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(MENAFN – Saudi Press Agency) German business confidence posted a surprise increase in April, amid optimism about the growth outlook for Europe’s biggest economy, dpa cited a key survey released …

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(MENAFN – Saudi Press Agency) Spain’s conservative government met Friday to approve a euro 10 billion ($13 billion) package of spending cuts and increased charges in education and health, part of an …

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(MENAFN – Saudi Press Agency) World stock markets fell Friday as strong U.S. company earnings failed to calm worries the world’s No. 1 economy is struggling to maintain its recovery, AP …

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(MENAFN – Saudi Press Agency) When the International Monetary Fund meets this weekend, its top goal will be as simple as it is difficult: Get member nations to pledge many more billions in aid – in …

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(MENAFN) General Electric Co. (GE) reported better than expected quarterly profits, helped by increased sales and higher prices, Reuters reported. The largest US conglomerate said it made a …

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(MENAFN) US real estate tycoon Donald Trump inaugurated Trump Towers Istanbul, and said he will partner Turkish owner and billionaire businessman Aydin Dogan in more real estate in the city, …

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(MENAFN) Southwest Airlines reported that revenues witnessed an increase of 29 percent in the first quarter, thus hitting earnings worth USD98 million, reported AP. The main contributor to the …

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(MENAFN) Nokia said that unforeseeable tough competition led to a dip in sales, which subsequently caused the company a net loss of USD1.2 billion in the first quarter of 2012, reported AP. This …

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(MENAFN) DataQuick, the research company, said that last month, the number of sold houses in California went up around 3 percent from the same period a year earlier to over 37,000 units, reported …

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(MENAFN) Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said that it incurred a net loss of USD590 million in the first quarter, compared with net income of USD510 million in 2011′s same period, reported AP. The …

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(MENAFN) Standard & Poor’s said that in the current year, South Korea’s economy is forecasted to expand by 3 percent, down from 3.6 percent in 2011, reported Xinhua News. The credit rating agency …

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(MENAFN) Microsoft Corp. said that net income in the third quarter fell 2 percent to USD5.1 billion, compared with USD5.2 billion recorded in 2011′s same quarter, reported AP. The software giant …

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(MENAFN) US chemicals maker DuPont reported USD1.49 billion net profit in the first quarter from USD1.43 billion made a year earlier, AP reported. The firm said its positive results were driven …

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(MENAFN) Ford Motor Co. disclosed plans to set an auto assembly plant in China to boost its output capacity in China in a bid to catch up with rivals, AP reported. The carmaker will set up a …

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(MENAFN) Iranian first vice-president, Mohammad-Reza Rahimi, said that the country would allow foreign firms to invest in its oil sector, reported Tehran Times. Rahimi added that Iran is prepared …

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(MENAFN) Qualcomm Inc. said that income in the second quarter more than doubled to USD2.23 billion, from USD999 million in the same period a year earlier, reported AP. The mobile phone chipmaker …

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(MENAFN) The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, said that the fund managed to secure USD320 billion in order to handle the euro zone debt crisis, reported …

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(MENAFN) New Zealand’s statistics agency said that the country’s consumers’ price index (CPI) rose to 1.6 percent in the first quarter from the same period a year earlier, reported Xinhua …

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(MENAFN) China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) said that the country’s steelmakers incurred USD164.1 million losses during the first quarter, reported Xinhua News. The CISA attributed the first …

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(MENAFN) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that Europe’s economy may go through a mild recession in 2012, as European banks are expected to reduce lending in order to save more capital, …

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(MENAFN) Stanley Black & Decker Inc. said that profit in the first quarter fell to USD121.8 million, compared with USD158.7 million in the same period a year ago, reported AP. The New …

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(MENAFN – Qatar News Agency) European banks remain under pressure from weak growth and high debt repayments. They need to strengthen their balance sheets by reducing assets and increasing their …

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(MENAFN – Saudi Press Agency) The biggest U.S. solar-panel manufacturer is laying off 2,000 workers and closing factories in response to declining demand and increased competition from …

