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US Stocks Set for Lower Open, Oil Weighs NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. shares were seen opening slightly weaker on Wednesday as oil prices held near the \$47 a barrel level, while investors cooled to the Federal Reserve's assessment of the economy. | 2 |
Mortgage Applications Rise in Week NEW YORK (Reuters) - New applications for U.S. home loans rose last week as 30-year mortgage rates eased to their lowest level since early April, an industry group said on Wednesday. | 2 |
Strike May Be Last Chance to Save Japanese Baseball TOKYO (Reuters) - The story leads the TV news, and everyone from schoolchildren to the prime minister is talking about it. | 1 |
Iraqi Officials Say Prisoner Will Be Freed An Iraqi official today said the government will release one of two women scientists being held prisoner for working on Saddam Husseins chemical weapons program. | 0 |
Interstate Bakeries files bankruptcy Interstate Bakeries Corp. (IBC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday filed for bankruptcy after struggling with more than \$1.3 billion in debt and weak demand for bread products | 2 |
Aviva to move 7,000 jobs to Asia Britain #39;s largest insurer Aviva says it plans to have moved up to 7,000 UK jobs to low-cost centres in Asia by the end of 2007, the final figure in its controversial programme to shift jobs offshore. | 2 |
Tech Briefs Chicago-based Braun Consulting #39;s shares soared Tuesday after news that the professional services firm will be acquired by Minneapolis-based Fair Isaac for \$30 million. | 2 |
Total to take 25 stake in Russian gas producer Novatek PARIS : French oil group Total said it had signed an agreement to acquire a 25 percent stake plus one additional share in Russian natural gas producer Novatek, without disclosing the financial terms of the deal. | 2 |
DOORNBOS HANDED JORDAN CHANCE Dutchman Robert Doornbos will drive Jordans third car in Friday testing for the rest of the season. He takes over from Timo Glock, who has replaced the axed Giorgio Pantano in one of the teams race seats (see separate story). | 1 |
At Least Someone Wants to Play Here It #39;s not all bitterness and resentment in Raptorland these days. While Vince Carter has demanded to be traded, Rafer Alston was expressing his joy yesterday at being back in Toronto. | 1 |
Turkish Opposition Party: Penal Code should be Ready by October 6 Turkey #39;s main opposition Republican People #39;s Party (CHP) called for the Turkish Parliament (TBMM) to convene for an emergency meeting on Septembers 28th to ready the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) by October 6th. | 0 |
Brother sees 'glimmer of hope' for Briton held in Iraq (AFP) AFP - The brother of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq said there was a quot;glimmer of hope quot; after the Iraqi justice ministry pledged to release a female Iraqi scientist, one of two women whose freedom had been demanded by the kidnappers. | 0 |
Senate Panel Adds NASA Money to Spending Bill (Reuters) Reuters - A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday\backed a #36;94 billion 2005 spending bill which included an extra\ #36;800 million to fund space projects next year. | 3 |
French budget to control deficit French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy unveils a budget with a promise to bring the deficit under control and high-profile tax breaks. | 2 |
Mobile users 'want cheaper calls' Price and coverage are the key issues affecting mobile users, a survey of European consumers finds. | 0 |
Vodafone launches ten 3G sets Mobile phone giant Vodafone says it will introduce 10 new 3G handsets, many of which will be useable in both Europe and Japan. | 3 |
Oil hits \$47 as supply worries LONDON - Oil prices hit \$47 a barrel yesterday, the highest level in a month, as China showed no let-up in its strong import growth and US Gulf producers reported damage to offshore rigs from Hurricane Ivan. | 2 |
ADB downgrades India #39;s growth forecast to 6.5 percent NEW DELHI: Hit by high crude oil prices and poor monsoon, India #39;s economic growth is expected to slow down to 6.5 percent in 2004-05 fiscal, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report said on Wednesday. | 2 |
Lucent eyes retiree benefit cuts Lucent Technologies Inc., one of the world #39;s biggest telecommunications equipment makers, is planning additional cuts in retiree health-care benefits, according to a published report Wednesday. | 2 |
Slimmed-Down Playstation Launched Electronics giant Sony launched a slimmed-down version of its best-selling PlayStation 2 computer games console today. The new PS2 is half the weight | 3 |
Cisco fabric switches optimized for SAN extension Cisco Systems has added two products to its award-winning Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Intelligent directors and fabric switches optimized for transporting storage area network (SAN) traffic outside of the data center, which make them ideally | 3 |
