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AFP – Australia’s Qantas Airways Thursday announced a 4.3 percent drop in full-year net profits but said conditions were improving as the industry recovers from its battering in the financial crisis.
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Australia’s Qantas profits down 4.3 percent
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BusinessWeek – LDK Solar: Soleil Securities maintained a hold rating and 6 price target on shares of LDK Solar , the Chinese manufacturer of wafers used in solar power cells, on Aug.
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Stock Picks: LDK Solar, Prudential, Verizon
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Objective Corporation Limited (OCL) is in the provision and support of its own Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software solutions for the software industry. OCL has developed a packaged suite of software targeted at SMEs, corporate and government clients. OCL sources its revenue from the sale of its products, consulting fees from implementation services and ongoing maintenance and support services.
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Introduction. In the beginning was the project – and then came the Project Manager ! If you’re not already aware – becoming a Project Manager does not necessarily mean being involved with a project from its inception. Invariably Project Managers are brought in to take control of a project after it has begun
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PM – In The Beginning
AP – In a nail-biting day across the Gulf Coast, engineers struggled to make sense of puzzling pressure readings from the bottom of the sea Friday to determine whether BP’s capped oil well was holding tight. Halfway through a critical 48-hour window, the signs were promising but far from conclusive.
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BP, scientists try to make sense of well puzzle
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AP – BP’s oil spill notoriety is reviving unwelcome attention from Congress on another issue: whether the oil company sought the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi to help get a $900 million exploration agreement with Libya off the ground.
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Senators look for smoking gun in BP-Lockerbie link
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AP – Cost cutting and an improved financial business helped General Electric Co. post its first increase in quarterly profit since 2007 on Friday, but sales remained sluggish for the industrial and financial giant.
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GE breaks string of profit drops but revenue falls
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U.S. News & World Report – Four years after the housing bubble popped, the American real estate market has yet to launch a sustainable recovery. Although U.S
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6 reasons the housing market hasn’t recovered
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AP – The slow global economic recovery and sharp cuts to national defense budgets are expected to blow a chill wind through the Farnborough International Airshow next week.
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Austerity clouds outlook at Farnborough air show
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AP – Daimler AG said Friday that strong sales of Mercedes-Benz cars led to a 28 percent increase in second-quarter revenue and a healthy pretax profit, which will see it raise its full-year earnings outlook.
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Daimler to raise outlook after strong Q2 sales
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BusinessWeek – Baby boomers fretting over their pensions should spare a thought for Constance DeCherney. Like many of her generation, the 27-year-old Web strategist at Planned Parenthood in New York has done little to prepare for retirement. While she became eligible for a 401(k) in 2005, DeCherney only began putting money into it last year
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Retirement: Gen Y’s Empty Piggy Bank
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In just 7 days , you will learn how to write and publish your own eBook even if you can’t write, can’t type and failed high school English class. This ebook will guide you step-by-step to: 1.
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How To Write & Publish Your Own eBook…In As Little As 7 Days
Introduction. If you’re just starting out in your career as a Project Manager or are perhaps working as a Project Manager on a relatively small project, then you’ll invariably find yourself being directly responsible for more and more things, including directly recruiting, managing and trouble-shooting staff yourself
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Know Your Employment Law
AP – Oil poured out of a cap that robots adjusted over the gusher in the Gulf, though some was being collected, as the slow-motion catastrophe spread deeper into the marshes and beaches of four states along the coast.
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Oil pours from cap over Gulf gusher, some captured
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AFP – The world economy is recovering faster than expected but recent volatility in financial markets shows that “significant challenges” remain, Group of 20 finance ministers said Saturday.
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G20 says world economy recovering faster than expected
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AP – Honda Motor Co. said a labor dispute at a parts plant that crippled the automaker’s production in China has been resolved after a wage increase of 24 percent, and the affected assembly plants would be running again Saturday
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Honda says Chinese labor dispute has been settled
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AP – A swell in temporary government hiring for the census drove almost all the job market’s gains last month — a huge disappointment to Wall Street and a sign that private employers aren’t yet confident enough in the recovery to start adding workers with gusto.
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Private employers hold back on hiring in May
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More than 400 works from the corporate contemporary art collection once displayed at Lehman Brothers will be auctioned this fall to help pay creditors of the failed investment bank, Sotheby’s announced Friday.
