hat Are you a journalist at this publication? Get listed

Fiduciary rule, long postponed, faces more delays, lobbying

reuters.com — Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson A street sign for Wall Street hangs in front of the New York Stock Exchange May 8, 2013. Some industry lobbyists are even stepping up their lobbying on the so-called fiduciary rule. The traditional brokerage industry would like there to be room for industry practices like selling brokerage-branded funds that can be more expensive than alternatives.
Fiduciary rule, long postponed, faces more delays, lobbying reut.rs/18kofw7 @suzannebarlyn
The financial advice industry is really against giving the best advice to investors. @SuzanneBarlyn reut.rs/13LSoA0 #fiduciary
RT @lindastern: Lobbyists and their House members find more ways to delay the fiduciary rule. hearings today. Read @SuzanneBarlyn http://t.…
Lobbyists and their House members find more ways to delay the fiduciary rule. hearings today. Read @SuzanneBarlyn reut.rs/10O9ETc

Apple enjoyed Irish tax holiday from the start

uk.reuters.com — SAN FRANCISCO/DUBLIN | Thu May 23, 2013 2:47pm BST SAN FRANCISCO/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Apple has operated almost tax-free in Ireland since 1980, welcomed by a government keen to bring jobs to what was then one of Europe's poorest country, former company executives and Irish officials have said.
RT @Reuters_Bergin: Apple enjoyed Irish tax holiday from the start reut.rs/121cmwg via @reuters
RT @Reuters_Bergin: Apple enjoyed Irish tax holiday from the start reut.rs/121cmwg via @reuters

U.N. investigator seeks world moratorium on 'killer robots'

reuters.com — Christof Heyns, U.N. special rapporteur on executions, said that unmanned robotic weapons systems with varying degrees of autonomy and deadliness were being tested or used by the United States, Britain and Israel without debate on moraI and legal issues.
This is real. This isn't science fiction. U.N. investigator seeks world moratorium on 'killer robots' reut.rs/18kGDVG via @reuters
U.N. investigator seeks world moratorium on 'killer robots': GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights ... bit.ly/14Cj6hl

Jobless claims drop more than expected last week

reuters.com — Credit: Reuters/Rick Wilking Hundreds of job seekers wait in line with their resumes to talk to recruiters (R) at the Colorado Hospital Association health care career fair in Denver April 9, 2013. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 23,000 to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday, pushing back below the 350,000 mark that economists normally associate with a firming job market.

PM seeks answers after soldier hacked to death

uk.reuters.com — LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting of his intelligence chiefs on Thursday after two Islamists hacked a soldier to death with meat cleavers on a south London street.

Sweden riots expose ugly side of 'Nordic model'

uk.reuters.com — STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The scene of Sweden's worst riots in years, Husby is on the surface at least a typically neat suburb of colourful playgrounds, manicured parks and low rise apartment buildings.
Sweden riots reveal the ugly side of the "Nordic model". V interesting. reut.rs/121gMDi

Wall Street on the silver screen: Pros pick top movies

preview.reuters.com — NEW YORK - In the annals of Hollywood, Wall Street has not been treated very kindly. From "Wall Street" to "Boiler Room", "Trading Places" to "American Psycho", the halls of finance are usually portrayed as places of shiny excesses and dark hearts.
Wall Street on the silver screen: Pros give @christaylor_nyc top movies bit.ly/12xVNmz What's your favorite?

British soldier hacked to death in suspected Islamist attack

reuters.com — Credit: Reuters/Stefan Wermuth 1 of 12. A police forensics officer investigates a crime scene where one man was killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, 2013. A dramatic clip filmed by an onlooker just minutes after the killing showed a man with hands covered in blood, brandishing a bloodied meat cleaver and a knife.
RT @reuterspictures: Police search a crime scene for evidence, where a man was killed in Woolwich - reutersgallery.com/reutersgallery… story http://t.c…
London attackers British, of Nigerian origin: source reut.rs/120qbLm via @reuters
London attack highlights "lone wolves," comes one month after Boston Marathon bombing - reut.rs/120qbLm via @reuters
British soldier hacked to death in suspected Islamist attack: LONDON (Reuters) - A British soldier was hacked ... bit.ly/14Awkek

Malaysia police arrest opposition figures in crackdown

reuters.com — Credit: Reuters/Stringer Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim delivers his speech during a rally in protest of the Sunday's election results at a stadium in Kelana Jaya, outside Kuala Lumpur May 8, 2013. Police also raided the offices of opposition newspapers and seized thousands of copies of their publications, according to online media reports.
Time to call in the UN or Amnesty Int. Damn it. RT @reuters Malaysia police arrest opposition figures in crackdown reut.rs/1aaugKS
Malaysia police arrest opposition figures in crackdown: KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police arrested sev... bit.ly/14B5q69

China tells banks to step up forex checks in special zones

reuters.com — Banks must not provide cross-border loan services to firms that have not been registered with the foreign-exchange authority but are operating in the special economic zones, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) said in a statement on its website.
China tells banks to step up forex checks in special zones as part of crackdown on 'hot money' tinyurl.com/qavg5w8

German brewers warn fracking could hurt beer industry

reuters.com — The Brauer-Bund beer association is worried that fracking for shale gas, which involves pumping water and chemicals at high pressure into the ground, could pollute water used for brewing and break a 500-year-old industry rule on water purity.

Exclusive :China urbanization plan hits roadblock over spending fears-sources

reuters.com — Premier Li Keqiang has rejected an urbanization proposal drafted by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), seeking changes to put more emphasis on economic reform, according to the sources, who are familiar with the matter. Many local authorities have already lobbied to get funding for projects, ringing alarm bells among top leaders in Beijing.
New red flag on property in China: $6.5 trillion (with a T!) urbanization plan hits roadblock reut.rs/18k55GC @reuters
RT @jay_ulfelder: China urbanization plan hits roadblock over spending fears reut.rs/18k55GC. "I don't expect any policy breakthroug…
Exclusive :#China urbanization plan hits roadblock over spending fears-sources reut.rs/1aaq2CO

Prosecutor in Berlusconi sex trial receives mail with bullets

reuters.com — Credit: Reuters/Giampiero Sposito People of Freedom (PDL) party member and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi wipes his forehead as he attends the Upper house of the parliament in Rome, April 30, 2013. The letters against Ilda Boccassini have become more frequent since she requested a six-year jail sentence and a lifetime ban on holding public office for Berlusconi, Edmondo Bruti Liberati said.
Prosecutor in Berlusconi sex trial receives mail with bullets: MILAN (Reuters) - The prosecutor in former prim... bit.ly/16U8D5c
Prosecutor in Berlusconi sex trial receives mail with bullets bit.ly/16U7wCt

France wants Hezbollah armed wing on EU terror list by end-June

mobile.reuters.com — PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Thursday it hoped an initiative could be agreed by the end of June to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on the EU's list of terrorist organizations on grounds the group is importing Syria's war into Lebanon.

Ford to close Australia auto plants

reuters.com — Credit: Reuters/Heinz-Peter Bader The Ford logo is pictured on the rooftop of Austria's Ford head branch in Vienna March 19, 2013. Ford plans to close its engine plant in Geelong and its assembly plant in Broadmeadows, both in the state of Victoria, by 2016, News Ltd reported.
More Stories