Business and Finance NewsSliding dollar helps U.S. stocks
Liberia News.Net
U.S. stocks nudged higher on Tuesday, with a gain in the Dow Jones of 33 points.
The euro strengthened as a deal with Greece on its bond debt looked increasingly closer.
U.S. investors, as ... 900 more jobs to be cut by Lloyds Banking Group
Liberia News.Net
London - Part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group Tuesday announced plans to cut 900 jobs as part of wider plans unveiled last year to cull 15,000 posts across the company.
The banking group, ... Technical glitch may delay Dreamliner delivery to JAL
Liberia News.Net
TOKYO - Japan Airlines (JAL) said Tuesday that delivery of first Dreamliner aircraft originally expected by February end would be delayed as Boeing was removing a technical glitch in some of the ... 1,000 to lose jobs at Lloyds as offices to close
IC Wales
LLOYDS Banking Group is to axe almost 1,000 jobs and close three offices. Sites in Romford, Newcastle upon Tyne and Scunthorpe will close, with the loss of almost 1,000 posts. The Accord union ... Hecker under tighter wraps at Duluth prison camp
Star Tribune
Denny Hecker's former attorney and a onetime business associate worry that the fraudster's move to solitary confinement may be the first step toward a transfer to a traditional prison. ... Allina's new name focuses on health, not hospitals
Star Tribune
Allina Hospitals and Clinics is changing its name to reflect a new mission that shifts the emphasis away from places we go when we're sick and onto disease prevention and personal vitality. ... Wal-Mart to label healthy foods
Star Tribune
As part of its promise last year to improve the nutritional quality of the food it sells, Wal-Mart said Tuesday that it had devised standards to determine what is healthy and would label the foods ... O, no! Oprah mag’s newsstand sales plunge
New York Post
MEDIA INK If the economy is on the mend, someone forgot to tell the nation’s magazine-lovers. Of the top 25 glossy magazines in the country, all but four posted newsstand sale declines in ... NBC scores 2.1M Super streamers
New York Post
More than 2 million football fans streamed the Super Bowl live on their computers and iPads, NBC said yesterday.It was the first time the NFL’s title game was legally streamed and the network ... Rumors sprucing up Sears
New York Post
Sears shares got another boost yesterday - this time on unsubstantiated chatter that Chairman Eddie Lampert has tapped Goldman Sachs to sell the company.The surge, which sent the struggling ... Mud flies in Stanford trial
New York Post
HOUSTON - Lawyers for jailed financier R. Allen Stanford tried to persuade a jury here that his former money man was the real brains behind a scheme to bilk billions from investors, branding him a ... 4 leave, 2 join Yahoo!’s board
New York Post
Yahoo!, a month after hiring Scott Thompson as chief executive officer, added two directors and announced the departure of Chairman Roy Bostock and three others in a board shake-up aimed at spurring ... Heat on PepsiCo’s ‘sin tax’
New York Post
The fee would be waived if workers participated in a four-to-six week wellness program. Three Teamster locals, representing about 300 drivers, salesmen and warehouse workers at PepsiCo’s ... Nissan Profit Up on Brisk Sales, Keeps Forecasts
CNBC
posted a 3.6 percent rise in quarterly operating profit on Wednesday on the back of brisk car sales worldwide and kept its full-year forecasts unchanged at the highest level among Japan's top ... RBS Shake-Up Has Cost $60.5 Billion So Far
CNBC
Stephen Hester has revealed that the dramatic restructuring of Royal Bank of Scotland has cost 38 billion pounds ($60.5 billion) in a rallying memo to staff days after the embattled chief executive ... Syngenta Eyes More Earnings Growth in 2012
CNBC
Syngenta, the world's largest agrochemicals company, is aiming for higher earnings this year as price hikes and cost-cuts are expected to help it offset the impact of the strong Swiss franc and ... Massive Shake-Up at Yahoo
CNBC
CNBC's Seema Mody and Jon Fortt have the details on a massive shake-up at Yahoo, with four board members leaving. Also, New York's AG abruptly cancelled a news conference over foreclosure ... Dan Nathan’s Options Play On Apple HDTV Spike
CNBC
"One of the things you can do is protecting your long stock," he said, adding that he was buying February 460 puts. "If you want to use options for risk-management purposes, ... NZ shares rise on Hallenstein earnings
TVNZ
Source: Reuters New Zealand shares rose, pushing the NZX 50 Index to a three-month high, after insurer Tower said it was mulling a capital return and retailer Hallenstein Glasson Holdings flagged ... Wal-Mart debuts 'Great for You' seal
The Seattle Times
NEW YORK — You may like the food you buy, but is it "Great for You"? Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to help its customers figure that out by adding a new green icon that reads ... Honeywell ready for military budget cuts
UPI
Honeywell expects a decline in its defense and space business but says it will weather U.S. military budget cuts through increased efficiency and other methods. The outlook and plans were detailed ... Why Metro now rules at Microsoft
CNet
(Credit: Jay Greene/CNET) Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told you all you really need to know about the importance of the company's Metro user ... Why Metro now rules at Microsoft
CNet
(Credit: Jay Greene/CNET) Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told you all you really need to know about the importance of the company's Metro user ...
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