Corporate service prices off 0.4
The BOJ said that although the pace of decline is unlikely to accelerate, corporate service prices are expected to remain weak in the months to come due to a global economic ...
View ArticleCorporate short-termism in the fiscal cliffs shadow
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Economic trends are sometimes more closely related to one another than news reports make them seem. For example, one regularly encounters reports of governments' ...
View ArticleCustoms Officer Convicted of Falsely Reporting Cash Payments at the Border
The Post-Standard December 20, 2012 A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer was convicted Wednesday of twice making false entries into a cash register last year when he collected payments from ...
View ArticleJC Lipon Team Canadas underdog at world juniors
JC Lipon forced his way on to a Canadian team at the world junior hockey championship stocked with first-round NHL draft picks. The unheralded 19-year-old winger from Regina was passed over in the ...
View ArticleFracking Shifts Global Energy Balance
NEW YORK (AFP) - North America's shale oil and gas boom has shifted the balance in global energy markets, giving the US and Canada new leverage as exporters, despite the Middle East retaining a ...
View ArticleEconomy Shows Resilient Sustained Growth
Despite the global economic slowdown, the Philippine economy is one of the fastest growing economies in Asia and has shown resiliency and sustained growth, reflecting a strong confidence in the ...
View ArticleWal-Mart Employees Arrested in Shoplifting Ring
Updated Dec 25, 2012 at 12:27 PM EST (Clarence, NY) - Four people were arrested for allegedly being involved with a shoplifting ring at the Wal-Mart where they worked. On Christmas Eve, New York ...
View ArticleThe Business Journals most-read blogs of 2012 Slideshow
20. Sept. 17 -- Tim Dixon takes over Roots space, will launch new concept Do you want to know the news behind some of the biggest news stories of the year in the Milwaukee area? Business Journal ...
View ArticleFrom Wisconsin to the world Little Free Libraries copied across the globe
HUDSON -- A Wisconsin man planned a simple tribute to his mother when he put up a miniature version of a one-room schoolhouse, filled it with books and invited people to borrow them. But Todd ...
View ArticleSyrian beauty named as Miss Arab World 2012
A blue-eyed, blonde Syrian was named as Miss Arab World 2012 after a beauty pageant contest held in Egypt on Sunday. Nadine Fahad, who won the title, was followed by Egypt's Rovan Yousuf, ...
View ArticleDid You Unwrap A Microsoft Surface Tablet Heres What You Need To Know Now
Microsoft Surface tablet under the tree? If so, you'll probably need some help to figure it out. Endless articles have been written about how Microsoft's latest operating ...
View ArticleWorld Juniors 2013 Its one thing after another for Canada to start championship
National Junior selection camp player Mark McNeill (left) from Edmonton, Alberta, battles for the puck with CIS University of Calgary Dinos' Kodie Curran during exhibition hockey action in ...
View ArticleHow The Odd Couples Jack Klugman Helped Create The Biotech Industry
English: Jack Klugman in August 2005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Jack Klugman, the actor famous as Oscar from "The Odd Couple" and the crusading medical examiner from the socially conscious ...
View ArticleForeign Asset Reporting Update
The United States taxes its citizens and its resident aliens on their worldwide income. U.S. taxpayers are required to report their foreign income on their U.S. income tax return. They must also ...
View ArticleIf U.S. falls off ‘fiscal cliff’ what will happen to the economy
Hitting the national economy with that double whammy of tax increases and spending cuts is what's called going over the "fiscal cliff." If allowed to unfold over 2013, it would lead to ...
View Article$100-bn roller-coaster What lies ahead for IT services industry
As another tumultuous year comes to an end, India's $100-billion (Rs 5.5 lakh crore) software services sector that directly employs about 25 lakh people is gearing up for bigger challenges. In ...
View ArticleMalcolm Subban named Canadas starting goalie at world juniors
Malcolm Subban has been handed the starting reins in net when Team Canada opens the World Junior Hockey Championship on Boxing Day in Ufa, Russia. Hockey Canada announced on its Twitter account ...
View ArticleHarry Potter’s world worked magic for overlooked Universal Orlando
Guests try out Butterbeer at the 2010 grand opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which has pumped new life into Universal Orlando theme park. New Potter-themed attractions are in the ...
View ArticleHow The Gun Industry Profits From Violent Video Games
blamed lax security, natural disasters, and, most of all, violent video games for the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT that claimed 27 lives. Despite the NRA’s public ...
View ArticleChinas Claims on South China Sea Grow Challenge for ASEAN World
BANGKOK, THAILAND -- China's increasing assertiveness about disputed territory in the South China Sea is posing a major challenge to unity in the Association of SouthEast Asian Nations. ASEAN ...
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