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The number of Americans filing claims for the first time, for unemployment insurance fell to 457,000, a figure that denotes that the labor market will be slow on improving even when the economy improves.
Initial jobless claims came down by 11,000 in the week ended July 24 from a revised 468,000. The number of citizens receiving [...]
Jul 29 2010 | Posted in
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Volkswagen AG comes out with the report which says,the biggest quarterly profit in 2 years on superior demand in China and the U.S. for the Golf compact and Audi A5 coupe.
The 2nd-quarter net income went upto 1.25 billion euros from 283 million euros in the previous year, the company said today in a statement.
Profit bangs [...]
Jul 29 2010 | Posted in
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BMW of North America will not bring in the next generation of the 5-series station wagon. The redesigned 5-series sedan is on sale here in May.
Station wagons are no longer preferred here in the United States as buyers are switching to crossovers like Volvo’s XC60 and XC90, said Doug Speck, CEO of Volvo Cars of [...]
Jul 29 2010 | Posted in
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Toyota Motor Corp. says, it would recall 412,000 high-end customer cars in the United States to fix steering troubles.
Toyota, has conducted a series of recalls this year, will recall 373,000 of its 2000-2004 model year Avalon sedans as the steering lock bar in these vehicles possibly will break under certain circumstances, it said [...]
Jul 29 2010 | Posted in
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It’s a third-generation Kindle which is lighter, smaller and quicker than the current model with an excellent display, longer battery life and twice the storage area.
Amazon (AMZN) has added Wi-Fi function for those who would like to apply a speedy Internet service to download e-books. This Kindle will maintain the free service that uses AT&T’s [...]
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Siemens AG which is Europe’s largest engineering company raised its profit for the year and the income rose 40 percent, beating the estimates.
Operating income at Siemens’s energy, health-care and industry divisions, increased to $3 billion in this quarter ended June 30, as the company benefited from demand and cost savings.
Siemens has planned to end a [...]
Jul 29 2010 | Posted in
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Items which had to last for more than three years – turned one percent, from -0.8 percent in May. It was the biggest drop since August, 2009.
Economists also determine durable goods without transportation because that sector is so unpredictable. Without transportation, the decline was 0.6 percent from up 1.2 percent in May.
The durable goods report, [...]
Jul 29 2010 | Posted in
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It’s not regularly that you hear actor admit he used to have affairs with men.
Inception star Tom Hardy, 32, who is betrothed to British actress Charlotte Riley, 28, and also has a two-year-old son with a past girlfriend, Rachel Speed, doesn’t mind sharing the information about his affairs.
He was in fact asked by England’s now [...]
Jul 29 2010 | Posted in
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“I was not invited to the wedding,” he says today on The View in an interview taped yesterday, “because I think Hillary and Bill, properly, want to keep this thing for Chelsea and her soon-to-be husband.”
“You don’t want two presidents at one wedding!” Obama says, according to MSNBC.
“All the secret service, guests going through [metal [...]
Jul 29 2010 | Posted in
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Jason Hodge, father of four kids from Barstow, Calif., says he’s “not paranoid” but he is anxious, and that’s why he bought space in what might be called a doomsday shelter.
Hodge bought into the first of a projected nationwide group of 20 equipped, underground shelters — the Vivos shelter network — that are supposed to [...]
Jul 29 2010 | Posted in
Real Estate |
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