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Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Just quite how stupid are they? FFS, people respond to incentives! Faced with a relatively cushy life on the dole and total withdrawal rates of approx. 80% of wages (i.e. you lose 31% of your wages in income tax/National Insurance, plus you lose JSA, Housing Benefit and Council Tax benefit worth around a third of an average salary, plus you lose another 39p in Working Tax Credits for every £1 you earn),...
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 34 minutes ago
Dow Jones ( NYSE: NWS ) has picked a local publishing exec with online tenure to lead The Wall Street Journal's assault on Europe next year. Andrew Langhoff, CEO of DJ's Ottaway local publisher, will be publisher of WSJ Europe and MD of DJ's consumer media group across the whole EMEA region, starting January 5. For extra brownie points, he will also run the South America consumer business, including...
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
-- BT ( NYSE: BT ) Vision : 21st Century Fox has signed up to license its new and classic movies as VOD for BT's IPTV box. The PPV films will be available from December 15 without subscription. Titles include I Robot and Horton Hears A Who. BT also has content makers including Disney , NBCU and Universal Pictures' PictureBox . -- Broadband rises : European high-speed broadband penetration rose to...
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Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Has the arrest of Damian Green and the hiking of beer and income taxes boosted Labour massively? ComRes has Labour up 4% to only 1% behind the Tories (down 6%). The ComRes national numbers are Con 37%(-6), Lab 36%(+4), Lib 17%(+5). It also has the Tories ahead of Labour in Wales and Labour shooting up in the wealthy Tory heartlands of the south east of England. Does that make sense to you? ICM and...
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Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The Taoiseach told the Dail this afternoon that November was another bad month for tax returns.
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Finance Markets (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The FTSE 100 in London has lost ground today after the announcement that JP Morgan Chase is to axe over 9,000 jobs at the former Washington Mutual (WaMu). WaMu was closed at the end of September making it the largest failure of a US bank. Its assets were sold to banking giant, JPMorgan Chase, for $1.9 [...]
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Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Global stock markets are taking another hit today amid ongoing worries about global recession.
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) may be the largest handset maker in the world, but the big question is: will wireless incumbents like Nokia, or newcomers like Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) and Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ), be the ones to thrive in an industry that is increasingly focused on the mobile Internet? Today, Nokia's unveiling the N97, which is the company's best chance at staying relevant in the fast-paced and increasingly...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Navigators Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NAVG) today announced it is broadening its SmartPolicy(sm) suite of products by introducing the LS SmartPolicy(sm). Like Navigators’ D&O
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EMRISE CORPORATION (NYSE Arca: ERI), a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and communications equipment, today announced it has received
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The FTSE 100 clawed back early losses to trade up 1pc at lunchtime as US futures rose on speculation that central banks will step up efforts to spur growth as economies contract.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) and BT today announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to provide customers of McAfee® Network Security Platform appliance with a
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--pSivida Corp. (NASDAQ:PSDV)(ASX:PVA)(FF:PV3), a drug delivery company, today announced that its lead oncology product, BrachySilTM for the treatment of pancreatic cancer, has been
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), the largest provider of healthcare products and services to office-based practitioners in the combined North American and European markets, announced
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Strange dealings in Detroit ONE other thing on the New Republic piece mentioned in the post below. I would love to see an explanation for this:U.S. automakers have enormous bargaining leverage with their suppliers, because of their size. They use that leverage to drive prices as low as they can. The downside is that as suppliers strive to meet demands for lower prices, their margins shrink and they...
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carolgee | 24/11/2008
The road through Transition to Obama Administration is full of ruts and streams to ford and our car, the economy is wearing out and in need of repair. How can our country's sputtering economy avoid completely breaking down* along the way? What would a breakdown look like? The stock market is one gauge of the pressures on the economic tires under us. Right now they are going flat and we fear they will...
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investid | 08/08/2008
Global Investor Interest in Renewable Energy Expands List to Include Stocks listed on TSX, OTC, NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX, ASX, AIM Exchanges POINT ROBERTS, WA and DELTA, BC –August 1, 2008 - www.RenewableEnergyStocks.com, a leading global investor and industry portal for the renewable energy sector within Investorideas.com, has updated its directory of publicly traded stocks in the sector. Renewableenergysstocks.com
