Latest Personal Loan Offers: Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Indianapolis, IN, United States (AHN) – The amount of food that will be consumed on Super Bowl Sunday rivals the biggest Thanksgiving Day feasts. Americans will down 1.25 billion, or 100 million pounds, of chicken wings, enough to circle the Earth more than twice, the [...]
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Google + opens to younger users
January 27th, 2012
davidguide Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Mountain View, CA, United States (AHN) – Teens as young as 13 can now log into Google’s social network site Google +, with some enhanced safety features. The move is a bid to attract more users. The service has until now only been open only to adults. The announcement [...]
IMF boss joins other economic bodies in warning against austerity measures
January 20th, 2012
davidguide Linda Young – AHN News Writer Davos, Switzerland (AHN) – The International Monetary Fund joined 10 other economic bodies in warning of a threat to global economies posed by the austerity drives adopted by many governments around the world. In an expression of concern over the weakness of global economic activity and rising unemployment, the [...]
Banking giant JPMorgan reports big drop in profits
January 13th, 2012
davidguide Linda Young – AHN News Writer New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Wall Street banking giant JPMorgan reported a steep plunge in its quarterly earnings Friday morning caused by large losses in its investment banking and trading divisions. JPMorgan is the nation’s largest bank by assets. Bank officials reported that it earned $3.7 billion, [...]
VW sells record 5.1 million cars in 2011
January 6th, 2012
davidguide Linda Young – AHN News Writer Wolfsburg, Germany (AHN) – Volkswagen AG announced it had record sales of 5.1 million cars and sport-utility vehicles worldwide in 2011. Sales were up worldwide by 13.1 percent in 2011 from 2010, company officials said. Volkswagen is Europe’s largest carmaker. Although much of its growth came from gains in [...]
No. 1 worry among Americans is the economy
December 23rd, 2011
davidguide Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – It’s the economy that keeps Americans up at night, on edge and worried, revealed a new CNN/ORC International poll released Friday. Some 70 percent said that things are not going well in the United States, with just three out of 10 saying [...]
Mortgage rates return to record lows
December 16th, 2011
davidguide Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Fixed mortgage rates in the United States fell back to historic lows over the past week, with the 30-year loan dropping back to the record 3.94 percent. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac reported in its weekly survey of mortgage rates for the week [...]
Fixed mortgage rates stay low
December 9th, 2011
davidguide Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage stayed near its record low for the sixth consecutive week. But, the historically low rates have done little to goose the ailing housing market. On Thursday, mortgage giant Freddie Mac said the rate on [...]
Honda widens recall for airbag problem
December 2nd, 2011
davidguide Linda Young – AHN News Writer Torrence, CA, United States (AHN) – Japanese automaker Honda has expanded its previously announced recall of vehicles with dangerous air bags to include almost 900,000 vehicles. The recall affects only vehicles sold in the United States and includes model years 2001 to 2003 of the affected cars. The recalled [...]
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