http://finreviewer.com News blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:12:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en China http://finreviewer.com/china-industrial-output-growth-to-slow-as-global-risks-rise-ministry-says-bloomberg/ The U.S. labor market recovery is broadening as industries from construction to retail to manufacturing added workers in January and the jobless rate fell to the lowest level in three years. The world http://finreviewer.com/job-gains-from-factories-to-stores-add-heft-to-us-job-market-recovery-bloomberg/ Let there be no doubt: The campaign finance floodgates are officially open.Disclosure forms filed this week with the Federal Election Commission confirmed what has long been expected: Individuals and corporations are using new outside expenditure groups to influence political campaigns in a big way.And they're not being shy ... http://finreviewer.com/more-money-more-votes-the-billion-dollar-campaign/ The Chinese government said Wednesday that manufacturing in the world's second-largest economy expanded slightly in January, while a report from a leading bank indicated contraction in the sector for the third straight month.The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said its index of purchasing managers' sentiment rose to ... http://finreviewer.com/china-manufacturing-gives-off-mixed-signals/ European Union nations must increasingly pool their military resources, especially as individual members keep trimming their budgets and the U.S reshapes its military strategy to focus on regions beyond Europe, the bloc's top defense officials said Tuesday. "We want to tackle the challenges we face by doing more together and ... http://finreviewer.com/eu-members-must-share-more-military-resources/ European leaders were told by policy makers, bankers and academics from around the world that it http://finreviewer.com/davos-tells-euro-leaders-to-fix-crisis-for-good-after-two-years-of-failure-bloomberg/ U.S. monetary stimulus, blamed in 2010 for spurring speculative capital flows to emerging markets, may find less opposition this time round in Asia as the region http://finreviewer.com/feds-qe3-may-be-preferred-over-qe2-for-asia-in-export-slump-bloomberg/ Amgen Inc. said Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit fell 8.5 percent as its expenses for taxes and for producing and selling drugs rose faster than its revenue. The world's largest biotech company said its net income was $934 million, or $1.08 per share, down from $1.02 billion, also $1.08 per ... http://finreviewer.com/amgen-4q-profit-down-9-pct-but-sales-up-3-pct/ The iPhone is taking over Apple. For the first time, the device that changed how people use mobile phones accounts for more than half of the behemoth company's sales. Apple Inc. on Tuesday said it sold 37 million iPhones in the last three months of 2011, vastly exceeding analyst estimates ... http://finreviewer.com/iphone-sales-catapult-apple-to-record-results-profits-soar/ European finance chiefs piled pressure on Greece's private creditors on Monday to voluntarily cut the country's massive debt load, with the Dutch minister warning the bondholders may be forced to take losses. Negotiations with the banks and other investment firms to reduce Greece's debt by some euro100 billion ($129 billion) ... http://finreviewer.com/eu-ministers-pushing-bondholders-in-greek-deal/