| Greece Eager for Details on European Aid | | The Greek government is expected to seek further details on the shape of the new loan mechanism when European Union heads of government gather next week. | | New York Times |
| New Tools for Financial Planning Advice | Personal finance tools have long played a couple of roles: money manager and financial product advocate. Now, a couple new tools claim to add another role: financial planner.
| | New York Times | | Tuesday Reading | Why it's harder for some to find doctors, the growing backlash towards rental car companies and other consumer-focused items from Tuesday's Times.
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| Greece Eager for Details on European Aid | The Greek government is expected to seek further details on the shape of the new loan mechanism when European Union heads of government gather next week.
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| European nations allege U.S. protectionism in tanker deal | | PARIS -- A wave of indignation has swept the major industrial nations of Europe over the Pentagon's handling of a $40 billion contract to buy new aerial refueling tankers, with political and economic leaders accusing the Obama administration of protectionism. | | Washington Post | | Visteon judge won't halt benefits termination | | WILMINGTON, Del. -- A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday refused to halt implementation of his order allowing auto parts supplier Visteon Corp. to terminate its retirees' health and life insurance benefits. | | Washington Post | | Boeing sees modest growth in space over five years | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co <BA.N> said on Tuesday it expects only modest growth in its space revenues over the next five years with commercial orders seen accounting for a growing share as government orders decline. | | Washington Post | | Saab to locate North American HQ in Royal Oak | LANSING, Mich. -- Now that General Motors Co. has sold its Saab brand to a Dutch carmaker, the employees who market the brand are moving to a new headquarters in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak.
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| The administration keeps the right principles in amending No Child Left Behind | | EVEN THOUGH the Obama administration is jettisoning the name of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), it is not abandoning the core principles embodied in the 2002 law. The administration has embraced the principles of accountability, disaggregating data and insisting that no student groups -- not minorities, not those with disabilities -- be left behind. The details will be key, but it is heartening that the administration is mapping out a direction true to education reform. Let's hope Congress agrees to go along for the ride. | | Washington Post | | Maryland legislators need to get over their anxiety about a bag tax | | IT'S AN election year in Maryland, so there is a certain nervousness about a measure being debated in the General Assembly to assess a five-cent fee on disposable plastic and paper bags. The accepted wisdom is: Don't raise taxes if you want to get reelected. Such thinking misunderstands the philosophy behind the bag bill and underestimates the public's desire to do something for the environment. Maryland lawmakers need only look across the border to the District to see why they should enact this bill. | | Washington Post | | Targeting illegal immigrants, Arizona goes too far | | IN ARIZONA, where the official malice directed at immigrants who came to the United States illegally is unsurpassed, Republican lawmakers are pushing a bill that would criminalize every such immigrant just for being in the state. It's the latest attempt to harass, intimidate and hound the state's several hundred thousand undocumented residents. | | Washington Post | | The U.S. quarrel with Israel | PRESIDENT OBAMA'S Middle East diplomacy failed in his first year in part because he chose to engage in an unnecessary and unwinnable public confrontation with Israel over Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Over the past six months Mr. Obama's envoys gingerly retreated from that fight and worked to build better relations with the government of Binyamin Netanyahu. Last week the administration finally managed to strike a deal for the launching of indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks. So it has been startling -- and a little puzzling -- to see Mr. Obama deliberately plunge into another public brawl with the Jewish state.
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| Dollar falls as the Fed keeps rates at record lows |
NEW YORK -- The dollar dropped Tuesday as investors found comfort in the Federal Reserve's slightly upbeat assessment of the economy, while the central bank repeated its pledge to hold interest rates at record lows to help nurture the economic recovery.
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Fed renews vow to keep rates low WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve renewed its pledge on Tuesday to keep interest rates near zero for an "extended period" even as it sounded more upbeat about jobs. The central bank's nod to a firmer job market after the deepest recession in decades offered...
| | Washington Post | | Senate bill would penalize China over yuan |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of the Congress on Tuesday threatened Beijing with duties on some of its exports if it fails to revalue its currency, pressuring the Obama administration to label China a currency manipulator.
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| European nations allege U.S. protectionism in tanker deal |
PARIS -- A wave of indignation has swept the major industrial nations of Europe over the Pentagon's handling of a $40 billion contract to buy new aerial refueling tankers, with political and economic leaders accusing the Obama administration of protectionism.
| | Washington Post | | World Digest: Former defense minister front-runner in Colombia election |
COLOMBIA With results from congressional elections trickling in Monday, Juan Manuel Santos, a former defense minister who marshaled U.S. aid to thrash Marxist guerrillas, has consolidated his position as the front-runner to succeed Álvaro Uribe as president of Colombia.
| | Washington Post | | Reports shine light on nuclear weapons vigilance |
While public attention is focused on a new arms-control treaty between Russia and the United States, the slow, dull work of keeping nuclear warheads and weapons-grade uranium and plutonium protected from terrorists goes on almost unnoticed.
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| Branding stakes | | There's a reason Polaroid figures nearly as prominently as Lady Gaga does in the pop singer's latest music video "Telephone": it's in her financial interest to make sure the once iconic brand gets as much camera time as she does.
