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Workers demand more action from Italian government
Protesters marching in the tens of thousands rallied in Italy on Sunday to rail against the policies of the new coalition government. Around 100,000 protesters, led by trade unionists, converged on Rome to wave red flags and placards, urging changes to austerity measures. The union-led crowd called for the new government of centre-left Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, to focus on job ...
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Americans find happiness in household wealth
Americans are at their most optimistic since 2007 according to a Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan index of consumer sentiment. The preliminary index has shown optimism increased to 83.7 in May as stocks surged and real estate climbed. With record stock prices boosting household wealth and unemployment down in some areas, consumers were able to see their way through the effects of ...
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Hackers take on Financial Times web site
Britain's Financial Times was hacked last week by a mysterious group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. The newspaper's technology blog was hacked to display a slogan saying: "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army." Several Twitter feeds run by the Financial Times were also plastered with similar slogans. The FT later said its blogs and social media accounts had been compromised ...
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Hackers get into important Saudi websites
The Saudi Arabia state news agency has reported a coordinated attack on the country's government websites. Several government websites in Saudi Arabia came under heavy cyber attacks last week, shutting them down for a short time. The attacks have been traced to IP addresses from a number of countries. Saudi investigators found the attacks had been launched from hundreds of Internet ...
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Digital world creeps up on Target
Target Corp has opened a new office base in San Francisco in order to discover technology ideas. With the second-largest US retailer trying to grow its online commerce business, a Technology Innovation Center has been set up to develop mobile commerce, which has become a particular focus of retailers because new technology allows people to use their mobile devices to shop. With a huge ...
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BOJ may seek ways to calm bond market policy on hold
By Leika KiharaTOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is expected to stand pat on monetary policy this week despite jitters over the recent volatility in bond markets, hoping it can prevent a renewed spike in yields by fine-tuning market operations.The central bank may front-load bond purchases or offer funds via market operations more frequently if the bond market turbulence persists, which are ...
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Minnesotas struggling ethanol makers hope to snap back this year
Dwayne Ehlert, 70, stands outside the shuttered Biofuels Energy Corp. ethanol plant in Fairmont, Minn. Ehlert, 70, who has been farming since 1964, sold a truckload of corn to the plant last August for a record $8.16 per bushel as last year’s drought drove up prices. A few weeks later, the plant stopped production, citing high corn prices. Although corn had dropped in price, ...
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Australian Market Advances On Wall Street Cues
The Australian stock market is trading higher on Monday, tracking the positive cues on Friday from Wall Street, where stocks benefited from some upbeat U.S. economic data as well as comments from a Federal Reserve official.Banking and mining stocks are leading the gainers in the Australian market. In late-morning trades, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index is advancing 45 points or 0.87 percent ...
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Bernanke’s Testimony Critical to Oil Prices
The U.S. dollar and its reaction to the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's Congress testimony on Wednesday will prove central for crude oil price direction this week, according to CNBC's weekly survey of market sentiment. Nine out of 13 respondents, or about 69 percent, expect prices to soften this week while two forecast gains and the remaining two are neutral on the market. ...
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Has Hollywood Sold Out On Tibet
If there's one lingering sore point between Hollywood and China, it's Tibet. For years, celebrity activists have annoyed Beijing by organizing charity concerts for Tibetan independence, shouting "Free Tibet" at awards ceremonies, and palling around with the Dalai Lama, whom the People's Republic regards as a "jackal" and "a wolf in sheep's ...
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Yen edges up from lows Asian shares firmer
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The yen pulled up from a 4-1/2 year low against the dollar on Monday after Japan's economics minister said a further steady drop in the yen could have negative effects on households, pushing the dollar to a low of ...
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Suncorp Mulls Selling Non-Core Bank - Report
Suncorp Group Ltd. (SUN.AU) is looking at ways to sell the "non-core" bank unit that houses its sour property loans, in a move that would free up capital and could mean higher payouts for investors, The Australian Financial Review said Monday.The regional bank and insurance group set up the unit in 2009 to house 17.5? billion Australian dollars (US$17.1 billion) of loans that could no ...
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Australia shares up in broad rally Wall St underpins market
Sun May 19, 2013 9:45pm EDT (Adds details, comments, stocks on the move) SYDNEY May 20 (Reuters) - Australian shares climbed 1.1 percent on Monday in a broad rally after upbeat U.S. economic data pushed Wall Street to record highs and as stocks with large exposure to the U.S. market gained on a weaker Australian dollar. "It's a broadbased rally, the overnight news was very positive and ...
