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Australian Dollar Declines as Labor’s Gillard Set to Keep Power
6 Sep 2010, 11:29 pm

The Australian dollar fell after Prime Minister Julia Gillard won the backing of a key independent lawmaker, making it likely she will retain government and pursue a tax on mining companies.

Japanese Stocks Drop, Led by Carmakers on Yen; Traders Decline
6 Sep 2010, 11:26 pm

Japanese stocks fell for the first time in five days as a stronger yen and lower oil prices countered expectations President Barack Obama’s proposed stimulus will boost the U.S. economy.

Indonesia Seeking to Avoid Rate Rise, Nasution Says
6 Sep 2010, 11:20 pm

Indonesia’s central bank chief said he wants to avoid increasing interest rates, counting on lending and reserve rules for banks to contain inflation and stoke growth in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy.

Australia Extends Rate Pause on Global Growth Concern
6 Sep 2010, 11:18 pm

Australia’s central bank extended its pause in raising interest rates “for the time being” as concern that the global economic recovery may falter trumped evidence of an accelerating expansion at home.

Papandreou Reshuffles Greek Cabinet in Effort to Spur Growth
6 Sep 2010, 11:02 pm

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou reshuffled his Cabinet for the first time, demoting a key minister in charge of growth. Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou retained his post.

Korean Won to Gain 6.6%, Okasan Predicts: Technical Analysis
6 Sep 2010, 11:00 pm

South Korea’s won may strengthen 6.6 percent over the next three months, Okasan Securities Co. said, citing a technical indicator known as the Parabolic System.

Euro Falls on Bank Funds Concern, Obama Plan Spurs Steelmakers
6 Sep 2010, 10:58 pm

The euro weakened against all 16 of its main counterparts on speculation European banks may need to raise more capital. Asian steelmakers gained after President Barack Obama proposed $50 billion to improve U.S. infrastructure.

Web Impostors May Face Prison in California
6 Sep 2010, 10:36 pm

Internet users pretending to be others could be prosecuted—and sued—if Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signs an "e-personation" bill

Oracle Hires Mark Hurd as a President
6 Sep 2010, 10:18 pm

Hewlett-Packard's recently departed CEO will serve alongside President Safra Catz and report to Larry Ellison as Oracle expands into server sales

Rosetta Stone's Management and Marketing Woes
6 Sep 2010, 10:03 pm

The language-learning company hopes a new product and international growth will revive investor enthusiasm that waned after the stock's 2009 debut

Plane crash on NV street kills 1, injures 3 (AP)
6 Sep 2010, 7:39 pm

In this framegrab made from video provided by KTNV via APTN, wreckage of a single-engine Piper Cherokee on a residential street in Henderson, Nev. The small plane crashed and burst into flames on a street in a southern Nevada residential neighborhood Monday, killing one person and badly injuring three others, authorities said. (AP Photo/KTNV via APTN)AP - A small plane crashed and burst into flames on a street in a southern Nevada residential neighborhood Monday, killing one person and badly injuring three others, authorities said.


Colorado fire destroys homes, triggers evacuations (AP)
6 Sep 2010, 6:27 pm

Kurt Rieder, in white hat, with his 9 year old daughter Lily watch the smoke plume from a wildland fire burning in the Four Mile Canyon area just west of Boulder Colo. on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. High winds pushed the smoke and ash eastward over the Colorado plains. (AP Photo/Peter M. Fredin)AP - A wind-driven wildfire broke out in the rugged Colorado foothills and quickly spread across 4 square miles Monday, destroying some homes and triggering evacuations of hundreds of others.


Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio (AP)
6 Sep 2010, 6:06 pm

FILE - Jefferson Thomas in 1957, one of  nine African American who integrated Little Rock Central High School while federal troops patrolled the campus, is seen in an 1957 file photo. Jefferson Thomas died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio, said fellow Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Trickey Brown. He was 68. (AP Photo, File)AP - Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s.


Counselors monitoring prison officers with PTSD (AP)
6 Sep 2010, 12:58 pm

AP - John Brownfield Jr. became a corrections officer following deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.

Colo fire destroys buildings; no injuries reported (AP)
6 Sep 2010, 12:50 pm

AP - A wildfire in the Colorado foothills has destroyed some structures and triggered evacuations, but no injuries have been reported.

NY cigarette tax plans raise reservation tensions (AP)
6 Sep 2010, 12:00 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2010 file photo, a rally attendee positions himself along the I-90 thruway on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation to protest the proposed New York state cigarette tax to non-Native American consumers in Irving, N.Y.  (AP Photo/Don Heupel, File)AP - As New York Indian Nation leaders battle in courtrooms to preserve their tax-free cigarette market, tensions are rising on reservations, where the state's renewed efforts to tax sales to non-Native customers is viewed as yet another attack on Native American rights.


