Full text of Barack Obama's state of the union address The Guardian | The US president's first state of the union speech | The words used most frequently by Barack Obama in his state of the union address. Photograph: Wordle.net | Madam Speaker, Vice President Biden, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: | Our Constitution declares that fro...
Australia expects entry of more Filipino workers as economy recovers Inquirer | Most Read Business Bidding for SCTEx contract fails Why locally sold cars are still better than grey-market options Licensed to shout Moody's raises outlook on RP banks Clark airport expansion to force Subic airport closure Enrile will not be ousted – Roxas Unfriendly skies DBP to build 'green' of...
Chinese factor behind up and down of gold Metals Place | Currently, the metal markets are correcting as most pundits are calling for a bubble collapse in all commodities. The prices of metals both precious and base moved up rapidly throughout 2009 resulting in rapid gains. | The market needed a healthy c...
Tullow looks to China and Total after Heritage Ugandan deal The Guardian | The long running saga of the Ugandan oil assets jointly owned by and Heritage Oil seems to be heading towards a resolution. | Heritage had put its half share of the fields up for sale and accepted a $1.5bn bid from Italy's Eni, before Tullow steppe...
China's CNOOC emerges from shadows, eyes big deal The Guardian * Tullow deal would be CNOOC's largest outbound buy since '06 * Deal would help CNOOC meet aggressive production targets * Assets would start contributing to CNOOC in 2014 By Sui-Lee Wee and Joseph Chaney HONG KONG, Feb 8 (Reuters) - China National O...
Baker Hughes Announces January 2010 Rig Counts redOrbit Posted on: Friday, 5 February 2010, 11:39 CST | HOUSTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI) announced today that the international rig count for January 2010 was 1,047, up 23 from the 1,024 counted in December 2009...
Markets Fall After Report of Lending Limits in China The New York Times | China's main stock market led global exchanges lower Wednesday after a newspaper report said some Chinese banks were ordered to stop lending for the rest of January after exceedi...
Asian Stocks Fall The New York Times | Filed at 1:30 a.m. ET | BANGKOK (AP) -- Asian stock markets were mostly lower Wednesday amid renewed fears of Chinese lending curbs and jitters about U.S. corporate earnings that...
Subsea 7 rides out slowdown Upstream Online | Oslo-listed offshore engineering company Subsea 7 boosted profits and margins in the fourth quarter of 2009 compared with the year-ago period despite a slip in overall revenues amid slower industry activity. | Subsea 7, which bases its operations i...
Oil firm contributes to charity homes The Star | KOTA KINABALU: Two charity homes in Sabah received RM10,000 each under Murphy Oil Malaysia's community outreach programme. | The homes are PDK Kota Kinabalu - a rehabilitation centre for special children, and Bukit Harapan - a shelter for orphans a...
China's US spending passes landmark Asia Times | By Benjamin A Shobert | Outbound investment by Chinese businesses in United States entities last year exceeded for the first time US investments in Chinese companies, according to a recent report from Dealogic, a fact too easily lost amid cries of ...
Toyota says it will act soon on Priuses The Boston Globe | TOKYO - said yesterday that it will soon announce plans to deal with braking problems in its prized Prius hybrid amid reports it has decided to issue a recall for the vehicle in Japan, a possible new embarrassment for the world's biggest automaker. | Toyota Motor Corp. has had to recall more than 7 million other cars in the United States, Europe,...
Stalled Health Care Bill Leaves Drug Makers in Regulatory Limbo The New York Times | With the possible demise of health care legislation, getting back to business as usual may not be the best thing for the nation's drug makers. | After all, in return for the prospect of tens of millions of newly insured customers and a large degree of regulatory certainty, the pharmaceutical industry had agreed to pay a relatively small price: $8...
