août 2013

China official manufacturing PMI rises to 51 in August

samedi 31 août 2013

Growth in China's manufacturing sector picked up further in August, with the official purchasing managers' index rising to 51 from July's 50.3, better than expectations and further evidence of a stabilization ...

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Verizon nears $130 billion wireless deal, to finance about $65 billion: sources

The boards of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc are expected to vote this weekend on a $130 billion transaction, funded by about $65 billion of debt, to give the U.S. telecom giant complete ...

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Are Short Sellers Wrong Again? Joy Global’s Value

Bets against Joy Global (NYSE:JOY), the smaller rival to Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) have spiked of late. Short interest in the mining equipment and servicing firm has more than tripled in 2013. As a percentage ...

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Americans Think They Earn More Than They Do

Nearly 60% of Americans say they’re earning more money now than they were five years ago, according to a new Gallup poll. But the most reliable data show that incomes have been falling, not rising.

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Apple’s Late Entry to Music Streaming Could Still Outplay the Field

The streaming music business is bracing for the entry of a brand-new player — but one that may become an instant giant.

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Wall Street Lower in Volatile Trade After Kerry Speaks on Syria

U.S. stocks extended losses on Friday as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the U.S. is not alone in its will to act following the Syrian chemical weapons attack.

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Verizon nears $130 billion wireless deal, to finance about $65 billion: sources

Verizon Communications is near a $130 billion deal to buy out the 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless it does not already own from Vodafone Group Plc and plans to raise about $65 billion to fund the purchase, ...

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‘Housing Bubble’ Deflated By Rising Rates

As home loan applications slide and mortgage rates rise, the housing recovery is showing its age.

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Secrets of the World’s Best Amusement Park

This Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of summer and millions of Americans will take to the beaches and lakes across the country. Many more will flood the gates of the country's many amusement parks. Among those parks is one sitting on a spit of land on Lake Erie. For the last 15 years, [...]

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Ford recalls 370,000 Lincoln, Mercury, and Ford sedans

Ford Motor Co is recalling about 370,000 model year 2005 to 2011 Ford Crown Victoria, Mercury Grand Marquis and Lincoln Town Car sedans in the United States and Canada to fix a steering shaft issue, the ...

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The Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson Business Advantage Miley Lacks

Though Marilyn Monroe passed away in 1962, she still has an advantage over today’s starlets like Miley Cyrus when it comes to her career. Yes, even postmortem. And we use Cyrus as an example because everyone is still talking about her weird, cringe-worthy, twerk-tastic VMA performance. Cyrus’ unexpected performance – similar to a Lindsay Lohan [...]

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McDonald’s Strikes: A Sign the Labor Movement Is Staging a Comeback?

Labor organizer Kendall Fells who led striking workers in New York City during Thursday’s nationwide one-day strike of fast food workers, says it looks like the labor movement is getting a 'second wind.'

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RadioShack Is Cleaning Up Its Stores in Bid to Revive Sales

Prototype stores have a cleaner look, a change from the tangled collection of cables, cords, adapters, and batteries that most customers associate with RadioShack.

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Japan panel backs sales tax hike coupled with stimulus

Japan's government won backing for a controversial decision to raise the national sales tax in 2014 after influential members of a special advisory panel said the step would not threaten economic recovery ...

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ECB's Coeure says bank eyeing money market rates closely: paper

The European Central Bank is closely watching money market rates and will make sure they don't rise too far, ECB policymaker Benoit Coeure said in an interview in a Swedish newspaper published on Saturday. ...

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Wall Street Week Ahead: Jobs data could spur Fed action on stimulus

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Wall Street is bracing for a wave of economic reports next week, including the August jobs report, which might prove decisive in determining whether the economy is strong enough for the Federal Reserve ...

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Pentagon insists it is open to foreign investment in the U.S.

The Pentagon is taking a harder look at proposed foreign acquisitions of U.S. companies given the increasing financial complexity of such deals, but continues to encourage foreign investment, a top U.S. ...

