Mon, May 21, 2012
Early this year, Casey Abrams landed a record deal with the jazz label Concord Records. On June 26, the American Idol season-10 finalist will ...
Thu, May 10, 2012
By Chuck Mikolajczak
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Friday after a sloppy debut by Facebook Inc
Wed, May 09, 2012
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RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Cuba's Olympic hurdling champion Dayron Robles will race in the United States for the first time ...
Wed, May 09, 2012
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first of a new class of U.S. coastal warships will be sent to Singapore next spring for ...
Thu, May 03, 2012
By Lucy Hornby
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's services sector enjoyed its busiest month in half a year in April, with business expectations at their ...
Wed, May 02, 2012
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's non-Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) showed on Thursday that the services sector cooled last month, retreating from March's 10-month ...
Tue, May 01, 2012
By Alex Dobuzinskis
(Reuters) - A suspension of open water yacht racing in the Pacific Ocean off the San Francisco coast, enacted after five sailors ...
Tue, May 01, 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Slightly more foreclosures on U.S. homes were completed in March compared to the month before, though levels were still below ...
Mon, April 30, 2012
By Lucy Hornby
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's official purchasing managers' index (PMI) rose to a 13-month high in April, signaling the economy has found ...
Mon, April 30, 2012
By Angela Moon
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell for the fifth day in six on Wednesday as investors kept their focus on the turmoil ...
Fri, April 20, 2012
By Noah Barkin and Sarah Marsh
BERLIN (Reuters) - German business sentiment unexpectedly rose for the sixth month in a row in April in a ...
Mon, April 16, 2012
By Rodrigo Campos
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks scored their biggest gains in a month on Tuesday after Coca-Cola led a round of ...
Sun, April 15, 2012
The actor, who shoots the popular TV drama in Albuquerque, fears he has been targeted in a theft scam after his house was broken ...
Sat, April 14, 2012
The actor, who shoots the popular TV drama in Albuquerque, fears he has been targeted in a theft scam after his house was broken ...
Fri, April 13, 2012
The actor, who shoots the popular TV drama in Albuquerque, fears he has been targeted in a theft scam after his house was broken ...
Fri, April 13, 2012
Stefano Langone , who finished seventh on American Idol last year, will return to the Fox show on April 26 to perform his new single ...
Thu, April 05, 2012
By Lucia Mutikani
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers hired far fewer workers in March than in previous months, keeping the door open for the Federal Reserve ...
Thu, April 05, 2012
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Wed, April 04, 2012
Jason Mraz's new album Love Is a Four Letter Word is due April 17, and he's launching a major media blitz to ...
Sat, March 31, 2012
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's factory slowdown worsened in March as output fell for a fifth consecutive month and manufacturers received fewer orders, a private ...
Sat, March 31, 2012
By Koh Gui Qing and Benjamin Kang Lim
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's big factories were surprisingly busy in March as a stream of new ...
Mon, March 26, 2012
By Lynn Adler
(Reuters) - U.S. companies borrowed more to buy equipment in February than a year ago, though less than in January, and ...
Fri, March 23, 2012
By Lucia Mutikani
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The battered housing market looks to be on the mend as buyers make a tentative return and house prices ...
Fri, March 23, 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A measure of future economic growth edged up last week to hold a seven-month high, while the annualized growth rate also ...
Fri, March 23, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New single-family home sales fell in February, but a jump in prices to their highest level in eight months kept hopes alive ...
Wed, March 21, 2012
Big things are happening in India for Katy Perry . No, she's not getting married there again. This time, the singer will be making ...
Tue, March 20, 2012
Gavin DeGraw and Vanessa Carlton are coming together next month for a special joint concert in New York City -- and the best part is ...
Mon, March 19, 2012
By Richard Leong
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Treasuries prices fell on Monday, with longer-dated debt yields touching 4-1/2 month highs and investors likely to ...
Sat, March 17, 2012
By Chris Francescani
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested during the weekend as police cleared New York's Zuccotti ...
Thu, March 08, 2012
By Koh Gui Qing and Zhou Xin
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's economy is on course for a soft landing, a clutch of indicators showed ...
Thu, March 01, 2012
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Tue, February 28, 2012
By Matthew Ward
PORTSMOUTH, Virginia (Reuters) - Virginia repealed a one-per-month limit on handgun purchases on Tuesday, less than five years after a mentally-deranged student ...
