Sunday, August 17, 2014

Market Basket Customers Rallied in Tewksbury Saturday Evening

Boston.com - ‎39 minutes ago‎
A rally held outside one of Market Basket's Tewksbury stores Saturday night drew several hundred customers, with the goal of emphasizing that they are boycotting the company in support of the grocery chain's workers and in protest of the firing of former CEO ...

Hacked: Data breach in Star, Shaw and Jewel-Osco Stores

WallStreet OTC - ‎58 minutes ago‎
A massive data breach has been suffered by Jewel-Osco through which information of millions of customers may have been exposed. A spokeswoman of the parent company of Jewel-Osco, AB Acquisitions, said that as of now, it hasn't been determined as to ...

Central banks in focus as experts gather at Jackson Hole

Financial Times - ‎6 hours ago‎
Central banks will be the focus this week with central bankers, policy makers, academics and financiers gathering in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Thursday for the Kansas City Federal Reserve's annual symposium as well as minutes from the latest meetings of ...

AAA: Md. drivers paying $3.44 per gallon

Chron.com - ‎3 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (AP) - Motorists in Maryland are paying 4 cents less at the pump when compared with a week ago. AAA Mid-Atlantic said Friday in a weekly report that the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas in Maryland was $3.44, down from ...

Telecom Italia Seen Planning To Bid Up To 7 Billion Euros For GVT: Report

Business Insider - ‎8 hours ago‎
MILAN (Reuters) - Telecom Italia is preparing to offer up to 7 billion euros ($9.4 billion) to outbid Spain's Telefonica in the race to acquire Vivendi's Brazilian broadband unit GVT, according to a Bloomberg report on Sunday.

City Comptroller Blasts Parks Department Over Tree Maintenance

CBS Local - ‎50 minutes ago‎
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) - New York's chief fiscal officer on Sunday accused his city of endangering residents by failing to maintain many of the 650,000 trees lining streets.

Brazilians in new move in banana wars

gulfnews.com - ‎7 hours ago‎
São Paulo Brazil's Cutrale and Safra families have appealed directly to Chiquita shareholders to choose their $1.25 billion takeover offer over the US banana company's proposed merger with Ireland's Fyffes.

IBM says sale of low-end server business gets approval

Peninsula On-line - ‎34 minutes ago‎
New York: International Business Machines Corp said that US regulators had approved the $2.3bn sale of its low-end server business to Lenovo Group Ltd, as the company continues its shift to more profitable software and services like cloud computing and ...

Tesla Offers Drivers a Warranty to Infinity

In The Capital - ‎2 hours ago‎
Tesla Motors took its claims about the reliability of its electric cars to its logical conclusion when founder Elon Musk announced that Tesla would extend the warranty for its most popular version of the Model S to infinite miles or eight years.

US industrial production up 0.4 percent in July; capacity utilization up

Gant Daily - ‎21 hours ago‎
Washington, DC, United States (4E) - Industrial production in the U.S. climbed in July, an indication that the world's largest economy is likely to continue its growth in the second half of 2014.

What happens to bonds when everyone aims to sell?

USA TODAY - ‎Aug 16, 2014‎
NEW YORK (AP) - If bonds start to tumble, should I sell my bond mutual fund? It's a question investors are asking as expectations rise for a more volatile bond market.

California's July 2014 Unemployment Rate Unchanged at 7.4 Percent ...

Sierra Sun Times - ‎Aug 16, 2014‎
August 15, 2014 - SACRAMENTO - California's unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.4 percent in July, and nonfarm payroll jobs increased by 27,700 during the month for a total gain of 1,371,500 jobs since the recovery began in February 2010, according ...

Feds: Puppy imports must be healthy, 6 months old

USA TODAY - ‎Aug 16, 2014‎
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Foreign dog breeders have gone unregulated for years, shipping puppies so young and so sick that one in four died before reaching a U.S.

FedEx Now Indicted for Money Laundering

Daily Mail Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
FedEx Corp has been charged with conspiring to launder money by U.S. federal law enforcement authorities over the drug deliveries the company made for online rogue pharmacies despite receiving warnings from authorities.

English Drug Panel Backs Hepatitis Drug at a Discount

Wall Street Journal - ‎Aug 15, 2014‎
Gilead Sciences' $1,000-per-pill hepatitis C treatment has drawn criticism from insurers and politicians in the U.S., but the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recommended its use in England.

Bitcoin being studied for use by EBay's Braintree

Gant Daily - ‎1 hour ago‎
San Jose, CA, United States (4E) - The Braintree unit of EBay, Inc, one of its electronic payments subsidiaries, is studying the use of Bitcoin in their payments systems.

Wayfair To Raise $350 Mln In IPO

RTT News - ‎Aug 15, 2014‎
Wayfair, the online home-furnishing retailer Friday filed Form S-1 in the United States Securities And Exchange Commission to raise $350 million in an initial public offering of Class A common stock.

U.S. Investment Outflow Hits Record as China Cuts Holdings

Bloomberg - ‎Aug 15, 2014‎
The U.S. posted a record cross-border investment outflow in June as China and Japan reduced their holdings of Treasuries and private investors abroad sold bonds and notes.

Wildfire managers: Drones a threat to firefighters

Houston Chronicle - ‎Aug 15, 2014‎
In this photo taken on Jun 7, 2014, and released by the U.S. Forest Service, an MD-87 air tanker lays a line of retardant to flank the Two Bulls Fire burning at the Deschutes National Forest, about 10 miles west of Bend, Ore.

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