Wall Street sinks to lowest since 2003 - Financial Express
Wall Street sinks to lowest since 2003 Economic gloom deepens in Asia, stocks fall Wall Street falls on Citi job cut news Hong Kong shares dive 4.5 pct Stocks plunged to their lowest in five-and-a-half years on Wednesday as investors girded for a
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Asian stock markets tumble after Wall Street rout - Khaleej Times
HONG KONG – Asian stock markets tumbled Thursday, with Japan’s main index losing nearly 5 percent, after fears of a protracted recession sent Wall Street plunging to it lowest point in five years. Asia’s slide extended a global sell-off the
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Lloyds Holders Vote for HBOS Deal - Wall Street Journal
GLASGOW — Shareholders of Lloyds TSB Group PLC overwhelmingly approved the government-backed acquisition of HBOS PLC and a planned £5.5 billion ($8.2 billion) capital raising required by the U.K. banking bailout. Both measures passed with at least
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Sixty jobs to go at Irish Times (18:22) - Belfast Telegraph
The Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin has said an agreement to end the travel ban on children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster could be concluded within the week. Self-defence plea in Steve Collins assault trial (18:17) The trial
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Estimated 82,000 finance jobs will be eliminated, Tri-State area - New York Daily News
Businessman holding out empty pockets looking upwards . HARTFORD — The governors of Connecticut , New York and New Jersey are asking the federal government for a $48 million emergency grant to help thousands of financial industry workers who are
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NBC: Holder tagged for attorney general - MSNBC
Nov. 19: Published reports say Eric Holder has accepted the nomination for AG, pending Senate approval. NBC’s Pete Williams reports. WASHINGTON - NBC News has confirmed that President-elect Barack Obama offered Washington attorney Eric Holder the
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Stocks tumble to 5-year lows; Dow below 8,000 - MSNBC
NEW YORK - Wall Street hit levels not seen since 2003, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling below the 8,000 mark, as the fate of Detroit’s Big Three automakers and the economy disheartened investors. Stocks finished at their lows of the
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Houston native ready to work, carve out NBA career - Houston Chronicle
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MVP! MVP! Red Sox 2nd baseman Pedroia takes home honor - Gloucester Daily Times
NEW YORK — Boston little man Dustin Pedroia won the AL MVP award yesterday, becoming the first second baseman to earn the honor in nearly a half-century. Pedroia easily beat out Minnesota slugger Justin Morneau and added to his ever-expanding
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Massachusetts career centers see surge in business - Patriot Ledger
The number of people seeking help from the state’s “one-stop” career centers in October more than doubled from the same month in 2007 after a year of rising unemployment in the state, according to the state Executive Office of Labor and
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INSIDE WASHINGTON: Bush administration picks make switch into more - Minneapolis Star Tribune
WASHINGTON - Come January, not everyone from the Bush administration will be out of office. As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take over, federal agencies have been reassigning Bush appointees to career jobs. And in one case, the Interior
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‘Canes score twice in 3 1/2 minutes, beat Montreal - International Herald Tribune
RALEIGH, N.C. : Sergei Samsonov and Ray Whitney scored 3 1/2 minutes apart in the third period to help the Carolina Hurricanes rally past the Montreal Canadiens 2-1 on Tuesday night. Whitney followed Samsonov’s first goal of the season with the go
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LeBron James: NBA’s youngest to 11,000 points - International Herald Tribune
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. : Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James replaced Kobe Bryant on Tuesday as the youngest player in NBA history to score 11,000 points. James (23 years, 323 days) reached the plateau with a wide-open jump shot set up by a
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Suburban Detroit’s hospital system cuts 500 jobs - MSN MoneyCentral
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) - The Beaumont Hospitals medical system says it’s eliminating 500 of its 18,000 jobs in response to the nation’s economic problems. The system includes three suburban Detroit hospitals with 1,711 beds. They’re in Royal Oak, Troy
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India last bastion for high jobs growth - Hindustan Times
FM P Chidambaram has asked the Indian industry to cut prices and maintain production levels in a bid to address demand slowdown, while exuding confidence that the economy will bounce back next year. Subbarao meets FM, says action Companies say ‘no
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Treasury’s Paulson says administration remains firmly opposed to bill - Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has told Congress the administration remains firmly opposed to dipping into the government’s $700 billion financial bailout fund to provide the Big Three automakers the $25 billion rescue they are
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Citigroup expected to cut 53,000 more jobs - Edmond Sun
NEW YORK — A person briefed on Citigroup’s plans says the banking giant is cutting another 53,000 jobs in the coming quarters. CEO Vikram Pandit is revealing the plan at the company’s town hall meeting Monday with employees. The person requested
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UPDATE 2-Japan opposition seeks to force early election - CNBC
By Linda Sieg TOKYO, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Japan’s opposition stepped up efforts on Tuesday to force an early election by stalling key bills including help for struggling banks, a strategy that threatens policy paralysis as the economy sinks into
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BlackRock to Cut Jobs for First Time as Fund Industry Contracts - Bloomberg
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — BlackRock Inc. , the largest publicly traded asset manager in the U.S., is cutting jobs for the first time in its 20-year history as slumping financial markets force the mutual-fund industry to shrink. Dismissal notices will be
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Ford To Sell 20% Stake In Mazda - Nikkei - Beurs.nl
TOKYO (Nikkei)–Ford Motor Co. (F), the biggest shareholder in Mazda Motor Corp. (7261.TO) with a 33.4% stake, has decided to sell the equivalent of a 20% stake, the Nikkei reported in its Tuesday evening edition, without citing any sources. The
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Citigroup to shed 53,000 more jobs - Reading Eagle
