The first major newspaper endorsement has been issued in the race for New York governor — even before the Republicans pick a candidate.
The New York Daily News has endorsed the Democratic nominee, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, saying that he is far superior to either Republican contender.
"There is no point in taking further stock of the candidates vying for the Republican nomination in next month's primary," the Daily News said. "Rick Lazio and Carl Paladino have been that awful."
Most of the newspaper's editorial was devoted to the Republicans' perceived shortcomings, rather than Cuomo's attributes.
The Daily News charged that Lazio, a former congressman from Long Island, "has thrown substantive ideas to the wind in favor of demagoguery free business cards." And it accused Paladino, a Buffalo developer, of offering "proposals [that] range from ill-informed to illegal."
The editorial also referred to two controversies that dogged Paladino's campaign earlier in the year.
"Paladino is also given to insensitivities that would divide New Yorkers," it said. "He has forwarded racist and pornographic emails, including some using the N-word, and contemptibly compared [Assembly Speaker Sheldon] Silver, an Orthodox Jew, to the anti-Christ and Hitler."
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KBR has won two contracts by the Republic of Iraq Ministry of Oil through the South Refineries Co.
KBR will provide licensing and basic engineering services for the construction of fluid catalytic cracking and solvent deasphalting units at the planned grassroots Maissan Refinery in Maissan, Iraq. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Houston-based KBR (NSYE: KBR) plans to license its FCC Technology for an anticipated 47,500 barrels per day FCC unit and its “Rose” technology for a 45,000 barrels per day SDA unit poor credit personal loans.
KBR and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. have formed a joint marketing alliance to work on the FCC unit.
“These awards mark the first wins for KBR’s technology business in Iraq and provide KBR the opportunity to introduce two of its leading refining technologies into an important, emerging market,” Tim Challand, president of KBR Technology, said in a statement.
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Yahoo Japan Corp. said on Tuesday that it will begin to switch over to Google Inc.'s search and advertising technology in the future.
The move is expected to give Google and the Japanese company that is 35 percent owned by Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) a near monopoly on search in Japan. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) has only about 3 percent of the search market in the world's second largest economy, with Yahoo Japan ( 57 percent) and Google (38 percent) making up the rest.
The Japanese telecom company Softbank Corp. owns 40 percent of Yahoo Japan.
Company officials said they began to contemplate a switch to Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) last year after Yahoo announced a partnership with Microsoft in which it is switching to the software giant's Bing search technology Low fee payday loans.
"We looked at this from many angles, but in the end we determined that Google was the better choice," Yahoo Japan CWO Masahiro Inoue said at a briefing in Tokyo.
Yahoo Japan also announced earnings, saying its net income rose 12.6 percent to $248 million in the three months ended June 30.
ATHENS, Greece — Moody’s Investors Service slashed Greece’s credit rating to junk status Monday in a new blow to the debt-ridden country that is under international scrutiny after narrowly avoiding default last month.
A Moody’s statement said it was cutting Greece’s government bond ratings by four notches to Ba1 from A3, with a stable outlook for the next 12-18 months. It was the second of the three major agencies to accord Greek bonds junk status. Standard & Poor’s did the same in late April.
The downgrades reflect concern that the country could fail to meet its obligations to cut its deficit and pay down its debt — which the Greek government says is out of the question.
Finance Ministry officials in Athens had no immediate reaction to the rating cut, which came as a delegation from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union started an interim review of the country’s efforts to pull itself out of a major debt crisis.
After amassing a vast public debt and overspending that sent its budget deficit spiraling to 13.6 percent of gross domestic product last year, Greece was saved from defaulting on its loans in May by the first installment of a joint EU and IMF bailout no credit check payday loans. It is to receive the second in September, pending implementation of a major austerity program that has sparked strong union reaction and a series of damaging strikes.
"The Ba1 rating reflects our analysis of the balance of the strengths and risks associated with the Eurozone/IMF support package," said Sarah Carlson, Moody’s lead analyst for Greece.
"The package effectively eliminates any near-term risk of a liquidity-driven default and encourages the implementation of a credible, feasible and incentive-compatible set of structural reforms, which have a high likelihood of stabilizing debt service requirements at manageable levels.
"Nevertheless, the macroeconomic and implementation risks associated with the program are substantial and more consistent with a Ba1 rating."
Georgia home prices were essentially flat in October from a month earlier, but are still off significantly from the same period last year, according to a report issued Tuesday.
According to the Standard & Poors/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, the price of a home in Atlanta declined 0.2 percent following monthly rebounds in price over the summer months. Still, prices overall are off 8.1 percent from October 2008, though that figure has narrowed.
The report comes a week after the National Association of Realtors said the sales prices of existing homes in November rose 2.4 percent from the same period last year.
Sales volume was up 33 percent over November 2008, one of the deepest months in the recession, according to the NAR report.
