| Imogen Thomas dresses down for shopping Imogen Thomas was spotted in a dressed down look for her trip to Tesco in North London on Thursday - a far cry from her glamorous appearance at a party the night before.
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 Hope for eurozone debt as China indicates it may help in bailoutBEIJING - China, the holder of one of the world's largest foreign exchange reserves, has indicated it may get "more deeply involved" in resolving the European Union debt crisis.
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 Japanese electronic giant Panasonic forecasts staggering lossesTOKYO - Japan's Panasonic Friday predicted staggering annual loss of $10.2 billion, joining rivals Sony and Sharp who have also forecast combined losses of $6 billion.
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 Fear of recession eases as Eurozone service sector growsLONDON - The eurozone's service sector has shown some growth, marginal though, for the first time in four months, raising expectations that a recession could be kept at bay.
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 EU in grip of severe cold, facing gas supply crunchBRUSSELS - Several countries in Europe are facing gas supply crunch with severe cold weather driving up demand and drop in Russian supplies via Kiev, raising fears of a repeat of the 2009... |
 Government offers bailout to 7 debt-ridden NHS trustsLONDON - Seven National Health Services (NHS) trusts, including three in London, have been identified for a bailout from a 1.5 billion pounds government fund to relieve major financial pressures.
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| Scientists, online experts gather in SD Thousands of experts from the widely divergent fields of science and online marketing will convene in San Diego next week, when hundreds of troubled homeowners will also be in town in search of... |
| Stocks that could soar after the Super Bowl Whatever the outcome of tomorrow's Super Bowl between the Giants and Patriots, several stocks with ties to the big game could be winners in the markets on Monday.The following four companies... |
| A Car Insurance Policy for Less—But Only If You Call After you hear the tale of Thomas Mitchell, a retiree living in Arizona, you may suddenly have the urge to run to the phone and call your auto insurer. And perhaps even your life insurer. And your... |
| Mutual Fund Workers Denied Whistleblower Cover A U.S. law protecting whistleblowers at publicly traded companies does not cover employees of mutual funds, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday in a case involving two... |
| Lance Armstrong, Racing Team No Longer Being Probed, U.S. Says Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Lance Armstrong, the seven-time tour de France champion, and his professional bicycle racing team are no longer the subjects of a U.S. criminal probe, the U.S. attorney in Los... |
| Venizelos Says Greece on Razor’s Edge as Second Bailout at Stake Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Greece’s seven-month effort to win a second bailout from international creditors teetered in the balance as negotiations in Athens failed to clinch an... |
| Malema May Argue for Lighter Sentence After Appeal Loss Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Julius Malema, leader of the youth wing of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, lost an appeal against charges of bringing the party into disrepute and sowing... |
| Ex-Credit Suisse CDO Chief Surprised Charges, His Lawyer Says Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Kareem Serageldin, the ex-global head of Credit Suisse Group AG’s CDO business charged in a bonus- boosting fraud tied to a $5.35 billion trading book, was surprised by... |
| Wall Street Split as Money Managers Fault Bank Foreclosure Deal Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Wall Street’s biggest lobbying group is split over a proposed settlement of state and federal foreclosure probes, after a committee of money managers signaled it opposes... |
| Super Bowl Tickets Top $16K Dante Cassiani and his girlfriend, Michelle Gaudet, from Massachusetts are driving 950 miles in an RV with friends to Indianapolis in the hope of getting tickets to the Super... |
| Law enforcement websites under attack by hackers The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters in Washington Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. Hackers claim to have intercepted and leaked a sensitive conference call between cyber crime investigators... |
| Giants' Manning could be a better endorser than Patriots' Brady, survey says Davie-Brown Index shows that people find Manning more appealing, aspirational, influential and trustworthy than Brady. Brady only beat Manning in the category of awareness, but there only by two... |
| Mitt Romney Looks to Boost Front-Runner Status in Nevada With a huge lead in polls, Republican front-runner Mitt Romney appears poised for an easy win in Nevada on Saturday that would put him in firm command of the party's see-sawing presidential... |
| Police Clear ‘Occupy’ Washington, DC, Protest Site Police removed bedding and some tents on Saturday at an "Occupy" protest site just blocks from the White House, enforcing a no-camping rule at a public square that has housed protesters for... |
| Companies with biggest bets on the Super Bowl A 30-second ad spot in this year’s Super Bowl costs an average of $3.5 million. That’s an 84 percent increase from 10 years ago and the highest amount advertisers have ever had to pay.... |
| Volvo Holds Steady Course as Earnings Rise Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Volvo AB, the world’s second-largest truckmaker, stuck to its estimates for the North American and European heavy-vehicle markets this year as sales growth helped... |
| Nasdaq at 11-year high after jobs report A surge in hiring in the world's largest economy last month drove U.S. stocks higher on Friday, with the Nasdaq hitting an 11-year high as optimism grew that the labor market is on a steady path... |
