‘Wall Street sheriffs’ set sights on taxpayers
The role of NY attorney-general has been transformed since Eliot Spitzer turned it from a routine state law-enforcement job into a nationally important crusade against financial wrongdoing
US jobless claims fall but fears remain
New claims for jobless benefits in the US fell last week but still remain above the level economists say is necessary to create jobs
Derivatives reform
European regulators have sacrificed a principle in the name of transatlantic harmonisation. They have decided to drop proposals to force non-financial companies to use clearing houses to trade over-the-counter derivatives
Oil rig explodes in Gulf of Mexico
An oil platform 80 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on Thursday, sparking a rapid search and rescue helicopter response that recovered 13 people, the US Coast Guard said
Buffett and Gates on Chinese charity mission
Having persuaded many of their billionaire peers in the US into giving away chunks of money, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are travelling to China to host newly minted Chinese tycoons to sell them on the value of philanthropy
China and US stage Yellow Sea wargames
China and the US stage near-simultaneous naval exercises this week in the oceans around the Yellow Sea in one of the most open displays of the rising competition between the two rival forces in north Asia
Obama to campaign for Sestak in Pa.
President Barack Obama is heading to Pennsylvania to help Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak’s bid for the Senate.
Suspension of trading of Vilhena Global Themed Fund on Tuesday due to US holiday
Due to a holiday in the United States of America, no determination of the net asset value and dealing will take place on Tuesday 7 September 2010 in the Vilhena Global Themed Fund.
US, Israel spying behind BlackBerry woe – Dubai police
DUBAI (Reuters) – Concerns over Israeli access to BlackBerry data, and the use of the device by the United States to spy on the United Arab Emirates are behind the Gulf state’s moves to curb the smartphone, Dubai’s police chief said.
BP tells US regulator of oil spill lessons
The energy group has told the US drilling watchdog that systems for responding to oil spills have been improved as a result of lessons learnt from the Gulf of Mexico accident
Clinton: Time is now for Mideast peace
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Friday, warning that the negotiations may be “the last chance for a very long time” to reach an agreement.
Fewer entering US illegally
WASHINGTON The number of illegal immigrants entering the United States has plunged by almost two-thirds in the past decade, a dramatic shift after years of growth in the population, according to a new report by the Pew Hispanic Center. United States – Pew Research Center – Illegal immigration – Population – Immigration
Gates rallies troops in Kandahar
US defence chief strikes an optimistic note on his trip to the spiritual homeland of the Taliban, the new front line in the war in Afghanistan, forecasting ‘an inexorable process’ in strategy over the next two to three years