Mon, February 27, 2012
By Susan Guyett
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The number of people with measles in Indiana this month has grown to 17 with a fresh case linked ...
Mon, February 27, 2012
By Susan Guyett
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The number of people with measles in Indiana this month has grown to 17 with a fresh case linked ...
Mon, February 27, 2012
By Valentina Za
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's cost of borrowing over six months sank towards 1 percent at an auction on Monday, the lowest ...
Wed, February 22, 2012
It's safe to say that Nicki Minaj probably doesn't have any monetary concerns right now, thanks to the success of her album ...
Tue, February 21, 2012
By Angela Moon
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks advanced on Friday as investors brushed off the technical default by Greece and focused instead on another ...
Wed, February 15, 2012
By Harriet McLeod
(Reuters) - After hearing actor Morgan Freeman call Black History Month "ridiculous" on a television news show a few years ago, New ...
Fri, February 10, 2012
By Natsuko Waki
LONDON (Reuters) - European stocks hit their highest level since July on Friday, keeping the benchmark global equity index near a 7-1 ...
Thu, February 09, 2012
By Frederik Joelving and Genevra Pittman
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - February is American Heart Month and consumers will be bombarded with advice to keep ...
Mon, February 06, 2012
(Reuters) - A former White House intern is speaking out about an 18-month affair she had with President John F. Kennedy while he was in ...
Wed, February 01, 2012
By James Topham
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp forecast a record 290 billion yen ($3.8 billion) net loss for the year to March after ...
Mon, January 30, 2012
By Chuck Mikolajczak
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks edged higher on Friday, but investors stayed cautious before a long holiday weekend when hopes ...
Sat, January 28, 2012
By Ayman Samir and Edmund Blair
CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab ministers are expected to meet in early February to decide whether to withdraw a faltering ...
Fri, January 27, 2012
By Richard Hubbard
LONDON (Reuters) - Stocks rose and the euro steadied on Wednesday as investors remained on guard ahead of the release of manufacturing ...
Thu, January 26, 2012
By Brian Rohan
BERLIN (Reuters) - German consumer morale rose unexpectedly to a 10-month high going into February, a survey showed on Thursday, in the ...
Mon, January 23, 2012
By Alister Bull and Chris Buckley
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will host China's likely next leader, Vice President Xi Jinping, at ...
Mon, January 23, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, the country's likely next ruler, at the White House on February ...
Fri, January 20, 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose to an 11-month high in December and the supply of properties on the ...
Tue, January 17, 2012
By Langi Chiang and Nick Edwards
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's new home prices fell in December from November, a third straight month of declines ...
Fri, January 13, 2012
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Thu, January 12, 2012
VIENNA (Reuters) - Senior U.N. nuclear officials are set to travel to Tehran later this month for a rare visit to discuss their growing ...
Wed, January 11, 2012
By Aileen Wang and Nick Edwards
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's inflation rate eased to a 15-month low in December, though sticky food prices are ...
Mon, January 09, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) - Kimi Raikkonen will prepare for his Formula One comeback with some laps in a two-year-old Renault race car in Spain this month ...
Mon, January 09, 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home prices fell for a fourth straight month in November as distressed sales continued to weigh on prices, data analysis firm ...
Sun, January 08, 2012
PARIS (Reuters) - France could table a financial transaction tax for parliamentary approval as soon as next month, even without the backing of its European ...
Fri, January 06, 2012
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese retailer Aeon Co <8267.T> posted a 9 percent rise in nine-month operating profit, helped by cost cuts, the merging of several separate ...8267.t>
Fri, January 06, 2012
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top retailer, Seven & I Holdings <3382.T>, posted a 23 percent rise in operating profit for the first nine months of the business year as customer visits to its convenience stores rose and reconstruction efforts boosted sales at its supermarkets in quake-hit areas.
Seven & I, which ranks ahead of Aeon Co <8267.T>, reported on Friday an operating profit of 216.22 billion yen ($2.8 billion) for March-November, in part because convenience store visits by older customers and women stayed high after rising in the aftermath of the March 11 disasters.
For its business year to February 2012, the owner of 7-Eleven, the world's largest convenience store chain, maintained an operating-profit outlook of 286 billion yen, in line with the average estimate of 290 billion yen in a poll of 19 analysts by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Seven & I's forecast is the highest since it posted a 286.8 billion yen profit in its 2006 business year, which was a record since its establishment as a holding company.
