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- BH Macro Limited - Monthly Shareholder Report Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:19AMBH Macro Limited - Monthly Shareholder Report
- Nissan to Launch All-Electric LEAF as Upgraded 2012 Model in New U.S. Markets Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 8:15AMNissan North America Inc. is expanding availability of the all-electric Nissan LEAF to U.S. consumers for the 2012 model year, with upgrades based on feedback from the thousands of owners who already have driven several millions of miles in the first 100-percent electric car for the mass market.
- Novartis delivers strong financial results and four major approvals in second quarter of 2011 Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:23AMNovartis International AG / Novartis delivers strong financial results and four major approvals in second quarter of 2011 . Processed and transmitted by Thomson Reuters ONE. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. * …
- Kenya: Anxiety Hovers Over Country's Nuclear Energy Development Plans Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:48AMQuestions have emerged about plans by Kenya to continue investing heavily in the research and development of nuclear power to meet the country's rising energy demands in the wake of concerns about the safety of the technology.
- A Future Vision For Energy Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:11AMCHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN: Good afternoon. If I could have your attention, we -- we'll get the program started, knowing that we want every -- keep everyone on time. And we have a fascinating topic to be discussed today with a very interesting person to do it.
- Japan Nuclear Disaster Update 31: Radioactive stuff spreads, questions multiply [Greg Laden's Blog] Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 2:17PMThe International Atomic Energy Association has issued its last report on Fukushima on June 2nd and appears to not be keeping their web site up to date any more. This is the last time I'll be checking with them unless I hear otherwise. The email scandal reported last time continues "Analysts say the scandal reflects panic in Japan's atomic power industry, long coddled by political, corporate and ...
- EU calls emergency summit: Finally, it’s an emergency Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 1:58PMPlus, why I'd love to hack Rebekah Brooks' cellphone
- Japan Geiger Counter Demand Post-Fukushima Means Buyer Beware Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 1:04AMIn Tokyo’s Akihabara electronics district, a Geiger counter sold under the Shanghai Ergonomics Detecting Instrument Co.’s DP802i brand name costs 65,000 yen ($800). For that price, twice the cost in China, it comes without a box, warranty or return policy.
- Gold and Silver Report - "Mood[y] Rings" Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 3:28PMGold prices opened at the $1,587.00 mark in New York this morning, gunning for a ninth consecutive session of gains on the back of the global debt maelstrom that appears
- Mood[y] Rings Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 1:19PMGold prices opened at the $1,587.00 mark in New York this morning, gunning for a ninth consecutive session of gains on the back of the global debt maelstrom that appears to be sweeping up everything and everyone on its destructive path.
- Bonds Fizzle As European Crisis Stalls Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 12:58PMU.S. data released Thursday failed to develop the argument that the Fed will ease further, while a successful auction of Italian government debt found buyers albeit at the costliest price in three years. Some of investors’ earlier fears have evaporated as quickly as they built leaving fixed income buyers perhaps a little overweight having spent a week feasting on safe haven bonds.Eurodollar ...
- Alpari Companies Announce Record Monthly Trading Volume Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 6:11AMLONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trading volumes for the Alpari companies ("Alpari"), which are among the world’s fastest growing providers of online foreign exchange (“Forex”, “FX”) trading services, reached a record high of over $210 billion in May 2011. This represents a 31% gain in the six months since November 2010, when trading volumes stood at $160 billion. Daniel Skowronski, Chief Commercial ...
- Japanese PM favors renewables over nuclear Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 12:32AMTOKYO - Japan's prime minister said Wednesday he wants his country to learn from its crisis and become less reliant on nuclear energy.
- Wichford PLC - Offer by Wichford P.L.C. Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 10:00AMWichford PLC - Offer by Wichford P.L.C.
- Pharmaceutical Stability Testing: Commercial Prospects 2011-2025 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 4:01AMReportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
- Robotic Gas Attendants Get a Dry Run Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 11:45PM Will orbital gas stations be full service? If NASA has anything to say about it, the answer is yes, full service and fully automatic. An experiment designed to test the satellite-refueling capabilities of the International Space Station’s twin-armed Dextre robot was scheduled to begin today, according to Fox News. ...
- Creative Producing Labs and Summit Return to Sundance Institute Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 2:44PMThe Sundance Institute announced today its participants for this year's Creative Producing Labs (July 18 - 22) and Creative Producing Summit (July 22 - 24). Nine projects have been selected to participate in the Labs and receive ongoing creative and strategic support throughout the year. Leaders in independent film, such as producers Paul Mezey ("Cold Souls"), Jay Van Hoy ("Beginners"), Alix ...
