The Wall Street Journal
In Today's Paper
The Wall Street Journal
In Today's Paper
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Tighter regulatory requirements are compelling giant investment banks to give up their gunslinging ways and shift to more staid strategies.
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Rahm Emanuel's return to retail politics came on his first full day of campaigning for Chicago mayor, as he was greeted by mixed crowds.
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VW is gunning to reconquer lost ground in the U.S. by tailoring its cars to American tastes. The first test of that plan begins this week, as VW rolls out a campaign for a bigger, cheaper Jetta.
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An increasing number of middle-class Indian moms-to-be are consulting their astrologers and then scheduling caesarean sections for good-luck dates.
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Shares fell as investors favored Treasurys and the dollar. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 78.41, or 0.7%, to close at 10751.27, their worst performance in nearly a month. The gain in Treasurys was due to investors betting on the Fed Reserve to step up government-debt buys. The yield on the two-year note hit a record low of 0.407%.
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Goldman Sachs, hitherto one of the biggest Treasury-bond bulls, now says the rally has seen its peak and the best trade is to buy stocks, not bonds.
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Grupo Televisa will pay $1.2 billion to help recapitalize Univision Communications and gain a minority stake in return.
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The U.S. sued AmEx on antitrust grounds after the credit-card issuer refused to join an industry agreement easing merchant restrictions. AmEx says the settlement has its own anticompetitive ramifications.
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Germany played down the threat of a terror attack. The country's interior minister said police and intelligence services have "no concrete evidence" an attack is imminent. The statement followed a U.S. warning of a possible attack in the U.K., France or Germany. Wire services reported that a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's Waziristan region killed as many as eight German militants.
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Germany intelligence is monitoring suspected militants who have gone to Pakistan and Afghanistan for training, an official said.
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The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to British scientist Robert Edwards for his role in the development of clinical in vitro fertilization.
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The Supreme Court opened its term with Kagan taking her place. The justices rejected appeals from families of 9/11 victims and Adelphia's founders.
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Robert Edwards, a feisty British embryologist who fundamentally transformed human procreation, received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the development of clinical in vitro fertilization.
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Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground radical, retired from the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago this summer, but he is still stirring up controversy at the school.
The Obama administration is expected to announce a large increase in its pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and to call for reform of the organization.
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Federal agents charged four Alabama state senators and seven others with taking part in an alleged bribery scheme to help pass legislation to allow casino-style electronic gaming.
Today's U.S. Watch
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Humans have studied the seas for centuries. But the publication Monday of the first global marine census suggests that the golden age of oceanic discovery still lies ahead.
Anorexia patients' families, once considered partly to blame for adolescents succumbing to the dangerous eating disorder, are increasingly being incorporated into the solution.
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The market for U.S. office space is no longer in free fall, but a strong recovery could be years away, according to new statistics.
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Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank usually wins re-election by steamrolling his opponents, but this year his lead ranges from 24 points to only 10.
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An increasing amount of money spent on the 2010 elections is coming from organizations that aren't required to disclose where they get their funds.
Some of this fall's campaign rhetoric will make the task of cutting government spending harder after November.
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Oregon's Fifth District is the only in this very blue state even close to enjoying "swing" status. Republicans see snatching this district as essential to their goal of achieving a House majority.
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Republican Linda McMahon and Democrat Richard Blumenthal, both vying to be the next U.S. Senator from Connecticut, faced off in a spirited debate.
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A court-appointed citizen's panel ordered Japan's ruling-party power broker Ichiro Ozawa indicted on charges of violating campaign-fund laws, putting him in the worst crisis yet in his turbulent career.
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Here's a look at the allegations behind the indictment order of longtime political power broker Ichiro Ozawa.
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With Brazil's presidential elections heading for an Oct. 31 runoff, the outcome's X-factor is Marina Silva, a born-again icon of the global environmental movement whose third-party candidacy surged before the first round of voting.
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Concerns about the strength of Europe's periphery flared anew, as the European Central Bank stepped up efforts to steady the euro-zone's weakest members, 17 months after the currency bloc emerged from recession.
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U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne on Monday unveiled plans to cap jobless payouts and remove child benefits for those with higher incomes.
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Many of the European Union's member countries, blistered by a financial crisis that has forced them to compress budgets at home, are agitating to trim the tab for running the EU itself. But shrinking the bill will be a tall task.
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The Central Bank of Ireland slashed its economic forecasts for the country and warned that government spending cuts in the upcoming 2011 budget will have to go beyond the $4.13 billion planned.
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Commuters facing travel chaos as a result of a London Underground strike might have to get used to dealing with industrial action as a key union warned of more disruptions to come.
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A senior German official downplayed warnings of a potential terrorist attack in Europe.
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In an Internet-strategy shift, Hanoi's authoritarian government has launched its own Facebook-style social-networking site—hoping to bring millions of Vietnamese together under the watchful eye of the country's security forces.
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Iraq dramatically increased the estimate of its proved oil reserves, seeking in the first revision to its oil reserves since 2001 to reaffirm the strife-ridden country's place on the international energy scene.
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Brussels, in a crucial sign that recently frosty relations between the two Asian giants are beginning to thaw.
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As Iraqi politicians wrangle through a seventh month of government-formation talks, an unexpected casualty is emerging: Iranian influence over the country's fractured Shiite groups.
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UGG Australia has a tangled history that includes trademark disputes and the appropriation of a national industry. Yet with first-quarter revenue of $100 million, the polarizing footwear company is sitting pretty. In the September Issue of WSJ.
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