AMD, IBM extend chip-development deal Advanced Micro Devices and IBM will work together to devise chip-manufacturing technology for three additional years, a deal that will bring about a quarter of a billion to IBM over four years and give AMD access to cutting-edge chip inventions. | 3 |
Nvidia launches graphics processor for mobile apps LONDON - Fabless graphics chip company Nvidia Corp. has launched a graphics processor intended for mobile applications. The #39;GoForce 3D 4500 #39; performs geometry processing, has a 40-bit color processing pipeline | 3 |
Jeanne kills nearly 700 in Haiti Tropical Storm Jeanne claimed at least 556 lives in Haiti over the weekend.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo). HAVANA, Sept. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- With the death toll in Haiti by Tropical Storm Jeanne rising to nearly 700 | 0 |
Syrian Troop Redeployment Said Meaningless Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reacted skeptically on Wednesday to a redeployment of Syrian troops in Lebanon, saying that the move did not mean any real change in Syrian policy. | 0 |
Patriotic Provocation An initiative from the former top military commander in the Northern Caucasus, Ulyanovsks regional governor Vladimir Shamanov, to pardon Yuri Budanov, the convicted of murderer of a Chechen woman, has driven President Putin into an ideological and | 0 |
Interest rates may rise in November The Bank of England #39;s Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to keep interest rates steady at 4.75 percent earlier this month, but analysts say another | 0 |
Wireless data gamble Kent Thexton took a gamble when he crossed the Atlantic to become co-CEO of Seven. But the notion of the cell phone as gateway to the Internet isn't the easy sell it was on the other side of the pond. | 3 |
Yukos #39;s Theede Says Putin May Agree to Save Yugansk (Update5) OAO Yukos Oil Co., battling to avert bankruptcy, said the Russian government may be considering ways to settle a \$7.5 billion tax bill without taking over the company #39;s biggest oil-producing unit. | 2 |
Kodak Reiterates Outlook NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=EK.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">EK.N</A> on Wednesday backed its near and long-term profit forecasts, saying sales of digital products, such as cameras and medical imaging, are growing faster than expected and helping to offset rapidly declining sales of its traditional film business. | 2 |
Mortgage Applications Rise in Week NEW YORK (Reuters) - New applications for U.S. home loans rose, spurred by a rise in mortgage refinancings last week as 30-year mortgage rates eased to their lowest level since early April, an industry group said on Wednesday. | 2 |
Stocks to Watch on Sept. 22 The brokerage firm and investment bank will report its third-quarter earnings before the market opens. The stock closed at \$ 90.09 on Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange. | 2 |
Africa 'better in colonial times' The average African is worse off now than during the colonial era, says the brother of South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki. | 0 |
Italy launches anti-mafia raids Police make about 100 arrests in a major operation against mafia gangs in Italy. | 0 |
Enron Side Deal With Merrill Lynch Was A Sham, Prosecutors Allege _ An alleged side deal between Enron Corp. and Merrill Lynch amp; Co. in 1999 shows how Enron was willing to employ suspect financial practices to meet lofty earnings targets, prosecutors said. | 2 |
Kodak Reaffirms Earnings Outlook Eastman Kodak Co., the world #39;s largest maker of photographic film, said Wednesday it expects sales of digital products and services to grow at an annual rate of 36 percent between 2003 and 2007, above prior growth rate estimates of 26 percent between 2002 | 2 |
PeopleSoft reveals alliance with IBM PeopleSoft Inc., which is fighting a hostile takeover bid from Oracle Corp., on Tuesday announced an alliance with IBM that may help ease the worries of potential customers. | 2 |
Mitsubishi Motors bids to revive financing unit TOKYO Mitsubishi Motors, Japan #39;s only unprofitable automaker, is seeking a partner to revive a finance unit that was responsible for more than half of a record operating loss in North America in the year to last March. | 2 |
First Islamic Bank Opens for UK Muslims The Islamic Bank of Britain, which will give the UKs 1.8 million Muslims access to a British bank which is operated in accordance with the principles | 2 |
Interstate Bakeries Files for Bankruptcy (Reuters) Reuters - Interstate Bakeries Corp. on\Wednesday filed for bankruptcy after struggling with more than\ #36;1.3 billion in debt and weak demand for bread products,\brought on by the popularity of low-carbohydrate diets. | 2 |
Kodak Reiterates Outlook (Reuters) Reuters - Eastman Kodak Co. on Wednesday\backed its near and long-term profit forecasts, saying sales of\digital products, such as cameras and medical imaging, are\growing faster than expected and helping to offset rapidly\declining sales of its traditional film business. | 2 |