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(MENAFN – Saudi Press Agency) Canada hopes to join a pan-Pacific trade pact in the first half of this year, but Ottawa is committed to maintaining contentious tariffs that help is farmers, Trade …

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(MENAFN – Saudi Press Agency) The United States Treasury relaxed sanctions onØ¢ MyanmarØ¢ on Tuesday to permit financial transactions to support certain humanitarian and development projects in the …

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(MENAFN – Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) The Austrian President Heinz Fischer expressed his deep appreciation to the role played by the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) in helping …

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(MENAFN – Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) U.S. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner affirmed here Wednesday that the U.S. economy is “gradually healing” and “gradually getting stronger.” Speaking …

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(MENAFN – Jordan Times) After long years of failed international efforts to end Iran’s cunning drive to develop nuclear weapons, the question today is no longer whether the West can prevent the …

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(MENAFN) American Airlines said that it would slash another 1,200 nonunion jobs in order to reduce costs, reported AP. The carrier added that the move brings the total number of job reductions to …

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(MENAFN) EBay Inc. said that net income jumped 20 percent in the first quarter to USD570 million, compared with USD476 million in 2011′s same period, reported AP. The San Jose, Calif.-based firm …

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(MENAFN – Khaleej Times) Australia has cast the first stone in the withdrawal process from Afghanistan. Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s conviction that her troops should be back home much before the …

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There are two ways to enforce rights. A government agency can do it, or it can be outsourced to private contractors, which means plaintiffs’ lawyers. If we’re going to use a government agency, then we have to make sure they do it efficiently, because our tax dollars fund those agencies. If we’re going to use private lawyers, they’ve got to be able to make good money doing it, otherwise they’ll do something else instead. If neither of those systems works for us, then let’s not pretend that we care about the rights that we’re refusing to enforce. The New York Times presented a front-page article on April 17 about lawyers suing New York City businesses that don’t have good wheelchair access. The story is that the plaintiffs’ lawyers are finding violations — easy in New York City, with its many ancient buildings, narrow-aisled, with aging or nonexistent ramps — and then choosing a plaintiff from a cadre of disabled people. Then the lawyers threaten to sue the allegedly violating business, the plaintiff gets a few hundred dollars, the lawyer gets a few thousand, and it all seems like a shakedown to the poor business owner. Of course, this is not how it’s supposed to work. A wronged person is supposed to seek out the lawyer, not the other way around. So this article has provoked anger against the trial lawyers who are supposedly abusing the system for their own enrichment. Having lived in New York, I treasure the funky old out-of-compliance stores, where even a non-handicapped person has difficulty navigating the aisles. I love those places, and my personal belief is that a variance ought to be available to them so they can preserve their funky old character, even if it means that the “temporarily able-bodied” are the only people who can safely get in and out. But of course, that’s not the law. That’s not the choice that we as a country have made about this issue. The choice that we made, and the law that we passed to enforce that choice, is that almost all businesses open to the public have to be able to safely accommodate handicapped people. And then we as a country made another choice: the government would not be given the resources to enforce this law. Instead, we would give an incentive to private contractors (lawyers) to enforce the law, by forcing out-of-compliance businesses to pay the lawyers’ fees when the lawyer could prove that the business was out of compliance. So now we’re angry at lawyers for being too aggressive in their enforcement? Well, here’s a story about what happens when we choose the other path of having a government agency enforce the laws. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is supposed to investigate alleged employment discrimination, then if it finds a violation, negotiate with the violating business to fix it, and if that doesn’t work, then the EEOC may file a lawsuit against the business. Note that the EEOC is required to try to negotiate a workable solution before it files a lawsuit. Seems reasonable. But the EEOC is short of resources. They field about 100,000 complaints of discrimination every year. They recovered more than $450 million for employees last year, with a budget of $343 million. So you could say they’re running a profit, sort of. But they are still constantly understaffed, overworked, and simply don’t have anywhere near the resources needed to investigate every one of those 100,000 claims. So, like all government agencies, the EEOC has to decide how to most efficiently allocate their scarce resources. One obvious choice is to focus on companies that are practicing system-wide discrimination, so they can bring class-action suits. For example, CRST Van Expedited Inc. is one of the largest trucking companies in the United States. They have an “internship” program, in which women who want to become truck drivers are paired with male truck drivers, and left together unaccompanied for weeks at a time, with predictable results . By bringing a claim against a company like this, which has allegedly caused sexual discrimination and harassment against hundreds of women, the EEOC should be able to use its resources efficiently, right? Protect hundreds of women with just one big lawsuit, instead of trying to pick them off one at a time, which would take forever, and lots of agency resources. Well, the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals just slapped down the EEOC , saying that their lawsuit against the trucking company fails because the EEOC did not take the required step of trying to negotiate in good faith with the trucking company about each case individually . But doing that would eliminate the efficiency of having one big case instead of many small ones. The EEOC did negotiate with CRST about their (idiotic) program as a whole, but not about each individual case. Sure, in an ideal world, they would talk about each case separately. But in a world where efficiency matters, that’s a crazy requirement. It’s exactly the kind of requirement, in fact, that makes a government agency unable to perform its function of keeping the workplace free of discrimination. Which leaves it to whom, exactly, to to enforce our rights against workplace discrimination? Why, to the private lawyers, of course. In fact, one of the few women who opted out of the EEOC suit against this trucking company sued CRST privately. The jury awarded her $1.5 million . We as a country have to decide what rights we want to enforce, and whether to enforce them with government agencies, or with private contractors. But whipsawing back and forth is unfair. If we choose government agencies, then we’ve got to let them be efficient. Listen up, Eight Circuit. If we choose private contractors, then we’ve got to let the profit motive motivate them. Listen up, lawyer-bashers.

