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IBD'S TOP 10.(A)
Stocks Roll Up On Heavy Trade
1 The Nasdaq jumped 2% as volume soared past 2 bil. The tech-heavy index is just 0.7% off its Jan. '04 peak. Data storage, chip, networking and consumer stocks led. The small-cap S&P 600 and mid-cap 400 both rose 1.3% to all-time highs. The S&P 500 gained 1.5%. NYSE volume surged. Airlines rallied. Oils tanked. More on this page, B2
Crude Crashes On Inventory Rise
2Jan. oil dived $3.64, the biggest drop in 3 years, to $45.49 a barrel, an 11-week low. U.S. distillate inventories rose by 2.3 mil barrels last week. Heating oil supplies also rose, easing winter fuel fears. Gasoline stocks rose sharply and crude by 900,000 barrels, a 10th straight gain. Heating oil, gasoline and natgas futures fell. China confirmed it'll create a strategic reserve. More on this page
Key Sunni Backs Iraq Vote In Jan.
3President Ghazi al-Yawer, who's influential with Sunni tribal leaders, said Iraq has a "legal and moral" duty to hold a vote on time. Sunni support could be key to building acceptance of a new gov't, but some groups want the vote delayed. The U.S. is boosting Iraq troops by 12,000 to bolster election security. Iraq's neighbors pledged to help control its borders and block terror funding.
Ukraine Deal Is Set; PM Sacked
- Japanese Politics Shaken; Scandal, Resignation May Change the Rules
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Fred Hiatt; Margaret Shapiro April 26, 1989 700+ words
Days before Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita announced his resignation, a junior parliament member in his party was musing about being part of a "first-rate economic power with a second-rate standard of living and third-rate politics." The legislator, Masayoshi Takemura, said that Japan's
- Causing a stir, the new, female faces of Japan's politics shaken up by new wave...
- Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London DANIELLE DEMETRIOU in Tokyo October 4, 2009 700+ words
ONE stripped down to her swimsuit for a magazine. Another confessed to having worked as a bar hostess - while a third appeared topless in a gruesome horror film. The grey-suited world of Japanese politics has been shaken by the arrival of a group of young female politicians with pasts as colourful
- DNC: McCain to Miss Iraq Vote...Again Courting Conservatives a Priority for...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 16, 2007 700+ words
...James Dobson said he "would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances." [AP, 2/16/07] After missing the second Iraq vote to campaign in Iowa, McCain will head to Orlando, Florida for the National Religious Broadcasters convention, which is considered...
- Mexico in hot seat over Iraq vote in U.N.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) October 1, 2002 700+ words
...said the Mexicans know it would be a mistake to try to get even a "wink" from the U.S. on immigration talks. But the Iraq vote gives Mexico some leverage with the United States, and Mexico has tried such horse-trading in the past on Cuba and other...
- Recess Actions Target GOP Senators Who Blocked or Skipped Iraq Vote.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 17, 2007 700+ words
...debate and a vote on Iraq. Several Republicans senators, including John McCain, didn't even bother to show up for the Iraq vote. "The public opposes escalation yet Republican Senators have stalled for weeks and given President Bush a green light to...
- Iraq vote set for Jan. 21 after new law passed.
- Newspaper article from: Al Arabiya (Saudi Arabia) November 8, 2009 700+ words
Summary: Iraqis will vote in a general election on Jan. 21 now that parliament has passed a law needed for a vote to take place, the head of the country's electoral commission said on Monday. The Iraqis will vote in a general election on Jan. 21 now that parliament has passed a law needed for a
- Quick Iraq vote will remove issue for Democrats.
- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) September 19, 2002 700+ words
Byline: Carl P. Leubsdorf Several weeks ago, speculation on the political aspects of a possible U.S. invasion of Iraq centered on whether doubts by members of both parties might prevent or delay an approval of authority for President Bush. That almost certainly was somewhat misleading, since
- IRAQ VOTE NECESSARY.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) August 27, 2002 700+ words
White House lawyers apparently told President Bush earlier this month that he, in fact, does not need congressional approval to attack Saddam Hussein and Iraq. That's the word from two senior administration officials who said that White House counsel Al Gonzales told Bush that the Constitution