Several Japanese general retailers are poised to take in record profits in their current year -- for most the year ending next March 31 -- amid a post-quake boost in demand, increased sales of higher-margin prepared meals, and private-label products as well as operating efficiency improvements.
Shares of Seven & I fell about 1 percent in 2011, versus a 17 percent tumble in the benchmark Nikkei average <.N225>.
($1 = 77.22 yen)
(Reporting by James Topham; Editing by Matt Driskill and Michael Watson)
Mon, January 02, 2012
By Andy Bruce
LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone manufacturing activity declined for a fifth consecutive month in December, although at a slightly slower rate than ...
Fri, December 30, 2011
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Tue, December 27, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer confidence rose more than expected in December, hitting an eight-month high, as Americans grew more upbeat about the labor market and ...
Thu, December 22, 2011
By Lucia Mutikani
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Import prices rose in February on sharply higher oil costs, but there were few other signs of imported inflation ...
Mon, December 19, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. homebuilder sentiment improved in December, rising to its highest level in a year and a half and reinforcing the ...
Mon, December 19, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Homebuilder sentiment perked up in December for the third month in a row, to its highest level in a year and ...
Sat, December 17, 2011
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The Senate voted on Saturday to extend a payroll tax cut for two months in legislation that also attempts to force President ...
Thu, December 15, 2011
By Brian Rohan
BERLIN (Reuters) - German manufacturing contracted for a third straight month in December and looked unlikely to provide a lift to Europe ...
Thu, December 15, 2011
By Veronica Ek
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish fashion group Hennez & Mauritz (H&M)
With the euro zone deep in a debt crisis and global economic growth looking sluggish, consumers have held back on spending instead of splurging on new fashion items. Meanwhile, unseasonable temperatures have limited the demand for winter wear.
In November, sales at comparable H&M stores -- open for a year or more -- fell 1 percent, missing a mean forecast for a 0.4 percent rise in a Reuters poll of analysts. Forecasts ranged between minus 4 and plus 4 percent.
"It indicates that they are growing roughly in line with the market. It seems quite reasonable, but we had expected they would grow slightly faster," said Christian Anderson, an analyst at Swedbank.
Total turnover at the world's second biggest apparel retailer, which recently launched a collection by Italian fashion icon Donatella Versace, rose 9 percent in local currencies in November, missing the poll average of a 10.2 percent rise.
"I was a bit disappointed this morning. We saw Inditex's third quarter yesterday, and they managed to increase both sales and earnings more than H&M," said Nicolaj Jeppesen, an analyst at Sydbank.
Sales at H&M rival Inditex
"To me it's quite surprising since we know that H&M are doing some heavy discounting and a lot of campaign work. We got the impression that Inditex didn't discount as much," Jeppesen said.
Shares at H&M, which provides no comment with its monthly sales, were down 0.67 percent at 0901 GMT, underperforming a 0.5 percent gain in the European retail sector <.SXRP>.
DOWNTURN BITES
Sales in comparable stores at H&M have fallen for the past six months with the exception of August, when they were flat, reflecting weaker consumer confidence globally.
U.S. retail sales grew at their slowest pace in five months in November, tempering expectations for a strong Christmas shopping season. In the euro area, October retail sales rose slightly on the month, but economists said future prospects were poor.
H&M, with almost 2,500 stores in 43 countries, is often seen as better positioned to cope with a downturn than many others, thanks to its geographic spread and focus on catwalk fashion at low prices.
But analysts fear that the unusually warm weather across many markets this autumn has dented consumer appetite for new winter coats and knitwear, leading to more markdowns that might hurt profit margins in the fourth quarter and beyond.
"I expect the margins to be lower than those of Inditex and what we normally see from H&M. I expect an EBIT margin of around 18 percent (in the fourth quarter). They have delivered above 20 in the past," Jeppesen said, citing markdowns and high cotton prices.
In H&M's fiscal fourth quarter to November, sales excluding value-added tax rose to 30.9 billion Swedish crowns ($4.4 billion) from 29.7 billion a year earlier and below 31.4 billion crowns seen in a Reuters poll.
Full fourth-quarter results are due on January 26.
($1 = 7.0180 Swedish crowns)
(Additional reporting by Oskar von Bahr; Editing by Hans-Juergen Peters)
Tue, December 13, 2011
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Times editor Russ Stanton will step down this month and be replaced by the managing editor for news, the ...