Israel's Sharon: Arafat Will 'Get What He Deserves' (Reuters) Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon\on Wednesday renewed his threat to remove Yasser Arafat, saying\the Palestinian president would "get what he deserves." | 0 |
FedEx Quarterly Earnings More Than Double (Reuters) Reuters - FedEx Corp., the world's top\air-express shipper, on Wednesday said quarterly earnings more\than doubled on strong revenue growth in its international,\ground and freight services. | 2 |
Can IM morph into #39;instant music #39;? As Internet giants step into the crowded online music arena, some are banking on a new weapon to help attack market leader Apple Computer: instant messaging. | 3 |
Sun has its head in the clouds Sun has a laudable vision of the future of utility computing, where organisations with extra processing power can sell it back to a computing grid in the same manner that homes with solar panels can sell power back to the electrical power grid. | 3 |
Russia Plans Space Station Launch on Oct. 11 Russia will launch a three-man crew to the International Space Station on Oct. 11, two days later than initially scheduled due to problems with the docking system, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Wednesday. | 3 |
NASA pumps \$400m into nuclear space probe NASA has awarded Northrop Grumman a \$400m contract to co-design the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (Jimo) space probe - slated for a rendevouz with Jovian moons Callisto, Europa and Ganymede some time after 2012. | 3 |
Button hearing adjourned to October 16 Jenson Button #39;s Formula One future looks likely to be decided by a meeting in Milan on October 16, the Williams team said on Wednesday. | 1 |
Giants closing in on Dodgers Forget this wacky, complicated wild-card puzzle. The Giants ought to go for the whole kit and caboodle now and make things simple. | 1 |
US rosters set for swimming world meet INDIANAPOLIS - Olympic gold medalists Michael Phelps, Aaron Peirsol, Natalie Coughlin and Amanda Beard head US rosters released Tuesday for next months short course world championships. | 1 |
Dollar Recovers Footing After Fed (Reuters) Reuters - The dollar fought back from one-month\lows against the euro and Swiss franc on Wednesday as investors\viewed its sell-off in the wake of the Federal Reserve's\verdict on interest rates as overdone. | 2 |
Haiti Storm Death Toll Soars as Bodies Pile-Up Bodies remained in the streets and in growing piles outside morgues in a Haitian city that has been devastated by floods that have torn apart families and left hungry crowds mobbing truckloads of aid. | 0 |
Sharon: Syria trying to deflect US pressure Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday dismissed Syrian moves towards redeployment in Lebanon. quot;We are not seeing any significant change in the Syrian position, quot; he told Israel Radio. | 0 |
US ignoring root causes of terror So began an interview of Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf, who took time out to speak to ABC #39;s Peter Jennings on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York last night. | 0 |
Car Bomb Rocks Western Baghdad Iraqi authorities say at least six people were killed and more than 50 others wounded in a car bomb explosion in a commercial district in western Baghdad Wednesday. | 0 |
PM faces tough nut to crack in Brussels Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and EU executives, when they meet in Brussels tomorrow, will test each other #39;s limits in a row over Turkey #39;s delay in reforming its penal code prompted by the premier #39;s insistence on criminalizing adultery. | 0 |
EU tentatively agrees to lift embargo on Libya (AFP) AFP - European Union (EU) officials agreed in principle to lift an arms embargo on Libya after pressure from Italy. | 0 |
Zee takes cricket TV rights fight to Supreme Court (Reuters) Reuters - A row over Indian TV rights, which threatens a test series next month with world champion Australia, is heading back to court after jilted broadcaster Zee Telefilms filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. | 0 |
SingTel poised to launch first 3G service in Southeast Asia (AFP) AFP - Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) said it will commercially launch its high-speed third generation (3G) mobile service within months, putting it at the forefront of Southeast Asian telecoms firms looking to roll out the technology. | 3 |
FedEx Quarterly Earnings More Than Double NEW YORK (Reuters) - FedEx Corp., the world's top air-express shipper, on Wednesday said quarterly earnings more than doubled on strong revenue growth in its international, ground and freight services. | 2 |
Texas grand jury indicts fundraisers with DeLay ties (Chicago Tribune) Chicago Tribune - A Texas grand jury on Tuesday indicted three political fundraisers with ties to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) for allegedly funneling illegal corporate campaign donations to Republican candidates for state office. | 0 |
Dollar Recovers Footing After Fed LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar fought back from one-month lows against the euro and Swiss franc on Wednesday as investors viewed its sell-off in the wake of the Federal Reserve's verdict on interest rates as overdone. | 2 |