"The turn-around in home prices seen in the Spring and Summer has faded with only seven of the 20 cities seeing month-to-month gains, although all 20 continue to show improvements on a year-over-year basis. All in all, this report should be described as flat," David M. Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at Standard & Poor's, said in a statement.
The annual rate of decline has also improved nationally, and is the ninth straight month of improvement. The 10-city and 20-city composite indices were down 6.4 percent and 7.3 percent, respectively, for October.
Then national price was flat in October compared to September.
Denver was the healthiest market among the 20 cities, posting a 0.1 percent drop in home prices. The decline was 0.6 percent in Dallas, the next-healthiest market, according to the monthly survey.
Las Vegas remained the weakest market among the 20 cities, with a drop of 26.6 percent. It was followed by Phoenix, which saw a price decline of 18.1 percent.
The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index tracks sales prices of typical single-family homes in leading metropolitan areas.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be a featured speaker at an economic forum in Atlanta next month.
Bernanke will speak Jan. 3 at the American Economic Association annual meeting at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis.
Bernanke’s speech will open the AEA’s 125th anniversary meeting. The AEA publishes several economics periodicals, including the American Economic Review and the Journal of Economic Literature easy payday loans.
Other notables attending the three-day summit include Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
The reactor would have command-and-control systems and passive safety features, and be buried in an underground containment building and monitored 24-7 with sensors. It wouldn’t need water for cooling. The fuel would be loaded in the factory prior to delivery and there would be enough to operate nearly 20 years. After that, its uranium fuel cartridge would be switched out with a new cartridge. About 95 per cent of the fuel waste from the old cartridges would be recycled into new fuel.
Sandia isn’t the only group thinking this way. Power-plant equipment maker Babcock & Wilcox has entered the small nuclear market, and a number of start-ups – Hyperion Power and NuScale Power among them – are also blazing a trail.
New York State is known as the nation’s financial capital, yet nearly one in 10 of its residents do not have a checking or savings account.
And while Texas is densely populated with banks, nearly a quarter of households in the Dallas-Forth Worth area have gone to a pawn shop or check cashing company recently to carry out a simple financial transaction.
Those were just a few of the findings of a new government survey released Wednesday on Americans’ access to basic banking services.
The survey, which tallied responses from roughly 54,000 U.S. households, marks the first time that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has published such data.
Perhaps one of the biggest revelations of the study was that approximately 7.7% of all U.S. households, or 17 million Americans, were considered "unbanked," meaning they did not have any sort of a checking or savings account.
The most common reason cited, according to the study, was a lack of funds. More than a third of those considered "unbanked" said they did not have enough cash to warrant having a bank account.
In fact, nearly 20% of all U.S. households earning $30,000 or less per year did not have a bank account.
The study also found that almost a quarter of all households headed by someone who didn’t finish high school were considered "unbanked." Meanwhile, nearly one of every five African-American or Hispanic households do not have a checking or savings account, according to FDIC data payday loan.
Another key finding of Wednesday’s survey, was that many Americans that actually have bank accounts still look elsewhere to cash their checks or borrow money.
In fact, nearly 18% of all U.S. households have relied on payday lenders, pawn shops or check-cashing outlets at least once in the past five years.
Such businesses have often been criticized for charging consumers rates that would even make loan sharks blush. In some instances, borrowers pay the equivalent of an annualized interest rate as high as 500%.
People who were polled, however, said they continued to use these services simply because they were convenient or because it was easier to get a loan from them.
Hoping to migrate consumers away from such expensive options, the FDIC has enacted a number of initiatives including a short-term loan pilot program it launched in February 2008.
As part of the program, a select group of banks have agreed to offer short-term loans of up to $2,500 to low-income Americans.
Wednesday’s survey report was yet another effort to expand consumers’ access to basic financial services, agency officials said.
"By better understanding the households that make up this group — who they are and their reasons for being unbanked or underbanked, we will be better positioned to help them take that first step," FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said in a statement.
Loans to households and companies in Europe posted their second straight annual decline in October as the economic slump curtailed demand for credit and made banks more reluctant to lend.
Loans to the private sector fell 0.8 percent from a year earlier after a drop of 0.3 percent in September, the European Central Bank said today. On the month, loans slipped 0.2 percent. M3 money-supply growth, which the ECB uses as a gauge of future inflation, slowed to 0.3 percent in October, the lowest rate since records began in 1981, from 1.8 percent in September.
The economy of the 16-nation euro region resumed expansion in the third quarter after global trade boosted exports and government stimulus measures fueled domestic consumption. Still, growth is likely to remain muted unless credit flows improve and companies and households increase spending. The ECB has cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low of 1 percent and is flooding banks with cash in an effort to revive lending.