Tue, December 13, 2011
By Emily Stephenson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service has agreed to a five-month moratorium on closures of post offices and processing facilities ...
Mon, December 12, 2011
By Richard Hubbard
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Fri, December 09, 2011
By Richard Cowan and Rachelle Younglai
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Thu, December 08, 2011
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Thu, December 08, 2011
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Tue, December 06, 2011
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Sun, December 04, 2011
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Thu, December 01, 2011
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Wed, November 30, 2011
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Mon, November 28, 2011
By Genevra Pittman
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Mon, November 28, 2011
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Fri, November 25, 2011
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Tue, November 22, 2011
By Koh Gui Qing
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Tue, November 22, 2011
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Thu, November 17, 2011
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Thu, November 17, 2011
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Wed, October 12, 2011
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Wed, October 12, 2011
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Mon, October 03, 2011
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Mon, October 03, 2011
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Fri, September 30, 2011
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Fri, September 23, 2011
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Tue, September 20, 2011
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Fri, September 16, 2011
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Thu, September 15, 2011
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Wed, September 14, 2011
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Tue, September 13, 2011
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Fri, September 09, 2011
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Mon, September 05, 2011
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Mon, September 05, 2011
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Fri, August 26, 2011
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Fri, August 26, 2011
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Sun, August 21, 2011
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Mon, August 15, 2011
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Mon, August 15, 2011
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Fri, August 12, 2011
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Thu, August 11, 2011
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Mon, August 08, 2011
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Mon, August 08, 2011
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Fri, August 05, 2011
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Fri, July 29, 2011
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Wed, July 27, 2011
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Wed, July 13, 2011
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Thu, July 07, 2011
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Thu, June 30, 2011
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Mon, June 13, 2011
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Tue, May 03, 2011
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Fri, April 01, 2011
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Thu, March 10, 2011
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Tue, February 22, 2011
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Thu, February 17, 2011
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Mon, February 14, 2011
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Fri, February 11, 2011
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Thu, February 10, 2011
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Mon, February 07, 2011
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Wed, February 02, 2011
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Tue, February 01, 2011
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Tue, January 25, 2011
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Thu, January 20, 2011
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Tue, January 11, 2011
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Fri, January 07, 2011
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co <JPM.N> expects to start re-filing foreclosure documents in a couple of weeks, according to retail financial services ...
Tue, October 26, 2010
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WIBQ) - November is Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and National Memory Screening Day is November 16. The Alzheimer’s Foundation of ...
Wed, October 20, 2010
(Luverne, MN) -- October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Raevette (ray-vett) Loonan with the Southwest Crisis Center in Luverne says we've come a long ...
Mon, October 18, 2010
(Fridley, MN) -- October is National Dental Hygiene Month -- and with it comes the usual reminders: brush your teeth twice a day and floss at ...
Sat, October 09, 2010
By Lamine Ghanmi
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - The Palestinians, backed by Arab powers, said on Saturday they would give the United States one month to ...
Wed, October 06, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis will be sidelined for between four and six weeks with a groin injury, the team said ...
Sat, October 02, 2010
By Jorge Medina
COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) - The 33 Chilean miners trapped for almost two months could be freed in the second half of this ...
Thu, September 30, 2010
By Jim Christie
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California will enter the fourth month of its fiscal year on Friday without a state budget in place ...
Mon, September 27, 2010
(Minneapolis, MN) -- Just in time for the holidays, Target announced that it will carry the iPad. The Minneapolis-based retail chain plans to offer several ...
Sat, September 25, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bynum says he will likely miss the first month of the NBA season after having arthroscopic ...
Sat, September 11, 2010
CARSON, California (Reuters) - David Beckham returned to competitive action for the first time in almost six months with a second half substitute appearance for ...
Fri, September 10, 2010
By Rachael Myers Lowe
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Mothers who don't breastfeed their newborns for at least one month are more likely to ...
Thu, September 09, 2010
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WTAQ) - With the 2010 NFL season just kicking off, will this be the last season before a work stoppage?
Packers President ...
Wed, September 08, 2010
(Hastings, MN) -- A Hastings man has been convicted of sexually assaulting a nine-month-old girl that he was babysitting last April. It took the jury ...
Tue, September 07, 2010
By Larry Fine
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite a tumultuous year on and off the course for Tiger Woods, the world number one will have ...
