New York Times Moves To Sell About.com, Shedding Another Non-Core Asset :: The New York Times Co. is close to a deal to sell its About.com division for $270 million, a move that would shed another non-core asset.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/371757/20120808/new-york-times-sale-answers.htm
Standard Chartered Scandal: The British Need To Stop Whining And Start Investigating :: Pity the City. America is on a witch hunt against London's financial center, ruthlessly exploiting a few rotten banking apples to pursue their own political scheme, or so British MPs would have you believe.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/371737/20120808/london-new-york-financial-scandal-libor-regulators.htm
'We Need To Shrink' - Fannie Mae CEO :: Fannie Mae (OTC: FNMA), the largest government-controlled mortgage backer, reported its second consecutive quarterly profit for the first time in five years Wednesday, but its CEO said the company should cede business to private investors when the housing market finally recovers.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/371696/20120808/fannie-mae-ceo-mayopoulos-shrink.htm
Europe Financial Crisis: Italy, Spain Downgraded By DBRS :: Toronto-based credit rating agency DBRS, Inc., announced today it is downgrading the sovereign credit ratings of the Kingdom of Spain and the Republic of Italy from their current "A (high)" ratings." Italy was taken down one notch to "A.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/371668/20120808/spain-italy-downgrade-dbrs.htm
All Poor Families In India To Get Free Cellphones: Will The Scheme Be Successful? :: In a move that can be apparently dubbed as a political soap to boost the sliding popularity of his Congress party in the 2014 general elections, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to launch a scheme to provide free mobile connection to six million poor families in the country.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/371547/20120808/mobile-phone-poor-indians-new-scheme-empower.htm
Indian Power Producer To Undergo $1 Billion Bond Sale To Help Arrest Power Crisis :: India's largest power producer, NTPC Ltd., (NTPC), will be carrying this month an international $1 billion bond sale to help support the company's capacity expansion plans in light of the electricity crisis that hit country last week.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/371485/20120808/coal-power-electricity-india.htm
Top After-Market Nasdaq Movers (Vitesse, CSG Systems, Express Scripts, Interval Leisure, Ctrip.com, priceline.com, Santarus, Zillow, Xoma, Jive) :: The top after-market Nasdaq gainers Tuesday were Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation, CSG Systems International Inc, Express Scripts Holding Company, Interval Leisure Group Inc and Ctrip.com International Ltd.
The top after-market Nasdaq losers were priceline.com Incorporated, Santarus Inc, Zillow Inc, XOMA Corporation and Horizon Technology Finance Corporation.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/371429/20120808/top-market-nasdaq-movers-vitesse-csg-systems.htm
With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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China Tries To Break The Airbus-Boeing Duopoly, Slowly :: The Chinese government has taken an important step towards breaking the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) and EADS N.V. (Paris: EAD)'s Airbus SAS's duopoly in aerospace manufacturing by successfully testing a new regional plane, the Financial Times reported.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/371356/20120807/china-comac-plane-boeing-airbus.htm
US Job Openings Rose To 3.76M In June, Highest In 4 Years: DOL :: U.S. job openings in June were the highest in four years, but the pace of hiring slowed from the prior month, government data showed on Tuesday.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/371241/20120807/jobs-openings-unemployment-rate-labor-economy.htm
Standard Chartered Likely To Face More US & EU Investigations and Charges :: US, UK and European legal experts tell IBTimes UK that it is likely that the New York state filing charges against Standard Chartered for money laundering to fund terrorism is only the tip of the iceberg.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/371212/20120807/standard-chartered-new-york-state-department-finance.htm
Poor Oral Health Damages Economy :: Over 2 million people in the UK say they have taken time of work due to poor oral health. The UK's economy is being damaged unnecessarily with an estimated two million workers taking sick time off work due to poor oral health over the past five years. Most problems with teeth and gums are preventable with a good oral health routine, but around seven per cent of the UK's 29 million workforce have called in sick with teeth problems at least once in the past five years... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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Ailing U.S. economy delivers a blow to 'medical tourism' :: Fewer U.S. patients are traveling abroad for non-emergency medical procedures, such as hip replacements or cosmetic surgery, ... (Source: USATODAY.com Health)<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
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How Much Inequality Is Needed to Support a Strong Economy? :: There's plenty of self-interest on display in the debate on inequality, but behavioral and experimental economic studies and other inquiries into the topic show that there's more to the issue than meets the eye.read more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
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Healthy Eating Hindered By Parents' Work-Life Stress :: In a tight economy, with fewer jobs, many people end up working harder and sacrificing more to stay employed. A new study finds that one of those sacrifices is sometimes their own and their family's nutrition. While prior studies have implicated working mothers in providing less healthy family food environments, this is one of the first studies of family nutrition to look at fathers - in particular a population of urban fathers, who face higher rates of unemployment and under-employment... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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Tanking Economy May Mean Kids Suffer More Abuse (CME/CE) :: (MedPage Today) -- Rates of physical abuse and brain injury among the nation's children have risen significantly in the early 21st century, and the recent economic recession and housing crisis may be a reason why, researchers reported. (Source: MedPage Today State Required CME)
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Rwanda: Too Many Babies Straining Economy :: [Focus]Rose Mukamurigo is a 54-year-old community health worker in Kayonza district, Eastern Province. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
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America Has A Great Economic Future :: Behind the headlines, American entrepreuers are solving the country's major economic problems and building the foundation for a great future for future generations. read more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
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