The Cheese Reporter: 08/04/11

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Stock market crash - pictures

News

Media Companies Suffer in Stock Market Crash
With the carnage as a backdrop, Viacom is in the unenviable position of releasing its earnings report before the market opens on Friday. Related Articles: Stock Market Plunge Puts Hollywood on Edge Currency Woes: Why the Weak Dollar Is Helping -- and ... read more

Stock market crash: Think 1938, not 2008
Stock market debacle doesn't necessarily signal a spectacular crash. The stock market may be reacting to prospects of a garden-variety recession. Investor reaction to President Roosevelt ending the stimulus and the Federal Reserve tightening was a ... read more

Global Agenda: Crash!
The Swiss stock market index was above 6000, and the DAX index in Franfurt was trying to regain 7400, having been as high as 7500 earlier in the month. But things were not looking good that Tuesday, long ago, last week. In Italy and Spain the bond ... read more

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$Monster Hoaxes \x26amp; Stock Market$

Dow jones - news and photos

News

Dow Jones returns to losing ways as investor confidence evaporates
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 500 points on Thursday, the biggest drop since 2008. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP Fears of a double dip recession and Europe's financial crisis on Thursday triggered the biggest sell off in US stocks since ... read more

Dow Jones plunges 512 points; but don't worry, President Obama's birthday ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged almost 513 points today, erasing all of its gains this year, as fears grew of yet another recession before most people believed the first one was over. This White House returned to SOP immediately anyway. ... read more

Stocks, Oil Plunge As Central Banks Battle Gloomy Economic Outlook
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Commodities, currency and equities markets were in a state of near-panic Thursday, as central banks took increasingly drastic steps to salvage the global economic recovery. ... read more

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Va tech - pictures

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Police scour Va. Tech campus after gunman reported
Peddrew-Yates Residence Hall, near Dietrick Dining Center, is locked down on Thursday, August 4, 2011 on the Virginia Tech Campus in Blacksburg, Va. after three youths attending a summer camp on Virginia Tech's campus said they saw a man outside New ... read more

Selloff worsens...Virginia Tech lockdown...Killing suspect found competent
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Officials at Virginia Tech University say in light of the deadly shooting rampage that happened there four years ago, they're taking no chances today. They've posted an alert on the school's website, after three children said ... read more

Eight questions heading into Virginia Tech football's training camp
And it's no different for Virginia Tech as the Hokies prepare to hold their first practice of the summer on Thursday. Barring injury, we already know cornerback Jayron Hosley is perhaps the best defensive playmaker in the ACC, and that running back ... read more

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Coffee shops - news and pictures

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Hidden cameras found in CT coffee shop bathrooms
WEST HARTFORD (WABC) -- Police in Connecticut are investigating a disturbing find at a couple of coffee shops. Authorities in West Hartford say they found hidden cameras in the restrooms of a Starbucks and a Cosi. Police passed out flyers warning ... read more

Caribou Coffee 2nd quarter net income jumps
MINNEAPOLIS — Coffee company Caribou Coffee Co. said Wednesday its second-quarter net income rose 83 percent as revenue from its coffee shops, commercial sales and franchise sales all improved. The company raised its 2011 outlook on the results. ... read more

OUR VIEW | No need for coffee cops
A sledgehammer of a solution to a hangnail of a problem — if it can be called even that — is what we have at hand with the lewd conduct code being pushed by a group of residents upset by local "bikini coffee shops." We're not regular customers of the ... read more