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Top Stories: Stocks in the U.S. were higher Tuesday as export companies rallied on the back of a weaker dollar. Big News Network.com Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:07:07 -0500Greece's new government has said it will try to improve its credibility in the financial markets. Big News Network.com Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:41:49 -0500Dubai World has released a statement to say that it will restructure part of the group, including its property arm Nakheel. Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:58:14 -0500The aging population of China is threatening the current pension system. Big News Network.com Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:52:25 -0500NYSE Euronext, which operates the New York Stock Exchange and European tradin markets has completed its acquisition of trading technology provider NYFIX Inc. Big News Network.com Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:13:32 -0500A list of the world's best business hotels has been released by Travel + Leisure magazine. Big News Network.com Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:35:47 -0500India is concerned that the rise of the industrial production index is making the price of food rise uncontrollably. Big News Network.com Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:35:21 -0500The Nano, built in India by the Tata group is going to have a hybrid makeover. Big News Network.com Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:26:18 -0500A French court has ordered online auction site eBay to pay 1.7 million euros to a high-end perfume maker. Big News Network.com Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:41:15 -0500Lawyers for Merck & Co have told the US Supreme Court that investors shouldn't have waited so long to sue the drug maker over warnings about the risks of its painkiller Vioxx. Big News Network.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:07:16 -0500CYPRESS, Calif. - Mitsubishi Motors North America said Tuesday its sales plunged in November, in contrast to most major automakers. BY THE NUMBERS: Sales fell to 2,925 vehicles, from 5,096 in the sa... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:40:45 -0500Jurors in the fraud trial of Minnesota businessman Tom Petters have adjourned for the night and will resume deliberations on Wednesday. The seven-woman, five-man jury reached the 17-hour mark on Mond... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:40:44 -0500TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Public Service Commission set 10-year energy conservation goals Tuesday that are significantly stronger than Florida's major electric utilities had proposed but well short of ... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:40:41 -0500LANSING, Mich. - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing got a warm welcome from lawmakers Tuesday as he discussed Detroit's financial troubles and tried to build a more cooperative relationship between the state's ... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:40:39 -0500DETROIT - General Motors' CEO Frederick "Fritz" Henderson has resigned after eight turbulent months as head of the largest U.S. automaker. The company said Tuesday that Chairman Ed Whitacre... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:40:38 -0500NEW YORK - The economic recovery seems on track for slow but steady gains after new reports Tuesday showed growth in manufacturing activity, construction spending and contracts to buy homes.The batch... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:40:36 -0500LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas finance officials said Tuesday that state revenues would increase by $89.5 million next fiscal year, but predicted a tight budget as lawmakers prepare for next year's ses... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:40:34 -0500Posted on: Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 15:04 CST Microsoft Corp says it is investigating to determine the cause of what Windows 7 users have dubbed “the black screen of death.”Windows 7 users cla... RedOrbit Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:39:01 -0500SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Ford Motor Co. shares tipped higher in Tuesday's after-hours session, reversing a dayside decline, after the automaker said car sales had stabilized with year-ago levels... MarketWatch Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:34:25 -0500Cadbury intends to use its ethical credentials as an important plank of its defence against the £10bn hostile bid from Kraft, the confectioner's chief executive said today.Todd Stitzer said he intend... Guardian Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:31:10 -0500Powerful rebel investors at Mitchells & Butlers, the operator of pub chain All Bar One, have had their representatives ejected from the boardroom. Photograph Guardian Powerful rebel shareholders at... Guardian Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:31:08 -0500Tui Travel , the parent group of travel brands such as First Choice, Austravel and Hayes & Jarvis. At Thomas Cook, pre-tax profits came in at £308m, about the same as the previous year, when anal... Guardian Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:31:06 -0500Owner of All Bar One pub chain M&B has sacked four non-executive directors in a row with rebel investor Joe Lewis. Photograph Guardian The shenanigans in the boardroom at M&B are starting to mak... Guardian Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:31:04 -0500Computerworld - Microsoft today denied that its November Windows updates are causing a widespread "black screen" lock-out of users' PCs. "Microsoft has investigated reports that its November security ... Computerworld Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:28:09 -0500Ruby on Rails (RoR) running on the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform. At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC), Microsoft played up Windows Azure's capability to support a variety... eWeek Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:21:51 -0500SAN FRANCISCO -- Oil futures slipped in electronic trades after the American Petroleum Institute said late Tuesday U.S. crude oil inventories rose by 2.9 million barrels last week. Analysts polled by... