- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Economics | The GuardianAthens moves to quell fears of a default after a series of contradictory statements by saying it is ready to make the repayment on time on 9 April Senior Greek officials are racing to calm fears that the debt-laden country will fail to m...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroSeveral weeks ago we revealed the " The Mystery Of America's Missing Wage Growth " in which we showed why matter how hard the Fed tries to push the S&P 500 higher (and it has certainly done an admirable job of manipulating the market...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Economics | The GuardianAuthor of an exposé of the murky world of high-frequency trading on how his explosive book brought Wall Street to a standstill In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemake...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Reuters: Basic Materials* Deal to raise China's contract volumes with Iran to 600,000 bpd
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Fin24 EconomyAn Iranian investment banker says he shouted in joy when he learned that Tehran and world powers had reached a deal which promises to lift economic sanctions on Iran.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from NPR Topics: EconomyThe monthly numbers from the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics was well short of the 245,000 jobs economists had expected.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from EnergyThe remaining technical issues surrounding an Iran nuclear agreement could still be deal-breakers. The FT reports.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from IBTimes.co.uk : Economy€450m payment to the IMF due next week could be the next financial test for Greece.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Reuters: Cyclical Consumer GoodsWARSAW, April 3 (Reuters) - Polish new car registrations fell for a second straight month in March, after a 20-month rise, an industry monitor said, with car dealers struggling to match record sales in the same month a year ago, boosted ...
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- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Economics | The GuardianEconomy adds only half what analysts had predicted as Obama says ‘we’ve got to stay humming’ The US economy added 126,000 jobs in March – but the unemployment rate stayed unchanged at 5.5%. The March jobs report failed to meet expectatio...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Fin24 EconomyThe system will become extremely constrained at the beginning of next week, when businesses and industry resume operations after the long weekend, Eskom warns.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Reuters: Industrials* Thai DCA to re-evaluate licences of 6 airlines flying to Japan
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesWhite House chief economist Jason Furman noted one positive from the March job report is that real weekly earnings are speeding up but a former aide to Vice President Joe Biden thinks he is being overly optimistic.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Reuters: IndustrialsDUBAI, April 3 (Reuters) - Iranian investment banker Ramin Rabii says he shouted in joy when he learned that Tehran and world powers had reached a deal which promises to lift economic sanctions on Iran. Then he called colleagues to discu...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Reuters: IndustrialsPARIS, April 3 (Reuters) - France BEA's aviation investigators said on Friday a second black box recovered from the Germanwings crash site indicated that the copilot deliberately crashed the airplane.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesFormer head of Lehman will make his first major public address since his firm went bankrupt in 2008.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Reuters: IndustrialsPARIS, April 3 (Reuters) - The co-pilot of a Germanwings jet that crashed in the French Alps increased the airplane's speed before it crashed killing all 150 people on board, according to French investigators.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroWe probably haven’t seen the last of the troubles in the Eurozone. As the European Central Bank is trying to put out several fires with regards to Greece and its huge Quantitative Easing money-printing program, it’s important for the Eur...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from The Japan Times » News category » EconomyThe weakening U.S. economy spilled into the job market in March as employers added only 126,000 jobs — the fewest since December 2013 — snapping a streak of 12 straight months of gains above 200,000. The Labor Department said...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroYesterday we warned that "the whisper expectation is for a NFP print that will be well below consensus, somewhere in the mid-100,000s if not worse now that the bartender hiring spree is over ." As already noted, we were spot on with the ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroWe warned yesterday that the "whisper expectation is for a NFP print that will be well below consensus, somewhere in the mid-100,000s if not worse now that the bartender hiring spree is over", and we were right: moments ago the BLS repor...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesCheaper gasoline is great for consumers, but the savings can’t buy some workers in the energy industry a job. The nation’s miners lost 11,000 more jobs in March to cap off a 30,000 drop so far in 2015, eliminating about three-quarters of...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Economics, interest rates, house prices, inflation, Bank of EnglandNew BDO survey shows greatest monthly drop on the high street since September 2011