NEW YORK - Citigroup Inc. plans to shed about 53,000 more employees in the coming quarters as it struggles to steady itself after suffering massive losses from deteriorating debt. The New York-based bank, which already has reduced its assets by about
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‘More Southerners Will Lose Jobs’ - Ananova
Experts said ‘it’s grim down south’ - as they predicted most job losses will happen around London. A new report suggests more northerners will cling onto their jobs in the looming recession - because firms are more efficient after decades of cuts
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Three-Peat: Johnson captures record-tying third-straight Cup title - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Homestead, FL (Sports Network) - Carl Edwards dominated Sunday’s season-ending Ford 400, but Jimmie Johnson was the “tropic” of conversation at the Homestead-Miami Speedway as he drove into NASCAR’s record books with his record-tying third
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Alltel to add 130 jobs in Mankato - Pioneer Press
MANKATO, Minn. — Wireless telephone provider Alltel Corp. says it will add 130 jobs to the company’s office in Mankato. The jobs will be in the customer service department’s call center, where employees field questions about customer’s bills
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Citigroup to cut another 53,000 jobs - Houston Chronicle
NEW YORK — Citigroup Inc. is cutting approximately 53,000 more jobs in the coming quarters as the banking giant struggles to steady itself after suffering massive losses from deteriorating debt. The plans, posted on the company’s Web site, are
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Kashmir votes as separatists protest, urge boycott - Idaho Statesman
Kashmiri Muslim women run for cover amid tear gas smoke during a protest against election in Bandipora 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Srinagar, India, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Large crowds turned up to vote in some towns while protesters clashed with
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SEC charges Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban with insider trading - Grand Forks Herald
Federal regulators on Monday charged Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban with insider trading for allegedly using confidential information on a stock sale to avoid more than $750,000 in losses. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil
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Avis Europe to cut 300 jobs amid profits slump - Times Online
Avis Europe this morning announced it was cutting one in 20 jobs across the group as it warned its full-year profit would fall short of last year. The car rental company, which operates in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, as well as Europe
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Car hire firm to axe jobs - yorkshirepost
CAR hire firm Avis Europe today said it planned to cut 315 jobs - equivalent to five per cent of its workforce - and close some rental locations. The company will also save costs by transferring staff from its UK business head office in Hayes
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Regional leaders push lame duck Congress to fund construction projects - Portland Tribune
Portland-area politicians are hoping Congress will approve millions of dollars in regional infrastructure projects at the lame duck session scheduled to begin today. City and county leaders say new public works projects will create thousands of good
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Car Hire Firm Axing Over 300 Jobs - Ananova
Car hire firm Avis Europe has said it plans to cut 315 jobs - equivalent to 5% of its workforce - and close some rental locations. The company will also save costs by transferring staff from its UK business head office in Hayes, Middlesex to its
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Sun Microsystems slashes jobs in survival fight - Rapid City Journal
SAN FRANCISCO - The economic downturn might be pushing Sun Microsystems Inc., one of the storied names in computing, to the brink of extinction. The company’s servers and software helped stimulate the Internet boom, and its engineering acumen is
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RP firm cuts 11 jobs in resizing - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Arcturus Marine Systems Inc., a Rohnert Park-based manufacturer of marine thrusters, has laid off 11 people, citing lower demand for its products from luxury yacht builders. The move was necessary to resize the company following a sharp drop in
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Saving automakers will save U.S. jobs - Las Vegas Sun
A bailout of the Big Three automakers — Ford, General Motors and Chrysler — should be a slam dunk by our lawmakers. These three companies have been around 100-plus years and millions of jobs depend on their surviving. We Americans should demand
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JP Morgan could axe thousands of jobs: Report - Economic Times
LONDON: JP Morgan, the US investment bank, is drawing up plans to axe thousands of jobs across its worldwide operations, reports The Sunday Telegraph. The paper cites people close to the company, who say that it has started consulting on job cuts and
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Jobs Classifieds Real Estate Rentals Autos - Cedar Rapids Gazette
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Looking to fill jobs - Bismarck Tribune
There’s a sense of desperation in the comments section of a recent survey taken at a Michigan job fair: When asked what workers there need to have to consider moving to North Dakota, the answers varied from “money”to “moving expenses”to “a job
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Oldest private black university in US cuts jobs - WTOP Radio
WILBERFORCE, Ohio (AP) - The nation’s oldest private, historically black university is cutting jobs and reducing salaries to close a $2.8 million budget shortfall. Wilberforce University interim president Patricia Hardaway says private donations
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Bush’s ‘tough decisions’ to shape legacy - The Washington Times
Yet there could be some hidden benefits in such events, rather than collateral damage, some say. “Historians, I suspect, will credit George Bush for his determination in the war on terrorism, though many think he went too far with it, or stayed too
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Recession-proof jobs described in new book - Columbus Dispatch
These are some of the highest paying recession-proof jobs, according to Laurence Shatkin, author of 150 Best Recession-Proof Jobs , a new book by JIST Publishing. “Each recession is a little different than the one before in terms of sectors of the
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Former Agriprocessors CEO Rubashkin Arrested Again - Earthtimes
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa , Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Sholom Rubashkin , 49, from Postville, Iowa , was arrested today at his home in Postville by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and Deputy U.S. Marshals on a charge of bank
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