| VIDEO: Your Money: Tips on money management In this week's Your Money, Declan Curry looks at problems with pensions, considers the benefits of credit unions and gets some top tips on how to manage your... |
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| Wall Street analysts struggle to predict Apple By day, Robert Leitao manages a Catholic church in Southern California. By night, he indulges his other passion: predicting Apple Inc's results. Leitao is part of a cadre of amateur... |
| Caterpillar to close Ontario locomotive plant where workers resisted wage cut Caterpillar subsidiary Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) has announced that it is transforming the lockout at its London, Ontario diesel-locomotive manufacturing facility into a plant closure. Six weeks... |
| Unique ministry celebrates new space The new SpringHouse Ministry Center is planning an open house Saturday, Feb. 4, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in south Minneapolis. This is a beautiful renovated church at 610 W. 25th Street in the former... |
| Atypical weather in northern Minnesota sends Toro to Michigan's UP to test snowblowers In this Feb. 2, 2012 photo, Joe Stein tests a snowblower at the Gogebic-Iron County Airport in Ironwood, Mich.. The Toro company is testing here because of lack of snow in northern... |
| Bilbray went to bat for energy aid Issa-backed carmaker closes without energy aid Rep. Brian Bilbray, who said he worried about political pressure on the Department of Energy in approving $535 million in loan guarantees to solar-panel... |
| For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life This Dec. 13, 2011 file photo, shows of worker inside Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook, the social network that changed "friend" from a noun to a verb, is expected to... |
| Greece: Debt talks must be done by late Sunday ATHENS, Greece - Greece’s finance minister says negotiations for bailout deals must be completed by late Sunday. Evangelos Venizelos said talks in Athens with rescue creditors for a new (euro)... |
| Giants' Cruz knows Super Bowl win can profit his clothing line INDIANAPOLIS -- Having salsa danced his way into the hearts of millions, Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz is hoping to make his way into their closets with his men's clothing line.Started with... |
| Sony quietly cuts 100 US jobs as it reshapes operations SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Sony Electronics, the US arm of the Japanese consumer products company, has cut around 100 workers from its ranks over the past several weeks, AllThingsDigital has learned.Though... |
| Walmart to start sharing its sales data Walmart is finally opening the kimono. After decades of zealously guarding its sales data as top secret, the world’s biggest retailer has begun to make it available - most recently in a deal... |
| Allen Stanford's former CFO testifies that jailed financier bribed Antiguan bank officials in exchange for helping ward off regulators HOUSTON - Jailed financier R. Allen Stanford bribed Antiguan bank officials in exchange for their help in warding off American regulators scrutinizing his shady Caribbean bank, Stanford’s... |
| Apple the target of playwright's ire over Chinese worker abuse exploited and abused workers in China , for almost 18 months. Daisey played to small but appreciative crowds across the US, winning critical praise but stirring little trouble, not even with the... |
| Apple's iPhone Business is Now Larger Than All of Microsoft Microsoft . I’ll confess that while I was aware of the numbers I obviously wasn’t paying attention as this point hadn’t occurred to me. Parislemon... |
| Where now for Microsoft and Windows Phone? Nokia Concept Devices (Wikipedia) Apple have had a historic quarter, Android devices have the lions share of the market, so where now for Windows Phone? Let’s be honest here, Microsoft will... |
| Think Your Tax Rate Is Too High? Try Paying 102% "I realize I am very fortunate, and in fact I am a member of the 1 percent," Mr. Ross wrote in an email. His rsum is studded with elite institutions: Yale, Columbia Law School and stints at... |
| Syrian Activists: 200 Dead in Government Assault Syrian forces hammered restive neighborhoods in the city of Homs for hours with mortars and artillery Saturday, sending terrified residents fleeing into basements and killing more than 200 people in... |
| Bank Recapitalization Agreed, Issues Remain: Greece Greece has agreed with euro zone partners on how to recapitalize Greek banks after a planned bond swap, but has yet to resolve issues related to labor reform and spending cuts in talks with lenders,... |
| Greek Labor Reforms, Fiscal Measures Sticking Points for Troika Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said talks with international creditors had made progress with two major issues still to be... |
| ECB Said to Consider Ways to Use Bond Holdings in Greek Rescue Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The European Central Bank is considering using its bond holdings to bolster Greece’s next rescue program and support efforts to contain the sovereign debt crisis, three... |
| Obama Promotes Homeowner Plan to Eliminate U.S.’s ’Biggest Drag’ Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is asking Americans to press Congress to pass his new U.S. homeowner relief plan that includes a tax on financial companies that Republicans have already... |
| Romney’s ‘Very Poor’ at Highest in 35 Years as Safety Gaps Grow Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s statement that the "very poor" don’t concern him comes at a time when the portion of Americans living in... |
| Greece says bank recapitalization agreed, but issues remain ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has agreed with euro zone partners on how to recapitalize Greek banks after a planned bond swap, but has yet to resolve issues related to labor reform and spending cuts in... |
| Risky Mortgage-Bond Trading Rise May Invite Fed Sale NEW YORK – Trading in the riskiest mortgage-backed securities has more than doubled since the start of the year, encouraging once-shy investors to try to strike deals with motivated sellers,... |