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Automotive News Breaking News FeedWest Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin today signed legislation that will effectively prevent Tesla Motors from selling cars in the strategically located state.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Firstpost » EconomyIn the speech rendered at the 80th anniversary celebrations of the Reserve Bank of India, the prime minister also sounded concerned about the farming community The post Financial inclusion to farmer suicide : Key takeaways from Modi̵...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from IBTimes.co.uk : EconomyLatest data suggests China's economy remains weak, pointing to need for further stimulus.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Reuters: UtilitiesKUALA LUMPUR, April 3 (Reuters) - Corston Smith Asset Management, Eastspring Investments and Malaysia's Pilgrims Fund Board have emerged as cornerstone investors in the 2.74 billion ringgit ($747 million) listing of Malaysia's largest in...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from TransportationThe fast-growing global drone industry has not sat back waiting for government policy to be hammered out before pouring investment and effort into opening up this all-new hardware and computing market. A growing ecosystem of drone ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from The Japan Times » News category » EconomyThis is the first of a three-part series on evaluating Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s namesake economic program, backed by the aggressive monetary-easing by the Bank of Japan. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “Abenomics” ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Reuters: Cyclical Consumer GoodsKIEV, April 3 (Reuters) - The silencing of a TV station for the Tatar people in Crimea, annexed by Russia from Ukraine a year ago, sparked an outcry on Friday, with Kiev accusing Moscow of trying to stamp out non-Russian influence on the...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesThe weak March job report is likely to delay the Fed’s first rate hike from June until later this year, economists said.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Reuters: IndustrialsBANGKOK, April 3 (Reuters) - Thai Airways International Pcl aims to cut 2,000 jobs through a voluntary retirement scheme in 2015, a senior company official said - part of its plan to reduce headcount by 5,000 in the coming years.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Fin24 EconomyEgypt and South Africa have agreed to improve trade and investment between the two countries during a working visit to Cairo by President Jacob Zuma.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from IBTimes.co.uk : EconomyGreek deputy finance minister Dimitris Mardas says Athens will pay roughly €450m it owes the IMF on time.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from MercoPressBritish telecommunication company, Cable and Wireless Communications, Plc (CWC) Tuesday announced it had completed its US$1.85 billion acquisition Columbus International Inc (CII).
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Reuters: Cyclical Consumer GoodsPARIS, April 3 (Reuters) - U.S. hedge fund P. Schoenfeld Asset Management (PSAM) will stop short of seeking to replace the board of Vivendi at an April 17 shareholders' meeting, despite opposing the French media group's stance on shareho...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from MercoPressThe Falkland Islands government welcomed on Thursday the announcement by Premier Oil and partners that the 14/15b=5 “Zebedee” well has been declared an oil and gas discovery following the completion of its evaluation program, Zebedee is ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroCan you say “ precedent-setter ”? In a move presaged by objections from politicians and some smaller EU financial institutions, Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg (or “L-Bank”, as its friends affectionately call it) is suing the ECB in a...
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- Friday, April 3, 2015 from IBTimes.co.uk : EconomyReport by the Department of Labor revealed 126,000 jobs were created in March.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroAmid growing pressure from their 'Troika colleagues' with Eurogroup Chair Dijsselbloem noting there is "still a long way to go" on Greek proposals and The IMF withdrawing its staff in Athens ; new prime minister Alexis ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Automotive News Breaking News FeedToyota plans to spend about $1.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroLess than 20 minutes ago we warned the following: The fun begins at 8:29:30 when Virtu headfakes all the algos into igniting momentum to see where the stops are ahead of NFP — zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 3, 2015 We were off by 40 minute...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Forbes - EnergyLess than 24 hours ago, negotiators from the P5+1 Group announced the broad terms of the Iranian nuclear deal in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was better than most expected, and if Iran complies with all of the requirements, the break-out ti...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Economics | The GuardianCould it be possible to trace social history of a city and its hardships via the stories and sympathies of its shop workers? It was 25 years ago when the first Aldi opened in Stechford, Birmingham. I met, quite by chance, the grandson of...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesA possible deal with Iran, health-care mergers and a disappointing employment report led the news.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Automotive News Breaking News FeedTesla Motors said it delivered a record 10,030 cars in the first quarter, a 55 percent increase compared with the number of deliveries in the first quarter of last year.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroUh-oh... the payrolls "bad news" does not appear for now to be bad enough to prompt a "good news" buying mania as perhaps - just perhaps - the market is coming around to the total farce of smoke and mirrors of lower r...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroIf you live within a half-mile radius of a Louisville, Kentucky GE plant you are sheltering in place Friday morning after a massive fire engulfed Building Six which is reportedly leased out for storage. It's actually raining ash in the s...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Agriculture NewsThe EU nation aims to put its dairy sector on the same platform as Scotch Beef, salmon and whisky.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Aviation Week - Aerospace Defense, Business & Commercial NewsA guide to this year’s defense budget season; U.S. resumes aid to Egypt; travelers return to Cuba; and the up-side of the Antares launch failure. read more