Montana plane crash revives 'lap child' debate (AP)
6 Sep 2010, 11:59 am

AP - Federal transportation safety officials are using the crash of an overloaded plane in Montana to revive a debate about whether infants and toddlers should be allowed to travel on the laps of adults.

Plane crash on NV street kills 1, injures 3 (AP)
6 Sep 2010, 11:54 am

AP - Authorities say a small airplane has crashed on a street in a residential neighborhood south of Las Vegas, killing one person and critically injuring three others.

Greeting card giant Hallmark heads for 2nd century (AP)
6 Sep 2010, 11:49 am

Rich LaPierre, a Hallmark Cards Inc. designer for the Peanuts line, works on artwork during a 100-year anniversary reception at the company's headquarter Tuesday, July 20, 2010, in Kansas City, Mo. Hallmark Cards Inc., a $4 billion empire built on a demand for printed sentimentality, enters its second century facing a weak economy and what could be an even greater challenge: a generation that has grown up posting its sentiments online.   (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)AP - Hallmark Cards Inc., a $4 billion empire built on a demand for printed sentimentality, enters its second century facing a weak economy and what could be an even greater challenge: a generation that has grown up posting its sentiments online.


Army: Ex-soldier takes 3 hospital workers hostage (AP)
6 Sep 2010, 10:06 am

AP - The Army says a former soldier demanding behavioral treatment took three workers hostage at a Georgia military hospital before surrendering.

Olympia, 2-war naval veteran, battles for survival (AP)
6 Sep 2010, 4:07 am

An Aug. 30, 2010 photo shows the USS Olympia, which served as flagship of the Asiatic Squadron in the Spanish-American War, in Philadelphia, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Without a major refurbishment to its aging steel skin, the Olympia either will sink at its moorings on the Delaware River, be sold for scrap, or be scuttled for an artificial reef 90 miles south. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - The USS Olympia, a one-of-a-kind steel cruiser that returned home to a hero's welcome after a history-changing victory in the Spanish-American War, is a proud veteran fighting what may be its final battle.


Va. woman devours 181 chicken wings in NY contest (AP)
5 Sep 2010, 9:06 pm

AP - The Black Widow of eating contests gobbled up nearly 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes, devouring the national championship record in Buffalo on Sunday.

Fixing China's Banks: The Next Round
5 Sep 2010, 8:49 pm

No rest for China's weary banking reformers. Over the summer, they got Agricultural Bank of China over the finish line, with the state-owned bank pulling off the world's largest IPO. AgBank was the weakest of the Big Four state-owned banks, and with its listing all of the large Chinese banks are ...

Greenest state behind the waste-to-energy race (AP)
5 Sep 2010, 11:27 am

In this photo taken on Aug. 24, 2010, in Long Beach, Calif., South East Reserve Recovery Facility (SERRF) manager, Charlie Trip, right, checks the operation with trash crane operator Becky Davis. The plant can process some 13,000 tons per day of solid waste, with a gross electrical generating capacity of 36 megawatts. Twenty five years ago California was at the forefront of the trash-to-energy conversion technology and, now, we're not only behind Europe and Asia, but we're also behind the rest of the country. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - Government officials from around the world used to come to this port city to catch a glimpse of the future: Two-story piles of trash would disappear into a furnace and eventually be transformed into electricity to power thousands of homes.


Racial violence changes student — and school (AP)
5 Sep 2010, 11:15 am

This Wednesday, June 23, 2010 photo shows Duong Nghe Ly in Philadelphia. A day of violence at South Philadelphia High School last year changed his life, and as he heads into his senior year, he wants to learn if his school has been transformed as well. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Duong Nghe Ly can't wait to begin his senior year at South Philadelphia High School. A day of violence there last year changed his life, and he wants to learn if his school has been transformed as well.


Endangered or not, wolf killings set to expand (AP)
5 Sep 2010, 11:05 am

This 2004 photograph provided by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks shows an adult male wolf from the Lazy Creek pack north of Whitefish, Mont.  Government agencies are ramping up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions that restored the animal's endangered status in every state except Alaska and Minnesota. (AP Photo/Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks)AP - Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions that restored the animal's endangered status in every state except Alaska and Minnesota.


