Santos begins big recruiting drive for QLD project - West Online

Oil and gas producer Santos has started recruiting as many as 600 workers for its proposed $7.7 billion liquefied natural gas project in Queensland. The workers, which will be employees of Santos or of the Gladstone LNG, or GLNG, venture with ...

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Cuts will hit north-east’s economy and pride - Financial Times

It is difficult to overestimate the importance to the north-east’s economy of the Nissan site, widely acknowledged as Europe’s most efficient carmaking plant. A £2.4bn investment has grown, since production began in 1986, into a source of well ...

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6 Small Caps to Lead Your Portfolio out of the Bear Market - Motley Fool

To coin a phrase, "Great stocks come in small packages ." That's especially been the case in December, when the Russell 2000 small-cap index finished up 5.5%, versus just 0.7% for the S&P 500. Since small caps generally lead the broader equity market ...

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Peking University Selects Cascade Microtech for RF Measurement ... - TMCnet

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MARKET CLOSES LOWER, IN LINE WITH EXPECTATIONS - FOXSports.com

The S&P/ASX200 closed at 3694.3, down 85.4 points on light volume worth $2.7 billion. There were309 issues higher and 580 down. The SPI Futures closed at 3690, down 85 points on good volume of 20,741 contracts. Aussie 10 year bonds were at 4.15%, 11 ...

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Home Depot drops Olympics sponsorship - Atlanta Journal Constitution

After 16 years as an Olympic sponsor, Home Depot is hanging up its rings. On Wednesday, the world’s largest home improvement retailer informed 98 employees in its Olympic jobs program that it is ending its sponsorship of the Olympics and ...

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How local banks are handling the downturn - Everett Herald

Community banks in Snohomish County are being drawn into a vortex of the financial storm that has battered megabanks worldwide this year. The three largest, publicly traded banks in the county -- Frontier Bank, City Bank and Cascade Bank -- all ...

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