Thursday, November 8, 2012

Wall Street Journal

  • Sales Drop Tarnishes Golden Arches

    Photo: Philip Montgomery for The Wall Street Journal. McDonald's Corp. reported the first drop in its monthly same-store sales in nine years, a signal that the Golden Arches might be losing their shine.

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  • PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - Nov 8

    Nov 8 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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  • Sandy Costs United Continental $35 Million in Lost Profit

    WSJ Video chronicles the unfolding and aftermath of Superstorm Sandy from warnings and preparation to landfall, wreckage, relief and recovery.

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  • Wal-Mart Faces India Investment Probe

    2 and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, asked the Enforcement Directorate to take "appropriate action" if it finds evidence the U.S.

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  • WSJ gets lost in the weeds with the Romney campaign

    The WSJ's central point is that Romney, one of the richest men ever to be nominated for president, lost because his campaign didn't have enough money between the primaries and the conventions.

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  • Taxman Unlocks the Private Club

    As America digested the results of its latest presidential contest, The Wall Street Journal reported that closely held Yates Petroleum is seeking bidders for what could be a $3 billion deal.

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  • Commerzbank: More Misery Likely

    People familiar with the matter had told The Wall Street Journal that between 300 and 400 retail branches of the currently targeted 1,200 were under review with an eye to possible closures and that between 1,000 and 1,800 of the 18,000 jobs in the ...

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  • The AM Roundup: The 'B' Word, Obama's Stamp on SCOTUS, More

    Keeping mum: More than two dozen companies in the past five years didn't disclose Chapter 11 bankruptcy preparations to investors, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of regulatory filings. WSJ. SCOTUS: Should vacancies arise on the narrowly ...

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  • Euro Falls to Two-Month Low

    Meanwhile, the euro traded at ¥101.20 from ¥102.97 late Wednesday. The U.K. pound was at $1.5977 from $1.5986, while the dollar bought 0.9458 Swiss franc from 0.9449 franc.

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  • WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS

    WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS · stumbleupon: WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS · digg: US Works With Sudan Government Suspected Of Aiding Genocide · reddit: WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS · del.icio.us: WALL STREET ...

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  • Ex-Oil Man to Be NamedAnglicans' Global Leader

    "I had a sense of getting called by God to get ordained and being unable to escape that," he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in September. "I thought I would just be a vicar running parish churches," he said at the time, adding that ...

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  • WSJ: CIC Close to Signing Timber Deal with Brookfield — Sources

    The Wall Street Journal reported in September that CIC was in talks with Brookfield about investing in timber and other types of infrastructure assets that could act as a hedge against inflation.

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  • For Sebastian Faulks, It's Rackets and Rugby

    By JAVIER ESPINOZA. The British author talks to The Wall Street Journal about how he starts his weekend. Sebastian Faulks seems to have been destined to become a man of words.

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  • China in Tug of War on Yuan

    Since the yuan's limit-hitting streak began on Oct. 25, the yuan has inched down a negligible 0.02% against the dollar. In comparison, The Wall Street Journal dollar index, which tracks the U.S. currency against a basket of major currencies has risen 0 ...

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  • Muted Economic Toll Seen From Sandy

    By PHIL IZZO. Sandy will take a bite out of an already lackluster fourth quarter but the superstorm's effect on holiday-season spending is likely to be limited, according to economists in the latest Wall Street Journal survey.

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  • Top China Stories from WSJ: LDK Solar, Briton's Spy Links, Nissan

    ... double bluff: He had been knowingly providing information about the Bo family to Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, for more than a year when he was murdered in China last November, an investigation by The Wall Street Journal has ...

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  • The Daily Docket: Trustee Attacks A123′s Bid to Pay Bankruptcy Bonuses

    More than two dozen companies in the past five years, including Eastman Kodak Co. and AMR Corp. , didn't tell investors they were readying for bankruptcy, The Wall Street Journal reports. Dexia is getting 5.5 billion euros ($7.01 billion) in new ...

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  • Summly: Great Technology, But the Wrong Application

    (News Corp. owns The Wall Street Journal). Summly has also won attention for the age of its founder, Nick D'Alosio, who turned 17 on Thursday—the same day the app launched.

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  • CIMB CEO: Obama Win Is Good for Asia

    "In terms of engagement and understanding of Asia, we've got the right president, that's for sure," Nazir Razak said Thursday in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in Sydney. Response to Mr. Obama's re-election has been muted in Asia, now ...

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  • How Did Pollsters Fare on Election Night?

    National polls just ahead of the election showed President Barack Obama holding a slim lead, and he was ahead by 2.2 percentage points in the ongoing national popular-vote count on Wednesday morning.

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