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Food Business News Latest NewsNneka Rimmer has been named senior vicepresident of corporate strategy and development
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Breaking EnergyNew research reveals the majority of European cities are unprepared to deal with climate change risks that seem to be intensifying by the day. The report finds that there are major structural gaps in urban adaptation and resilience plann...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Agriculture NewsResearch has shown there can be many advantages to planting early, but you need to measure risk vs. reward.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Breaking EnergyWhy the drought still doesn’t seem to matter. Do a brief scan of social media, and you’ll be hard-pressed to miss the exclamatory headlines: See dramatic pictures of California’s drought! and Sierra snowpack breaks record lows. Most rece...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Aviation Week - Aerospace Defense, Business & Commercial NewsKorean Air bid to develop KF-X fails, KAI is preferred prime contractor While KAI is confirmed as preferred bidder for KF-X development, the role of Lockheed Martin looks unclear. Airbus may yet be asked to join the program to protect it...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Aviation Week - Aerospace Defense, Business & Commercial NewsLONDON— Alenia Aermacchi and Chilean government-owned aerospace company Enaer have signed an industrial agreement that suggests Chile may be close to ordering C-27J airliners and M345 jet trainers. The deal, announced March 27, was...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Manufacturing.net AllIn 2014, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Machine to Machine (M2M) and Big Data became more than buzz words and were widely adopted.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.comNet metering, which enables utilities to reimburse customers for solar power, is being reconsidered in many parts of the United States. The quarterly report “The 50 States of Solar,” published by the NC Clean Energy Technology Center in ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuilding NewsMariners are advised that due to low water levels on Lake St. Louis, the speed limit between buoys A30 to A40 is reduced to 10 knots for all vessels, upbound and downbound.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Breaking EnergyDr. Barbara Kutchko, who works at the Pittsburgh facility of the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), was brought in as an expert by the Department of Justice after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. Recognizing a know...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Agriculture NewsFederal regulators have charged two major U.S. food companies, Kraft and Mondelez, with manipulating prices for wheat and wheat futures in a scheme that reaped more than $5.4 million in profit.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Manufacturing.net AllHonda is adding nearly 105,000 vehicles to its growing U.S. recall of driver's side air bag inflators that can explode with too much force. The added vehicles include nearly 89,000 Pilot SUVs from the 2008 model year, as well as about 11...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Dean Best's food industry blog - from just-food.comShares in Egyptian bakery firm Edita Food Industrues jumped 16% today after it listed on the Egyptian and London Stock Exchanges. The opening price was EGP18.5 (US$2.42) per share. The institutional offering was 13.4x oversubscribed...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Aviation Week - Aerospace Defense, Business & Commercial NewsA&D needs a revolution to stay atop its game The digital economy is seeping into every corner of the aerospace and defense industry, and it is just the beginning. read more
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Agriculture NewsImportant ag customer Japan and the United States are trying to come to terms on a trade agreement before Shinzo Abe arrives in Washington. If successful, U.S. producers could see lower tariffs on their goods.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Manufacturing.net AllGoogle has developed a stick that plugs in to any display to create a computer. CNET senior editor Jeff Bakalar takes a look at the new gadget.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Business Real Estate News | The News and Observer & NewsObserver.comHome mortgage interest rates were little changed this week, with Freddie Mac's survey showing lenders offering conventional 30-year loans at an average of 3.7 percent, up from 3.69 percent last week. … Click to Continue »
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Aviation Week - Aerospace Defense, Business & Commercial NewsFoundations of future military systems at risk from near-term budget cutting Cut unwisely now and pay dearly later is the message from U.S. Defense Department science and technology leaders, who fear spending caps threaten development of...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Aviation Week - Aerospace Defense, Business & Commercial NewsWith the new business model, “Darwin is not dependent to the same extent on Etihad as initially planned,” Swiss regulators say. read more
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Supply Chain DigestNew Daimler SuperTruck Really Ups the Freight Efficiency Ante, Amazon and the Internet of Things, Megaships have Led to 50 Percent More Time in Port, Manufacturing Expansion Continues but Waning
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Manufacturing.net AllOrders to U.S. factories rose in February, breaking a six-month losing streak. Factory orders rose 0.2 percent in February, which was the first increase since July, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. The climb was a welcome devel...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Aviation Week - Aerospace Defense, Business & Commercial NewsAlong with basic surveillance information, ADS-B “Out” contains a treasure trove of performance indicators that could be a forensics bonus in the future read more
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- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The Aerospace Corporation » Aerospace HighlightsAerospace performs a significant amount of analysis work for each launch that it supports, including the upcoming GPS IIF-9 mission. More »
