http://www.mlcflash.com Multi Level Cell Flash Memory Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:28:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc shares tumbled for a fifth straight day, as Chief Executive Vikram Pandit tried to downplay speculation the banking giant might sell major businesses to restore its health and investor confidence. http://www.mlcflash.com/index.php/gadgets/citigroup-shares-drop-as-ceo-plans-to-keep-smith-barney/ CHICAGO (Reuters) - Retired Marine Gen. James Jones emerged as a leading contender for White House national security adviser as President-elect Barack Obama worked on Thursday to assemble his foreign policy team. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/igmT8Zn2hWA/idUSTRE4AK0GC20081121 LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone demand is plunging and price pressures vanishing, business surveys showed on Friday, while central bankers weighed the bleak prospect of deflation. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/nTWudZnpTpU/idUSTRE49N5VU20081121 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic congressional leaders, seeking to salvage a bailout of the Big Three automakers, demanded executives provide a business survival plan in exchange for their support of up to $25 billion in loans. http://www.mlcflash.com/index.php/gadgets/democrats-demand-us-big-3-offer-survival-plan/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of American workers on the unemployment rolls surged to the highest in a quarter century and a regional manufacturing gauge slumped as U.S. economic misery intensified. http://www.mlcflash.com/index.php/gadgets/jobs-data-miserable-regional-factories-slump/ LONDON (Reuters) - World economic misery spread on Thursday with forecasts of a global recession running well into 2009, Japan’s exports to Asia falling for the first time in six years and job losses mounting. http://www.mlcflash.com/index.php/gadgets/job-losses-rise-as-recession-plays-on/ HONG KONG (Reuters) - A rout in Asia pushed world stocks to their lowest in 5- years on Thursday, while oil fell to below $53 a barrel and safe havens such as the yen gained as economic data indicated a global recession could get even uglier. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/naM3yPmMuoU/idUSTRE4AJ0H620081120 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chances dimmed that a last-minute plan being crafted by Republican senators, with White House support, to provide $25 billion to bail out U.S. automakers would receive enough backing from Democrats to pass before the end of this week. http://www.mlcflash.com/index.php/gadgets/prospect-for-auto-bailout-dims-as-senate-races-clock/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former U.S. Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle to be Health and Human Services secretary, CNN reported on Wednesday, citing sources close to Obama’s transition team. http://www.mlcflash.com/index.php//obama-picks-daschle-as-health-secretary-report/ LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks and oil fell on Wednesday while government bonds and the yen gained as U.S. car makers begged for a bailout from Washington, adding to evidence that the credit crisis is hitting the real economy. http://www.mlcflash.com/index.php/gadgets/us-auto-fears-weigh-on-global-stocks/