International Business News - Global http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Standard & Poor's Inc. included three U.S. consumer staples companies among 73 companies based in the United States that made its annual Global Challengers, a list released Wednesday of mid-sized companies that show the "highest growth characteristics." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/s-p-names-3-us-consumer-staples-companies-to-list.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:19:28 EDT Standard & Poor's Inc. included two U.S. financial services and related companies among 73 companies based in the United States that made its annual Global Challengers, a list released Wednesday of mid-sized companies that show the "highest growth characteristics." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/s-p-names-2-us-financial-cos-as-likely-to-grow.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:18:55 EDT Standard & Poor's Inc. included eight U.S. consumer discretionary companies among 73 companies based in the United States that made its annual Global Challengers, a list released Wednesday of mid-sized companies that show the "highest growth characteristics." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/s-p-names-8-us-consumer-discretionary-cos-to-list.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:16:51 EDT Leadership has nothing to do with titles. J. Frank Brown, the Dean of INSEAD, has met a lot of CEOs in his two-and-a-half decades in business and many of them are little more than LINOs – Leaders In Name Only. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/global-business-leader.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:56 EDT The weak U.S. dollar has not dissuaded Americans from planning trips abroad this year, but they may be heading to destinations closer to home, according to a survey released Thursday by Visa Inc. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/96977-olympic-advertising.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/visa-survey-shows-foreign-travel-remains-popular.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/visa-survey-shows-foreign-travel-remains-popular.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:14:39 EDT Standard & Poor's Inc. included 4 U.S. materials companies among 73 companies based in the United States that made its annual Global Challengers, a list released Wednesday of mid-sized companies that show the "highest growth characteristics." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/s-p-names-4-us-materials-companies-likely-to-grow.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:49:01 EDT Standard & Poor's Inc. included 10 U.S. health care companies among 73 companies based in the U.S. that made its annual Global Challengers, a list released Wednesday of midsized companies that show the "highest growth characteristics." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/s-p-names-10-us-health-companies-as-likely-to-grow.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:41:13 EDT Is it a long, long way to Tipperary? Don't know if you're on the path to Bath? AT&T Inc. aims to help, with a new phone service that truly puts the "global" in the Global Positioning System, or GPS. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/at-t-introduces-global-gps-service-for-phones.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:23:28 EDT CNH Global NV, a Netherlands-based heavy equipment company, on Wednesday raised the lower end its fiscal year profit outlook range citing positive expectations for farm equipment demand. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/cnh-global-tightens-outlook-citing-strong-market.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:19:49 EDT CNH Global NV, a Netherlands-based heavy equipment company, said Wednesday its second-quarter profit jumped 52 percent on strong industry wide demand for farm equipment and market share gains. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/cnh-global-2q-profit-jumps-on-overseas-demand.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:04:11 EDT Global Sources Ltd., an online business-to-business marketplace for import and export traders, said Monday that it began contracts to buy more office space in the city of Shenzhen, China, as part of the company's expansion in the country. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/global-sources-to-buy-34-7-million-office-space.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:12:51 EDT The Senate voted Wednesday to triple spending for a much-acclaimed program that has treated and protected millions in Africa and elsewhere from the scourges of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/92755-bush-us-burkina-faso.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/senate-agrees-to-triple-anti-aids-funding.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/senate-agrees-to-triple-anti-aids-funding.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:52:12 EDT Earth scored another Top 10 finish in June--climate wise. It was the eighth warmest June on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/global-warming-top-10-again.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:16:14 EDT The 80-16 roll call by which the Senate on Wednesday approved spending $48 billion over the next five years to treat and prevent the spread of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Africa and elsewhere around the world. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/how-they-voted-senate-roll-call-on-aids-bill.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:21:16 EDT The Senate voted Wednesday to triple spending for a much-acclaimed program that has treated and protected millions in Africa and elsewhere from the scourges of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/senate-nears-vote-to-triple-anti-aids-funding.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:08:00 EDT Government scientists detailed a rising death toll from heat waves, wildfires, disease and smog caused by global warming in an analysis the White House buried so it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080715/epa-experts-detail-global-warmings-health-risks.htm Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:08:36 EDT Governors from the coal fields of West Virginia to the corn fields of Iowa talked at their summer meeting about moving beyond ethanol produced just from food sources. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080714/governors-talk-of-moving-beyond-corn-based-ethanol.htm Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:38:28 EDT Governors from the coal fields of West Virginia to the corn fields of Iowa talked Sunday at their summer meeting about moving beyond ethanol produced just from food sources. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080713/governors-talk-of-moving-beyond-corn-based-ethanol.htm Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:32:49 EDT The Senate voted Friday with a strong show of bipartisanship to take up a stalled global AIDS bill that would vastly expand a President Bush-backed program that has had marked success in combating AIDS in Africa and other affected areas of the world. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/senate-votes-to-take-up-50-billion-aids-bill.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:24:01 EDT Key excerpts from Environmental Protection Agency, White House and other government documents on the Bush administration's decision rejecting regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/excerpts-from-greenhouse-gas-decision-documents.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:40:44 EDT