Reuters - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron were expected to discuss London-based BP Plc and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Saturday as stormy weather raised fears that clean-up operations could be...

Brian Williams enters a plea of guilty to felony murder Friday. slideshow Bryan Williams takes responsibility for his actions, but thinks he is the fall guy in the slaying of a 19-year-old Cedartown man, at least that is what he told a Superior Court judge Friday afternoon.

AFP - US President Barack Obama assured Mahmud Abbas by telephone on Friday of his commitment to the establishment of a Palestinian state, the Palestinia...

A man was convicted Monday of murder as a hate crime during his retrial on charges that he beat an Ecuadorean immigrant with an aluminum baseball bat after mistaking him and his brother for a gay couple.

Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary

Special bonus offers

• Scottrade 3 Commission Free Trades

Judges hearing an appeal by three former Labour MPs and a Tory peer facing trial over allegations of fiddling their expenses have heard it was not suggested they were making "wild and extravagant" claims of immunity to prosecution.

Ally Bank CD 60-Day Early Withdrawal Penalty from personal finance blog Bargaineering.com.

Long Term Capital Gains Tax Rates Increase in 2011 from personal finance blog Bargaineering.com.

Congress' rejection of proposed additional stimulus funding for states means Arizona would have to resort to painful budget cuts thought to be have been averted when voters approved a temporary sales tax increase, a key legislator said Thursday.

As the clock on the Gulf oil spill ticks past 60 days, the costs are approaching
$22 billion, with no end in sight.  Now, there is growing evidence that errors committed by both the U.S. government and BP PLC (NYSE ADR:…

Filed under: Honeywell Intl (HON), Stocks to Buy

Lawmakers approved the settlement Thursday for Jaycee Dugard, now 30, and her two daughters , who resurfaced last August after being held in a secret backyard by a suspect identified by authorities as Phillip Garrido .

The Supreme Court will decide whether a company can legally retaliate against an employee's friends, relatives or spouse for the employee's filing of a discrimination claim.

If you don't work in IT, you may not be up to speed on VDI yet.

VDI is "virtual desktop infrastructure," and information technology executives have been hearing a lot about it over the past year. It enables them to manage the hundreds or thousands of PCs used by their employees more cost-effectively; rather than running around to each desk to install a new piece of software or an update, the IT crew can deliver the operating system and applications to each user over the network from a central data center. They get more control, and ideally the user can access the same customized desktop set-up whether they are at home, on a netbook, a laptop, or even a smartphone. Whenever she logs in, the same desktop picture is there, with all the ap...

Filed under: Newsletters, Stocks to Buy

"When it comes to banking, many people never encounter a human teller anymore; instead, banking is often done using ATMs, the internet and via smart phones; with a presence in 90-plus countries, Diebold (DBD) likely plays a role in those financial self-service transactions," observes growth and income specialist

An appeals court tossed out the first federal death sentence given in New York in five decades Wednesday, finding that prosecutors improperly advised a jury after it convicted a man of killing two undercover police detectives who were posing as gun buyers.

Filed under: Commodities, Oil

Filed under: Stocks to Buy

AFP - US President Barack Obama sent congratulations to Australia's ...

Yesterday, Vice President Biden and the Energy Department’s Assistant Secretary Cathy Zoi were in Midland, MI, to celebrate the groundbreaking of Dow Kokam's 800,000 square foot battery manufacturing factory.  This is part of the Summer of Recovery, demonstrating successful Recovery Act projects that are putting Americans back to work in the short term and investing in a clean energy economy.  Dow Kokam estimates its project has already created or preserved approximately 100 construction jobs – this will rise to 1,000 jobs at the ...

The Consumerism Commentary Podcast is in full swing with new episodes every Sunday. Listen and subscribe now!

Podcast 61: Summer Money Saving Tips, Flex...

Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary

Special bonus offers

• Scottrade 3 Commission Free Trades

Every once in a while, it pays to go back to school. Even investors who’ve been around the block a time or two need a refresher in some time-tested lessons.
That especially goes for us editors here at Taipan Publishing Group.…

AFP - Japan's Renesas Electronics Corp. said Tuesday it had reached an agreement to buy the wireless modem operations of mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. in a 200 million do...

The school committee cracked down on student attendance this year and now committee member Arthur Beaudry wants to see the board come down on another attendance record.

U.S. health officials have approved a first-of-its-kind technology to counter a leading cause of blindness in older adults - a tiny telescope implanted inside the eye.

Top American business schools are not the only ones expanding worldwide in an effort to widen their global footprint; European b-schools are also setting up new foreign outposts…in the United States, reports a recent BusinessWeek article.

Reaching out to American students is not a new concept for European business schools which have been recruiting American students for the last ten years or so to attend their Europe-based programs. Now, top European business schools are taking this initiative one step further—by opening up satellite campuses on American turf. W...

AP - In a newly optimistic tone, President Barack Obama promised Monday that "th...

Filed under: International Markets, Industry, Economic Data, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis

Filed under: AutoZone Inc (AZO), Stocks to Buy

US Senator Russ Feingold's office says rebate checks for thousands of Wisconsin seniors are in the mail.

An initiative to legalize marijuana for adults in Washington state will not qualify for the fall ballot, an organizer said Thursday.

The state didn't have the right to take about $230 million set aside for tobacco prevention and use it for other purposes because the money was in a protected fund, a lawyer for an anti-smoking group told the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Leslie Van Houten, the one-time Charles Manson follower long seen as the most likely of his ex-acolytes to win freedom someday, faces her 19th parole hearing with a new lawyer and new case law which may give her the best chance yet for release.

According to a recent Washington Post article, medical schools are turning to outreach programs to help them create more diverse student bodies. Medical schools have always had trouble attracting students from underrepresented groups. For example, of the 77,722 medical students in America today, only 7% are African American and 8% are Hispanic. The majority of medical school students are white (at 61%) with a growing percentage of Asian students (at 22%). The remaining 2% account for other traditionally underrepresented student groups, including Native Amer...

AFP - US President Barac...

More and more colleges are signing "no-loan pledges" in an effort to reduce students' post-graduation debt, reports a Washington Post article, "Colleges offer grants, work-study to reduce students' debt."

In order to fill the gap between what colleges charge and what students can afford, many colleges are boosting their work-study opportunities, as well as promising more aid in grants.

Private schools like Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Pe...

Filed under: Ford Motor (F), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP)

A GP who treated Baby P in the months leading to his death "deprived" himself of an opportunity to protect the child, the General Medical Council has ruled.

6 Documents You Need But Hate Thinking About from personal finance blog Bargaineering.com.

Filed under: Allergan (AGN)

It appears that U.S.-based drug makers and cigarette companies caught the attention of traders Tuesday -- at least, that's what they're searching for.

If you want to know what stocks traders are interested in right now at this very second, you need look no further than what's hot in Google.

Here's what's hot Friday:

Continue reading Allergan, BJ's W...

Uganda has found oil, and lots of it. But it lacks the ability to turn crude into needed oil products, like gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and low-sulfur heating oil. Unless it can develop a local way to process the oil…

AFP - President Barack Obama has decided that fiery self defense and withering mockery of Republicans are the best modes of attack, as he tries to save D...

AP - Presiden...

In Mistakes, Lessons, MBA, and more..., the author, A, reveals his 6 criteria for applying to MBA programs in the aptly named post "Shortlisting schools." The six are in order of importance:

1. Intake % of Indian engineers
2. Teaching Methodology
3. Recruitment
4. Culture
5. Clubs/extra-curricular
6. Curriculum and specialization.

I boil down A's 2-5 to three which I rank as follows...