Thu, September 02, 2010
By Leika Kihara
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is expected to hold off on easing monetary policy next week but is gearing up ...
Thu, September 02, 2010
Two major construction projects to improve the water delivery system for businesses and residents in the Upper Piedmont, Duluth Heights, airport and mall locations ...
Mon, August 30, 2010
The retired New York Giants star, 51, was arrested on 6 May (10) at a hotel in Montebello, New York amid allegations he paid ...
Mon, August 30, 2010
The actor, who was previously married to Christina Applegate, wed his Prom Night co-star Jana Kramer on 4 July (10).
They announced their separation ...
Mon, August 30, 2010
By Aiko Hayashi and Elaine Lies
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo stocks fell 3.6 percent to a 16-month closing low on Tuesday, with disheartened investors ...
Sun, August 29, 2010
By Edward Krudy
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Beaten-up investors go into September, historically a weak month for stocks, facing key reports on jobs, manufacturing and ...
Wed, August 25, 2010
(Undated) -- Gasoline prices are at an eight-month low in Minnesota with the statewide average two-64 a gallon. Triple-A Minnesota's Gail Weinholzer says prices ...
Wed, August 25, 2010
Some of music's greats have lent their support to Eric Clapton's first solo album in five years. RollingStone.com reports that the ...
Thu, August 19, 2010
WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) - New claims for unemployment benefits have reached a nine-month high.
The Labor Department reports half a million new claims for ...
Mon, August 16, 2010
HONG KONG (Reuters) - U.S. Treasuries edged up in Asia on Monday, with the long-end of the yield curve flattening slightly after grim growth ...
Tue, August 10, 2010
By Carl DiOrio
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Things are going so badly with MGM's restructuring review that a forced bankruptcy is a real ...
Tue, August 03, 2010
(Undated) -- Steamy, sticky and stormy -- that was July in Minnesota this summer. State climatologist Pete Boulay (boo-LAY') says a lot of people won't ...
Mon, August 02, 2010
By Steve Holland
ATLANTA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Monday to make good on his promise to end U.S. combat operations in ...
Sun, August 01, 2010
TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar hit a three-month low against a basket of currencies on Monday, hurt by concerns that the recovery in the U ...
Fri, July 30, 2010
WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) - This month has been the deadliest for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since the war there began nearly 9 years ...
Thu, July 29, 2010
By Marcin Grajewski
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone economic sentiment rose strongly in July, buoyed by figures from Germany that point to a recovery as ...
Mon, July 19, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Home-builder sentiment fell more-than-expected in July to the lowest level in more than a year after a popular home-buyer tax credit expired ...
Fri, July 02, 2010
By Corbett B. Daly
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday signed a law giving consumers already in the process of buying a home ...
Mon, June 28, 2010
KABUL (Reuters) - The deaths of four Norwegian soldiers in a roadside bomb attack brings to around 100 the number of foreign troops to die ...
Sat, June 26, 2010
By John Nestor
CROMWELL, Connecticut (Reuters) - Britain's Justin Rose is on target to claim his second PGA Tour win of the month after ...
Wed, June 16, 2010
(St. Paul, MN) -- No surprise here: The month of June has been wetter than usual in Minnesota. Above-normal rainfall is reported in all parts ...
Tue, June 15, 2010
By Maria Aspan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fewer Americans fell behind on their credit card bills in May, signaling that consumers are closer to getting ...
Sat, June 12, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - David Cameron, who held telephone talks with U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday, will make his first visit to the United ...
Wed, June 09, 2010
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress will pass additional sanctions on Iran this month, a Democratic lawmaker predicted on Wednesday, calling new U.N ...
Wed, June 02, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gauge of online demand for labor in the United States rose in May for the fourth straight month to the ...
Mon, May 10, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. hirings touched their highest level in 15 months in March, while job openings also rose, according to a government report ...
Wed, May 05, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gauge of online demand for labor in the United States rose in April for a third straight month and posted ...
Fri, April 30, 2010
By Maria Aspan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc <GS.N> slumped 9.4 percent on Friday to a more than ...
Fri, April 23, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden predicted on Friday the U.S. economy would create 100,000 to 200,000 jobs next month, with ...
Thu, April 22, 2010
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - More jobs were added last month in 5 of Wisconsin’s 12 metro areas. That’s according to seasonally-adjusted data from ...
