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IBD'S WEEK IN REVIEW.(THE IBD 100)
Tsunami Toll At 150,000 As Aid Arrives
1Dec. 26's 9.0 magnitude quake struck near Sumatra, sending walls of water racing across the Indian Ocean and wiping out coasts in 11 nations. The U.S. boosted its aid pledge to $350 mil Friday from $35 mil. Secretary of State Colin Powell will inspect the devastation. A U.N. official said the death toll may be approaching 150,000.
Very Merry Online Xmas
2Online sales from Nov. 1-Dec. 26 rose 29% from a year ago to hit $15.8 bil, topping research firm comScore Networks' forecast of a 26% rise. Gift certificates pushed Dec. 20-26 e-commerce sales to $1.22 bil, up 53%. The fast-growing market is only a fraction of overall holiday shopping, which rose an estimated 4.5% to $219.9 bil.
Oil Bounces After Big Drop
3Feb. oil futures jumped $1.87 to $43.64 a barrel Wednesday after two blasts in Saudi Arabia reminded traders of terror risks to OPEC's No. 1 producer. Oil started the week by falling $2.86 to $41.32, the lowest since Dec. 10. Forecasts called for mild temperatures over the next 2 weeks in the eastern half of the U.S. Crude closed the week at $43.45, down 73 cents.
Stocks Advance Quietly
- Tsunami toll ticks to 135,000.(News Bulletin)
- News wire article from: UPI Perspectives Nanda, Harbaksh Singh December 31, 2004 700+ words
...Phuket beach resort city. Several hundred people, including scores of Swedish and German tourists, are reported missing. New Year festivities have been cancelled at most places in the tsunami affected south Asian countries even as rescue workers and volunteers...
- Tsunami toll is 50,000 and still climbing.(News Bulletin)
- News wire article from: UPI Perspectives Nanda, Harbaksh Singh December 28, 2004 700+ words
...Among the victims are hundreds of foreign tourists who frequent the Thai and Sri Lankan beach resorts during Christmas and New Year holidays. Scores of bodies of the foreign tourists have been retrieved from the waters. Even as rescue workers and survivors...
- U.N.: Tsunami toll tops 165,000 dead.(UPI Top Stories)
- News wire article from: UPI NewsTrack January 18, 2005 700+ words
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- The United Nations estimates the Indian Ocean tsunami toll has topped 165,000 deaths, with at least 118,000 fatalities in Indonesia alone. Surveying damage in such areas as Aceh province...
- Tsunami toll hits 153,000 - Govt defends aid decision.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire January 8, 2005 700+ words
(From Canberra Times) The death toll from the December 26 tsunami has risen sharply to 153,000 after thousands more bodies were uncovered in devastated Aceh, taking Indonesia's dead to more than 100,000. The grim news came as Australian Prime Minister John Howard defended Australia's decision to
- Tsunami toll soars.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire December 30, 2004 700+ words
(From Western Daily Press) Devastation: An aerial image shows villagers standing next to a road destroyed by Sunday's tsunami at Telwatte, about 100 kilometers (63 miles) south of Colombo, in Sri Lanka DEVASTATION: An aerial image shows villagers standing next to a road destroyed by Sunday's
- Tsunami toll crosses 24,000; massive relief work underway.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. December 27, 2004 700+ words
Chennai, Dec 27 (PTI) The death toll in the killer tsunami tidal waves mounted rapidly to nearly 7,000 in India and 17,000 more in the region Monday as the scale of death and destruction began unfolding 24 hours after the disaster struck. Rescue workers stacked piles of bodies and ferried relief to
- Tsunami toll hits 44,000 in South Asia; 8 Americans dead.
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (NY, NY) December 28, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Dave Goldiner Dec. 28--The human toll from the earthquake-spawned tsunamis that swamped an epic swath of South Asia climbed to 44,000 dead yesterday, and with tens of thousands still missing is bound to soar even higher. At least eight Americans were killed and hundreds of other Yanks
- Tsunami toll rises to 7,814 in Tamil Nadu.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire January 3, 2005 700+ words
(From Press Trust of India) Chennai, Jan 3 (PTI) The toll in the Tsunami that struck Tamil Nadu has been officially put at 7814, with Nagapattinam topping the list with 5925 deaths. A total of 3324 people were injured, according to figures provided by the official website of the disaster management
- Tsunami toll Crosses 24,000.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire December 28, 2004 700+ words
(From The Statesman (India)) indian ocean rim COUNTRIES count their dead n 3,000 dead, 2000 missing in the andamans Statesman News Service, Asia News Network & Agencies CHENNAI/ NEW DELHI /JAKARTA /BANGKOK /COLOMBO, Dec. 27. - The death toll as a result of the earthquake off Sumatra on Sunday
- Tsunami toll reaches 220,000.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire January 20, 2005 700+ words
(From Pakistan Press International Information Services Limited) Jakarta, January 20 (PPI): The number of people who have died in Asia's tsunami disaster has now reached 2,20,000. The toll increased dramatically after Indonesian officials announced that over 1,66,000 people had been confirmed dead