- Tribeca Film: Future of Film: Why Transmedia Is Catching On (Part 2) Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 10:18AMLeading transmedia talent has emerged from a wide array of disciplines, including technology, indie film, fantasy games, marketing, comic books, videogames, advertising, brand advertising, television...
- BCDA-MNTC 33-YEAR CONTRACT ‘A good example of a Public-Private Partnership’ Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 7:44AMCITY OF SAN FERNANDO – The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) has hailed the 33-year agreement it recently signed with the Manila North Tollways Corp. (MNTC) for the joint operation of the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx) as “a good example of a Public-Private Partnership (PPP).”
- Nissan Announces U.S. Pricing for All-New 2012 Versa Sedan Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 10:00AMNissan North America, Inc. today announced pricing for the all-new, totally redesigned Nissan Versa Sedan â with the lowest starting M.S.R.P.* in America** at just $10,990. Â Rather than a stripped-down entry-level vehicle at that price, the Versa Sedan 1.6 S 5MT includes standard air conditioning, 6-way adjustable driver's seat, AM/FM/CD/Aux-in audio system and an advanced 1.6-liter 4-cylinder ...
- Fabio Ide is here to stay Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 2:08AMBrapanese import Fabio Ide proudly mouthed out the hardest Tagalog word he knew at the moment, courtesy of his twice-a-week tutorials with a language teacher: “Nakakapagbagabag.” Now that’s a... Proud To Be Kapuso! Visit Us! http://gmaseven.blogspot.com | Spread and Vote - The Kapuso Online Awards, A Viewer's Choice Special http://votegma7.blogspot.com ...
- Japan Nuclear Disaster Update 30: It was, is, and will be worse than you thought [Greg Laden's Blog] Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 10:12AMPerhaps the most interesting single thing on the table in today's update is the revelation that at least one of Fukushima's reactors suffered sufficient damage from the earthquake that hit the region ... prior to the tsunami ... to have likely gone out of control or melted down. This is hard to assess because the tsunami caused so much additional damage as to obscure earlier damage, and because ...
- Loss of Corvette a turning a point for St. Louis manufacturing Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 11:10PMWriting off of the Corvette plant here began mass migration of manufacturing jobs.
- Loss of Corvette a turning point for St. Louis manufacturing Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 11:10PMWriting off of the Corvette plant here began mass migration of manufacturing jobs.
- Larger Vehicles Lowered TrueMPG for June Compared to May According to TrueCar.com Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 10:43AMTrueCar.com, the authority on new car pricing, trends and forecasting, today provided actual fuel economy numbers from June light vehicle auto sales that indicate TrueMPG⢠will increase to 21.6 MPG in June 2011 compared to 21.3 MPG in June 2010, but decreased from May 2011 at 21.9 MPG.
- Model babies earn $70 an hour Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 9:17AMWHEN you're this cute, you don't need to worry about wanting to be a supermodel when you grow up.
- Mitsubishi Electric Vehicle MiEV earns EPA rated 62 mile/98 mile LA4 mode range and 112 MPGe rating Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 3:28AMLast year, one of the biggest trend across the industry was to have an Electric Vehicle up in their stable and...
- FTSE: market report as it happened, July 6, 2011 Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 1:54AMFTSE 100 slips into red as banks retreat on Portugal downgrade
- Media stocks in spotlight as market retreats Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 1:39PMAs the spectre of sovereign debt returned to haunt the market, WPP was amongst the sharpest fallers after Morgan Stanley downgraded its recommendation on the advertising group.
- Competition hots up in new vehicle market in June Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 10:03PMMotor Trade Association (MTA) said June new vehicle sales remained firm although they still reflect the supply position out of Japan. A new passenger vehicle market leader and a one-off surge in moped registrations were other features of the month.
- Tokyo Summit to focus on Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 7:12AMThe summit is being held by the India Center Foundation with support from the governments, as also industry chambers of the two countries.
- Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor: Tokyo summit to sign projects Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 5:48AMNew Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Several Indian and Japanese companies are likely to sign joint venture pacts worth billions of dollars at an upcoming business summit in Tokyo for setting up projects along the ambitous $90-billion Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, touted as the biggest infrastructure development project in the country that will touch on an estimated 15 percent of the population.
- Rockford weighs potential of electric car power ports Saturday, July 2, 2011 @ 9:48PMROCKFORD — AAA is getting ready to offer roadside help in select U.S. cities to drivers who run out of electricity.
