U.S. shift to GM crops hits home / Trading houses struggle to buy soybeans that don't alarm consumers Daily Yomiuri | In Maumee Plain in Ohio, in the Corn Belt of the U.S. Midwest, Jeff Goetz pointed to a vast field of soybeans stretching out before him. | "Until last year, non-genetically modified soybeans were grown here," said Goetz, marketing director of The Andersons Inc., an Ohio-based company that collects...
Doha push worries US auto, textile, steel groups The Times Of India | WASHINGTON: US automakers, now facing their worst sales slump in 15 years, are nervously eyeing world trade talks they fear could open the US market to more imports without giving their exports a boost. "We're worried about the di...
US contradicts itself over its own ID theft advice Examiner WASHINGTON (Map, News) - When it comes to the risks of identity theft, the U.S. government isn't taking its own advice. | The nation's Medicare agency and the Pentagon compel at least 52 million Americans to carry their Social Security numbers in the...
Doha push worries US auto, textile, steel groups The Times Of India | WASHINGTON: US automakers, now facing their worst sales slump in 15 years, are nervously eyeing world trade talks they fear could open the US market to more imports without giving ...
US stops duty free imports of gold necklaces from India The Times Of India | WASHINGTON: Indian exports of gold necklaces and related products to the US will no longer get duty-free treatment under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP). | Necklaces including...
US imports less oil from Venezuela The State By RACHEL JONES - Associated Press Writer | CARACAS, Venezuela -- | U.S. imports of Venezuelan oil and oil products fell by 11.7 percent to a five-year low in the first four months of the year, the U.S. government said Monday, while Venezuela boosted...
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US court slashes Exxon Valdez damages The Guardian | The US supreme court yesterday threw out a punitive damages order against the oil giant Exxon for one of the world's worst environmental disasters, ordering it to pay the equival...
Hauling in their nets for good? U.S. fishing industry grapples with high fuel prices Seattle Times | JUNEAU, Alaska - Leaping fuel prices are sinking the fortunes of America's commercial fishermen, some of whom may soon call it quits for good. | In Alaska, boats that typically haul in rockfish and perch sit docked for prolonged periods. In Texas, ...
Take care of nature so nature can take care of us Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | As the floodwaters in Wisconsin recede and families facing flooded homes, businesses and communities begin to clean up and rebuild their lives, some are asking why this happened and what, if anything, we can do to keep it from happening again. | Fl...
U.S. Army Corps strikes deal with Trammell on Fort Meade Business Journal > | The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has struck a tentative deal with developer Trammell Crow Co. for as much as 1.7 million square feet of Class A office space at Fort George G. Meade. | The deal, which still needs to be approved by the Department o...
Barack Obama urges Tesco's Sir Terry Leahy to talk to US unions The Times | Barack Obama has urged Sir Terry Leahy, Tesco's chief executive, to meet American trade unions campaigning for recognition at the supermarket group's fledgeling Fresh & Easy chain in the US. | In an extraordinary letter to one of Britain's most res...
US court slashes Exxon Valdez damages The Guardian | The US supreme court yesterday threw out a punitive damages order against the oil giant Exxon for one of the world's worst environmental disasters, ordering it to pay the equivalent of two days' earnings for the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker spill off A...
Bernanke's disciples may need to follow Volcker instead The Times Of India | LONDON/SINGAPORE: Policymakers in emerging economies from Russia to Vietnam may have to start acting less like Ben S Bernanke and more like Paul Volcker if they want to bring inflation under control. | With currencies tied to the US dollar, officials in many developing countries have ha...
Dollar inches up vs euro, but credit worries weigh The Times Of India | TOKYO: The dollar inched up against the euro on Tuesday, supported by a drop in oil prices overnight, but renewed credit worries limited its gains. | Credit concerns resurfaced on Monday after a Lehman Brothers report said a pending accounting change could force Fannie Mae and Freddie M...
