European Banks’ ‘Situation Is Not Worrying,’ Frieden Says
• Pakistan Won’t Seek New IMF Loan Program, Dawn Reports
• Australia to Expand ‘Graphic’ Health Warnings on Tobacco Packs
• Pound Falls Versus Dollar on Bets BOE to Provide More Stimulus
• German Bunds Slide Most in 8 Weeks; Greek Two-Year Notes Rise
• Red Sox Defeat Tampa Bay Rays 4-3, Increase Wild-Card Lead to Four Games
• GM Reaches Tentative Agreement With UAW to Add Union Jobs
• United Technologies Said to Be in Talks to Buy Goodrich; Goodrich Advances
• Teo to Appeal $21 Million Ruling in SEC’s Musicland Insider Case
• ‘Shock Jock’ Hal Turner Not Guilty of Threatening Connecticut Officials
• Federal AT&T-T-Mobile Suit Joined by New York, Six Other States
• Rakoff Will Decide If Madoff Trustee Can Sue for False Profits
• Technology Industry’s Gender Gap Seen Hampering Competitiveness
• S&P 500 Posts Third-Biggest Gain Since 2009 Amid Europe Optimism
• RIM Chiefs Lose Billionaire Status as Stock Drops on Lower Sales
• How Ethan Allen, Odiferous Hero, Escaped Hanging: Lewis Lapham
• Star Trader, Beer Week, Clown Class, de Kooning: N.Y. Weekend
• Pumped ‘Drive’; ‘Dogs’; ‘How She Does It’; ‘Restless’: Movies
• Pigs, Wigs, Digs Make D.C. ‘Heir Apparent’ Fizz: Jeremy Gerard
• Alabama County Deal to Avert Biggest Muni Bankruptcy Hinges on Legislature
• Obama’s Payroll Tax-Cut Plan Criticized by U.S. House Republican Leaders
• Huntsman Doubts Perry or Romney Can Win U.S. Presidential Race
• Treasury 10-Year Note Yields Increase Most Since July on European Outlook
• Euro Strengthens on ECB’s Lending Offer, Merkel, Sarkozy Backing Greece
• Cutting Jeffrey Gundlach ‘Cancer’ at TCW Was Followed a Decade of Tensions
• Volcker Rule May Be Extended to Overseas Banks With Operations in the U.S.