NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures were flat on Tuesday as investors held back from making large bets ahead of an onslaught of corporate earnings and after recently notching five-year highs. Both the Dow and S&P 500 closed at their highest levels the earnings season. U.S. markets were closed on Monday for a public holiday. Despite stronger-than-expected earnings...
Jan
21
IHT Rendezvous: Obama's Second Term: Not Necessarily Cursed
Label: WorldWASHINGTON — Second-term U.S. presidents encounter political turbulence, their poll ratings plummet as the public sours. Right? Wrong.In my latest Letter from Washington, I lay out who in Washington believes Barack Obama has a chance of actually accomplishing something in his second term and who doesn’t — and why.(Technically, Mr. Obama has already begun his second term. He was sworn in on January...
Why Google Isn’t Scared of Facebook’s Graph Search
Label: TechnologyFacebook may have just released a major search product that many are saying “declares war” on Google or may at least put the social network “on a collision course” with the search giant, but Google CEO Larry Page doesn’t sound all that worried about the new competition. Because who said Facebook and Google couldn’t get along someday? In an interview for the new issue of Wired published...
Mandy Moore & Minka Kelly Have a Makeup-Free Brunch in West Hollywood
Label: Lifestyle Caught in the Act 01/21/2013 at 08:00 AM EST Minka Kelly and Mandy Moore Splash News Online Mandy Moore and Minka Kelly are ladies who brunch.Joined by another female friend, the pair stepped out for brunch at BLD in West Hollywood on Saturday.
"They were very...
European shares test two-year highs, yen volatile before BOJ
Label: BusinessLONDON (Reuters) - European shares inched towards two-year highs and German Bund futures dipped on Monday, as a political attempt to break a budget impasse in the United States revived appetite for shares and dented demand for safe-haven assets. U.S. House Republican leaders said on Friday they would seek to pass a three-month extension of federal borrowing authority in the coming days...
Jan
20
India Ink: Modern Lessons From Arranged Marriages
Label: WorldWHETHER arranged marriages produce loving, respectful relationships is a question almost as old as the institution of marriage itself. In an era when 40 to 50 percent of all American marriages end in divorce, some marriage experts are asking whether arranged marriages produce better relationships in the long run than do typical American marriages, in which people find each other on their own and romance...
Why does Michelle Obama need two Twitter accounts?
Label: TechnologyMichelle Obama is on Twitter! That was big news on Thursday, the first lady’s birthday. The White House announced that Mrs. Obama had launched a new Twitter account, @FLOTUS, and lots of folks chimed in with messages welcoming her to the world of micro-blogging social media.But hold it – wasn’t she already on Twitter? We’ve been following @MichelleObama since the beginning of the 2012 presidential...
Jennifer Lawrence Trashes Her Oscar Rivals - for Laughs
Label: Lifestyle By Stephen M. Silverman 01/20/2013 at 08:45 AM EST Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Lawrence How to get the jump on your sister Oscar nominees? Host Saturday Night Live – and come out punching. That was Jennifer Lawrence's modus operandi this weekend, with the Silver Linings Playbook's Best Actress...
More than 140 nations adopt treaty to cut mercury
Label: HealthGENEVA (AP) — A new and legally binding international treaty to reduce harmful emissions of mercury was adopted Saturday by more than 140 nations, capping four years of difficult negotiations but stopping short of some of the tougher measures that proponents had envisioned.The new accord aims to cut mercury pollution from mining, utility plants and a host of products and industrial processes, by setting...
Wall Street Week Ahead: Earnings, money flows to push stocks higher
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - With earnings momentum on the rise, the S&P 500 seems to have few hurdles ahead as it continues to power higher, its all-time high a not-so-distant goal. The U.S. equity benchmark closed the week at a fresh five-year high on strong housing and labor market data and a string of earnings that beat lowered expectations. Sector indexes in transportation...
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