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:08:49 -0500SAN FRANCISCO -- General Motors Co. Chairman Edward Whitacre said late Tuesday GM's board has accepted the resignation of Chief Executive Fritz Henderson. Whitacre, who will assume the position of in... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:08:48 -0500WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department will sell warrants to purchase nearly 12.7 million common shares of Capital One Financial Corp. for $42.13 a share in a public auction on Thursday. The public ob... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:08:46 -0500SAN FRANCISCO -- Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein was charged on five different counts, including conspiracy and wire fraud, for operating a billion dollar Ponzi scheme, authorities said Tuesday. Roths... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:08:43 -0500"); } function setUserAsLoggedIn() { $('#username_link').show(); $('#username_link').html("WELCOME ("+$.cookie("p_UN")+")"); $('#signup_link').html("... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:08:42 -0500NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks finished solidly higher Tuesday as a weakened dollar supported climbing commodity prices and equities. After traveling above 10,500 for the first time since October of 2008, t... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:08:40 -0500SAN FRANCISCO -- McDonald's Corp. said late Tuesday that its president and chief operating officer, Ralph Alvarez, will retire at the end of the year for health reasons. Alvarez, 55, will also retire... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:08:38 -0500BOSTON -- Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Kindler told reporters at a luncheon in Boston Tuesday that he would not comment on whether the company will raise its once-coveted dividend. Pfi... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:08:34 -0500DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. auto sales edged higher in November, led by an outsized gain for Hyundai Motor Co and mixed results for rivals in a trend automakers said pointed to a grudging recovery in the... Reuters Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:07:44 -0500"After testing various options in the battery category in a number of stores, we found that our customers responded best to an offering which included a single 'national brand' alkaline, plus Energize... Reuters Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:07:42 -0500CAT ) is a market leader in construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines. With its strong brand name, pricing power, and global dealer network, we bel... Earth Times Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:06:56 -0500EquipNet Hosts Live and Webcast Auction of Ingredient Blending and Packaging Equipment on December 3, 2009 Canton, MA (PRWEB) December 1, 2009 -- EquipNet is hosting a live and webcast auction of ing... Earth Times Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:06:39 -0500Privacy Policy (Revised 8/28/2008). Wired.com © 2009 Condé Nast Digital. All rights reserved. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwis... Wired News Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:00:27 -0500NEW YORK - Writing the next Great American Novel, but need a little inspiration? Consider the 1958 Olivetti that Cormac McCarthy used to write his novels, including "The Road" and "No... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:56:22 -0500A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Tuesday: ___ DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai's leader tried to calm panicky investors as regional marke... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:56:21 -0500DETROIT - General Motors Co. said its total vehicle sales fell 2 percent in November, as improvements in its major brands were offset by declines across other noncore models. BY THE NUMBERS: Total s... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:56:20 -0500SAN FRANCISCO - Shares of Mentor Graphics Corp. climbed Tuesday after a JPMorgan analyst upgraded the software maker's stock, predicting that spending on electronic design automation software will im... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:56:18 -0500NEW YORK - The prominent retail trade group trimmed its November sales growth forecast on Tuesday, citing more shoppers saying they've delayed holiday purchasing compared with a year ago. Michael P.... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:56:16 -0500Ricardo Fort, Vice-President, Marketing, India and South West Asia, Coca-Cola India, during the launch of premium energy drink brand ‘Burn’ in Mumbai on Tuesday. The Hindu Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:47:27 -0500British businessman Joe Lewis watches a golf tournament in Florida, March 25, 2008. Photograph: Steve Nesius / Reuters/REUTERS Bahamas-based billionaire currency trader and global investor Joe Lewis... Guardian Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:46:38 -0500Microsoft is contending that the Black Screen of Death reports circulating the Web are not due to the security updates the company issued in November. Meanwhile, U.K.-based security vendor Prevx is of... eWeek Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:37:19 -0500NEW YORK -- If you're planning to buy a plane ticket home for the holidays, then this is the week to commit, if pricing trends mirror those just before Thanksgiving. According to data provided Tuesda... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:23:20 -0500SAN FRANCISCO -- Honda Motor Co. on Tuesday reported U.S. sales in November fell 2.9% to 74,003 vehicles from 76,233 a year earlier. Truck sales rose 20% to 34,238 while car sales were down 4.4% to 3... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:23:18 -0500NEW YORK -- Gold futures ended at a new high of $1,199.10 an ounce Tuesday, briefly topping $1,200 in intraday trading, as the dollar weakened and as Barrick Gold Corp. eliminated all of its gold hed... