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Obama recommits to health-care reform

date: 2010-02-06 20:20:00 | Obama, recommits, health-care, reform

Tells fellow Democrats that health insurance must be made a right, not a privilege.

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Obama reportedly to propose budget freeze

date: 2010-01-26 04:33:00 |

Airlines leading the Dow transports pack

date: 2010-03-18 17:12:00

Profit-poor U.S. airlines have turned from lightweights in the high-flying Dow Jones Transportation Average into its top performers, leading the sector benchmark’s rally from lows of a year ago.

source: www.marketwatch.com

Health-care Stocks: Health insurers gain in afternoon trades

date: 2010-03-18 17:12:00

HealthNet Inc. leads major insurers higher by announcing a $300 million buyback program, even as Democrats near a vote on health-care reform.

source: www.marketwatch.com

Market Snapshot: U.S. stocks mostly higher after economic data

date: 2010-03-18 17:10:00

Markets wobble higher, with the Dow extending its winning streak into an eighth day, as investors fret about chances of a correction amid largely benign economic reports.

source: www.marketwatch.com

Market Snapshot: U.S. stocks surge on Greek bailout hopes

date: 2010-02-09 21:33:00

U.S. stocks rally Tuesday, with the Dow average notching its best day in five weeks, as investors focused on reports Germany was considering a rescue package for debt-strapped Greece.

source: www.marketwatch.com

Release of economic data delayed by storm

date: 2010-02-09 21:30:00

Government statistical agencies delay the release of some economic data as the second severe winter storm in less than a week moved into the Washington region Tuesday.

source: www.marketwatch.com

Islamic finance may "return to roots"

date: 2010-02-09 14:11:37

KUALA LUMPUR/MANAMA (Reuters) - The global financial crisis has intensified a push for Islamic finance to "return to its roots" and move further away from conventional banking, but some warn that more originality could alienate investors.

source: feeds.reuters.com


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Productivity growth: Slash and earn

date: 2010-03-18 11:42:44

Productivity has surged in America and slumped in Europe. Neither trend can lastLIKE physical fitness or a healthy diet, productivity is a worthy goal that can require an unappetising change in habits. Producing more by ...

source: www.economist.com

Private equity in Japan: The waiting game

date: 2010-03-18 11:42:44

There are lots of private-equity funds in Japan, but very few deals“PRIVATE equity is the garbage can of corporate Japan,” laments the boss of one fund with more than $1 billion invested in the country. The ...

source: www.economist.com

Wind energy gains still lost in grid lock

date: 2010-03-18 10:35:16

LONDON/MADRID (Reuters) - Europe will not make the most of its multi-billion euro clean energy investments until old monopolies are broken up or made to build the dozens of power links needed to manage the rise of wind ...

source: feeds.reuters.com

Malaysia plans new economic model for growth

date: 2010-03-18 08:03:10

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is considering proposals to end its subsidy regime and phase in a new goods and services tax as it begins dismantling a four-decade race-based economic system that has deterred foreign ...

source: feeds.reuters.com

Peter Brimelow: Letters that foresaw 2008 crash are skeptical

date: 2010-03-18 06:15:00

Longest winning streak since last summer -- but letters that foresaw the Crash of 2008 aren’t on board, writes Peter Brimelow.

source: www.marketwatch.com

Tencent shares fall as China Internet growth eases

date: 2010-03-18 04:25:00

Tencent Holdings shares drop more than 3% after the company cautions that the era of rapid growth in the nation’s Internet media services market is drawing to a close.

source: www.marketwatch.com

David Callaway: Guinness-fueled market rally looking frothy

date: 2010-03-17 21:21:00

We are heading toward a day of reckoning; a point likely in the next month or so when the Federal Reserve will confirm what everybody already knows will happen -- that interest rates are going up.

source: www.marketwatch.com

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