2014年8月6日 星期三

2014-08-06 U.S. Business

  NBCNews.com   
Time Warner CEO says 'strategy is working' after strong quarter  Los Angeles Times
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes touted the company's strong second quarter performance and stressed that it has no major weaknesses that a big deal could fix. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes touted the company's strong second quarter performance and ...

21st Century Fox gains as it withdraws Time Warner bid   MarketWatch
Fox's Murdoch Is Playing Chicken With Time Warner to Force a Merger   TheStreet.com
Time Warner CEO Won't talk 21st Century Fox merger, but suggests future is ...   Washington Post
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  BBC News   
Alliance Boots: 'Deeply rooted in Nottingham'  BBC News
Boots the Chemist was first opened in Nottingham 165 years ago and has now been sold to a US firm. What do the people from the city of its birth think about it changing hands to an American company? The sale of the shops' owner Alliance Boots means it ...

Walgreens CIO Is Climbing A Cost Cut Mountain In $15 Billion Boots Takeover   Forbes
Walgreens Said to Consider an Tax Inversion-Free Merger With Alliance Boots   New York Times
Walgreen CEO: Leaving US wasn't in best interest of shareholders   Chicago Tribune
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Wall Street Journal (blog)   
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  Reuters   
BofA Dividend Increase Is a Postcrisis Milestone  Wall Street Journal
The bank said Wednesday that it would raise its dividend to 5 cents a share from 1 cent, after the Fed said that it wouldn't object. But the bank scrapped its previous request for a $4 billion buyback. Bank of America had received permission in March for the ...

BofA Breathes Some Life Into Bank ETFs   ETF Trends
BofA Boosts Dividend First Time In 7 Years   NASDAQ
BofA Gets Green Light For Dividend Hike, Drops Share Buyback Plan   Investor's Business Daily
Boston Herald   
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  Economic Times   
US trade deficit falls as imports drop  Economic Times
NEW YORK: The US trade deficit shrank in June primarily on lower imports, according to official data out Wednesday that some analysts said raises questions about American consumer demand. The nation's trade deficit in goods and services fell in June to ...

US Trade Deficit Shrinks On Lower Imports   Bidness Etc
Fracking revolution continues to cut US oil imports   MarketWatch (blog)
Trade Gap Falls As Oil Deficit Hits Low On Shale Boom   Investor's Business Daily
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  MarketWatch   
Fed looms as major factor in Treasury borrowing outlook  MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — How much debt the U.S. government needs to issue to the market beyond 2015 depends in large part on the Federal Reserve, according to a report released by the Treasury Department on Wednesday. The U.S. central bank ...

US Treasury To Cease Reductions In Borrowing After Cuts Earlier This Year   Wall Street Journal
US Tsy's $67.0 Bln Refunding To Raise $9.3 Bln Cash   MNI News
Gov't to sell $67B in Treasurys next week   mySanAntonio.com

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  AsiaOne   
Renzi's economic strategy questioned as GDP shrinks  Financial Times
Matteo Renzi, the fast-talking, former mayor of Florence, came to power in Italy in an old-style party coup in February promising aggressive reforms of the labour market, spending and tax cuts and privatisations. The 39-year old was largely welcomed as the ...

Pressure on Renzi as economy contracts   Washington Post
UPDATE 4-Italy's economy slides back into recession   Reuters
Italy Slips Back Into Recession, As New PM Seeks Berlusconi's Help   Newsweek
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  Reuters Blogs   
Yen Strengthens Against Majors as Ukraine Haven  Businessweek
The yen advanced as a haven against most of its 31 major peers after NATO warned Russia may send troops into Ukraine under the “pretext” of a humanitarian or peacekeeping mission. The dollar touched the strongest level in almost nine months versus the ...

Euro weakest against the dollar in nine months   MarketWatch
Italy Recession, German Orders Signal Euro-Area Struggle   Bloomberg
Russian Banks in Eurozone Could Face Curbs on ECB Borrowing as Sanctions ...   The Moscow Times
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  Economic Times   
US Stocks Edge Higher  Wall Street Journal
U.S. stocks rose Wednesday, as continued strength in corporate-earnings reports helped investors shrug off weakness in European markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 33 points, or 0.2%, to 16462 and the S&P 500 index gained 4 points, ...

Energy Stocks Help Bolster Market   New York Times
Stocks Stabilize as Energy Sector Rebounds   ABC News
Wall Street Lower Amid Deluge of Corporate News   Fox Business
USA TODAY   
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  Dallas Morning News   
Amazon makes same-day orders easier for more consumers  InternetRetailer.com
Amazon.com Inc. has expanded its same-day “Get it Today” delivery tool to Baltimore, Dallas, Indianapolis, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.. The e-retailer, No. 1 in the Internet Retailer Top 500, says more than 1 million products are eligible for ...

Amazon Rolls Out Same-Day Shipping For North Texas   KERA News

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  NBCNews.com   
Robots Could Take Over Even the Boss's Job  NBCNews.com
The robots are coming, even for the boss's job. Up until now, robots and other smart machines have been used to replace blue-collar workers. But a new study by The Pew Research Center and Elon University, released Wednesday, says that while artificial ...

Will Robots Help Or Hurt The Job Market?   ValueWalk
SkyNet Approaches. Robots and Jobs According to Pew   The News Ledge
Pew: Split views on robots' employment benefits   Salt Lake Tribune
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