More Fed monetary easing likely on Thursday: Reuters poll
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Odds are mounting that the Federal Reserve could take action as soon as Thursday to energize a U.S. economy that is struggling to gain momentum in the face of a lackluster labor market and uncertain fiscal policy, according to a ...www.reuters.com
Euro gains after German ruling; focus shifts to Fed
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose and the euro climbed to a four-month peak against the dollar on Wednesday after Germany's Constitutional Court approved the euro zone's new rescue fund, easing concerns about the region's debt crisis and leaving ...www.reuters.com
Reuters Forest Forum-Metsa Board: business healthy despite euro crisis
HELSINKI, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Finnish paperboard maker Metsa Board is delivering healthy product volumes this quarter and expects stronger growth ahead as its shift from paper to more profitable consumer packaging helps it weather Europe's debt crisis, ...www.reuters.com
US ambassador to Libya killed in Benghazi attack |
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three embassy staff were killed in an attack on the Benghazi consulate and a safe house refuge, stormed by Islamist gunmen blaming America for a film they said insulted the Prophet ...www.reuters.com
Brent up on German court nod, but EIA data trims gain
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brent futures edged up and U.S. oil slipped on Wednesday in choppy trading as a rebound in U.S. crude inventories pulled prices back after they received a lift from German court ruling affirming the legality of the euro zone ...www.reuters.com
Apple takes wraps off 4G-ready iPhone 5
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc took the wraps off its fastest, thinnest iPhone on Wednesday, packing a much larger screen and 4G capability on the fifth version of the smartphone that helped it become the world's most valuable corporation.www.reuters.com
BAE and EADS in merger talks to create aerospace giant
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's BAE Systems (BAES.L) and Airbus-owner EADS (EAD.PA) are in advanced merger talks to create a combined group worth $48 billion, overtaking Boeing (BA.in.reuters.com
Retailer Discount Tire Selects Thomson Reuters to Consolidate Its Sales and ...
New York, September 12, 2012 -Thomson Reuters announced today that Discount Tire (http://www.discounttire.com), America's largest tire and wheel retailer, has selected ONESOURCE Indirect Tax Determination to consolidate its sales and use tax ...www.reuters.com
Film on Muslim Prophet sparks protests
CAIRO (Reuters) - Clips of a film that stirred a deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Libya show an amateurish production portraying the Prophet Mohammad as a womanizer, a homosexual and a child abuser.www.reuters.com
Russian mammoth remains give glimmer of hope for cloning
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Scientists who found well preserved woolly mammoth remains in a remote part of Russia hope they might contain the necessary material to clone the long extinct beast.in.reuters.com
US McDonald's to put calorie counts in lights
(Reuters) - A Big Mac and large fries? They'll cost you 1,050 calories, and beginning next week, McDonald's will tell its customers that in bright lights on its fast-food menus.www.reuters.com
Dustin Hoffman, Letterman among 2012 Kennedy Center honorees
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Academy Award-winning actor Dustin Hoffman, talk show host David Letterman and rock bank Led Zeppelin are among the seven artists named Kennedy Center Honorees this year, the center said on Wednesday.www.reuters.com
West shocked by US envoy death, Muslims condemn film
(Reuters) - Western countries denounced on Wednesday the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff by armed attackers, while many Muslim states focused their condemnation on the anti-Islamic film that provoked the violence.www.reuters.com
Two days into job, Somali president survives attacks
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist suicide bombers attacked the hotel where Somalia's president was giving a news conference on Wednesday, killing eight people and sending reporters diving for cover.www.reuters.com
Swiss fume at US "hypocrisy" over whistleblower's payout
Birkenfeld's bumper payout follows jail time. * U.S. guilty of double standards -Swiss MP. By Martin de Sa'Pinto and Andrew Thompson.in.reuters.com
Deutsche Bank crash diet focuses on costs, assets
To sell 40 buildings, downsize 100,000 cost centres. * Some backroom ops to be outsourced to cheaper locations. * To cut 11 layers of management to 8. * Pay no longer mainly linked to job title.in.reuters.com
Greece revs up privatisation drive to sway troika
ATHENS, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Greece outlined a plan to sell one of its most profitable state-controlled companies, gambling monopoly OPAP, reviving a stalled privatisation drive to appease international lenders.in.reuters.com
Peregrine Financial trustee's $123 mln payout moves forward
CHICAGO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Former customers of Peregrine Financial Group moved a step closer Wednesday to getting some of their money back from the failed futures brokerage after a bankruptcy court judge allowed the trustee to begin laying the ...in.reuters.com
Chesapeake Energy gets breathing room with $6.9 billion asset sales
(Reuters) - Chesapeake Energy Corp's $6.9 billion deal to sell gas fields and pipelines will help stabilize the troubled company for the rest of the year and give it time to figure out how it will fund 2013 operations.www.reuters.com
Alps murder probe may take years, says prosecutor
PARIS (Reuters) - Investigations into a quadruple murder in the French Alps seven days ago are focusing on one of the victim's Iraqi connections, his work as an engineer and a mooted family feud, but solving the case may take years, a French prosecutor ...www.reuters.com
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