Latest Business News
Economic Figures
Dollar & Gold News
Board of Trade News
Personal Finance
|
|
|
|
|
|
EU contradicts reports of WTO trade deal
Dec 17 2005 11:26PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Groggy WTO negotiators on Sunday disagreed over whether overnight meetings had yielded a deal offering modest progress in cutting global trade barriers, with India saying an agreement had been reached and the European Union insisting otherwise.
|
|
|
Postal inspectors probe AmeriDebt founder
Dec 17 2005 10:58PM (CT)
GERMANTOWN, Md. (AP) - Postal inspectors are investigating the business activities of the founder of AmeriDebt, the credit counseling firm accused of bilking thousands of debt-ridden customers, a postal spokesman said.
|
|
|
India, Pakistan to build Iran pipeline
Dec 17 2005 8:45PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - India and Pakistan agreed Saturday to begin work by 2007 on a pipeline to bring natural gas from Iran, moving ahead with the project despite U.S. disapproval.
|
|
|
NYC transit workers, agency halt talks
Dec 17 2005 7:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Transit workers and the agency that runs the city's subways and buses broke off contract talks after less than four hours Saturday with no agreement to prevent a strike at the height of the Christmas rush.
|
|
|
Cities getting perks from redevelopers
Dec 17 2005 7:10PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Developer Rick Caruso didn't blink when leaders of an upscale suburb made their unusual request: Could the lake he was planning as part of a multimillion-dollar retail and dining center double as an ice rink? Caruso spent a few hundred thousand dollars to build the rink _ and landed favorable terms on a 90-year-lease for a public lot adjacent to a performing arts plaza.
|
|
|
Accounting red flags hide in footnotes
Dec 17 2005 5:16PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Good times can hide a multitude of sins. Double-digit earnings growth over the past 14 quarters has prompted some investors to ignore the main lesson of the go-go years, which is that the nitty-gritty details of corporate finance are still the main story.
|
|
|
Protesters fight with police at WTO venue
Dec 17 2005 2:12PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Hundreds of protesters broke through police lines and came close to storming into the WTO's meeting venue Saturday, but security forces scattered the crowd with tear gas.
|
|
|
WTO protesters clash with police
Dec 17 2005 7:08AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters who tried to besiege a convention center where the World Trade Organization was meeting Saturday in Hong Kong.
|
|
|
EU: WTO draft agreement 'lacks balance'
Dec 17 2005 6:43AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - EU trade chief Peter Mandelson said Saturday that the draft text for a WTO agreement "lacks balance," but he will continue to negotiate as global trade talks enter their final hours.
|
|
|
UN: Benefits may be lost without textiles
Dec 17 2005 5:34AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Up to 15 percent of the benefits of a WTO package of measures to help the world's poorest countries could be lost if textiles imports from Bangladesh and Cambodia are excluded from a final deal, the U.N. said Saturday.
|
|
|
Delaware court modifies Calpine ruling
Dec 17 2005 1:30AM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - The Delaware Supreme Court on Friday refused to throw out a ruling ordering struggling power merchant Calpine Corp. to restore more than $300 million to an account that was frozen at the request of its creditors.
|
|
|
U.S.: Successful WTO talks still possible
Dec 17 2005 12:20AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - A top U.S. trade official said Saturday that negotiators still have a chance to deliver a positive result from troubled World Trade Organization talks, especially for poor nations, but that goal remained just out of reach.
|
|
|
Metabolife fined $600,000 for tax evasion
Dec 17 2005 12:20AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Metabolife International, which made millions selling a diet supplement containing ephedra, must pay a $600,000 fine for filing false income tax statements in 1997 and 1998, a federal judge ruled Friday.
|
|
|
|
|
|