Feds start wait list for DTV converter box coupons - Bucyrus Telegraph Forum WASHINGTON -- The Commerce Department says there's a waiting list for anyone applying for federal coupons to pay for converter boxes ahead of the transition to digital television broadcasts. The waiting list started forming Sunday after the $1.34 ...
Falling crude prices squeeze Chavez oil diplomacy - Katu.com CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's slumping oil earnings are starting to squeeze President Hugo Chavez's public spending spree and curb the international aid he uses to counter U.S. influence. State-owned Citgo Petroleum Corp., which is based in ...
Bank of America, Li Ka-Shing Reduce Holdings of Chinese Banks - Bloomberg Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. sold $2.8 billion of China Construction Bank Corp. shares to boost capital and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing is raising as much as $524 million in Bank of China Ltd. stock sales. Bank of America offered ...
Can New Regulation Stop Another Madoff? - Forbes After a disastrous year that spelled the demise of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and the end of Merrill Lynch 's independence, Bernard Madoff's alleged $50 billion swindle has added new urgency to calls to reform regulation of the U.S. financial ...
Apple unveils new iTunes prices, 8-hour laptop battery - Popmatters.com SAN FRANCISCO - With company icon Steve Jobs a no-show at the 25th annual Macworld, Apple on Tuesday unveiled a radically new pricing plan for music sold through its online iTunes store that could give a boost to the sagging recording industry and ...
