Summer Thrifting: Fun for Everyone
Updated: 05/22/13 - Thrift shop season bumps up during the summer. It's easy on your wallet, and fun for the children. Read More
May 23, 2013
Updated: 05/22/13 - Thrift shop season bumps up during the summer. It's easy on your wallet, and fun for the children. Read More
Updated: 05/22/13 - Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company says the Xbox One, its next-generation entertainment console, will go on sale later this year. Read More
Updated: 05/21/13 - City leaders made a two-week business venture to Asia in hopes to attract Chinese investors. Read More
Posted: 05/21/13 - The solar industry in Georgia wants to force an electric monopoly to use more renewable energy. Read More
Updated: 05/21/13 - Star Trek into Darkness was just released last week in theatres. Read More
Posted: 05/21/13 - As we like to do every Tuesday, we're going to highlight the major releases hitting DVD and Blu-Ray today. Read More
Updated: 05/21/13 - Microsoft will unveil its next-generation Xbox console today. Read More
Posted: 05/20/13 - In August, Florida shoppers will be able to buy computers without having to pay sales tax. Read More
Updated: 05/20/13 - A Spanish restaurant has developed a new way of catering for the country's 'new poor' as the recession and the government's austerity measures continue to bite. Read More
Updated: 05/20/13 - A restaurant from Eufaula has won Alabama's BBQ Sauce-Off Championship. Read More
By Richard Hubbard LONDON (Reuters) - Concerns over the future of the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus and weak Chinese factory data sent shares sharply lower and safe haven currencies like the yen higher on Thursday. The shift from riskier assets to safer markets was triggered when Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told a congressional committee on Wednesday the central bank could scale back the pace of bond purchases at one of its next few policy meetings. A weak manufacturing survey from China added to investors' worries, dragging MSCI's world equity index down 1. ...
By Aileen Wang and Koh Gui Qing BEIJING (Reuters) - China's factory activity shrank for the first time in seven months in May as new orders fell, a preliminary manufacturing survey showed, entrenching fears that its economic recovery has stalled and that a sharper cooldown may be imminent. The flash HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for May fell to 49.6, slipping under the 50-point level demarcating expansion from contraction for the first since October and sending Asian financial markets sharply lower. The final HSBC PMI stood at 50.4 in April. ...
By Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co raised its 2013 earnings outlook after quarterly results beat low expectations, as CEO Meg Whitman's turnaround plan helped offset shrinking personal computer sales with enterprise computing services. While fiscal second-quarter profit plummeted 32 percent, Wall Street had braced for worse. HP shares gained 14 percent after the company projected full-year earnings per share of $3.50 to $3.60, raising the lower end by 10 cents, and fiscal third-quarter profit that topped analyst estimates. ...
By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Metals swap deals with Iran by Switzerland-based commodities giants Glencore Xstrata and Trafigura could have been a way of skirting international sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program, according to a confidential U.N. Panel of Experts report seen by Reuters on Wednesday. Reuters reported on March 1 that Glencore had supplied thousands of tons of alumina to an Iranian firm that has provided aluminum to Iran's nuclear program, an allegation Glencore confirmed as accurate. ...
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the $4 billion a year pneumonia and meningitis vaccine Prevnar 13 for Pfizer. Jansen's next vaccine success could come by taming the superbug MRSA, a drug-resistant bacterium that she has seen ravage a healthy man up close and personally. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infects an estimated 53 million people globally and costs more than $20 billion a year to treat. ...