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(MENAFN – Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) The annual inflation in the 27-member European Union was 2.9 percent in March unchanged compared with February. A year earlier the rate was 3.1 percent. The …

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(MENAFN – Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Inflation in the UK rose unexpectedly on the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure in March, driven by higher food prices and the cost of clothing, according to …

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(MENAFN – Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Prospects for the global economy are gradually strengthening again but downside risks remain “elevated,” as growth is expected to be weak, especially in Europe, …

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(MENAFN – Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde welcomed here Tuesday the announcements made by Denmark, Norway and Sweden that they will …

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(MENAFN – Saudi Press Agency) South Sudan, the world’s newest country, is taking up membership in the World Bank, dpa cited the international development lender as announcing Tuesday. The …

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(MENAFN – Saudi Press Agency) Governments in advanced economies are gradually making modest progress in taking control over their massive deficits, which galloped out of control in 2008-09 during …

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(MENAFN – Saudi Press Agency) U.S. stocks are closing sharply higher after promising signals about the profitability of U.S. companies and a strong debt auction by Spain, according to …

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(MENAFN – Saudi Press Agency) The International Monetary Fund is predicting that Italy will miss its budget deficit targets this year and next and won’t balance its budget until at least 2018 – …

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(MENAFN – Arab News) It is reported that Spanish media has pointed out the cost of King Carlos’ trip to Botswana on elephant hunting at a time country is reeling from an economic crisis, which has …

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(MENAFN – Arab News) The appointment of Asian-American Jim Young Kim as head of the World Bank is a welcome news. His non-financial background can be an advantage at a time when most …

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(MENAFN) Intel Corp. said that net income dropped 13 percent in the first quarter to USD2.74 billion, compared with USD3.16 billion in 2011′s same period, reported AP. The Santa Clara, …

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(MENAFN – Arab News) The election result is an indicator of Iranian president’s imminent political downfall THE March 2012 elections to the Majlis (Parliament) have not only pushed Iranian …

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(MENAFN) Yahoo Inc said that first-quarter net income jumped 28 percent from the USD223 million recorded in 2011′s same period to USD286 million, reported AP. The company added that in the …

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