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- Unions Try to Boost Image in New Ads
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 05:17 PM -0800
The AFL-CIO is launching an ad campaign as it seeks to bolster the labor movement's image, the first such effort in more than a decade, as unions try to reverse a slide in public approval and...[more]
- VIDEO: London to become yuan trading hub
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 05:12 PM -0800
UK Chancellor George Osborne announces plans to make London a major international centre for trading China's currency[more]
- Iceland makes fledgling recovery from its economic meltdown
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 05:06 PM -0800
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — On the snowy streets of this capital city, the economic panic of 2008 has mostly faded. The trendy cafes along Laugavegur brim with customers. Restaurant menus feature $40...[more]
- Fannie, Freddie Face Pay Cuts
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 05:01 PM -0800
Regulators will sharply cut the pay of the new chief executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which may make it difficult for the struggling mortgage-finance giants to attract and keep qualified...[more]
- Unusually quiet January has investors puzzled
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 04:56 PM -0800
After wild price swings that left investors bewildered and not a cent richer last year, stocks are rising again, and calm has settled over the market like blue skies after a storm.[more]
- Morgan Stanley to cap, defer cash payouts: report
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 04:44 PM -0800
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Investment bank Morgan Stanley plans to tell employees this week that bonuses will drop, with cash payouts capped for now at $125,000, The Wall Street Journal reported on...[more]
- Retailers have modest hopes for sales in 2012
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 04:43 PM -0800
Hopefully, U.S. retailers liked 2011, because 2012 is looking like it will offer more of the same.[more]
- CBS Sports Opens Site to App Makers
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 04:41 PM -0800
CBSSports.com is opening up its website so outside developers can create apps geared toward fantasy enthusiasts.[more]
- Zappos Says Customer Database Hacked
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 04:40 PM -0800
Zappos said a cyberattack breached at least 24 million customer accounts at the online shoe-and-clothing retailer, an Amazon.com unit.[more]
- Ex-CEO Accuses Areva Of Spying
Category: Business
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 04:39 PM -0800
Areva's ex-CEO, Anne Lauvergeon, is battling the French nuclear company's management over her severance pay and what she says was its use of a private investigator to keep tabs on her.[more]
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