“The euro-zone recovery could be held back by a significant number of companies being unable to get the credit that they need,” said Howard Archer, chief economist at IHS Global Insight in London. Today’s data point to “very muted inflationary pressures” and “support the case for the ECB to only very gradually withdraw its emergency liquidity measures and to keep interest rates down at 1 percent until deep into 2010,” he said.
Weak Banks
While an ECB survey last month showed European banks expect to ease credit standards for companies in the fourth quarter after tightening them less aggressively in the third, it may take up to three years for lending to return to pre-crisis levels, according to Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Ltd.
In Germany, Europe’s largest economy, banks may have to write off another 90 billion euros ($136 billion) on bad loans and securitization instruments, the Bundesbank said yesterday.
The world’s largest financial-services companies have racked up more than $1.7 trillion of losses and write-downs since the start of the financial crisis, according to Bloomberg data.
The euro-area economy will expand 0.7 percent in 2010 and 1.5 percent in 2011, after contracting 4 percent this year, the European Commission said on Nov. 3.
M1 Growth Slows
M1, which captures the most liquid form of money in the economy such as cash and overnight deposits, grew 11.8 percent in October from a year earlier, the ECB said, down from an annual increase of 12.8 percent in September.
The ECB has said it will “gradually” withdraw the additional liquidity it has pumped into the banking system as financial markets normalize and the economy strengthens. It has already signaled it is unlikely to offer banks 12-month loans next year after its third tender in December.
Economists don’t expect the ECB to raise interest rates until the third quarter of next year, a Bloomberg survey shows.
“From the real economy side, there’s no single reason why they should hike interest rates or even think about hiking interest rates,” said Carsten Brzeski, senior economist at ING Group in Brussels. “Economic growth is still too fragile.”
Alan Webber, former St. Louisan, co-founder of Fast Company business magazine and author of "Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Yourself," was back in St. Louis last month to speak to the St. Louis group of Southern Illinois University business school alumni.
Webber writes that "Rules of Thumb" originated as notes on 3×5 cards when a business leader said something insightful, those ah-ha moments that you remember and get you thinking.
In the spirit of the book, the answers in this week’s Five Questions are abbreviated so they could be on 3×5 cards (well, maybe spilling over onto both sides).
As a native St. Louisan back in the city, what do you think of how St. Louis has changed and what lies ahead?
When I was working in the mayor’s office in Portland, we believed that downtown is the heart of the city, and neighborhoods have to have a stake in downtown’s success. The mayor went to Seattle and talked with the Nordstrom folks and sketched out where a store might be built in downtown. That store was an iconic project, and it got the backing of the community.
St. Louis needs an iconic project that the community will buy into and support.
In "Rules of Thumb" I use the metaphor of Zoysia grass. The growth spreads out from one plug that takes root and grows. A great example is Delmar Boulevard and what Joe Edwards has done and what has sprung up from what was one restaurant, Blueberry Hill.
How do you make innovation a part of workplace culture?
Creative ideas often come from other places. In Fast Company we had a piece that interviewed a NASCAR pit crew leader on team building, and another focused on a Native American chief on the importance of tribe because a company’s employees are a tribe.
What’s your take on how newspapers might be able to survive and maybe even thrive again?
Storytelling is important. There are so many ways you can connect with readers so that they feel that it’s time well spent. A newspaper should deliver not what’s nice to know, but what one needs to know no teletrack payday loans.
Rule 15 in the book is all about innovation. It suggests that there are four keys to innovation: Chance, connections, conversations and community. Newspapers have a huge opportunity to harness the energy and imagination of their readers.
A newspaper is no longer a one-way communication. It’s a conversation.
It’s an exciting time. Newspapers aren’t ever going to go back to their glory days. They have to reinvent themselves. And someone somewhere is going to go find something that works and show everyone else the way.
In your book, you write that when interviewing business leaders you often got the most revealing answers when you asked "What keeps you up at night?" and "What gets you up in the morning?" So what keeps you up at night?
The state of education in America worries me. In Santa Fe, where I live, 50 percent of students drop out before graduating. In Los Angeles, the number is even higher. The superintendent there said recently, "I don’t know why we keep trying the status quo because it’s obviously not working."
We need to find a way to engage the community to find something that begins to solve this massive urban problem. Otherwise, people vote with their feet — people choose to raise their kids where there are good schools, and that means cities are losing jobs. The smartest cities are talent magnets.
What would be your 53rd Rule of Thumb?
In the book, I left the 53rd Rule of Thumb blank so readers could write in their own. But I learned a lesson recently while hiking in the Grand Canyon. It’s a core rule of hiking. At the bottom of the canyon is the Phantom Ranch, and as you hike up to the rim of the canyon it’s important that you don’t look up. In business and life, when you are faced with a challenge, take things one step at a time. Focus on what’s in front of you. And you’ll get where you’re going one step at a time.
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