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ALEX BRUMMER: James Crosby does the right thing and gives up his knighthood – This is Money

April 10, 2013

By Alex Brummer PUBLISHED: 19:05 EST, 9 April 2013 | UPDATED: 19:05 EST, 9 April 2013 It is unprecedented in modern times for someone voluntarily to give up a knighthood. So James Crosby, the former chief executive of HBOS, deserves enormous credit for recognising that relinquishing an honour for financial services after an excoriating report […]

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American companies ‘insourcing’ – ABC Online

April 9, 2013

EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: While Julia Gillard is talking up business opportunities in China, a growing number of American companies are leaving the country, rethinking their decisions to outsource over the past decade. It’s been dubbed the insourcing boom and big names like GE and whirl pool are among those moving some of their operations back […]

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Stanley May Turn Deal with Tyco Int. – TheStreet.com

April 9, 2013

NEW YORK (TheDeal) — Stanley Black & Decker Inc. ( SWK ) has a long history of reinventing itself through deals, having transformed the company from a pre-depression era maker of bolts to a $10.2 billion manufacturer of tools, security systems and medical equipment. But there is reason to […]

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Onshoring trend is overhyped, say shipping chiefs – South China Morning Post

April 9, 2013

The shift of manufacturing and outsourcing to China, which started after the mainland joined the World Trade Organisation in 2001, has probably ended. But the scale of the move back to production in Europe and the Americas has been exaggerated, a senior shipping executive says. Andy Tung Lieh-cheung, the chief executive of Orient Overseas Container […]

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Manufacturing growth to outpace GDP in 2013, 2014: Kiplinger – The Business Journal of Milwaukee (blog)

April 9, 2013

The auto industry will continue to grow in the next two years, as manufacturing leads the slow economic recovery. Jeff Engel Reporter- The Business Journal Email  | Twitter  | LinkedIn  | Google+ Manufacturing will continue to lead the feeble economic recovery over the next two years, according to an April forecast from The Kiplinger Washington Editors Inc. Kiplinger […]

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Better late than never: Vodafone arrives at the 4G/LTE party – PC World Magazine

April 9, 2013

Telecommunications provider, Vodafone, appears to be the latest to join the 4G/LTE party, announcing “the pending arrival” of its own 4G network across five capital cities. In a statement, Vodafone said a staged roll-out will reach Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, Wollongong, Newcastle and the Gold Coast. Vodafone said its customers will be “invited” […]

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TD Economics: Housing Market Recovery Will Continue to Lift Commercial Real … – Sacramento Bee

April 9, 2013

CHERRY HILL, N.J. and PORTLAND, Maine, April 9, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — TD Economics (www.td.com/economics), an affiliate of TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®, released a special report today indicating that recovery in the housing market augers for continued improvement in U.S. commercial real estate over the next two years. Despite challenges – including gradually rising […]

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Thatcher’s economic reforms influenced the world, but the next big changes won … – The Independent

April 9, 2013

There are not many state-owned airlines left in developed countries, and Germany’s success in the past decade in cutting its unemployment from one of the highest in Europe to one of the lowest is a result of the Hartz reforms, which brought its labour practices much closer to those of the UK. But if you […]

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Why Gov’t Control over Financial Markets has to Grow! – Gold Seek

April 9, 2013

— Posted Tuesday, 9 April 2013 | | Disqus Growth of control by banks and government Quietly, but thoroughly, governments and the banking system have taken an ever increasing role in every aspect of the economy and individuals lives. Where in the distant past cash was the only means of exchange, cash is now controlled […]

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6 Reasons To Buy This Slumbering Tech Giant – NASDAQ

April 9, 2013

“Apple computers? Aren’t those for artists and graphic-design nerds?” I asked the salesman demonstrating an early version of the Apple Macintosh desktop computer in the early 1990s. “I need a real computer, not something to paint pretty pictures on and design flowers with.” “You will understand one day, friend,” he said with a smile. […]

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