31-Oct-2012 11:46

Corporate China hit by unpaid bills :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/QVeJHv96H4g/index.html

Fiat revamp to avoid EU 'Carmageddon' :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/zfVpziZ8k04/index.html

Barclays in new regulatory probes :: UK bank Barclays says that it is the subject of two new regulatory probes soon after a series of scandals and announces it made a loss in the third quarter.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20150754#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Japan Nuclear Watchdog Apologizes For Mistakes In Radioactive Fallout Predictions :: <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>Japan's recently established nuclear watchdog released a formal apology Tuesday for errors in its predictions regarding the nuclear fallout based on simulated disasters at six of Japan's nuclear power plants.</p><p>In the first published survey of its kind, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) Oct. 24 modeled the likely fallout at plants in 16 nuclear facilities based on the spill from the Fukushima plant, taking into consideration factors such as reactor size and local meteorological data.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/japan-nuclear-watchdog-apologizes-mistakes-radioactive-fallout-predictions-856624

Italy unemployment woes continue :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/PPRjvoli1Qw/

Furniture line designed for jobless :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/xu-PPFVWLTA/

Jobs crisis takes toll on Greece :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/L-Ag1HM_bOo/

Pre-Market Movers (Nokia, Deutsche Bank, BP, AMD, IBM, Carnival Corp, Ford Motor, Home Depot, United States Steel, Halliburton) :: <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>Nokia Corp, Deutsche Bank, BP Plc, Advanced Micro Devices, Telefonica, Carnival Corp, Ford Motor, Home Depot, United States Steel Corp, International Business Machines Corp and Halliburton Co. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday.</p><p>Nokia Corp. (NOK) stock climbed 8.20 percent to $2.77 in pre-market trading. The stock has a 52-week low of $1.63, a 52-week high of $7.20 and $9.59 billion in market capitalization.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/pre-market-movers-nokia-deutsche-bank-bp-amd-ibm-carnival-corp-ford-motor-home-depot-united-states

Hurricane Sandy: Twitter, Facebook Emerge As Lifeline During Disasters Despite Pranks :: <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> </p><p>Even as Hurricane Sandy continues to pound the U.S. East Coast, new lifelines emerged on social media – Twitter and Facebook – that turned newswire-cum-hotline despite attracting equally high number of pranksters. </p><p>A search for #Sandy on Twitter revealed over 200 new tweets at the time of writing this article where government agencies including Federal Emergency Management Agency (@FEMA) to @NotifyNYC vie for attention along with tweets from media outlets and concerned individuals.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/hurricane-sandy-twitter-facebook-emerge-lifeline-during-disasters-despite-pranks-856620

Panasonic forecasts $9.6bn loss :: Panasonic projects that it will make a loss in the current financial year due to falling sales and a jump in restructuring expenses.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20151145#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Living standards 'may stagnate' :: Millions of poor and middle-income households could see their living standards no higher in 2020 than they were in 2000, a think tank says.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20138393#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

VIDEO: Film industry boost to UK economy :: Film tax relief brings in at least £12 for every £1 spent on it, according to the British Film Commission, with three new creative tax reliefs planned for 2013.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20150775#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Heseltine issues growth challenge :: Lord Heseltine recommends ending a century of centralisation and moving growth funds nearer to industry in his report into boosting UK growth.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20142837#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Hurricane Sandy Knocks Out Some Websites; Off-Site Data Centers, Back-Up Servers Save The Day :: <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>Hurricane Sandy, which ravaged the U.S. East Coast, has also wreaked havoc in the cyber world as the storm floods knocked down the servers of several popular websites, forcing them to go offline for hours.</p><p>Several websites like the Huffington Post, Jezebel, Gawker and Gizmodo experienced technical problems as the servers of the Internet service provider Datagram, which powers these websites, went off. The storm water flooded the electrical and equipment system in the Datagram building forcing them to shutdown power to avoid permanent damage.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/hurricane-sandy-knocks-out-some-websites-site-data-centers-back-servers-save-day-856602

North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un's Wife Reappears In Public :: <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>The wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reappeared in public, after being absent from the public eye for almost two months, according to the state media.</p><p>Ri Sol-ju attended a football match and a concert with her husband Monday, KCNA news agency said.</p><p>Ri's reappearance has put an end to the mounting speculation that she had fallen out of favor of the North Korean leadership and had been chastised for failing to wear the mandatory lapel pin bearing the images of dead Kim dynasty leaders.</p><p>It was also rumored that she might be pregnant.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-uns-wife-reappears-public-856600

US Stock Futures Signal Higher Open As Markets Set To Reopen After Storm :: <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> </p><p>The U.S. stock index futures point to a higher open Wednesday with markets prepared to reopen after two days of closure as Superstorm Sandy hit the east coast.</p><p>The futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up 0.33 percent, the futures on the Standard &amp; Poor's 500 Index were up 0.36 percent and those on the Nasdaq 100 Index were up 0.17 percent. </p><p>"While the economic and social cost of the super storm will be counted over coming days markets in general appear to have brushed off their worst fears," Credit Agricole said in a note.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/us-stock-futures-signal-higher-open-markets-set-reopen-after-storm-856599

Paywall provider Piano buys cookie-beater to build a better meter :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/oQ6L-w0gtdQ/

Asian Stock Markets End Higher; Nikkei Surges 1% :: <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>Asian stock markets mostly advanced Wednesday as better news in Europe both on the earnings and the fiscal front along with South Korean industrial production data improved risk appetite.</p><p>Japan's benchmark Nikkei surged 0.98 percent or 86.31 points to 8928.29, Hong Kong's Hang Seng surged 1.02 percent or 219.37 points to 21647.95 and South Korea's Seoul Composite gained 0.66 percent or 12.48 points to 1912.06, while Chinese Shanghai Composite advanced 0.32 percent and India's BSE Sensex gained 0.24 percent.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/asian-stock-markets-end-higher-nikkei-surges-1-856598

VIDEO: Ryanair 'growing like gangbusters' :: Budget airline Ryanair is to expand its operation, creating up to one thousand jobs at airports in Liverpool, Manchester and the East Midlands.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20150776#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Superstorm Sandy: JFK, Newark Airports To Resume Operations Wednesday; Rescue, Restoration Operations Progress :: <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>The U.S. East Coast, which has been battered by the most devastating storm to hit in the recent decades, is slowly recovering from the impact and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and Newark International Airport in New Jersey would open at 7 a.m. Wednesday with limited services.</p><p>Both the airports along with other airports in the coast were closed Monday and Tuesday due to Superstorm Sandy. An estimated 15,000 fliers were stranded across the country.  </p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/superstorm-sandy-jfk-newark-airports-resume-operations-wednesday-rescue-restoration-operations