UN Risks 'Huge Mistake' in Carbon-Trading Probe: Energy Markets
BusinessWeek (USA) - 49 minuti fa
The concern centers around credits awarded to curb emissions of an industrial gas known as HFC-23, produced in nations including China and India to make refrigerants for air conditioners. Half of all UN credits issued since 2005 involve HFC, which can trap about 11,700 times more heat per molecule ... |
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Obama to tout economic strategy in press conference
News 352 (LU) - 4 ore fa
Obama scheduled the appearance at 11:00 am (1500 GMT) to press home the case on his recovery plans, but the event may be overtaken by the fast-moving controversy over a Florida pastor's on-hold threat to torch the Koran. The president's appearance comes at the end of a week in which Obama has ... |
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Yuan Completes Biggest Weekly Gain Since June on U.S. Pressure
BusinessWeek (USA) - 2 ore fa
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said Sept. 8 that China should let the yuan rise more quickly. 'China's move today amounts to political theater, a movement meant to keep the U.S. happy at a time when Geithner, the European Union and International Monetary Fund are all calling ... |
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Texas threatens for-profit college with closure
Houston Chronicle (USA) - 4 ore fa
The commission cited a recent Government Accountability Office investigation that found deceptive and in some cases possibly illegal actions at 15 for-profit schools. The GAO report said a Westwood representative in Dallas coached an undercover investigator to not report $250,000 in savings to ... |
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China Airlines Said to Announce Joining SkyTeam Group
BusinessWeek (USA) - 4 ore fa
China Airlines Ltd. Taiwan's biggest carrier, agreed to join the SkyTeam alliance led by Air France-KLM Group and Delta Air Lines Inc., two people with knowledge of the matter said. The agreement may be announced as early as Sept. 14 by Taipei-based China Airlines, said the people, who asked ... |
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Papandreou Returns to Jobs Black Spot After Victory
BusinessWeek (USA) - 49 minuti fa
Prime Minister George Papandreou is returning to the northern Greek city that propelled him to power one year ago as his policies turn it into the country's unemployment black spot. Thessaloniki and cities across northern Greece are bearing the brunt of Papandreou's austerity drive as ...
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Italian Industrial Output Increased in July Less Than Economists Forecast
Bloomberg.com (USA) - 4 ore fa
Economists had forecast a 0.5 percent increase in July, according to the median of 21 estimates in a Bloomberg survey . The gain in Italian production mirrored an increase in Europe's largest economy. German output rose 0.1 in July, the country's Economy Ministry said on Sept. 8. Italian ... |
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Britain facing a wave of repossesions, warns S&P
The Independent (UK) - 5 ore fa
Repossession levels have remained unusually low, not least because interest rates have remained at an all-time low for months and banks have paid heed to warnings from the Government and regulators that they must only use repossession as "a last resort" ... |
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Blumenthal, Ramsay Reveal Favorite Local Restaurants
BusinessWeek (USA) - 50 minuti fa
Where do chefs and restaurateurs like to go out for a bite to eat near their homes? I asked more than 40 members of London's culinary elite about their favorite local eateries. Here's what they had to say: Tom Aikens (Tom Aikens): 'The Butcher Grill in Battersea. It's ... |
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Construction firm deal saves 2,500 Connaught jobs
The Independent (UK) - 5 ore fa
Around 2,500 jobs at collapsed firm Connaught were rescued today after administrators struck a deal to sell the bulk of its social housing division. The £28 million deal with construction firm Morgan Sindall comes two days after the appointment of KPMG as administrators for the main company, and ... |
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