31-May-2012 19:38 To

Shut Out: ECB Says No Candidate Nations Ready To Join Euro Yet :: While speculation swirls about whether Greece is going to drop the euro, the European Central Bank said on Wednesday that none of the eight countries trying to get in the currency bloc are ready to join.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/347008/20120530/euro-zone-crisis-ecb-candidates.htm

China Stimulus: What You Need To Know :: With dark clouds gathering over China's economy, Beijing is feeling greater pressure to introduce stimulus measures to support growth.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/346979/20120530/china-stimulus-what-need-know-rrr-cut.htm

China Invests Heavily In Clean Energy - But Is It Too Little, Too Late? :: The Chinese government says it will allocate the equivalent of $27 billion to renewable energy and energy efficiency programs in 2012, but the battle against the deterioration of China's environment will be a long and tough one.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/346916/20120530/china-renewables-carbon.htm

To Cut Or Not To Cut: Ireland Braces For Crucial EU Austerity Vote :: Anti-treaty parties have gained significant support in the run up to Thursday's vote, with nationalists Sinn Fein rising to become the second most popular party, according to recent polls.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/346912/20120530/ireland-treaty-fiscal-eu-vote-merkel.htm

Euro Zone Economic Confidence Slumps To Near 3-Year Low :: Economic stagnation and continuing debt crisis in the single currency bloc drove the region's business sentiment to 90.6 in May from April's revised 92.9, the European Commission said Wednesday. That was the second big fall in a row and left the index at its lowest level since the back end of the global recession in October 2009.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/346851/20120530/euro-zone-economic-confidence-slump-near-3.htm

Suu Kyi Listens To Plight Of Burmese Migrants In Thailand :: The Burmese in Thailand occupy the lowest strata of society and earn meager wages toiling at menial jobs in construction, fishing and factories, often illegally.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/346840/20120530/burma-myanmar-suu-kyi-migrant-workers-thailand.htm

EU Calls For Financial Integration To Save Banks :: The European Union's administrative arm called Wednesday for directly supporting distressed banks in the struggling monetary union with a variety of measures that entail financially integrating the economies of the 17 member countries.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/346827/20120530/european-union-bank.htm

Too Big To Succeed? Dewey & LaBoeuf's Demise Mirrors Real Estate Collapse :: The global headquarters of Dewey & LaBoeuf LLP, a glass-sheathed office tower in midtown Manhattan, has a commanding view of a stretch of Sixth Avenue looking downtown. A pair of statues, designed by artist Jim Dine, rise from the plaza of the stately office, overlooking Rockefeller Center. But now, it will be the law firm's ornate tomb, a reminder of its glory days.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/346766/20120530/dewey-laboeuf-bankruptcy-stuart-saft.htm

How the Nook Simple Touch GlowLight glows: Science! :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/Tau07xaHKuQ/

India's Growth Slows To 5.3% In 1Q :: India's GDP growth slowed to 5.3 percent in the first quarter from the prior year as manufacturing fell, the weakest result since 2003 for the world's 11th largest economy, officials said Thursday.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/347331/20120531/india-gdp-falls-1q.htm

Jobless Claims Up 10,000 Last Week To One-Month High :: The number of Americans filing for first-time jobless benefits rose by 10,000 last week, the Department of Labor announced Thursday, bringing the number of people filing for unemployment benefits to a one-month high and exceeding analysts' expectations.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/347277/20120531/jobless-claims.htm

US 1Q GDP Revised Down To 1.9% :: The U.S. economy expanded at a 1.9 percent annual rate in the first quarter, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. That's in line with economists' estimate and slower than the initially reported 2.2 percent pace.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/347272/20120531/1q-gdp-revised-down-1-9.htm

India's Q4 Economic Growth Slumps To Nine-Year Low; Trade Bodies Demand Immediate Government Action :: Corroborating the fears of an economic slowdown, India's economic growth slumped to 5.3 percent, a nine-year-low in the fourth quarter ending March 31, according to a Thomson Reuters data. The growth rate was 9.2 percent in the same period a year earlier.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/347226/20120531/india-q4-economic-growth-disappointing-nine-low.htm

Top Post-Market NASDAQ Movers (CE Franklin, Envivio, Zumiez , Datalink, 21Vianet, F5 Networks, BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Tivo, Pacific Biosciences of California, American Superconductor Corporation) :: The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Wednesday were: CE Franklin Ltd Inc, Envivio Inc, Zumiez Inc, Datalink Corporation and 21Vianet Group Inc. The top after-market NASDAQ losers were: F5 Networks Inc, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc, Tivo Inc, Pacific Biosciences of California Inc and American Superconductor Corporation.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/347114/20120531/top-post-market-nasdaq-movers-cfk-envi.htm

Tony Blair: 'Pressure' from Murdoch :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/6rvtuubBONc/index.html

Do black tech entrepreneurs face institutional bias? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Uy3QTPolITo/index.html