Markets expect ECB rate increase (AP)

Markets expect ECB rate increase (AP)
IBM's Business Cloud Gets Real
VIDEO: How to be a British Royal
Cisco: What Should They Sell?
Earn Extra Cash With An Income-Boosting Hobby
Is It Time To Switch To A Credit Union?
Consumer PC Demand Dries Up; iPad Steamrolls Tablet Foes
The Brief, Bizarre Start of Berlusconi's Sex Trial (Time.com)
Detained Chinese artist-activist "suspected" of economic crimes (Reuters)
Nepal's Fragile Peace: Will the War's Missing Persons Ever Be Found? (Time.com)
Detained Chinese artist-activist "suspected" of economic crimes
NATO 'careful' over air strikes, 'rebel' oil leaves Tobruk (AFP)
S. Korea schools shut over radioactive rain fear (AFP)
Trends in Retail
Politics clouds gruesome mass grave in Zimbabwe (AFP)
Taiwan mulls overseas site for petrochem complex (AP)
Australia aims to strip logos from cigarette packs (AP)
Europe hits point of no return with Portugal bailout (AFP)
Invasion of the Pregnant Women from China
Glenn Beck's Howard Beale Moment

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 10:05 PM PDT

AP - Markets are braced for an interest rate increase Thursday from the European Central Bank, and waiting for clues about how far and how fast the bank will raise rates as it tries to ward off inflation from rising food and oil prices.

IBM's Business Cloud Gets Real

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 08:59 PM PDT

IBM is stepping up its offerings of cloud-based software for big business, which it says will enable

VIDEO: How to be a British Royal

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 10:32 PM PDT

Here are some dos and don'ts for being a member of the British Royal Family.

Cisco: What Should They Sell?

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 10:10 PM PDT

So, what's Cisco Systems (CSCO) going to do? Now that CEO John Chambers has acknowledged that the ne

Earn Extra Cash With An Income-Boosting Hobby

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 09:34 PM PDT

This post provided by SavingsAccounts.com. Frugality is an important part of good personal finance h

Is It Time To Switch To A Credit Union?

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 08:19 PM PDT

Times are good for credit card divisions at most major banks right now. Credit card APRs have remain

Consumer PC Demand Dries Up; iPad Steamrolls Tablet Foes

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 05:23 PM PDT

Demand for consumer PCs is drying up. Investment research firm ISI today trimmed its forecast for ov

The Brief, Bizarre Start of Berlusconi's Sex Trial (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 09:35 PM PDT

Time.com - With the defendant a no-show and the whole thing over in under ten minutes, the first day of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial only added to the sense of the ridiculous

Detained Chinese artist-activist "suspected" of economic crimes (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 10:01 PM PDT

Reuters - Chinese police said the detained artist and activist Ai Weiwei is being investigated for "suspected economic crimes," while his family said on Thursday he was the victim of a political crackdown also decried by the departing U.S. ambassador.

Nepal's Fragile Peace: Will the War's Missing Persons Ever Be Found? (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 09:35 PM PDT

Time.com - More than four years after a peace accord was reached in Nepal, at least 1400 people that went missing during the nation's civil war remain unaccounted for, and little has been done officially to acknowledge their fate

Detained Chinese artist-activist "suspected" of economic crimes

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 10:01 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police said the detained artist and activist Ai Weiwei is being investigated for "suspected economic crimes," while his family said on Thursday he was the victim of a political crackdown also decried by the departing U.S. ambassador.

NATO 'careful' over air strikes, 'rebel' oil leaves Tobruk (AFP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 09:18 PM PDT

AFP - NATO, accused of mission failure by Libyan rebels, admitted it must be "particularly careful" with its air strikes as government troops use civilians as human shields, but vowed to do everything to protect residents of Misrata.

S. Korea schools shut over radioactive rain fear (AFP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 09:32 PM PDT

AFP - Dozens of South Korean schools cancelled classes Thursday as officials scrambled to quell fears that rain contained radioactive material from Japan's stricken nuclear plant.

Trends in Retail

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 09:21 PM PDT

The overarching 100 year trend in retail is geographic broadening and goods narrowing. Fifty years a

Politics clouds gruesome mass grave in Zimbabwe (AFP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 08:21 PM PDT

AFP - Hundreds of bodies exhumed from a disused mine in Zimbabwe have been turned into fodder for President Robert Mugabe's propaganda, despite the mystery over the skeletons that may have lain for decades.

Taiwan mulls overseas site for petrochem complex (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 09:01 PM PDT

AP - A senior official says Taiwan may scrap a contentious plan to build a $20 billion petrochemical complex on reclaimed land on its western coast.

Australia aims to strip logos from cigarette packs (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT

AP - Tobacco companies in Australia will be forced to strip all logos from their cigarette packages and replace them with graphic images of cancer-riddled, rotted mouths and sickly children under newly unveiled legislation.

Europe hits point of no return with Portugal bailout (AFP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 08:04 PM PDT

AFP - European finance ministers face a point of no return as they gather in Hungary Thursday for talks derailed by Portugal's sudden admission it needs an emergency bailout.