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BOEs King Says More Steps Needed for Growth
The U.K. economy is in recovery but policy makers need to do more to lift growth, Bank of England Gov. Mervyn King said Sunday."We are seeing a recovery. But it's only a modest recovery, and we certainly can't be satisfied with it," Mr. King said in an interview with Sky News.The U.K. economy expanded 0.3% between January and March and the BOE expects it to grow 0.5% in the ...
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Aust stocks higher after Wall St record
The Australian share market is higher as another Wall Street record buoys mining and banking stocks.IG market strategist Chris Weston says the strongest University of Michigan consumer sentiment reading since 2007 spurred the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 to reach fresh highs, helping Australian stocks."It's a question of a good lead from Wall Street and people buy ...
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Yahoo reportedly agrees to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion
Yahoo's board has agreed to buy Tumblr, the popular blogging service, for about $1.1 billion in cash, a person with knowledge of the agreement said on Sunday. The deal, sealed at a meeting of Yahoo's board, is expected to be announced as soon as Monday, said the person, who was not authorized to speak ahead of the announcement. The acquisition is the biggest yet under Yahoo's ...
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Seoul shares up Wall St overshadows North Korea missile tests
SEOUL | Sun May 19, 2013 8:12pm EDT SEOUL May 20 (Reuters) - Seoul shares edged up on Monday after the rally on Wall Street boosted sentiment and helped to overcome worries about North Korea's firing of short-range missiles at the weekend. Technology heavyweights led the gains, with SK Hynix rising 2 percent and LG Electronics gaining 0.5 percent. The Korea Composite Stock Price ...
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Scottish bank customers warned over deposit protection scheme
A Treasury report has analysed the impact of Scottish independence on the deposit protection scheme that guarantees up to 85,000 to UK bank customers. Photograph Carl Court/AFP/Getty ...
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Empty shops hit record high retail study shows
The number of empty shops on Britain's high streets and malls has hit a record high on the back of a struggling economy and changing shopping habits, industry data released on Monday showed.Across the UK almost one in eight shops lay vacant in April 2013, according to the British Retail Consortium, the highest since it began collecting such data in July 2011. Almost one in five shops in ...
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New Co-operative Group head endures rocky start at annual general meeting
the group's beleaguered bank .Around 250 delegates from across the country filed into New Century House to meet Euan Sutherland, the one-time head of the Kingfisher group they hope will guide them to safety.The meeting at New Century House, Manchester, was held behind closed doors, with delegates unusually tight-lipped as they arrived. A significant absentee was the Co-operative's ...
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Share market set for gains on Wall St record
Australia The Australian dollar remains well below parity with the greenback, after positive US economic data pushed the value of its currency higher on Friday. Around 9:00am (AEST), an Aussie dollar was worth 97.42 US cents.The local currency was also fetching just under 76 euro cents, 100.25 Japanese yen and 64.23 British pence. Futures trade indicates the share market will rise today, with ...
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Companies launch cyber war games to prepare for hackers
Clusters of corporate techies hunched over their laptops one recent evening in Mountain View, Calif., feverishly trying to figure out how RK Industries hacked into and stole critical information from its rival, EntraDyn. It’s a common occurrence, but in this case the firms were fictitious, and the event - a simulated exercise put on by security firm Symantec - featured rock music, a ...
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Edina boutique fulfills designers dream
Edina women’s boutique, a reality. Fortunately, Roth had been preparing for the opportunity for much of her life. She got her start working in her father’s textile factories and selling fashions in their native India, and for the last decade has designed and manufactured wholesale clothing, jewelry and accessories for major department stores as head ...
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Trial of Petters associate to open Monday
The federal trial of the last foreseeable defendant in Minnesota’s largest criminal fraud begins Monday. James Fry, a dentist-turned-hedge-fund-manager from Spring Park, faces 12 counts accusing him of securities and wire fraud and making false statements to the Securities and Exchange Commission in his role as a financial conduit in the Tom Petters-directed Ponzi scheme that bilked ...
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Twin Cities at center of hearing aid growth
Plymouth -based Miracle-Ear, which says it sells America’s most popular hearing aid, is turning up the volume for its Italian parent, Amplifon. Moreover, the Twin Cities hearing aid trade, which boasts several firms, appears to be growing thanks to aging baby boomers who need hearing help, powerful digital products and the willingness of some health insurers to cover at least some of the ...
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Why should American troops remain in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan is widely regarded, even by its own people, as a puppet state, and has little hope of breaking away from US influence in the foreseeable future, there is wide-spread resentment toward foreign troops, and increasingly loud calls in the states for a withdrawal of troops. But, like or not, these two countries have been tied together irrevocably, even before the war on terror.
Since the invasion of Afghanistan by allied forces in 2001, the country’s destiny has in many ways not been its own. Read more
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