While Gaga and Polaroid each got a... | | New York Post | | Business briefs | | GE boost General Electric said it will increase its dividend in 2011, two years after the company reduced it to save money as its financial arm struggled, and told analysts GE sees potential for retiring its preferred stock and opportunities for stock buybacks.Home blues US housing starts fell in... | | New York Post |
| Swept up in 'net | | The Federal Communications Commission yesterday unveiled its long-awaited plan to bring affordable, high-speed Internet access to 90 percent of the US by 2020 -- but that adage that the road to hell is paved with good intentions just might apply in this case.
While making super-fast Web access available might... | | New York Post | | AMI's Pecker raids Meredith's Parent stable | | For the second time in two days, American Media, whose National Enquirer got the scoops on John Edwards' love child, has successfully raided Meredith Corp., publisher of Ladies Home Journal and Better Homes and Gardens.
On Monday, Diane Newman resigned as senior vice president of Meredith in charge of the... | | New York Post | | Hope in the Fuld | | He may be one of the most vilified men coming out of the financial crisis, but ex-Lehman Brothers boss Dick Fuld is feeling vindicated in the wake of last week's 2,200-page report by a court-appointed bank examiner, sources tell The Post.
Fuld privately believes that the report by... | | New York Post | | Nexus One sales slower than iPhone | | Google's Nexus One phone is selling at a slower pace than the first iPhone, reaching about 135,000 units in the time it took Apple to sell 1 million, according to Flurry Inc. The original iPhone hit the 1 million mark after 74 days on sale in 2007. The... | | New York Post |
| These women want to make you skinny | | It?s Friday morning at a sleek Midtown office, and a sharp-suited businessman is waiting his turn. Suddenly a door swings open and an enviably thin woman in a bustier, tight pants and 4-inch heels strides across the room to shake his hand.
?Hey, sexy,? he says, leaning in for... | | New York Post |
| THE FOREVER BUILDING | 
They dug the Erie Canal in less time than it's going to take to bring down the 9/11-scarred former Deutsche Bank building in Lower Manhattan. And they dug it by hand. Hell, America put a man on the moon in less time than it's going to take to... | | New York Post | | THE TWO BILL THOMPSONS |
New York City public-school kids are testing higher, moving up to the next grade better prepared and graduating in larger numbers. But never mind that: City Comptroller Bill Thompson thinks officials are paying a few bucks more than necessary... | | New York Post | | BIBI'S REBUFF |
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netan yahu yesterday offered a rebuttal to President Obama's Middle East agenda -- explaining why the onus of peacemaking with the Palestinians belongs on the Arab side, and why the real top issue confronting... | | New York Post | | HOW OBAMACARE STRANGLES REFORM |
WHILE Washington battles over President Obama's health-care scheme, real reform is under way elsewhere -- in places like Indiana, Utah, and Louisiana. Under the stewardship of innovative governors, programs in these states are giving patients more... | | New York Post |
| Federal Reserve to End Mortgage Program | | The Fed will end its purchases of $1.25 trillion of mortgage backed securities as scheduled amid indications a recovery is progressing. Rate will stay low for an "extended period." | | Wall Street Journal | | Geithner: Jobless Rate Unacceptable | | Geithner and other top Obama administration officials called the U.S. unemployment rate unacceptable and urged lawmakers to support the president's efforts to spur job creation. | | Wall Street Journal | | Housing Starts Sink | | Winter storms slowed new home construction in February, with housing starts sliding 5.9%, the latest blow for a housing market that remains strained by foreclosures and tight credit. | | Wall Street Journal | | Euro-Zone Inflation Slows | | Consumer prices in the 16 countries that share the euro rose at a slower pace in February than in January due to broad-based but slight changes in prices, final official data confirmed. | | Wall Street Journal |
| Greek Aid Options Narrowed | | Euro-zone finance ministers took steps toward drawing up plans for a possible Greek bailout, but they stopped short of agreeing to make one available. | | Wall Street Journal | | Euro-Zone Inflation Slows | | Consumer prices in the 16 countries that share the euro rose at a slower pace in February than in January due to broad-based but slight changes in prices, final official data confirmed. | | Wall Street Journal | | Swiss Government Upgrades Forecasts | | Switzerland's economic growth will likely accelerate in the course of 2010 and the unemployment rate will be lower than expected this year and next, the Swiss government said. | | Wall Street Journal | | Shell's Prospects Brighten | | Shell told investors it has turned a corner after a difficult few years, predicting strong output and cash-flow growth and declaring 2009 its best year for exploration in a decade.. | | Wall Street Journal |
| Tech Wealth Gap Widens | | A handful of cash-rich companies are consolidating power in the tech industry, using their wealth to expand into new businesses and making it harder for small competitors to break through. | | Wall Street Journal | | Start-Ups Take Chips Into 3-D | | Silicon Valley start-ups Tier Logic and Tabula are breaking from conventional chip designs by taking a step into the third dimension to squeeze more features onto chips. | | Wall Street Journal | | Google's China Partners Issue Plea | | A group of Google's partners in China have sent an impassioned plea to the Internet giant, saying their businesses are in jeopardy if Google closes its Chinese search engine and demanding to know how they will be compensated. | | Wall Street Journal | | Nexus One to Compete With iPhone | | Google has started selling a version of its Nexus One phone that runs on AT&T's 3G network, putting it in direct competition with Apple's iPhone. | | Wall Street Journal |
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