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Sotheby’s plans auction of Lehman Bros. art works
AP – Hungary’s currency, bonds and stock market reeled Friday as the new government tried to reassure investors that it was not about to slide into a Greek-type crisis despite official comments that the economy was in serious trouble.
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Hungary’s deficit talk rattles financial markets
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NEW YORK — More than 400 works from the corporate contemporary art collection once displayed at Lehman Brothers will be auctioned this fall to help pay creditors of the failed investment bank, Sotheby’s announced Friday.
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Sotheby's To Auction Lehman Brothers Art Valued At Over $10 Million
The Motley Fool – Thanks to renewed uncertainty over the economic health of the European continent, stock markets have been in a tizzy lately, marking large advances and declines on a daily basis. Uncertainty is back on the menu, and investors are reacting by sticking new money into two perhaps unsurprising places — bond funds and index-based products
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Where the Hot Money Is Going Now
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BusinessWeek – To rent or to buy? For millions of Americans, that is the question. The recent housing boom and subsequent bust seem to provide a clear answer — that given an affordable mortgage, we would all rather be buyers.
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Should You Buy or Rent?
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Investor’s Business Daily – The upcoming earnings season should shed light on the painful impact the euro’s 15% drop this year vs. the dollar is having on U.S. companies, especially those that garner much of their sales in Europe.
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Euro’s Eroding Value May Drag On Earnings Of U.S. Companies
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New courses available on Monday 21 June 2010 at Regus, Trafalgar Square, London, Wednesday 23 June 2010 at Regus, Cinnamon Park, Warrington. Cost: £260 plus VAT per delegate. Authorities booking more than 3 places will be entitled to a 10% discount. To book on any of these courses please email read more
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New Partial Exemption Training Courses announced
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planners need to include online backup and recovery service providers in the mix of resources that they will apply. These providers can be grouped into three categories: Service providers leveraging existing core business resources to expand into adjacent markets to look for new revenue opportunities Service providers concentrating on server backup in niche markets: backup and recovery only, single verticals, regional boundaries Service providers whose backup and recovery service forms an integral part of a broader spectrum of information management and data protection services
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Disaster Recovery Business Continuity backup options
AFP – French supermarket giant Carrefour, the world’s second largest retailer, said Tuesday that it would soon open its first wholesale store in India, without a local partner.
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France’s Carrefour announces first wholesale outlet in India
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Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd., globally celebrated underwriter of specialty insurance and reinsurance products, has announced the formation of Alteris, Inc., a services-oriented, complete solutions provider for the managing general agency community. It is to be noted by means of an incorporated new business platform, Alteris is capable enough to proffer consumers an extensive assortment of exclusive risk solutions for specialty programs and alternative risks.
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vip news : Alteris, Inc. of Argo Group becomes a reality
Playbill – The Broadway production of British playwright Lucy Prebble’s acclaimed London play, Enron , a highly theatrical look at the infamous case of American corporate greed, closes May 9 after the 7:30 PM performance.
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Lights Go Out at Broadway’s ‘Enron’
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AFP – The massive oil slick threatening the Gulf of Mexico’s coastline could wreck the US economy’s fragile recovery and lead to a “double-dip” recession, an investment firm warned Monday.
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US oil slick could trigger ‘double-dip’ recession: analyst
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AFP – The Europe-IMF bailout package for Greece will allow Athens to avoid borrowing on the markets for 18 months, IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn told Le Monde daily on Monday.
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Greece shielded for 18 months: IMF chief
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The purpose of this thread is as a discussion of the recommendations in the Henry tax review in the absence of party political discussion. Henry’s recommendations as follows; http://taxreview.treasury.gov.au/con…chapter_12.htm Below are some recommendations from the review with additional thoughts on further simplification.
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Henry Tax Review – Discussion of recommendations
AFP – Honda Motor Company’s luxury vehicle division Acura announced Friday a recall of some 167,000 Acura TSX models to replace a power steering hose that could lead to a “smoke or a fire” hazard.