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:23:12 -0500WASHINGTON -- The $787 billion fiscal stimulus program approved in February is working pretty much as expected, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday. U.S. employment is about 600,000 to 1.6 m... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:23:11 -0500NEW YORK -- Xerox Corp. is selling $2 billion in bonds on Tuesday, according to Informa Global Markets, to finance its acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services Inc. . The document-equipment provid... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:23:09 -0500NEW YORK -- The U.S. Department of Transportation said Tuesday it issued a $2.3 million civil penalty against El Paso Corp. and its Colorado Interstate Gas Co. subsidiary in the wake of an explosion ... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:23:07 -0500ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) - It is a good sign that many of the Federal Reserve's emergency facilities are winding down organically as the economy recovers and markets are no longer reliant on them... Reuters Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:22:13 -0500WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Regional Federal Reserve banks favored keeping interest rates low in November because of the risk an economic pickup might falter on weakening consumer spending. Reuters Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:22:12 -0500Rogers Communications Inc. is asking a B.C. court for an injunction barring wireless rival BCE Inc. from claiming in its advertising that it has the "best" and "most powerful" cell... Financial Post Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:21:43 -0500Back in February Ottawa announced plans to buy $12-billion of auto loans as a way to prop up beleaguered car makers. Nearly 10 months later, the so-called Canadian Secured Credit Facility has complet... Financial Post Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:21:37 -0500LONDON -- Barclays completed the sale of its asset management arm to U.S. fund manager BlackRock on Tuesday for US$15.2- billion, or US$1.7-billion more than when it struck the deal in June after a ju... Financial Post Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:21:36 -0500New York State attorney general Andrew Cuomo backed the e-STOP law under which sex offenders' social networking accounts were terminated. Facebook and MySpace have terminated the accounts of 3,533... Wired News Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:16:16 -0500What may be the most thorough study ever of a single organism has produced a beta code for life’s essential subroutines, and shown that even the simplest creatures are more complex than scientis... Wired News Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:16:09 -0500Tired of the portraits, landscapes and abstract art that peppers the walls of most art museums? According to Dutch photographer Wim van Egmond, there’s one art subject that has been ignored for cent... Wired News Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:16:07 -0500CERN announced early Monday that the Large Hadron Collider has become the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator. The LHC pushed protons to 1.18 TeV (trillion electron volts), surpassing th... Wired News Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:16:03 -0500A small, private company launched New Zealand’s first rocket into space to cheers from about 50 people gathered on a small island off the country’s coast. As the noise of the blastoff sen... Wired News Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:16:01 -0500Now that the comics industry has overtaken film, its outstanding writers are starting to step up to the biopic bar. Subversive brainiac Grant Morrison is up next, with a dedicated documentary due in t... Wired News Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:15:50 -0500(Associated Press, file) Police say a Salvation Army bell-ringer outside the St. Paul Wal-Mart took a break and shoplifted inside the store. The bell-ringer was cited for misdemeanor theft, a police ... Pioneer Press Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:14:57 -0500Small business consultant Gene Marks explains why the declining dollar will help fellow business owners who are selling domestically and overseas... BusinessWeek Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:59:10 -0500Coca-Cola Israel announced on Tuesday it was recalling several products because of "quality problems." The soft drinks giant said a quiet recall begun last week was being expanded following a problem ... Breitbart Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:58:50 -0500NEW YORK - Shares of CPFL Energia SA climbed on Tuesday as an analyst upgraded the Brazilian power company, citing expectations for strengthened sales and better economic conditions. In afternoon tr... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:05:53 -0500DETROIT - U.S. auto sales in November showed more signs of stability, with Ford and Toyota reporting steady to higher sales. But Chrysler struggled for another month, while Hyundai again posted doub... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:05:52 -0500PHILADEPHIA - Shares of Clearwire Corp. rose Tuesday after an analyst said the company's path to growth seemed more certain following a round of financing that will give it the capital needed to grow... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:05:50 -0500ST. PAUL, Minn. - Despite billions of dollars in recent cost-cutting, Minnesota's budget keeps springing leaks. State finance officials will detail on Wednesday how much money trouble lies ahead, by... