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British lawmaker Tom Watson grilled News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch about covert surveillance techniques by company employees as News Corp. held its first shareholders meeting following a phone-hacking scandal.
More than 100 people demonstrated Friday outside the lot of News Corp.’s Fox Studios.
Watson asked Murdoch whether he was aware that a person who had left prison […]

A gathering of protesters in Toronto

The Occupy Wall Street protests are hitting a nerve.
A dearth of jobs, overwhelming student loans and soaring health-care costs are just three major issues protesters have targeted. And regardless of politics, economic data suggests they’re not alone in their frustrations.
It may be why the protests have spread to other cities _ including Boston, Cincinnati, Seattle […]

The jobs crisis isn’t getting worse. But it isn’t getting much better, either.
The economy added just enough jobs last month to ease fears of a new recession. But hiring is still too weak to bring down unemployment, which has been stuck around 9 percent for more than two years.
The nation added 103,000 jobs in September, […]

A key central bank survey offered a cautiously optimistic assessment of corporate Japan, where business confidence is improving even as the global economy’s prospects darken.
In the Bank of Japan’s quarterly “tankan” survey of business sentiment released Monday, the main index for big manufacturers climbed back into positive territory as a recovery from the March 11 […]

Nike Inc. reported its fiscal first-quarter profit rose 15 percent as demand grew for its sneakers and athletic apparel in nearly every market worldwide despite an uncertain global economy.
The results, which were reported after the close of the stock market on Thursday, beat Wall Street’s expectations and sent its shares up in after-hours trading.
Under the […]

European Union finance ministers are debating a tax on financial transactions that would raise money for the EU and make banks share bailout burdens with taxpayers.
The tax would take a tiny fraction from a wide range of financial dealings and use the money to relieve member states’ membership contributions to the EU.
France and Germany support […]

Stocks advanced for the second day running Thursday amid hopes that global policymakers will enact more measures to shore up ailing economic growth.
While both the Bank of England and the European Central Bank are set to keep their respective interest rates unchanged, President Barack Obama is expected to announce measures to boost jobs creation in […]

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