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China, along with other emerging countries, is the great hope for global economic growth.

The developed economies, bruised and aching, are pulling themselves slowly back to their feet after the Great Recession.

As Western consumers and governments struggle to get on top of their debts, they are not going to be the source of booming demand for goods and services they were in the last decade.

China by contrast slowed down a bit in the recession and then rapidly got back to something like full speed.

The Associated Press

Published: Thursday, Jun. 16, 2011 – 12:44 pm
ROME – The director of the anti-doping lab for the 2012 London Olympics has a warning for any athletes considering using banned substances.

“If you want to take drugs don’t come to London – because we’ll catch you if you take drugs,” professor David Cowan said at the end of a World Anti-Doping Association symposium on Thursday.

Cowan heads King’s College London’s Drug Control Center, the only WADA-accredited lab in Britain.

McDonald’s shares were down 1.9% to $79.63 in premarket trading Wednesday due to the smaller-than-expected rise in U.S. comparable store sales.

Ciena(CIEN_) shares were tumbling 11.4% to $21.46 after the provider of communications networking equipment reported a second-quarter loss of 24 cents a share compared with the Wall Street consensus target of a loss of 11 cents a share.

Leonard Green & Partners and fellow private-equity firm CVC Capital Partners are set to make a joint buyout offer next week for BJ’s Wholesale Club(BJ_) that could value the warehouse retailer at about $2.8 billion, The New York Post reported. Shares of BJ’s were rising 3.3% to $49.25.

Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:37pm EDT



* Anxiety missing in VIX measure as stocks fall
* Steady nature of decline keeps worries in check
* March sell-off saw higher volatility
By Doris Frankel
CHICAGO, June 14 (Reuters) - The relentless decline in U.S.
stocks over the past six weeks lacks a key characteristic from
other recent sell-offs -- higher volatility.
Through Tuesday's close, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index
.SPX is down 5.6 percent from April 29.
The CBOE Volatility Index, Wall Street's favorite barometer
of investor anxiety known as the VIX .VIX, however, has been
in a narrow range, mostly below 19.
In the latest sell-off, the VIX only reached a high of 20.
It closed lower at 18.26, below its 200-day moving average of

Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed plans for a new headquarters for the company that “looks a little like a spaceship” at a City Council meeting in Cupertino, Calif., on Tuesday.

In his trademark black turtleneck, jeans and gray New Balance running shoes, Jobs said at the meeting the new building would hold 12,000 employees, and even house its own green-energy power plant.

Apple’s current headquarters can only hold about 2,800 people, Jobs said, according to a YouTube video of his presentation posted by the council.

A Kellogg Co. (K) cookie plant in Augusta, Georgia, was found to have a “persistent strain” of listeria during a February inspection, including on food-contact surfaces, according to a warning letter from U.S. regulators.

The Food and Drug Administration letter, dated June 7, was sent less than two years after a Kellogg Eggo waffle plant in the same state was shut for similar reasons.

Staff Reports
Posted: 06/10/2011 12:38:16 AM PDT
SACRAMENTO — A scam targeting users of craigslist continues to be reported to the Better Business Bureau of Northeast California.

The scam, first reported months ago, involves the intended target getting an email shortly after posting an ad with craigslist, the online classified advertisement website.

The person sending the email claims to be the CEO of craigslist and states the consumer has won a computer.

The scammer asks the target to go to a website, where personal financial information is required before the free computer can be claimed.

Officials said the emails are a blatant and somewhat clumsy attempt to commit identity theft.

Names usually associated with the emails, Amy Sanders and Angel Thompson, have no connection with craigslist.

People who feel they are being targeted by fraud should contact the BBB at 1-916-443-6668.

China, along with other emerging countries, is the great hope for global economic growth.

The developed economies, bruised and aching, are pulling themselves slowly back to their feet after the Great Recession.

As Western consumers and governments struggle to get on top of their debts, they are not going to be the source of booming demand for goods and services they were in the last decade.

China by contrast slowed down a bit in the recession and then rapidly got back to something like full speed.

From 2007 to 2011 China accounted for as much of global economic growth as the G7 leading industrial countries combined.

Essential goodsChina is a very important market for suppliers of commodities; Australian coal and iron ore and Brazilian soy beans for example.

It must be said China is also a big exporter, with a hefty trade surplus. That means in terms of global demand for goods and services overall it takes more than it gives.

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