Thu, April 15, 2010
By Julie Haviv
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage foreclosure filings dropped for a second straight month in February, and notched the smallest annual ...
Tue, April 06, 2010
By Estelle Shirbon
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday launched a month-long election campaign likely to be dominated by the economy ...
Thu, April 01, 2010
Duluth, Mn (KDAL) The official high temperature in Duluth on Wednesday was 71 degrees, a fitting finale to an unbelievable month. Yesterday's high ...
Thu, April 01, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. construction spending fell for a fourth straight month in February to the slowest rate in nearly 7-1/2 years as ...
Tue, March 30, 2010
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - More Wisconsinites are buying new vehicles than a year ago. According to the Kentucky firm of Cross Sell, just over 10 ...
Tue, March 09, 2010
By Michael D. Ayers
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Canada, get ready: a few "Old Friends" are heading your way.
Simon & Garfunkel have announced a string ...
Tue, March 09, 2010
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's former Olympic biathlon champion Kati Wilhelm will end her glittering career only weeks after winning her seventh medal at a ...
Mon, March 08, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. job market continued to improve in February for the sixth consecutive month, largely due to a strong recovery ...
Mon, February 22, 2010
By Leah Schnurr
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Friday, capping their best monthly advance since November as data showed the economy grew a ...
Sat, February 20, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sacramento Kings rookie forward Jon Brockman will be sidelined for up to four weeks with a knee ligament injury, the NBA ...
Fri, February 12, 2010
By Joseph Guyler Delva and Jim Loney
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Thousands of Haitians prayed, wept and danced among tent shelters in the capital's main ...
Tue, February 09, 2010
By Barbara Lewis
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil climbed above $74 per barrel on Monday in line with a timid recovery across financial markets, but still ...
Fri, February 05, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A weak job market and tight credit conditions caused consumer credit to fall $1.73 billion in December, the eleventh straight monthly ...
Thu, February 04, 2010
Undated) -- Among the forms for Minnesotans to fill out this time of year, this one takes just ten minutes and there's no need ...
Thu, January 28, 2010
(St. Paul, MN) -- The Pawlenty administration has announced that very-low-income Minnesotans will get an extra month of medical benefits. The Department of Human Services ...
Wed, January 27, 2010
By Nelson Acosta
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban and U.S. negotiators will meet in February for a second round of talks on migration issues since ...
Thu, January 21, 2010
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Unemployment went up in Wisconsin last month. State workforce development officials said the seasonally-adjusted jobless rate rose by 0.5 percent ...
Tue, January 19, 2010
By Tom Doggett
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After soaring to the highest level in 15 months, U.S. gasoline prices fell over the past week on ...
Tue, January 12, 2010
By Steve Keating
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Vancouver greeted the one month countdown to the Winter Games with a shrug on Tuesday while Olympic organizers confronted ...
Tue, January 05, 2010
(St. Paul, MN) -- December 2009 is in the record books as a month that started warm and finished cold and snowy. Climatologist Pete Boulay ...
Mon, January 04, 2010
By Tony Jimenez
LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran American Tom Watson, who went agonisingly close to winning last year's British Open, will compete in the ...
Thu, December 31, 2009
By Simon Rabinovitch and Aileen Wang
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's manufacturing sector steamed ahead in December as strong rises in new orders and output ...
Thu, December 31, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City business activity expanded in December for the fifth consecutive month, though at a slower rate than November, while ...
Thu, December 31, 2009
By Emily Kaiser
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for jobless benefits unexpectedly fell last week to the lowest ...
Tue, December 29, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumer confidence improved more than expected in December, hitting a three-month high as job market pessimism eased and consumers ...
Thu, December 24, 2009
By Lucia Mutikani
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods, excluding transportation items, surged in November and new applications for jobless ...
Wed, December 23, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of newly built U.S. single-family homes unexpectedly fell to their lowest level in seven months in November, data showed on ...
Tue, December 22, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of mass layoffs actions by U.S. employers fell in November to the their lowest level in 16 months, government ...
Mon, December 21, 2009
By Tony Jimenez
LONDON (Reuters) - World number four Lee Westwood will join Spain's Sergio Garcia, Colombian Camilo Villegas and American Kenny Perry in ...
Thu, December 17, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Conference Board's gauge of future economic conditions rose in November, for its 8th straight monthly increase, boosted by improving financial ...
