24-Oct-2012 14:04

Council equal pay appeal bid lost :: A total of 174 female ex-Birmingham City Council workers can go ahead with compensation claims over missed bonuses after the council loses its appeal.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-20054049#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

SocGen rogue trader loses appeal :: Former Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel loses his appeal against a five-year prison sentence for forgery and breach of trust, handed down in 2010.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20067510#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Spanish out to protest austerity :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/DyHR06oVS50/

Ford Aims To Shut Belgian Plant Where 4,300 Work :: <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Ford Motor Co. has begun talking with union leaders about closing a Belgian factory that employees about 4,300 people. Closure of the Genk plant would occur by the end of 2014.</p><p>In the last five years the total vehicle demand in western Europe has fallen more than 20 percent and the U.S. automaker aims to cut costs and re-establish profitable operations. In the first half of this year, the Dearborn, Mich., company lost more than half a billion dollars in Europe.</p><p> </p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/ford-aims-shut-belgian-plant-where-4300-work-852910

Rewarder gets $7 million to fulfill your oddest, nerdiest dreams :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/RvefoPKkzqs/

Euro business activity dips again :: Business activity in the eurozone contracted at its fastest pace in almost three-and-a-half years in October, a survey suggests.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20067506#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Pensioners' income 'on the rise' :: Most pensioners are considerably better off than the previous generation, with incomes rising nearly every year since 1977, official figures show.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20066854#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Tradesy raises $1.5 million Series A to kill clothing resale competition :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/s3PyFYRt7yM/

Apple, Samsung peace treaty :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/HAQDkga7BJQ/index.html

Santiago Silicon Valley? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/PQril3Oxnso/index.html

Olympics effect to boost UK GDP :: The Olympics are expected to help the economy show growth in the third quarter of the year, suggesting the double-dip recession is over.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20054174#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Pre-Market Movers (Facebook, Power One, Gilead, SAP, Netflix, Questcor, Norfolk, Nokia) :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p><p>Facebook Inc, Power One, Gilead Sciences, SAP AG, Netflix Inc, Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Norfolk Southern Corp and Nokia Corp are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/pre-market-movers-facebook-power-one-gilead-sap-netflix-questcor-norfolk-nokia-852881

Ford plans to shut Belgian plant :: US car giant Ford says it has begun consultations over closing its factory at Genk in Belgium with the loss of 4,300 jobs.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20054924#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

AUDIO: Sants: FSA 'now bedrock' of regulatory structure :: The former head of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), Hector Sants, has said that the changes he brought to the organisation have made it the "bedrock of the new structures going forward".
url: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9762000/9762972.stm#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Spaniards step out to protest austerity :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/DyHR06oVS50/

VIDEO: Would you help fund this album? :: John Maguire went to meet the entrepreneurs who want internet users to come up with the cash for their pet projects.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20055266#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Two Charts That Show Why The Crisis in Spain Is Going To Get Much Worse :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>It's been a bad couple of days for Spain and, if the trends shown in these charts are any indication, it's about to get much worse.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/two-charts-show-why-crisis-spain-going-get-much-worse-852679

Fresh Violence In Myanmar Kills 3; Monastery, Mosque Torched :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p><p>Fresh sectarian violence that erupted in western Myanmar Sunday night engulfed two new districts Tuesday, leaving three people dead and destroying more than 400 houses, a monastery and a mosque, Myanmar's authorities were reported as saying.</p><p>Government's spokesperson for the western state of Rakhine, Myo Thant, Wednesday said that clashes between Rohingya Muslims and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists had spread to the townships of Kyaukphyu and Myebon, pushing the total number of townships affected by the new wave of violence to four, the Associated Press reported.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/fresh-violence-myanmar-kills-3-monastery-mosque-torched-852873

Welcome to butler school :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/y7270N2ioB4/

Oswald Mosley And Diana Mitford: A Fascist 'Romeo & Juliet' :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Hollywood will never make a film about them, but Sir Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford formed one of the greatest romantic duos of the 20^th century.</p><p>The tale of Oswald and Diana's half-century-long love affair featured virtually everything that makes Hollywood salivate – wealth, aristocracy, beauty, charm, war, danger, glamour, betrayal, violence, tragedy, courage, imprisonment and, of course, forbidden love.</p><p>But no epic novel or screenplay could possibly match the extraordinary lives of this blessed and doomed couple.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/oswald-mosley-diana-mitford-fascist-romeo-juliet-852534