Published on May,25 2012 - by Bloomberg
May 25 (Bloomberg) -- Consumer confidence rose in May to the highest level since October 2007 as prices at the gas pump became less of a drag on household budgets. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final index ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Australia and South Africa will share the location for the SKA, the world's most powerful radio telescope, strong enough to detect extraterrestrial life. "We have decided on a dual site approach," said SKA (Square ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Forbes
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster in a new report offers up a list of 10 reasons to stay bullish on Apple shares as investors look ahead to the next three years. Eventually, he thinks, the stock is headed to $1,000 ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States ruled on Friday that China was not manipulating its currency to gain an unfair trade advantage but it called the yuan "significantly undervalued" and vowed to press the Asian ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Spain's wealthiest autonomous region, Catalonia, needs a bailout from the central government because it is running out of options for refinancing debt, warns Catalan President Artur Mas. "We don't care how they do it ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Forbes
...of Fair Trade USA, which certifies Fair Trade companies). Started in 2007, there are now 530 such businesses. Ratings cover five areas?society, environment, employees and so on?with 130 to 180 factors depending on compa...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Forbes
...president, Ilham Aliyev, is the only son of the previous one, Heydar Aliyev. If we look at actual quantitative ratings of press freedom and political democracy, Azerbaijan isn?t just comparable to Russia, it?s much worse...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Kaiser Health
Nurses, long a presence in many schools and the backbone of hospital care, are being cut back or stretched thin, according to several news organizations; Meanwhile, NPR reports on a poll that found three out of five ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Kaiser Health
The study says states collected $244 billion from tobacco settlement payments between 1998 and 2010, and used about $8 billion of that for anti-smoking campaigns. HealthDay/Philadelphia Inquirer: States Use Only Fraction ...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Kaiser Health
Neither measure reached the 60-vote threshold needed to delay an interest rate increase for 7.4 million students with college loans. Republicans want to pay for it by abolishing a preventive health program in the health ...