ConAgra Profit Falls as Prices Rise CHICAGO (Reuters) - ConAgra Foods Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CAG.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CAG.N</A> on Wednesday posted lower quarterly profit due to higher ingredient costs and the sale of its chicken and agricultural products businesses. | 2 |
Morgan Stanley Quarterly Earnings Fall NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley on Wednesday said quarterly profit fell amid reduced trading revenue, reflecting the impact of sluggish markets this summer. | 2 |
Oil Holds Near \$47 LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices hovered below \$47 a barrel on Wednesday, awaiting U.S. data that was expected to show a big drop in fuel stocks after Hurricane Ivan disrupted operations. | 2 |
Israel's Sharon: Arafat Will 'Get What He Deserves' JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday renewed his threat to remove Yasser Arafat, saying the Palestinian president would "get what he deserves." | 0 |
U.S. Orders Airlines to Release Fliers' Data TSA will collect domestic passenger records for June 2004; data will be used to test program aiming to hunt for terrorists. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font> | 2 |
Tax credit compensation nears 1m The Inland Revenue pays out nearly 1m compensation to people who have suffered because of tax credit errors or delays. | 2 |
US Steel Returns to Homestead Works United States Steel Corp. will return to the former site of the historic Homestead Works steel plant, once the epicenter of labor-management relations that exploded more than a century ago when Pinkerton agents | 2 |
Murder charges in Gujarat trial Sixteen Hindus are charged with the murder of 12 Muslims in one of the most notorious incidents in riots in India two years ago. | 0 |
Giants Beat Astros to Keep Wild Card Lead Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants can reach the playoffs two ways. They certainly boosted both chances Tuesday night... | 0 |
Minn. Trooper Writes 205 Mph Ticket WABASHA, Minn. - With a State Patrol airplane overhead, a motorcyclist hit the throttle and possibly set the informal record for the fastest speeding ticket in Minnesota history: 205 mph... | 0 |
Rate Hike May Push Stock Market Lower NEW YORK - Stocks are seen moving lower at the open Wednesday as investors come to grips with the Federal Reserve hiking its key rates by a quarter point to 1.75 percent. Dow Jones futures fell 14 points recently, while Nasdaq futures were down 2.50 points and S P futures dropped 1.80 points... | 0 |
Iraq Turns Over Decapitated Corpse to U.S. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi officials recovered a decapitated corpse in western Baghdad on Wednesday and turned it over to the United States, which was investigating if it was the body of kidnapped American Jack Hensley - purportedly slain the day before by al-Qaida-linked militants. The discovery came as Iraq's Justice Ministry promised to release one of two high-profile women prisoners... | 0 |
Iraq Officials to Free Woman Prisoner The Iraqi government said it would release one of the female prisoners whose freedom is being demanded by Islamic militant kidnappers who are threatening to kill a third Western hostage. | 0 |
10 Afghans Released From Guatanamo Bay At least 10 Afghans, including a nomad leader who fought with the Taliban, have been released from a U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said Wednesday. | 0 |
Regional Bank Forecasts Stronger Growth for Developing Asian <b>...</b> A new report says developing Asian economies are expected to enjoy stronger growth despite high oil prices. However, the report warns, a slowdown in China could hurt its neighbors. | 2 |
FedEx Meets 1Q Wall Street Estimates Express shipping giant FedEx Corp. on Wednesday reported that first-quarter earnings more than doubled on sharply higher revenue and average daily package volumes to meet Wall Street expectations. | 2 |
Norwich Union axes 950 jobs Norwich Union is to offshore 950 jobs to India and Sri Lanka next year, with the loss of work in Norwich and York. The insurance giant said it will do all it can to minimise compulsory redundancies by redeploying staff to alternative jobs. | 2 |
Shell sets \$45B investment program But stock of major oil company falls on disappointment it did not extend stock buyback program. LONDON (Reuters) - Scandal-hit oil company Royal Dutch/Shell said Wednesday it will invest \$15 billion a year | 2 |
Vodafone #39;s New Handsets To Beat Rivals Vodafone has increased the competition ahead of Christmas with plans to launch 10 handsets before the festive season. The Newbury-based group said it will begin selling the phones in November. | 2 |
Total to buy 25 stake in Novatek for about \$1 bn LONDON, September 22 (newratings.com) - Total SA (PFP.PSE) is planning to acquire a 25 stake plus one share in the largest privately held Russian gas company, Novatek, in a deal expected to be valued at about \$1 billion. | 2 |
