Osama bin Laden's journal found by U.S. sources who raided his northern Pakistan mansion last week reveals the deceased al-Qaeda leader urged followers make a single attack that would kill thousands of Americans, look beyond New York to other U.S. cities, and strike on significant days, according to a report.
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U.S. core producer prices rose 0.3 percent in April for the second consecutive month, while the increase from a year ago was the largest since August 2009, the Labor Department said on Thursday.
U.S. stocks slid on Thursday as falling commodity prices prompted an unwinding of bets on risky assets and raised questions about the strength of the economic recovery, while a sour outlook from Cisco hurt technology stocks.
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said it suffered $1.4 billion in catastrophe losses from April tornadoes, and the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer said it will now make a regular practice of releasing such loss figures.The Pakistani government has formally filed a protest with the U.S. over the allegedly unsanctioned commando raid by Navy SEALs which resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden and others at a compound in northern Pakistan last week.
U.S. stocks declined in early trade on Thursday as disappointing outlook from Cisco Systems and lower commodity prices weighed.
The economy struggled to gain momentum early in the second quarter, with retail sales posting their smallest rise in nine months in April and wholesale prices increasing more than expected.
Thursday's London Silver Fix set the white metal's price at $32.50 per ounce, nearly $7 lower than a day earlier and 33% below the 31-year high of $48.70 set on April 28. [Silver] is still in an uptrend, despite the sharp sell-off reckons Mary Ann Bartels, head of US technical and market analysis at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who said yesterday silver could hit $50 per ounce by the end of the year.
The economy struggled to gain momentum early in the second quarter, with retail sales posting their smallest rise in nine months in April and wholesale prices increasing more than expected.
A new breed of black politicians has emerged, led by the likes of Barack Obama and Herman Cain.
Osama bin Laden's handwritten journal - obtained during a raid by U.S. forces last week - shows he urged followers conduct attacks in the U.S. on the scale of 9/11 - involving body counts in the thousands - in order to drive Americans from the Arab world, according to a report.
President Barack Obama urged businesses to step up and hire workers, pressing banks and other corporations to do more to help an economy that he said would take several years to recover fully.
Wall Street was set to open lower on Thursday as falling commodities prices prompted an unwinding of bets on risky assets, including equities, while a sour outlook from Cisco hurt technology stocks.
U.S. claims for unemployment aid fell sharply last week after a surprisingly big rise the prior week, a government report showed on Thursday.
Legendary Pakistani test cricketer and now politician Imran Khan wants his country to reject financial aid from the United States and distance itself from Washington, in the wake of the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Flotek Industries, Symantec Corp, CVS Caremark, TJX Companies, Northstar Realty Finance, Silvercorp Metals, Cisco Systems, Nvidia, Emerson Electric, AU Optronics and Iamgold Corp.
Ninety-one-year-old Ivan, the Terrible or John Demjanjuk was finally charged with thousands counts of being an accomplice to murder, in a Nazi-occupied Poland and sentenced to five years imprisonment, ending a trial that ran well over three decades.
Amidst growing questions over the legality of the killing of Osama bin Laden, US Attorney General Eric Holder defended the commando raid that resulted in the death of the former al-Qaeda terror chief.
U.S. stock index futures fell on Thursday as a continuing slide in commodities prompted an unwinding of bets on risky assets, including equities, while a sour outlook from Cisco hurt technology stocks.
Google’s first Chromebook from Samsung and Acer’s new web-centric PCs can be monthly subscribed at $28/user for businesses and $20/user for schools.
Nearly 600 homes have been flooded and thousands evacuated in Rena Lara as waters from the Mississippi river and its tributaries rose to record levels on Tuesday.