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:05:49 -0500SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Canadian shares rebounded sharply Tuesday, led by mining firms, as investors took hope from a manufacturing expansion in China and talks of debt restructuring for a Duba... MarketWatch Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:59:25 -0500So who should pay for the deficits in large final-salary pension schemes that have opened up over the last 10 years? Ofcom describes the argument as a contest between shareholders and customers. It sa... Guardian Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:56:01 -0500A spokesperson for Microsoft told Betanews early this afternoon that it has officially investigated claims that its latest security updates are the cause of an alleged "crop" of "Black Screen of Death... Beta News Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:50:14 -0500US shares headed higher on Tuesday after a flurry of economic data pointed to a rebound in the economy - and took dealers's minds off the Dubai story.Better reports on construction and housing suggest... BBC Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:40:49 -0500Strictly Come Dancing judge Alesha Dixon is set to take up a seat in the boardroom after landing a lucrative deal as brand ambassador for gym chain LA Fitness. Sky News Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:40:40 -0500BOSTON -- Shares of Radian Group Inc. were up 14% on Tuesday after the mortgage insurer's chief financial officer said delinquencies rose in October and November but were lower than expected. "The fo... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:33:24 -0500WASHINGTON -- Charles Plosser, the president of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, became the first top central bank official to call for higher interest rates in this cycle. In a speech on Tuesd... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:33:20 -0500SAN FRANCISCO - Cisco Systems on Tuesday said it is extending the offer period for its bid to acquire Tandberg of Norway. The networking gear maker said the new deadline is Dec. 3. Cisco last month r... Fox Business Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:33:14 -0500Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser said he has become more confident in the sustainability of the U.S. economic recovery even once government stimulus fades, and stressed the ... Reuters Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:32:15 -0500"We will not go back to the world before this recession," Warren Jestin, chief economist with Scotia Capital, said while presenting his 2010-2011 economic outlook Tuesday morning. "Sticking with the .... Financial Post Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:31:36 -0500OTTAWA -- Canada's main opposition Liberal Party expects to back the Conservative government's attempt to speed through legislation to end a strike by locomotive engineers at Canadian National Railway... Financial Post Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:31:34 -0500Soldiers may go into battle better equipped to handle equipment and with a greater knowledge of their surroundings after an intellectual property licensing deal Monday between Microsoft and Lockheed M... CIO Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:31:27 -0500The Coca-Cola Company will announce a significant new commitment to reduce direct greenhouse gas emissions. Greenpeace has urged Coca-Cola to expand its climate commitments and supports this announcem... Earth Times Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:31:03 -0500Microsoft Careers , a great source for scraps on future Microsoft products, had to say about Windows 8 over the last 30 days or so. This month we saw seven job postings regarding the successor to both... Ars Technica Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:27:13 -0500Owners of retail shops and service businesses can borrow Disney's "secondary-guest" strategy to convince customers to keep returning... BusinessWeek Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:09:06 -0500US shares headed higher on Tuesday after a flurry of economic data pointed to a rebound in the economy - and took dealers's minds off the Dubai story.Better reports on construction and housing suggest... BBC Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:03:13 -0500PHILADELPHIA - General Electric Co.'s agreement to buy out the portion of NBC Universal it doesn't already own paves the way for the sale of a controlling stake to Comcast Corp. in a deal that promis... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:41:02 -0500OMAHA, Neb. - Rural areas in middle America are being hit particularly hard by what could be another dip into recession for the region, according to a survey of business leaders and supply managers in... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:40:57 -0500NEW YORK - Citi on Tuesday said it renewed and extended its contract with Victory Capital Management Inc. and the Victory Funds. The renewal calls for Citi's Securities and Fund Services business to... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:40:56 -0500NEW YORK - Staples Inc., the largest U.S. office supply retailer, provided an upbeat outlook Tuesday as it reported that its customers bought more school and office supplies and technology products i... Star Tribune Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:40:55 -0500WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Baby boomers have a unique relationship to technology -- different from any generation before or since -- and they are actively shaping the devices, softwa... RedOrbit Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:39:18 -0500NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- As the decade nears an end, regional energy supplier Southwestern Energy Co. ranks as the S&P 500's best performing stock while a one-time high-flying technology company,... MarketWatch Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:34:42 -0500LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Share prices for mining stocks could have further to go in the current commodity price environment, executives at a London mining conference said Tuesday. This year, metal... MarketWatch Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:34:40 -0500Ofcom , which sets the prices that BT's wholesale division Openreach can charge companies to use its services, has opened a consultation into whether the company's pensions costs should be taken into ... Guardian Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:31:20 -0500Miners led the way as the market's fears about the fallout from debt-laden Dubai started to fade, and the FTSE 100 recorded its biggest one day points gain since April.With metal prices again boosted ... 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