- On the Scene: July 1 Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 6:21PMWOMEN IN THE NEWS Frameline Festival headlined the new movie, “Bob’s New Suit” which featured Jenny Shimizu, whom I am sure many in the audience recognized as the cover girl of the most prestigious fashion magazines for the past 20 years. The movie had its...
- Nissan North America Reports Sales Up 11.4% in June Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 11:30AMNissan North America, Inc. today reported June U.S. sales of 71,941 units versus 64,570 units a year earlier, an increase of 11.4 percent. Â Nissan Division sales increased 16.7 percent for the month at 65,659 units.
- Honda's June sales down 24.80 percent Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 8:42AMJapanese automobile major Honda's Indian subsidiary Friday reported a decline of 24.80 percent in its sales for June, which stood at 3,455 units as against 4,595 units in June 2010.
- Nissan India sells over 1,600 cars in June Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 7:57AMThe Indian subsidiary of Japanese auto maker Nissan Motor India Pvt Ltd closed last month with sales of 1,632 units as against 77 in June 2010.
- Plan for Pisgah met with unease Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 9:15PMPisgah State Park has a new state-approved management plan, but members of a park advocacy group say the plan doesn’t go far enough. At nearly 13,500 acres, Pisgah State Park, located in Chesterfield, Hinsdale and Winchester, is the largest state park in New Hampshire, but until now it had been without an official state management plan. The new plan was approved June 16 by the N.H. Department of ...
- Bacillus Teutonicus - Business As Usual For Atomic Energy At The IAEA Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 3:25PMSince the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, a majority of people across the world have become skeptical of atomic energy. But politicians and experts who recently gathered for an International Atomic Energy Agency conference in Vienna are pursuing a strategy of business as usual.
- Toyota exports cars back to Japan Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 9:49AMCar giant Toyota is to start exporting car parts from its Flintshire plant back to its Japanese homeland.
- Capitalâs new crushes Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 11:19PMAs authoritarian China loses luster, TNCs flirt with democratic Indonesia and Brazil âChina is today the ideal capitalist state: freedom for capital, with the state doing the âdirty jobâ of con .....
- Capital’s new crushes Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 11:06PM“China is today the ideal capitalist state: freedom for capital, with the state doing the ‘dirty job’ of controlling the workers,” writes the prominent Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek.
- TEPCO: Will Someone Turn Off the Lights? Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 2:22PM‘Jump in a nuclear reactor and die!’ Those were the words directed at the chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) by one angry man at the tense stockholders meeting held today on June 28. It captured the sentiment of many people in Japan who are demanding the company take responsibility for the meltdown on March 11, at the nuclear power plant TEPCO managed and owns. The meeting inside ...
- NZXT HALE90 750W Power Supply Review Monday, June 27, 2011 @ 9:45PMThe 80 Plus performance specification requires certified power supplies to be at least 80% efficient or greater at 20%, 50% and 100% of their rated maximum output power whilst maintaining the power factor level above 0.9. The award scheme has been extended since the introduction of the basic 80 Plus accreditation with the addition of several more levels above and beyond what was originally ...
- 'Safety myth' left Japan ripe for nuclear power plant crisis Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 6:07AMSHIKA, Japan - Near a nuclear power plant facing the Sea of Japan, a series of exhibitions in a large public relations building here extols the virtues of the energy source with some help from "Alice in Wonderland."
- Kia Eyes Young Couples with Kids’ Characters for SUV Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 2:07AMKia is eyeing young couples for its Sorrento SUV, in Media and Marketing
- Game changer as advertisers take a sporting chance Saturday, June 25, 2011 @ 1:51PMEarlier this month, teen golf sensation Ryo Ishikawa was driving his Audi when he was stopped by police and told that his international driver's license, obtained in the United States, was not valid in Japan. It was an innocent faux pas, but Ishikawa was forced to apologize profusely through the media for "causing trouble to my sponsors and fans." Note the order of priority. Ishikawa reportedly ...
- Left Japan Ripe for Nuclear Crisis Saturday, June 25, 2011 @ 8:45AMJapan's nuclear establishment has devoted vast resources to persuade the public of the safety and necessity of nuclear power.
- 'Safety Myth' Left Japan Ripe for Nuclear Crisis Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 11:56PMSHIKA, Japan -- Near a nuclear power plant facing the Sea of Japan, a series of exhibitions in a large public relations building here extols the virtues of the energy source with some help from "Alice in Wonderland."
- Jobs data, home sales still gloomy Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 2:02AMApplications for unemployment benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 429,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. It was the biggest jump in a month and marked the 11th straight week that applications have been above 400,000.