Wed, December 09, 2009
WASHINGTON D.C. (WRN) - Wisconsin lenders gave out $75 million in business loans last month that were guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business ...
Thu, December 03, 2009
By Melanie Lee
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Friendster, one of the world's earliest social networking sites, will be sold to an Asian buyer by the ...
Wed, December 02, 2009
By Julie Haviv
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage applications nudged higher last week, data from an industry group reported on Wednesday, as consumers ...
Wed, December 02, 2009
Milwaukee, Wi (WSAU) Milwaukee Bucks guard Brandon Jennings has been named Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month for October & November. Jennings averaged rookie highs ...
Mon, November 23, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc unveiled on Monday an offering that lets customers using its network for Web-surfing on laptop computers or netbooks ...
Tue, November 10, 2009
By Natsuko Waki
LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar hit a fresh 15-month low and world stocks held near a three-week high on Wednesday after remarks ...
Mon, November 09, 2009
By Crystal Bell
NEW YORK (Billboard) - After much delay, rapper Lil Wayne's rock-inspired album, "Rebirth," is now slated for a December 15 release ...
Wed, November 04, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Planned layoffs at U.S. firms fell for a third straight month in October to a 19-month low, feeding hopes the ...
Tue, October 27, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - October has been the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the start of the war in 2001, Pentagon officials ...
Fri, October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington Wizards forward Antawn Jamison is expected to miss at least the first eight games of the regular season with a shoulder ...
Mon, October 19, 2009
By Dominic Lau
LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks hit a new 12-month high on Tuesday, powered by strong results from Apple Inc <AAPL.O> and ...
Thu, October 15, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless insurance unexpectedly fell last week to the lowest level since January ...
Thu, October 08, 2009
By Lucia Mutikani
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers filing new jobless claims hit a 9-month low last week, and retailers posted ...
Wed, October 07, 2009
By Julie Haviv
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage applications surged last week to their highest since mid-May as consumers sought to take advantage ...
Fri, October 02, 2009
BERLIN (Reuters) - Suspected death camp guard John Demjanjuk will go on trial in early November on charges of helping to kill 27,900 Jews ...
Tue, September 29, 2009
By Lynn Adler
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. single-family home prices in July rose for the third straight month, surpassing forecasts and bolstering the ...
Thu, September 24, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's Web-based email service on Thursday suffered its second technical problem in a month as users reported difficulty accessing ...
Wed, September 23, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. electronics retailer Best Buy Co plans to sell an iRex Technologies e-reader that links to the Barnes & Noble digital ...
Wed, September 23, 2009
By Eric Burroughs
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The dollar slid to a 13-month low against a basket of currencies as market players seized on surprisingly ...
Tue, September 22, 2009
BOSTON (Reuters) - A leading indicator of U.S. nonresidential construction spending dropped to its lowest level in three months in August as developers continued ...
Mon, September 21, 2009
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA (Reuters) - Oracle Corp <ORCL.O> Chief Executive Larry Ellison said Sun Microsystems Inc <JAVA.O> is losing about $100 million a ...
Thu, September 17, 2009
By Lucia Mutikani
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New construction of U.S. homes and permits for future building scaled a nine-month high in August, and the ...
Wed, September 16, 2009
By Susan Fenton
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian stocks hit their highest level in 13 months on Thursday and the Australian dollar surged after U ...
Tue, September 15, 2009
By Sujata Rao
LONDON (Reuters) - World equities rose on Wednesday to new 11-month highs, after upbeat U.S. data boosted faith in an economic ...
Mon, September 14, 2009
By Eric Burroughs
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian stocks edged up on Tuesday, with markets in South Korea and Taiwan closing at 14-month highs, as ...
Wed, September 09, 2009
By Julie Haviv
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage applications surged last week to their highest since late May as consumers sought to take ...
Wed, September 09, 2009
By Angela Moon
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures edged lower on Tuesday as investors paused after the market hit a 13-month high in ...
Tue, September 08, 2009
By Mariel Concepcion
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rapper Jay-Z, whose latest album "The Blueprint 3" arrived in stores in Monday, will kick off a 21-date ...
Thu, September 03, 2009
By David J. Prince
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke confirmed the details of his forthcoming single release Thursday with a posting on ...
Thu, September 03, 2009
By Jan Harvey
LONDON (Reuters) - Gold prices rallied on Thursday to their highest level since February on strong investment demand amid caution ahead of ...
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