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How currency exchange rates are creating shifts in production from Europe into the US and further accelerating the changes in the automotive landscape. Now more German factories are planned by the likes of VW and BMW and their suppliers, and near their production bases in southern states which are non-unionized labor. BMW figures currency swings cost it about $900 million in earnings in 2006 due to the stronger euro. Both BMW and Mercedes see the stronger euro as a long term thing and are planning investments in the US based on this. BMW is expanding its Spartanburg , NC facility. In addition to the X3 SUV it will make the X5 and X6 SUVs there. And product from here will be exported back to Europe and other countries in addition to the US market. Mercedes had already expanded in Vance, Alabama before the pronounced currency swing for the euro. The Korean car makers Hyundai and Kia are facing similiar situation because of the stronger won. The weaker yen is creating a revert back to production in Japan in the case of Toyota and a halt to expansion in the USA, see the article on this recently. ...

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Trimmin and pruning the bureaucracy and redundant management layers at BP. Hayward points to the years when acquisitions were a priority and not enough time was spent on carefully integrating the acquired company's manpower into BP so that the company did not get bloated with all kinds of management layers.

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Consumer generated marketing content for Apple's ipod Touch by 1n 18 year old from the U.K. based on a Brazilian Song that has the words "Music is where I want you to touch me."

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Efforts to limit free giveaways to doctors.

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OECD's estimates of losses and bank's assets and capital position as a result of the mortgage and credit crisis.

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USA strategy to take complaints of Chinese dumping and other countries unfair subsidies to the World Trade Organization.

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A piece on Biden by the NYT.

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“The industry operated in a certain manner in the first half of the decade that is not an appropriate path for the second half of the decade,” says Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith. Microsoft will now act as aresponsible company and pay higher electricity prices, replenish water supplies, and pay more for land so that electricity prices are not pushed up by AI data centers and passd on to consumers. This draws praise from DJT as the US faces an affordability crisis and AI is suspected to increase the cost borne by consumers of electricity. 

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Gavaskar says of India in the First Test at Leeds Headingley, India's fielding was ordinary, not Test class. Catches were dropped, fielding was poor so that after five centuries India came up short. With India batting well in the second innings Gavaskar says England showed confidence that let Tongue and Woakes wind up the lower order. With Duckett's 149 with 21 fours and Crawley's 65 set up a two hundred run partnership, that Root and Smith were able to make it look easy to win by 5 wickets.