Archive for January 21st, 2009

Japan exports plunge by record; China growth slows (Reuters)

Written by on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 in Latest News.

A foreign exchange dealer watches a monitor as she talks on the phone at a trading room in Tokyo January 22, 2009. Japan's top currency bureaucrat said on Thursday that he was monitoring foreign exchange markets but declined to comment on whether Tokyo would intervene to rein in the yen, which hit a 13-year high against the dollar. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)Reuters – Japanese exports plunged a record amount in December and China’s economy slowed sharply in the fourth quarter as recessions in rich nations hammered the demand that Asia’s top two economies rely on for growth.

Original post by Reuters and software by Elliott Back

New Moon Casting Scoop! Dakota Fanning as Jane?

Written by on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 in Latest News.

The teen star is in talks to appear opposite Robert Pattinson & Co. in director Chris Weitz’s Twilight sequel

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back

Va. Tech student fatally stabbed; suspect caught (AP)

Written by on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 in Latest News.

44 p.m. (AP Photo / The Roanoke Times, Matt Gentry)AP – A female student was stabbed to death Wednesday night on Virginia Tech’s campus, the first killing at the school since a deadly mass shooting there in 2007.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back



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