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Justice Department talks with Microsoft and Google stall

The U.S. Department of Justice's talks with Microsoft Corp and Google Inc have hit a wall as the government pushes back at the tech companies' demand for the ability to disclose the now-secret data requests ...

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Summer Wrap-Up: Market Volatility Will Continue Into Fall Says Smith

"A return to volatility" could be the stand-out theme of the season gone by.

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American Airlines and US Air Merger Will Be Approved: Najarian

American and US Air will likely be allowed to merge, albeit with major concessions, says Jon Najarian of OptionMonster.

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Outdoor Enthusiasts Flock to Cabela’s, Investors Follow

Americans love the outdoors so much that, even when indoors, they spend huge expanses of time and forests of money celebrating leisure time in the wild.

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Wall Street Week Ahead: Jobs data could spur Fed action on stimulus

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Delta, Virgin Atlantic receive tentative antitrust immunity for alliance

Delta Air Lines Inc and Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd are on track to receive immunity from U.S. antitrust laws to operate a planned trans-Atlantic joint venture. In a filing on Friday, the U.S. Department ...

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U.S. Consumer Sentiment Slips in August

U.S. consumer sentiment retreated in August from last month's six-year high, though Americans were slightly more upbeat in their outlook than earlier in the month, a survey released on Friday showed.

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Credit union regulator sues Morgan Stanley over mortgage losses

Morgan Stanley is being sued by a U.S. credit union regulator to recover losses on more than $566 million of residential mortgage-backed securities sold to two corporate credit unions that later failed. ...

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Exclusive: U.S. pension funds press Caesars' private equity owners

Some U.S. public pension funds are pressuring TPG Capital LP and Apollo Global Management LLC to share more of the fees they withdraw from loss-making casino operator Caesars Entertainment Corp, in a rare ...

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Global Investors Boost Euro Zone Assets, Cut Asia Stocks: Poll

Global investors lifted their holdings of euro zone assets to the highest in more than a year this month while trimming exposure to Asian equities during a rout of emerging market assets, Reuters polls ...

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Weak spending, inflation data point to soft U.S. economy

U.S. consumer spending barely rose and inflation was tame in July, offering a cautionary note on the economy as the Federal Reserve weighs cutting back its massive bond-buying program. Spending, which ...

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5 Reasons the Fed Will Not Taper in September: Rupkey

Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, isn’t so sure a September tapering is baked in just yet. Here's why.

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Emerging Markets Planning Joint Offshore FX Intervention: Official

\ndia is liaising with other emerging-economy countries on a plan to co-ordinate intervention in offshore currency markets blamed for fuelling a currency rout over the past three months, a senior Indian finance ministry official said on Friday.

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Burger Giants Roll Out Remodels, but Are You Noticing?

The biggest fast food burger chains in the U.S. are eager to fight sluggish sales trends and the perception that they're downscale shops serving nutritionally deficient or bland fare. But the battle for a better reputation isn't just about the … Continue reading →

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Wall Street falls, ends worst month since May 2012

U.S. stocks fell in a thinly traded session on Friday as the S&P 500 index recorded its steepest decline since May 2012 and investors avoided making large bets before a long weekend with the situation ...

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Analysis: Carlos Slim's Dutch woes test appetite for European expansion

Billionaire Mexican businessman Carlos Slim is facing an unfamiliar challenge as he seeks to steer his flagship phone company America Movil into Europe - dissent. A surprise move by a Dutch foundation ...

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Hundreds of Fosamax lawsuits versus Merck ordered readied for trial

A federal judge overseeing consolidated litigation against Merck & Co over jaw injuries allegedly caused by the osteoporosis drug Fosamax has ordered hundreds of cases be dispersed to courts across the ...

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Perry ups ownership stake in J.C. Penney to 8.6 percent

Hedge fund manager Richard Perry, already a big owner in J.C. Penney Co Inc , bought additional shares in the retailer on Friday, according to a regulatory filing made just days after the largest investor ...

