March 10 - U.S. Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, talks with Bloomberg's Peter Cook about Senate Banking Committee negotiations over financial regulation legislation.
NEW YORK - Bank of America customers will soon be unable to spend more than they have in the accounts linked to their debit cards.
Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 3/8/10.
Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies experiencing growth. Despite the recession, these companies are all expanding.
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The business services, retail, banking, telecommunications, hospitality, and health care verticals are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations' leading job boards.
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LifeLock, the company that broadcast its chief executive's Social Security number as part of its claim that it could protect anyone against identity theft , agreed on Tuesday to pay $12 million to settle charges that it misled consumers about the effectiveness of its service.
A coalition of cable and satellite companies will this week call on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to create a new process to resolve increasingly bitter disputes over carriage fees paid to broadcasters.
MIAMI - Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts.
March 9 - Cisco Systems Inc., the world's biggest network-equipment maker, will start selling a router that it says will accelerate the speed of data and video downloads on the Internet.
WASHINGTON a ' Rates for 30-year home loans edged lower for the second straight week, a report said Thursday, but remained above last year's record lows.
Who's Firing is a weekly survey of organizations announcing (or rumoring) layoffs for the week ended 2/26/10 and 3/5/10.
Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies that are contracting.
Top layoffs announced and rumored this week were in the Government, Transportation, Technology, Health Care, Manufacturing, Retail, and Energy sectors.
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March 9 - Markus Rosgen, chief Asia strategist at Citigroup Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Susan Li about his investment strategy for Asian stocks.
JetBlue and Delta want temporary exemptions from a new government rule that will limit the time passengers can be held on the tarmac.
The Northrop Grumman Corporation said on Monday that it would not bid for a $40 billion contract to build aerial refueling planes for the Air Force , leaving its rival, Boeing , as the likely winner of one of the Pentagon's largest contracts.
The European Union plans to create a European Monetary Fund to better coordinate the economies of the 16 countries that use the euro and prevent financial debacles such as the Greek debt crisis from undermining the credibility of Europe's single currency.
In today's hyper-competitive, recessionary job market, job seekers are finding more barriers than good news. Creative social media use gives job seekers a way to beat the odds. When government figures list unemployment as 6 times greater than job openings, you've got to try something different to be noticed.
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March 8 - Brian Jackson, an emerging-markets strategist at Royal Bank of Canada in Hong Kong, talks with Bloomberg's Susan Li about his investment strategy for emerging-market stocks.