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Archive for October, 2005
Monday, October 3, 2005 Japanese Stocks Fall Monday By Dave Berns “Japanese stocks fell Monday after lackluster results from a quarterly corporate confidence survey triggered selling. The dollar was higher against the yen,” reports The Associated Press.
“The Nikkei 225 index fell 49.02 points, or 0.36 percent, to finish at 13,525.28 points on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The index lost 42.94 points, or 0.3 percent, Friday. It [...]
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Monday, October 3, 2005 Oil Prices Up Slightly Monday In Overseas Trading By Dave Berns “Oil prices gained slightly Monday on expectations of higher demand for heating oil as the Northern Hemisphere winter approaches, stretching supplies strained by the slow recovery of U.S. crude production following back-to-back hurricanes,” reports The Associated Press.
“Mid-afternoon in Singapore, light, sweet crude for November delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose 4cents to $66.28 [...]
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Monday, October 3, 2005 Retailer Altering Use of “Infamous” Logo By Dave Berns “French Connection, the fashion retailer, is scaling back the use of its infamous FCUK slogan after a slump in sales,” reports today’s London Times.
“The logo, which is an acronym for French Connection United Kingdom, has been splashed across the company’s clothing and adverts, since its creation in 1997.”
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Monday, October 3, 2005 Could Be Weeks More Before New Orleans Has Drinkable Water System By Dave Berns “Yet New Orleans’ neighbors in rapidly repopulating Jefferson Parish have been drinking clean water for the past three weeks, and using it to cook dinner, make ice for cocktails, bathe the kids and wash away Katrina’s filth from their homes and businesses,” reports today’s Times-Picayune.
“It’s a tale of two water systems and the very different [...]
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Monday, October 3, 2005 Mississippi’s New Reality: Church vs. Casinos By Dave Berns “In the churches that minister in the shadows of Biloxi’s tattered casinos, religious opposition to gambling is colliding with the region’s economic reality,” reports The Associated Press.
“Mississippi is considering allowing its coastal casinos to rebuild on land, a move that would help repair the state’s $2.7 billion gambling industry following Hurricane Katrina. But while pastors [...]
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Monday, October 3, 2005 Higher Fuel Prices Spark Worldwide Anger By Dave Berns “Rising fuel prices are stoking popular anger around the world, throwing politicians on the defensive and forcing governments to resort to price freezes, tax cuts and other measures to soothe voter resentment,” reports today’s Washington Post.
“The latest example came this weekend in Nigeria, where President Olusegun Obasanjo promised in a nationally televised Independence Day speech [...]
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Monday, October 3, 2005 Bush Chooses White House Counsel for Supreme Court; Harriet Miers Has No Judicial Experience By Dave Berns “President Bush has chosen White House Counsel Harriet Miers as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court,” reports this morning’s Washington Post.
“Miers, who was Bush’s personal attorney in Texas, was the first woman elected president of the Texas Bar Association and was a parner at the Texas law firm of Locke Liddell & Sapp before [...]
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Sunday, October 2, 2005 NPR Audio: Eisner Leaves Disney By Dave Berns “Friday (was) Disney CEO Michael Eisner’s last day on the job. He took over as chairman and chief executive in 1984 and transformed Disney into a media colossus. But a shareholder revolt in 2004 cost Eisner his chairman’s title and eventually, his job,” reports NPR.
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Sunday, October 2, 2005 NPR Audio: Do Hybrid Vehicles Save Money? By Dave Berns “Hybrid cars certainly save gas, but it’s debatable whether they save money for consumers,” according to a piece on National Public Radio.
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Sunday, October 2, 2005 Canada Becomes “Energy Powerhouse” By Pushing Alternative Energy Source By Dave Berns “Oil sands - also called tar sands - are found in an area almost half the size of Colorado spread across central Alberta, 240 miles northeast of Edmonton. The deposits account for roughly half of Canada’s crude oil output, or about 1 million barrels of oil a day,” reports The Associated Press.
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