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Regulators agree on global swap rules ahead of G20 summit

Finance watchdogs on Friday laid out joint rules for the $630 trillion derivatives industry that was at the core of the 2007-09 credit meltdown, in a report to the G20 most powerful economies of the world. ...

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Vodafone investors split on best use of Verizon windfall

Top investors in Vodafone Group are set to clash over what the company should do with perhaps as much as $130 billion in proceeds from the sale of its stake in Verizon Wireless, which is expected to be ...

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Microsoft Gives ValueAct President Option to Join Board

Microsoft Corp said on Friday it has offered a board seat to the president of ValueAct Capital Management, the activist fund manager that had pressed for representation on the software company after taking ...

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Euro Zone Morale Climbs in Shadow of Record Ynemployment

Optimism in the euro zone's economy improved sharply in August but stubbornly high unemployment, in particular in the bloc's weaker countries, highlighted the fissure separating the recovering north from the struggling south.

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Regulators agree on global swap rules ahead of G20 summit

Finance watchdogs on Friday laid out joint rules for the $630 trillion derivatives industry that was at the core of the 2007-09 credit meltdown, in a report to the 20 most powerful economies of the world.

via Business News http://finance.yahoo.com/news/regulators-agree-global-swap-rules-ahead-g20-summit-203228614--finance.html

Losses Stalk Bond Investors in August as Europe's Economy Grows

Corporate bondholders in Europe forfeited 0.2 percent in August, the fourth month of losses in a year that's poised to generate the worst returns since 2008. Investment-grade debt in euros is returning ...

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The Jobs That Could Save the Middle Class

If you’re a teacher or electrician, there’s a lot riding on your shoulders. The U.S. economy has stagnated because there aren’t as many well-paying middle-class jobs as there used to be.

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Shutdown at Nasdaq Is Traced to Software

The Nasdaq OMX Group attributed last week’s three-hour trading halt a surge of data that overwhelmed its server, in the stock market operator’s most detailed accounting yet of the market outage.

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JPMorgan Hiring Put China’s Elite on an Easy Track

A hiring program intended to weed out nepotism in the bank’s China operations instead has led to a federal bribery investigation in the United States, interviews and a government document show.

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Health Exchange Board Delays Vote on Plans Again

The board for the state health exchange on Thursday once again delayed a vote on approval of 31 plans proposed to be part of the system.

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Wall Street Falls, Heading for Worst Month Since May 2012

U.S. stocks dipped in weak volume on Friday, with the S&P 500 on track for its worst month since May 2012 as investors held off making large bets before a long weekend with the situation in Syria still uncertain.

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Some IPOs Aim for Small Investors

Facebook Inc. makes it easy for the social network's 1.16 billion users to "like" funny photos, snarky comments and their favorite products. Next on the list: initial public offerings. Getty ...

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Can You Trust Online-Only Banks?

With low interest rates making it a difficult time for savers, opting for one of their branchless counterparts can seem pretty appealing.

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DOJ Green Light for Wash., Colo. Pot Reformers

For generations, pot crusaders have called for an end to the nation's prohibition of marijuana, citing everything from what they say are the government's exaggerated claims about its dangers to the racial ...

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Italy's Banca Marche put under special administration

Italian lender Banca Marche has been placed under special administration by the Bank of Italy, becoming the biggest casualty so far of an extended round of balance sheet inspections by the central bank. ...

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Apple rolls out iPhone trade-in program in U.S. stores

Apple Inc has launched a trade-in program in its U.S. retail stores for older models of its iPhone as it gears up for the launch of a new version of the smartphone, it said on Friday. Apple will give customers ...

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America Movil threatens to abandon KPN takeover bid

America Movil threatened to abandon its 7.2 billion euro bid for Dutch telecommunications group KPN on Friday after a company foundation told the Mexican firm to make a better offer or it would veto the ...

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Ansaldo Breda says ready for legal action over rail deal

Train manufacturer Ansaldo Breda, a unit of Italian defence company Finmeccanica , said it was ready to take legal action against Dutch railways group Nederlandse Spoorwegen for cancelling a 300 million ...

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