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standard chartered bank
Standard Chartered has reported record profits and strongly condemned proposals to regulate banks.
Pre-tax profits in 2009 were $5.15bn (£3.4bn), up 13% from 2008, while revenue increased by 9% to $15.18bn.
The bank – which is based in the UK but makes most of its profits in Asia – said it was in the “interests [...]
Plane crashes at India air show
Navy aircraft crashes during show of International India Aviation 2010 in Hyderabad,the ill fated plane is Surya Kiran,the Indian navy aircraft is part of the Aerobatics demonstration team of Goa -Indian Air Force.
The aircraft Surya Kiran was giving flying display during India Aviation 2010, which kicked off today at [...]
texas election results
The 2010 state and county elections are upon us as voters cast their ballots in the Democratic & Republican Primary elections on March 2nd.
Brown County officials report that election day turnout was very heavy in most precincts for this primary. A few precincts were so heavy that more ballots had to be [...]
unemployment extension march 2010
Susan in Sarasota, Fla., says she may lose her house when, after Sen. Jim Bunning blocked a vote on extending unemployment benefits, her unemployment benefits run out.
“Imagine what I have to say daily to my six-year-old to explain why mommy and daddy are so sad all the time,” writes a woman in [...]
nfl combine results 2010
Currently, all the defensive backs are running their 40-yard dashes at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis and two of the highest rated players, Florida’s Joe Haden and Tenessee’s Eric Berry, each had an up and a down in their runs.
Berry, who is very confident and told media that he is the [...]
Saturday’s Chile earthquake was so powerful that it likely shifted an Earthaxis and shortened the length of a day, NASA announced Monday.
By speeding up Earth’s rotation, the magnitude 8.8 earthquake—the fifth strongest ever recorded, according to the USGS—should have shortened an Earth day by 1.26 millionths of a second, according to new computer-model calculations by geophysicist Richard Gross [...]
MDVN
Medivation, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDVN) is the next biotech implosion. The company’s highly awaited Phase III study on its Alzheimer drug called Dimebon did not meet expectations. It failed to meet primary and secondary endpoints. The problem is that this was hitting 52-week highs yesterday.
The company did note that a separate Phase 3 safety study [...]
ADP
March 3 (Bloomberg) — U.S. companies in February cut the fewest jobs in two years, according to data from a private report based on payrolls.
The 20,000 decline was in line with forecasts and followed a revised 60,000 drop the prior month, data from ADP Employer Services showed today. Over the previous six months, ADP’s initial [...]
Verizon Outage
Looks like Verizon Wireless is the latest mobile carrier to suffer from an outage – this time with their slew of BlackBerry devices, and it is a rather huge issue since this outage is of seemingly nationwide proportions, although there are still folks in various pockets of civilization Stateside that can still retrieve and [...]
Nissan Recall
Despite no reported accidents or injuries, here’s everything you need to know about the big Nissan recall announced today.
540,000 cars have been recalled by Nissan Motor over faulty brake pedal issues that may also affect the fuel gauge.
As the AFP reports this morning, the recall covers “the Titan, Armada and Infiniti QX56 built from [...]
