Archive for August 3rd, 2008

Strong Productivity Defies Trend And Gives Fed Room to Maneuver
Wall Street Journal - 2 hours ago
By BRIAN BLACKSTONE In the six US recessions since 1970, worker productivity, or output per hour, grew a sluggish 0.8%, on average.
Fed unlikely to change rates this week USA Today
Fed to act with a steady hand MarketWatch
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Wall Street Journal
Intel to Offer Details
Wall Street Journal - 1 hour ago
By DON CLARK Intel Corp. on Monday is providing the first details of a chip technology that is designed to help break into new markets, starting with high-end graphics used for computer games and animation.
Intel Plans Chip to Boost Computer Performance Washington Post
Intel’s Line of Graphics Chips Could Have Broader Uses New York Times
CNET News - Computerworld - TG Daily - MarketWatch
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LinuxDevices.com
LiMo Expands
Forbes - 1 hour ago
While Google has been fairly quiet about how its mobile platform, Android, is shaping up, its chief rival is trumpeting its progress.
New Wave of Innovative LiMo Handsets Feature Unique Mobile MarketWatch
LiMo touts new phones, members LinuxDevices.com
CNET News - MarketWatch
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HSBC to Negotiate Lower Price for Korea Exchange Bank (Update2)
Bloomberg - 2 hours ago
By Bomi Lim and Patricia Kuo Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) — HSBC Holdings Plc is in talks to cut the price for Korea Exchange Bank after Asian financial stocks tumbled 18 percent since the $6 billion purchase was announced in September, two people familiar with
HSBC ready to update KEB bid application Reuters
HSBC Talks to Lone Star About KEB Wall Street Journal
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3 News NZ
Dollar Trades Near 1-Month High Before Federal Reserve Meeting
Bloomberg - 35 minutes ago
By Stanley White Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) — The dollar traded near a one-month high against the euro before a Federal Reserve meeting tomorrow at which policy makers may leave interest rates on hold and signal that prices are rising too quickly.
Dollar dips vs yen as carry trades trimmed Reuters
Aussie dlr extends losses, at 2-mth lows vs yen Forbes
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Fed unlikely to change rates this week
USA Today - 1 hour ago
By Barbara Hagenbaugh, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve policymakers are finding their jobs aren't getting any easier as a sluggish economy and stubbornly high inflation put them in an interest-rate bind.
Fed likely to hold rates steady amid crosscurrents The Associated Press
Fed to act with a steady hand MarketWatch
Reuters - International Herald Tribune - Washington Post - BusinessWeek
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BBC News
August 4: Chávez’s tightening grip
Financial Times - 2 hours ago
Banco Santander was planning to sell its Venezuelan subsidiary anyway so Hugo Chávez’s decision to nationalise the country’s third largest bank is not as alarming as it appears at first glance.
Chavez Says He Will Speed Socialism After November Election Bloomberg
Bank Tries to Allay Fears of Instability in Venezuela New York Times
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AFP
Fed likely to hold rates steady amid crosscurrents
International Herald Tribune - 1 hour ago
AP WASHINGTON: An ugly brew of rising unemployment, spiking foreclosures and gyrating energy prices is plaguing the United States and making life difficult for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as he tries to right the country's economy.
Fed to act with a steady hand MarketWatch
Fed to sit tight on rates as oil prices moderate Reuters
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Caribbean Net News
Chavez Says He Will Speed Socialism After November Election
Bloomberg - 59 minutes ago
By Steven Bodzin Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he will “accelerate the socialist revolution'' after his party's candidates win regional elections Nov. 23.
Bank Tries to Allay Fears of Instability in Venezuela New York Times
Spain Is Calm Over Chávez Nationalization Wall Street Journal
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