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Aviation Week - Aerospace Defense, Business & Commercial NewsUnited Technologies (UTC) has placed a new person at the helm of Sikorsky as it prepares to potentially spin off or sell off the helicopter manufacturer. read more
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Manufacturing.net AllA recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Missouri found that commonly used chemicals affected reproduction in fish populations.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Breaking EnergyLast December, EPA announced its final rule regarding the management of coal combustion residuals (“CCR” a/k/a “coal ash”). This came several years after initial alternative proposals were offered for public comment, and the Agency’s sub...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Agriculture NewsThe anti-biotech activist Gary Hirshberg seems to enjoy highlighting bad news. Even when it’s bogus—when the news is in fact not bad at all—he manipulates it to serve his personal, ideological campaign against modern agriculture.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Breaking EnergyEPA Administrator Gina McCarthy commented Monday that construction of the Keystone XL pipeline would not spell doom for the planet. McCarthy was asked about the climate impact of Keystone XL at an event hosted by Politico’s Mike Allen. &...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuilding NewsFour workers were killed and 16 were injured in a fire that broke out midweek at the Pemex-operated Abkatun Alpha platform in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche. Petroleos Mexicanos,
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuilding NewsScorpio Tankers Inc. announced today that it has recently taken delivery of three newbuilding vessels. The Company recently took delivery of the following vessels: * STI Pontiac,
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- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Maritime News - Maritime & Shipbuilding NewsPeel Ports’ Commercial Director to call for radical rethink by shipping network on destination ports during address at Intermodal·Shippers and cargo owners need
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Agriculture NewsCorn and wheat futures closed out the shortened trading week with gains, while soybeans finished with a mixed tone.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Aviation Week - Aerospace Defense, Business & Commercial NewsPratt & Whitney believes advances in “big data” analytics will enable a huge reduction in unplanned anomalies of airliner engines. “I can easily see a 50% reduction,” Matthew Bromberg, the president of P...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from World Nuclear NewsThe US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has cleared the Perry nuclear power plant in Ohio to begin using GNF2 high performance fuel.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Manufacturing.net AllNorth Dakota, whose oil riches have been unlocked by the use of hydraulic fracturing, said Tuesday it will join Wyoming in a lawsuit challenging a new federal rule requiring more information about the process when it's used on U.S. gover...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Business Real Estate News | The News and Observer & NewsObserver.comTravelers visiting Cuba can now find a place to stay through Airbnb, in what experts say is the most significant U.S. company expansion into the island nation since trade and travel restrictions were eased in January. … Click to Co...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Aviation Week - Aerospace Defense, Business & Commercial NewsTwo years after the Egyptian military ousted President Mohammad Morsi, the government in Yemen has crumbled, and a coalition of Middle Eastern nations led by Saudi Arabia are launching airstrikes against its Houthi insurgents. Two years ...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Aviation Week - Aerospace Defense, Business & Commercial NewsNASA’s Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project is prepared for a second flight of its saucer-shaped testbed. read more
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Aviation Week - Aerospace Defense, Business & Commercial NewsThe U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia this week dismissed one of the cases and ruled against the plaintiffs—Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA)—in two others. read more
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from IndustryWeekTransCanada seeks new site for marine terminal in Quebec to avoid pod of endangered Beluga whales. read more
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from FXstreet.com: Latest Economics EventsDate (GMT) Event Cons. Actual Previous Apr 2 14:30 EIA Natural Gas Storage change -10.000 B -18.000 B 12.000 B News United States EIA Natural Gas Storage change registered at -18B, below expectations (-10B) in March 27 (FXStreet) Thu, Ap...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.comMy Ten Clean Energy Stocks for 2015 model portfolio added a second month to its winning streak, with a 6.1 percent gain for the month and a 5.7 percent gain for the year, despite a continued drag by the strong dollar. If measured in term...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Agriculture NewsRobin Schmahl, Hedge and Marketing Specialist with AgDairy says There was good strength in Class III futures first of the week. The Global Trade Dairy Auction was down 10.8%. That puts negative concerns in the market. With a three day we...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Aviation Week - Aerospace Defense, Business & Commercial NewsAs the father of two teenagers who by all indications have never met a consumer product that should get put away in its proper place (a recent picture of my 16-year-old’s closet below), I have a bad feeling about the kind...
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- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Aviation Week - Aerospace Defense, Business & Commercial NewsINDIAN AIR FORCE took delivery of its first two Mirage 2000 I/TIs upgraded with new radar, EW suite and computer from THALES . DECISION LENS , VA, was selected by Sikorsky to provide R&D software for prioritizing engineering and desi...