WASHINGTON (AP) ― The Federal Reserve on Wednesday sharply lowered its projections for economic activity this year and next, and signaled that additional interest rate reductions may be needed to help combat the worst financial crisis to jolt the ...
19 Nov 2008
Electricity went off at about 9.45am and was restored progressively to most areas by 11am. "Basically power has now been restored everywhere," Nelson Electricity general manager Phil Goodall told Stuff.co.nz. Power to Stoke, Tahuna and Annesbrooke ...
19 Nov 2008
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.— Oil slipped below $54 a barrel Wednesday as stock markets across the globe fell and yet another U.S. government report illustrated the disarray in the housing market. U.S. motorists, stung by record gasoline prices, job losses ...
19 Nov 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) said on Wednesday it would cut about 800 jobs, or one-quarter of the staff, from its defense unit operations in Wichita, Kansas. The cuts at the facility, which builds ...
19 Nov 2008
The Chicago Cubs have to feel great about keeping Ryan Dempster on their roster with a four-year deal for $52 million. But Dempster's comments yesterday may add some baggage to the 17-6 record and 2.96 ERA he posted last year. As the Cubs continue to ...
19 Nov 2008
ATLANTA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Best Buy Co shares fell more than 11 percent to a new year low on Wednesday, a day after Standard & Poor's cut its debt rating on the electronics retailer to the lowest investment grade. On Tuesday, S&P Ratings Services ...
19 Nov 2008
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Ambac Financial Group Inc. fell below $1 a share for the first time since going public in 1991 after its insurance rating was cut three levels to A by Standard & Poor's.
19 Nov 2008
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico's local-currency bonds rose as a drop in U.S. consumer prices boosted speculation the Federal Reserve will cut lending rates by a half-percentage point next month to spur growth in the world's largest economy.
19 Nov 2008
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said risks to the economy from a global credit crisis and recession have widened in the past month, spurring fresh calls for him to cut borrowing costs to the lowest in half a century.
19 Nov 2008
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. ’s defense unit plans to cut 800 jobs, or about 27 percent of the workforce, at its plant in Wichita, Kansas, because it didn’t have enough orders for aerial refueling tankers.
19 Nov 2008
Boeing Co said on Wednesday it would cut about 800 jobs, or one-quarter of the staff, from its defense unit operations in Wichita, Kansas.
19 Nov 2008
Best Buy Co shares fell more than 11 percent to a new year low on Wednesday, a day after Standard & Poor's cut its debt rating on the electronics retailer to the lowest investment grade.
19 Nov 2008
OPEC President and Algeria"s Minister of Energy and Mines Chakib Khelil has indicated that the group is likely push to cut oil output in the meeting in Cairo later this month. Oil prices have declined by more than $90 a barrel or 63 ...
19 Nov 2008
PERTH businessman Geoff Nicholls got hopelessly lost yesterday on his first trip to Ballarat,
19 Nov 2008
Peek device gets price cut and adds texting. by JG Mason on Nov 19, 2008 at 10:15 AM. Peek cherry email device now with texting In a very interesting move, the Peek e-mail device added some features last night that make it more of a ...
19 Nov 2008
“The software maker plans to announce on Wednesday a price cut for its flash-based models. The 4GB version will drop to $99, the 8GB model will drop by $10 to $139, and the 16GB model will sell for $179, down from $199. ...
18 Nov 2008
I've blogged extensively about how the industry-wide decline in advertising is hitting TV networks. Now we're in November sweeps and the networks are developing scripts for next year and we're starting to see TV networks find ways to ...
18 Nov 2008
If you're using an older version of OS X, you might be able to limit the trigger to the Finder and just use Command-X as the hotkey. Setting it to Command-X under Leopard, however, will break the Cut command in all apps. ...
18 Nov 2008