Buying chicken these days is not like it used to be. With labels like “100 percent natural,” “organic,” “grain-fed,” and “free range,” many consumers don’t really know what they’re buying.
Reuters - Retail sales barely rose in April, as
a relentless surge in gasoline prices made consumers cut back
other types of spending, according to a report released on
Monday.
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Reuters - Stocks fell on Monday, weighed down
by uncertainty over the health of the U.S. economy and surging
oil and commodity prices, while Japanese exporters felt the
pinch from a stronger yen.
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Reuters - Oil hovered close to record levels above
$126 a barrel on Monday as violence in the Middle East
heightened worries of supply disruptions in the world’s largest
crude producing region.
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Cablevision Systems Corp. is close to buying the Long Island newspaper Newsday from Tribune Co. for $650 million, a person with knowledge of the situation said Sunday.
Reuters - Tribune Co is close to an agreement to
sell its Newsday newspaper to Cablevision Systems Corp
and an announcement could come as early as Monday, a source
familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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Reuters - EnCana Corp , Canada’s
biggest energy company, said on Sunday it plans to split into
two separate oil and natural gas firms in an effort to wring
out more value with crude prices at record highs.
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Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign rejected suggestions Sunday that Sen. Hillary Clinton is staying in the race in hopes of brokering some kind of agreement with the likely Democratic nominee.
After reaching 1.5283 in early Wednesday trade the dollar rally ran out of gas for the rest of the week as uber hawkish Jean Claude Trichet dismissed any possibility of near term rate cuts causing a quick short covering rally in the EURUSD. For the week however, the US data…
Reuters - Tribune Co is close to a deal to sell
Newsday to Cablevision Systems Corp for $650 million,
the Long Island paper reported on its website on Sunday, citing
people familiar with the negotiations.
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Friday’s releases were pretty much lacking in any great influence. The U.S. trade deficit was actually relatively positive from the point of view that lower imports helped it to come in narrower than expected but still at these levels of deficit there is still little positive.
AP - After slashing inventory and cutting expenses, the retail industry is still bracing for the largest overall quarterly profit decline in at least nine years when merchants report their first-quarter earnings this week.
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Against the backdrop of a stunning Texas sunset, near a lake on the Bush family’s 1,600-acre ranch, President Bush walked his daughter, Jenna, down the aisle to her groom, the White House said.
The COMT gene - known already for its role in schizophrenia - has been found to play a role in preeclampsia, according to a report in today’s advance on-line issue of Nature. Led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), the study further suggests that a steroid molecule, 2-ME, may serve as both a diagnostic marker and therapeutic supplement for the treatment of this dangerous pregnancy disorder.
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have illuminated a window into how abnormalities in microRNAs, a family of molecules that regulate expression of numerous genes, may contribute to the behavioral and neuronal deficits associated with schizophrenia and possibly other brain disorders.
In the May 11 issue of Nature Genetics, Maria Karayiorgou, M.D., professor of psychiatry, and Joseph A. Gogos, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of physiology and neuroscience at Columbia University Medical Center explain how they uncovered a previously unknown alteration in the production of microRNAs of a mouse modeled to have the same chromosome 22q11.2 deletions previously identified in humans with schizophrenia.
Reuters - EnCana Corp , Canada’s
biggest energy company, said on Sunday it plans to split itself
into separate oil and natural gas companies in efforts to lift
its value with crude prices at record highs.
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AP - With millions of stimulus checks going out to taxpayers, Wall Street wants to know where that money will be spent — and this week’s data could help investors gauge the mind-set of the average consumer.
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AP - Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is good for business — if you run a bike shop.
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Retail gasoline prices jumped to yet another record high Sunday, according to drivers’ advocacy group AAA’s Web site.
For decades, evangelicals have been seen as solid supporters of the Republican Party. That could be changing.
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