SEC taking deeper look at Nasdaq’s Facebook plan

affiliate marketing WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Securities regulators are taking a closer look at Nasdaq OMX’s $ 62 million plan to compensate brokers who suffered losses from the exchange operator’s botched handling of Facebook‘s initial public offering.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it was instituting proceedings to more...

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Israeli-Palestinian drama ‘The Other Son’ wins Tokyo Film Fest

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Lorraine Levy‘s Palestinian/Israeli drama, “The Other Son,” won the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix, the top award at the 25th Tokyo International Film Festival, on Sunday night. Levy also took home the best director honors at the festival, which marks the final go-round for festival chairman,...

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NYU Medical Center Evacuated

affiliate marketing Paramedics and other medical workers began to evacuate patients from New York University Langone Medical Center due to a power outage caused by Tropical Storm Sandy, followed by a failure of backup generators at the hospital, New York City officials said Monday night.About 200 patients, roughly 45 of whom are critical...

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Hitachi buys UK nuclear project

affiliate marketing 30 October 2012 Last updated at 08:43 ETThe UK’s nuclear expansion plans have been boosted after Japan’s Hitachi signed a £700m deal giving it rights to build a new generation of power plants. affiliate marketing Hitachi is to buy Horizon Nuclear Power, which was...

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More than ever, Barca more than club for Catalans

affiliate marketing BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Nearly 20 minutes into the latest clash between Spain’s most popular football teams, Barcelona‘s 98,000-seat Camp Nou stadium erupted into a deafening roar. Tens of thousands of Catalans in the city at the heart of their separatist movement chanted in unison: “Independence!”More than ever,...

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Clinton: Facebook post about Benghazi attack not hard “evidence”

affiliate marketing WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday a Facebook post in which an Islamic militant group claimed credit for a recent attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya did not constitute hard evidence of who was responsible.“Posting something on Facebook is not in and of itself...

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Analysis: U.S. foreign bribery penalties for drugmakers may lack bite

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global drugmakers are paying tens of millions of dollars to settle U.S. allegations that they bribed their way across emerging markets, but harsher penalties may be needed to deter the practice in untapped regions where billions are at stake.Federal authorities have cast a wide net to weed out...

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TSX may open lower; volumes seen down on storm

affiliate marketing (Reuters) – Canada‘s main stock index looked set to open lower on Monday, hurt by uncertainty prevailing over Spanish bailout and lackluster global corporate earnings.Trading volumes are expected to be thin with U.S. stock markets closed because of the huge and potentially damaging hurricane expected to hit the U.S....

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Lithuania opens 2nd round of national election

affiliate marketing VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Voting stations have opened in the second round of Lithuania’s parliamentary elections, with the results likely to determine whether the small East European nation continues tough austerity measures in an effort to join the euro zone.Nearly half of Parliament’s 141 seats are at stake in single-mandate...

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New York police officer charged with plan to cook, eat women

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York City police officer was charged on Thursday with conspiring to kidnap, torture, cook and eat women whose names he listed in his computer.In a criminal complaint unsealed in Manhattan federal court, Gilberto Valle III, 28, of Forest Hills, Queens, was charged with conspiring to cross...

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