British Court Rules in Favor of Electronic Surveillance
By MARK SCOTT
The decision comes after a global outcry against programs like Prism, which have given spy agencies almost unfettered access to Internet communications.
One result is to drive down inflation worldwide, at a time when inflation is already lower than central bankers consider ideal.
The decision comes after a global outcry against programs like Prism, which have given spy agencies almost unfettered access to Internet communications.
Danny Martin Wilkinson, Colin John Goodman and Darrell Paul Read are expected to face trial in September, along with three former traders from two British brokerage firms.
The gain was the largest monthly jump in payrolls in nearly three years, and average hourly earnings surged 0.4 percent, twice what analysts expected.
Andrea C. Bonomi, the Italian businessman fighting a Chinese investor for Club Méditerranée, raised his bid to $29.65 a share for the French resort operator.
The adjustments in the international banking guidelines could increase the amount of capital that banks need and force them to reduce their dependence on borrowed money.
The latest all-cash offer valued Songbird Estates, which owns the operator of the Canary Wharf financial and retail complex in London, at about $4.1 billion.
The John Laing Infrastructure Fund, a European investor, had offered to pay about $1.6 billion for the company’s portfolio of public-private investments.
Mr. Dimon who was given a diagnosis of throat cancer last summer, sent an email to his staff on Friday saying a new round of tests “came back completely clear.”
The deal to sell the ships, designed to transport troops, tanks and helicopters, ran into opposition after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in March.
Starbucks is planning a chain that will sell high-end coffee from around the world, and its branding will be steps removed from its mass-market cousin.
A pipeline to southern Europe could be completed despite President Vladimir V. Putin’s stated intention to abandon it, the head of the European Commission said.
The new government is moving with remarkable speed to clear away regulatory burdens for industry, the armed forces, mining and power projects.
The questions are growing more urgent over how much longer the European Central Bank can merely hint at actions to come before markets lose faith in it.
If history is any guide, it’s hard to see falling oil prices as anything but good news for everyone whose fortunes aren’t tied to oil.
Janet Yellen as Little Miss Muffet? Mario Draghi and Angela Merkel acting as Punch and Judy? No one is off limits for Bill Gross.
Income inequality in Chile and other parts of Latin America is narrowing, but the reason for the decline, yet to be determined, could be good news or bad.
China’s leaders have self-interested reasons to combat pollution, as their recent pledge suggests. India’s leaders may have the same reasons.
Programs, and payouts, to encourage whistle-blowers to come forward with wrongdoing are likely to increase with the new Congress, Peter J. Henning writes.
Experts question whether the plans that the Continent has sketched out to achieve a 40 percent cut are strong enough to meet its goal.
There has been an awakening that online threats are real and growing worse, and that the prevailing “patch and pray” approach to computer security will not do.
Hotel, restaurant and car service companies are now frequently using sophisticated systems that allow them to identify their best, and worst, patrons.