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Retailers gearing for all important Christmas shopping season

WalMart, Sears, Macy's and other retailers are now doing their best to increase sales for the coming Christmas season.


DST costs more than saves more

Daylight Savings Time was meant to conserve energy, but it creates more losses in the US economy. WIth temperatures falling and landscapes needing less tending, these are the reminders that daylight savings time would be coming to an end by Sunday.

TSA was targeted by Ciancia - witnesses

Upon entry into Terminal 3, Paul Ciancia asked people if they were TSA before opening fire on them. According to news reports, the suspect had entered Terminal 3 wearing camouflage outfit and at around 9:20 am local time, had opened fire into the passenger area.

Banks expecting ECB rate cut

More than seven banks are changing projecting that the European Central Bank would cut its interest rates after its meeting this November.


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Volkswagen's sales in the US remained a mystery to its manufacturers. Volkswagen AG (VW), the world's third largest automaker in the world, is disappointed with its US sales, according to Bloomberg report.
Qatar and UAE granted emerging market status while Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman retain frontier markets.
Central banks of the Group of Seven nations made permanent a cash crisis mechanism to avoid financial pitfalls.
Barrick Gold reviewed options for raising cash and reducing debts In an attempt to reduce debt load, Barrick Gold considered a wide range of options including strategic equity investment.
Firms stand to earn nearly USD50 million from the Twitter IPO. During the visit of Twitter to New York last week, executives of JP Morgan Chase & Co had mingled outside their offices with jackets emblazoned with the logo of the microblogging site.
BaFin had said they would review the whole transaction of RHJI purchase of BHF Bank. BaFin, the German financial watchdog, had announced last Wednesday it would be needing to start from scratch in the review of the sale of Deutsche Bank AG's unit BHF Bank after BlackRock had exited from the auction.
Paracetamol is an active ingredient in many drug formulations which now is subject to a USD787 per tonne anti-dumping duty.
UPS' new navigation system helps drivers use less fuel. United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS), one of the world's biggest package shipping company, uses customer data, drivers, and vehicles for its new route guidance system, according to a report by Bloomberg.
India Infoline, in response to market movement away from equities, is closing down its retail brokerage division.
In a filing with the US Supreme Court, Argentina seek stay of payment order issued by lower court. The Argentine government had filed an urgent motion in US Appeals Court last Friday to stay the hold order requiring the government to pay USD1.