AMD and IBM spread the love AMD and IBM are extending a deal which has seen them co-operating on chip-making technology since 2002. The deal was due to end next year it will now run until December 2008. | 3 |
Telecast rights: Zee files writ petition in SC Zee TV today filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court seeking quashing of BCCI #39;s decision to set aside the cricket telecast rights given to it. | 1 |
Musharraf May Remain as Pakistan #39;s Military Chief Pakistan #39;s President Pervez Musharraf, who took power in a bloodless coup in 1999 on the grounds he could provide stable democracy, is strongly hinting he will not step down as army chief at the end of this year as promised. | 0 |
Modem fraud forces Irish call ban Direct dial telephone calls from Ireland to 13 other countries are to be blocked because of an internet fraud. | 3 |
PeopleSoft Defies Oracle Bid, Pursues IBM <p>\</p><p> By Spencer Swartz</p><p> SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PeopleSoft Inc. will push ahead\with a new marketing alliance with IBM and other initiatives\despite a recent court ruling that bolstered Oracle Corp.'s\\$7.7-billion hostile bid to acquire the company, PeopleSoft's\CEO said on Tuesday.</p> | 3 |
Lucent Cutting Retiree Benefits Again For the second time in a year, telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies Inc. is reducing benefits promised to thousands of its retirees. | 3 |
Jabil Posts Profit on Stronger Demand <p>\</p><p> SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Contract electronics manufacturer\Jabil Circuit Inc. <JBL.N> on Tuesday posted a quarterly profit\that more than doubled on stronger demand for computers,\cellphones and other electronic products.</p> | 3 |
Adelphia Plans to Sell Assets in Clusters Adelphia Communications Corp., the nation's fifth-largest cable television operator, plans to sell its assets in seven geographic clusters as it emerges from bankruptcy. | 3 |
Revamped EMusic Targets Indie Market Nearly a year since it was sold by Vivendi Universal to private investors, online retailer eMusic has undergone a facelift that includes a panel of music critics to help users comb its trove of independent music. | 3 |
Space Technology Creates New Era in Cosmetics European Space Agency -- Cool your product from 22 C to 2 C in just two minutes with no electricity, simply by 100 natural evaporation, using an advanced simulation technique from Europe's Ariane launcher. "We have managed to develop a controlled fast cooling system, without the use of outside energy, where the temperature drops 70 times faster than in a standard refrigerator," says Fadi Khairallah, founder of Thermagen, the company behind this innovation... | 3 |
Coping with Contamination in the Search for Life Drilling is a messy business. Drilling fluid is anything but sterile. For most drilling applications, that's no problem. But when astronauts drill for life on Mars, they need to be sure that the bacteria they find really do come from underground. | 3 |
Companies Expand Services for Working Mothers General Mills is among a host of companies that have expanded services for working mothers beyond just maternity leave and flexible hours, according to Working Mother magazine, which released its 19th annual list Tuesday of the 100 best companies for working mothers. | 3 |
Reports: CA may escape charges in DOJ deal Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) has reached a deal with the U.S. Department of Justice under which the company will pay compensation to shareholders and open its accounts to monitoring by an independent third party, in return for the DOJ deferring prosecution in its investigation of accounting fraud at the company, U.S. newspaper reports said Wednesday. | 3 |
Electronic Payments Surpass Checks Americans made more payments electronically than with checks in 2003, making it the first year electronic transactions surpassed paper payments, according to studies released Monday by the Federal Reserve #39;s financial services policy committee. | 2 |
Microsoft tests online radio station People have been listening to music on their computers for a long time now - but not quite like this. Microsoft is test-marketing a new Web-based radio service that sounds almost like a local radio station - except without all the interruptions. | 3 |
Sun Microsystems Sets Sights on Low-End Market By MATTHEW FORDAHL SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- After years of battling Microsoft Corp... | 3 |
Gold Fields to Shrug Off Harmony #39;s Voting Bid HARMONY has voted its 10,8 of Gold Fields shares against a planned reverse-listing of Gold Fields assets outside southern Africa into IAMGOLD of Canada, Harmony director Ferdi Dippenaar said yesterday. | 2 |
Sun Sets Sights on Low-End Market (AP) AP - After years of battling Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. has set its sights on Linux vendors, seeking to jump into a low-end but high-volume market it's been accused of ignoring. | 3 |
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