9 years gone, everyone's a ground zero stakeholder (AP)
5 Sep 2010, 10:27 am

In this Sept. 1, 2010 picture, construction continues at the World Trade Center site in New York. Two additional high rise towers and a transportation hub are planned for the pit under excavation, center. One World Trade Center is at left. Traffic moves north along Church St., lower right. September 11 will mark the ninth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Ground zero - depending on whom you talk to, it's a scar on this city where horror still lingers, a bustling hive symbolizing the resilience of a nation, or simply, for those who live and work nearby, a place where life goes on. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It's a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site — which is also what it is.


Army studies concussions' effects on bomb techs (AP)
5 Sep 2010, 10:20 am

In this June 3, 2010 photo, 1st  Lt. Timothy Dwyer performs a cognitive test which requires him to press a small light as it becomes illuminated while at the same time counting backwards from 100 by sevens, as occupational therapist Jenny Owens takes notes at the Fort Campbell Army base in Fort Campbell, Ky.  Soldiers from the Army's 52nd Ordnance Group based at Fort Campbell have undergone hours of exhaustive cognitive testing in the military's first-of-its-kind study of mild traumatic brain injury. This focus on the soldiers who find and destroy the powerful and deadly weapons is part of a larger effort by the military this year to better track and treat mild brain injuries. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)AP - Motivated by the deaths of two friends in war-zone explosions, 1st Lt. Timothy Dwyer decided to become a bomb hunter.


Race complicates reservation crime fight (AP)
4 Sep 2010, 10:47 pm

In this Sept. 3, 2010 photo, Swift Sanchez, a sergeant with the Suquamish Tribal Police, returns to her vehicle while on patrol on the Suquamish Reservation in Washington state. Across the country, police, prosecutors and judges have been wrestling with the vexing question for decades: Who qualifies as an Indian when it comes to meting out justice for crimes on reservations? (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - For more than two hours on the night of May 16, 2007, Shane Maggi terrorized a Native American couple at their home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, pistol whipping them and firing bullets above the husband's head.


For US Muslims, a 9/11 anniversary like no other (AP)
4 Sep 2010, 9:41 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2010 file photo, demonstrators hold up signs during a news conference on the step of New York's City Hall. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)AP - American Muslims are boosting security at mosques, seeking help from leaders of other faiths and airing ads underscoring their loyalty to the United States — all ahead of a 9/11 anniversary they fear could bring more trouble for their communities.


2 babies killed after semi hits vehicles in Ariz. (AP)
4 Sep 2010, 8:57 pm

AP - Two babies have been killed in a three-vehicle collision involving a gas tanker in Phoenix.

Bullishness on Stocks Jumps from 17-Month Low
3 Sep 2010, 10:49 am

Optimism about U.S. stocks increased by the most since July as economic reports emboldened investors following three straight weekly losses in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, according to a survey from the American Association of Individual Investors.

Stock Picks: Novellus Systems, Sirius XM, Take-Two Interactive
3 Sep 2010, 9:07 am

Wall Street analysts offer buy, sell, or hold opinions on stocks in the news on Sept. 3

Ex-Googler Lee Backs China Companies to Foster Startup Culture
2 Sep 2010, 10:31 pm

Founded by Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google's China division, business incubator Innovation Works is funding 12 startups amid strong demand for Web technology

In the Battle of the Big Brokers, Merrill Is Winning
2 Sep 2010, 3:00 pm

Morgan Stanley has more advisers, but they bring in less profit

Student Loan Scrutiny Could Hurt Washington Post
2 Sep 2010, 3:00 pm

The paper's Kaplan education unit may be battered by a crackdown on loan repayment rules

Intel Wants to Be Inside Everything
2 Sep 2010, 3:00 pm

Intel is counting on its Atom embedded processors to help break its dependence on the slowing PC market

Why Analysts Don't Want to Say 'Buy'
2 Sep 2010, 3:00 pm

They're turning more pessimistic even as they push up profit growth estimates. Economic weakness is a big worry

Tech Companies Go Shopping Abroad
2 Sep 2010, 3:00 pm

To avoid taxes, some companies are using their cash overseas

The Treasury's New Research Office
2 Sep 2010, 3:00 pm

The new research office to be set up within Treasury has broad powers, so much so that some are calling it the CIA of finance

Lisa Jackson's High-Wire Act on Carbon Controls
2 Sep 2010, 3:00 pm

The EPA chief is using her authority under the Clean Air Act to control carbon emissions

Overlooked Sections of the Financial Overhaul Law
2 Sep 2010, 3:00 pm

The financial overhaul law has hidden gems or new regulatory headaches, depending on your vantage point. Here are some overlooked sections

Eisman Bets Against Strayer on Doubt Over Loan Repayment Rate
30 Aug 2010, 2:08 pm

Hedge-fund manager Steven Eisman is betting against for-profit college provider Strayer Education Inc. because the company’s federal student loan repayment rate is much lower than it claims.