Smartphones drive record Samsung profit Canada Dot Com | SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co posted a record $4.7 billion quarterly operating profit, driven by booming smartphone sales, and will spend $22 billion this year to boost production of chips and flat screens to pull further ahead of smaller rivals. | The South Korean firm, the world's ...
Nissan to build new $2 bn plant in Mexico Zeenews Mexico City: Nissan Motor Co. announced plans to invest $2 billion in building a third manufacturing facility in Mexico. | The new plant in the central state of Aguascalientes will generate 3,000 jobs and spur the creation of around 9,000 other positions, Nissan's vice chairman of operations in the ...
Online economy expected to double by 2016 CBC | The size and value of the business conducted online is forecast to almost double by 2016, says a report from a major consultancy. | Boston Consulting Group's report, released Friday from the Davos, Switzerland, financial summit on Friday, says the ...
World stocks slide as US growth data disappoint STL Today | World stocks turned lower on Friday after official data showed the U.S. economic recovery was not as fast as many had hoped. | The Commerce Department said that the U.S. economy, the world's largest, grew at a modest 2.8 percent in the final three ...
Stocks slip after US economic growth disappoints Denver Post | Click photo to enlargeIn this Jan. 25, 2012 photo, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. World stocks faced multiple headwinds Friday Jan. 27, 2012 after disappointing Japanese earnings, higher unemployment in Spain and weak U.S...
Stocks slip after US economic growth disappoints Kansas City Star Richard Drew In this Jan. 25, 2012 photo, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. World stocks faced multiple headwinds Friday Jan. 27, 2012 after disappointing Japanese earnings, higher unemployment in Spain and weak U.S. home sale...
US economy climbs 2.8 per cent, less than expected m&c | Washington - US gross domestic product (GDP) grew less than forecast in the fourth quarter as consumers boosted spending and government agencies cut back on spending. | GDP, the value of all goods and services produced, grew at 2.8 per cent, accord...
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‘PH still has room for growth’ Sun Star | DESPITE global uncertainty, emerging economies like the Philippines still has room for growth this year. | Cebu, one of the country’s thriving local economies, should bank on i...
Nissan's new plant in Mexico to create 20,000 jobs The Times Of India DAVOS: The establishment of a new facility in Mexico by global auto-maker Nissan will bring in foreign investment of about USD 2 billion and create 20,000 jobs, the country's Presi...
World stocks gain on Fed's low rate pledge The Charlotte Observer | BANGKOK World stock markets were mostly higher Thursday after the U.S. central bank pledged to keep interest rates low until late 2014 to nurture the country's stubbornly slow ec...
World stocks slide as US growth data disappoint my SA | LONDON (AP) — World stocks turned lower on Friday after official data showed the U.S. economic recovery was not as fast as many had hoped. | The Commerce Department said that the U.S. economy, the world's largest, grew at a modest 2.8 percent in ...
The German Labour Miracle Forbes | Sadly we’ve yet another piece in the UK press looking at the German labour market and assuming that we should copy some or other part of it. The sadly part comes from the way that no one ever recommends the thing that actually contributed to ...
World stocks slide as US growth data disappoint Springfield News-Sun | LONDON — World stocks turned lower on Friday after official data showed the U.S. economic recovery was not as fast as many had hoped. | The Commerce Department said that the U.S. economy, the world's largest, grew at a modest 2.8 percent in t...
Obama renews anti-Iran war rhetoric Pakalert Press Share US President Barack Obama has once again renewed threats against Iran, saying that Washington will maintain pressure on the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program. | “America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal,” Obama said in his State of the Un...
