Reuters - Proud owners of Apple Inc.'s
iPhone raved about their first day with the device on
Saturday, but a glitch took the shine off the year's most
anticipated device for a few unlucky customers.
Reuters - BCE Inc , Canada's largest
telecommunications group, announced the biggest buyout in
Canadian corporate history on Saturday, accepting an offer
worth C$51.7 billion ($48.5 billion), including debt, from a
group including the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.
Reuters - Lamps, birthday candles, mouse traps
and flip-flops. Such is the stuff that binds the modern
American family to the global economy, author Sara Bongiorni
discovers during a year of boycotting anything made in China.
Reuters - Kuwaiti logistics provider Agility
said on Saturday it was part of a group with U.S.
firm Dyncorp International which won a $50 billion deal
from the U.S. military.
Reuters - Boeing Co. has been awarded
an 11-year, $2.02 billion contract for 242 wing sets for the
Air Force's A-10 fleet designed to support ground troops, the
Pentagon said on Friday.
Investor’s Business Daily - The Nat'l Assn. of Purchasing Management's regional business activity surveys rose in June. The Chicago-area gauge eased to 60.2 vs. 61.7, but still remains solid. The Milwaukee index jumped to 66 from 58. Better auto production and exports helped, and could boost national activity. The index for New York City rose to 451.5 from 450.2, and the outlook improved as well.
Investor’s Business Daily - Investors yanked $9.99 billion from mutual funds focused on U.S. stocks in May, even as the market bobbed and weaved to higher ground.
FT.com - US stocks were potentially looking at a brighter start on Friday, after a closely watched measure of inflation fell back into the Federal Reserve's comfort zone.
Reuters - In a sign of the growing influence
that restaurants have on how and where consumers spend their
money, a major retail trade group has included for the first
time six restaurant companies on its list of the top 100
retailers, released on Friday.
Reuters - BCE Inc, Canada's largest
telecommunications group, on Saturday accepted a C$51.7 billion
($48.5 billion) offer from a group including the Ontario
Teachers Pension Plan, and said it would be the largest buyout
in Canadian corporate history.
Reuters - AT&T Inc. sold almost all
its initial stock of Apple Inc.'s iPhone within hours
of the device going on sale, an AT&T spokesman said on
Saturday.
Reuters - Lamps, birthday candles, mouse traps
and flip-flops. Such is the stuff that binds the modern
American family to the global economy, author Sara Bongiorni
discovers during a year of boycotting anything made in China.
Reuters - Kuwaiti logistics provider Agility
said on Saturday it was part of a group with U.S.
firm Dyncorp International which won a $50 billion deal
from the U.S. military.
Reuters - Boeing Co. has been awarded
an 11-year, $2.02 billion contract for 242 wing sets for the
Air Force's A-10 fleet designed to support ground troops, the
Pentagon said on Friday.
Investor’s Business Daily - The Nat'l Assn. of Purchasing Management's regional business activity surveys rose in June. The Chicago-area gauge eased to 60.2 vs. 61.7, but still remains solid. The Milwaukee index jumped to 66 from 58. Better auto production and exports helped, and could boost national activity. The index for New York City rose to 451.5 from 450.2, and the outlook improved as well.