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Honda recalls 167,000 Acura TSX for possible fire hazard
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Reuters – From its opening moments — when three giant blind mice make their way onstage tapping their canes — it’s clear that Lucy Pebble’s “Enron” is not going to be a standard theatrical docudrama. This scathing depiction of one of history’s most egregious examples of corporate malfeasance whips out every theatrical trick in the book to get its points across. But for all its undeniable inventiveness, the play is curiously uninvolving.
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Amazing Cover Letter Creator Many job-seekers miss the opportunity to get past first base when it comes to landing the job of their dreams. What holds them back? A negative attitude reflected in their cover letter to potential employers.
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How to Write a Positive Cover Letter Quick and Easy
President Barack Obama today requested $ 79.4 billion in spending on information technology projects for fiscal 2011, a 1.2 percent increase from what he proposed in fiscal 2010 and a slight decrease from the $80.6 billion the 2010 budget actually allocated. The Obama administration has proposed increasing the number of major IT projects. Last fiscal year, the administration proposed handling 781 major IT projects with $40.3 billion.
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Feds to increase goverment IT budgets
Job Interview “Secret” While most people are enjoying themselves in this New Year, you can be thinking about what this 2010 will be about for you. Enjoy your life with friends, but remain focused on your goal—to land a terrific interview for a fabulous new job. Start planning now by asking yourself the following questions—and then answering them as honestly as you can.
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Ring in the New Year with a GREAT Job Interview
AP – Key Democrats and Republicans neared agreement Wednesday on plans to give businesses a tax break for hiring unemployed workers, a rare glimmer of bipartisanship in Congress that could hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory.
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Senate close to deal on credit for adding workers
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AP – Looking for a political and policy victory, President Barack Obama on Wednesday pushed energy proposals designed to attract allies and opponents alike, calling for increased ethanol production and new technology to limit pollution from the use of coal.
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Obama pushes energy plan that GOP may support
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Reuters – Oil slipped toward $77 a barrel on Wednesday after U.S. data showed crude inventories in the world’s largest energy consumer rose more than expected while refinery utilization rates fell again
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Oil slips towards $77 on U.S. crude oil build
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The Motley Fool – I have a frequent and pleasant daydream in which the Virginia lottery board calls and says, “Congratulations! You’ve won the highest jackpot ever! Would you like to take that in a lump sum or divided up over 30 years?” This is truly the stuff of fantasy, though, particularly because I don’t buy lottery tickets.
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Juggling Your Financial Goals
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Effective management of worker safety and health protection is a decisive factor in reducing the extent and the severity of work-related injuries and illnesses. Effective management addresses all work-related hazards, including the potential hazards that could result from a change in worksite conditions or practices
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Safety Program Updated by Janco
Reuters – Google is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack that the U.S. search giant said it was a victim of in mid-December, two sources told Reuters on Monday.
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Google probing possible inside help on attack
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AFP – Wall Street, hesitant about the pace of recovery, gets a fresh batch of corporate earnings and economic data in the coming week that may help set the tone for a skittish market.
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Hesitant Wall Street looks for more recovery evidence
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Reuters – Profits from top U.S. technology companies like IBM and financial companies like Goldman Sachs Group Inc this week could help stocks gain as long as investors see room for more profit growth
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Earnings growth takes center stage
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AP – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Saturday with Haitian President Rene Preval and promised that U.S. quake relief efforts would be closely coordinated with local officials.
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Clinton lands in Haiti, pledges cooperative effort
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Reuters – U.S. credit card data for December showed some signs that fewer consumers were falling seriously behind in their payments.
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Credit card charge-offs slip at most U.S. companies
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AP – The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 10,700 for the first time in 15 months on Thursday as investors bet that the corporate earnings season would overcome a rocky start. The advance was slightly uneven, with technology stocks rising ahead of quarterly earnings from chip maker Intel Corp
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How the major stock indexes fared on Thursday
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Reuters – Stocks climbed broadly on Monday after a report showed the manufacturing sector expanded for a fifth straight month, lifting confidence in the global economy as investors eye fourth quarter earnings.
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Wall Street rallies on recovery bets as 2010 starts
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AFP – US stocks raced higher in the first trades of 2010, with sentiment boosted by a global market rally that was helped by corporate dealmaking and upbeat economic news from China.
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Wall Street kicks off 2010 on bullish note
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