- China New Village in the Sky Makes Chanos Predict Dubai One Thousand Times The township of Huaxi in the Yangtze River Delta is a proud symbol of how Chinese communists embraced capitalism to lift 300 million people out of poverty during the past three decades.
- Republicans Voting Against Stimulus Asked Obama for Help Getting Stimulus Alabama Republicans Jo Bonner and Robert Aderholt took to the U.S. House floor in July, denouncing the Obama administration’s stimulus plan for failing to boost employment. “Where are the jobs?” each of them asked.
- Euro's Worst to Come as Derivatives Show Greece Hammerlocking ECB on Rates Derivative traders are signaling that the euro’s slump to a nine-month low will continue even if European Union leaders bail out Greece.
- Bacon Doubling Down on Oil as Tepper Buys Airlines Portend Stock Rebound The world’s most successful hedge funds are snapping up energy producers, mining companies and airlines, a sign that managers from Louis Bacon to David Tepper are convinced the economy will accelerate.
- Tiger Woods's Televised Apology Freezes Wall Street Trading: Chart of Day For a few minutes, Tiger Woods was bigger than Ben S. Bernanke.
- Facebook Said to Offer More Ways to Pay for Tractors, Fish Food in Games Facebook Inc. is expanding a service called Facebook Credits that gives it a 30 percent cut of sales from tractors, fish food and guns in online games, according to four people who have held discussions with the company.
- Mittal Puts Credibility to Test in $9 Billion Bharti Offer for Zain Africa For Sunil Mittal, Bharti Airtel Ltd.’s founder and chairman, there’s a lot riding on the planned $9 billion purchase of the African assets of Kuwait’s Zain, not least of which is his credibility.
- Spitzer Says Brokerage Fees, Now Reinstated, Fueled `Improper Practices' Eliot Spitzer, the former New York attorney general whose 2005 curbs on insurance-broker compensation were reversed by regulators this week, said the fees that he banned “created inherent conflicts.”
- Firestone Flees Moscow `Mafia' Police as Browder Hermitage Dispute Widens Jamison Firestone, who spent 18 years helping U.S. companies navigate Russia’s legal system, said he fled the country because he’s the next target of “mafia” law-enforcement officials he says were responsible for the death of his colleague Sergei Magnitsky.
- Yanukovych's Russian Overtures May Signal Ukraine's Shifting Allegiance Ukraine’s President-elect Viktor Yanukovych may be stepping up efforts to move the former Soviet state closer to Russia and end a standoff that’s obstructed gas flows and heightened regional tensions for half a decade.
- Zamboni Laments Brand Confusion Over Vancouver Winter Olympic Ice Machines It wasn’t a Zamboni. That’s the message from Frank J. Zamboni & Co. after reports from the Winter Olympics suggested the ice-cleaning machines that leaked and forced delays in speedskating events were made by the U.S. manufacturer.
- Eastern Europe Bolstered by Greek Woes as Lower Deficits Lure Pimco, HSBC Investors are returning to eastern Europe a year after the region’s banking crisis triggered a global market selloff, as concern Greece may be unable to fund itself bolsters countries with lower borrowing needs.
Bloomberg Daily News 22nd February 2010
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