- Chinese Turbines Spun by Texas Winds Spur `Buy American' Push Chinese turbines powered by west Texas winds are sparking a debate over whether “Buy American” rules should be imposed on renewable-energy investments backed by the U.S. government.
- Goldman Sachs Boosts Nashville's Debt 40% for Convention Center Nashville, home of country-music stars such as Taylor Swift and the Grand Ole Opry, will boost city-backed debt by almost 40 percent to borrow $633 million for a new convention center three times the size of the Tennessee municipality’s current one.
- Sweden's Cradle-to-Grave State Means Bad Stats Affect Everyone Everyone is allowed one mistake. In Sweden, the Statistics Office has made so many the biggest morning newspaper taunted it with the picture “2 + 2 = 3.”
- Ryder Cup Financier Backs Startups to Unclog Wireless Networks Shortly after Terry Matthews left his native Wales for Canada in 1969, he started a venture importing electric lawnmowers from the U.K. It quickly floundered, he said. The shipping company lost the delivery and the machines didn’t arrive until October.
- IPads in India Fetch $2,250 as Apple Fans Refuse to Be Patient Anthony Agius says his decision to pay A$2,500 ($2,300) to travel to New York from Melbourne to buy 20 iPads is something only fellow Apple Inc. fans will fully understand.
- Palm Said to Tap Goldman, Quattrone to Find Buyers Palm Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, is seeking bids for the company as early as this week, according to three people familiar with the situation.
- Options Show S&P 500 Profit Shortage Amid Stock Gains The biggest rally in seven decades has left investors so skittish that even forecasts for a 30 percent surge in U.S. earnings are failing to keep them from hedging bets on equities.
- Kaczynski Death to Aid Pro-Euro Tusk's Grip on Poland Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-euro Civic Platform party is likely to cement its grip on power in a presidential election that must now be held by June after President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash.
- Standard Chartered Looks for Growth in Africa, Mideast Standard Chartered Plc, the U.K. bank that makes most of its profit in emerging markets, will expand in the Middle East and Africa to tap rising oil and commodities trade flows, said a senior executive.
Bloomberg Daily News 13th April 2010
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