About 700 folks will descend on the Westin Waterfront next week for the fourth annual Enzee Universe conference, put on by Netezza. The publicly-traded Marlborough company sells hardware and software to help big companies run their data warehouses. Netezza's customers buy the technology (average order size is $1.2 million) to crunch large volumes of data in real-time, like figuring out what coupons to give you at CVS based on your purchase, or to calculating the best routes for 18-wheelers delivering goods around the country.

"The over-riding theme of the conference," says Netezza chief executive Jim Baum, "is that you have all these...

Reuters - Democrats on Tuesday planned to strip out a controversial tax from their landmark financial reform bill in ord...

AP - Afghanistan war commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal has left the White ...

1. A Chronicle for Higher Education article reports that according to a recent study released by the U.S. Education Department, women dominate every degree level and will continue to do so over the coming decade. By 2019, the study projects, women will account for 59% of undergraduate students and 61% of graduate students. The gap is widening across all ethnicities and populations, but some minority populations are experiencing a wider gender gap than others. For example, in 2007-2008, black women earned 66% of all undergraduate degrees a...

The Consumerism Commentary Podcast is in full swing with new episodes every Sunday. Listen and subscribe now!

Sales Tax Holidays

Filed under: Newsletters, Stocks to Buy

"The amount of data being transmitted over mobile networks is exploding. Cisco estimates that global mobile data traffic will jump 39 times the current usage by 2014. The only rub? The networks aren't equipped to handle such a massive influx. Not even close," says Lou Basenese.

The editor of White Cap Research Group explains, "A bandwidth crunch is looming just on the horizon, threatening to cripple any network caught with its pants down. And that's ...

3 Ways to Kill the Penny from personal finance blog Bargaineering.com.

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a Wall Street reform bill that advocates are calling the most comprehensive financial reform since the New Deal was signed into law by Franklin Roosevelt 70 years ago.

Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary

Special bonus offers

• Scottrade 3 Commission Free Trades
• Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus

Click here to see the video.

If you're looking for more information on the G-20 Summit in Toronto, we've got plenty to keep you busy, including the Declaration that lays out the enormously broad spectrum of issues that were addressed:

It's good news for some flood victims in Cedar Rapids. We're getting a better idea of who'll be able to apply for up to $10,000 in help starting next week.

AFP - One of President Barack Obama's top allies in the US Congress called Monday for military sp...

The next stage of Lindsay Lohan's life is in a judge's hands. FILE - In this May 24, 2010 file photo, actress Lindsay Lohan appears in a courtroom for a hearing in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Your Take: What Have You Been Putting Off? from personal finance blog Bargaineering.com.

The Consumerism Commentary Podcast is in full swing with new episodes every Sunday. Listen and subscribe now!

Chase Freedom Visa $100 Cash Back Bonus

Energy investors and entrepreneurs often refer to the period between technologies being developed in the lab and making their way to the marketplace as a "valley of death" due to the multitude of factors that can prevent those advancements from reaching the consumer. Today, just miles from the real Death Valley in Nevada, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and I announced a venture that will help promising solar technologies make that journey to the market. The Nevada Test site, which was once used to test nuclear weapons, will now be dedicated to testing new solar technologies that will help put America on a sustain...

A Portland massage therapist accused former Vice President Al Gore of "unwanted sexual contact" at a hotel during an October 2006 visit, but no charges were filed due to lack of evidence, law officials said Wednesday.

Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Adobe Systems (ADBE), Lowe's Cos (LOW), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP)

AFP - In a display of un...

AFP - BP agreed Wednesday to pay 20 billion dollars into a fund to meet mounting oil spill claims, as US President Barack Obama won key concessio...

Filed under: Market Matters, Mutual Funds, Recession

Despite this week's equity rally, investors are nervous about the future. They still fear a double dip. For that reason they are running to pour funds into money markets.

EPFR Global, which tracks th...

AP - President Barack Obama's party could lose its House majority in this fall's elections, his spokesman said Sunday, perhaps trying to jolt Democratic voters with the s...