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This edition was generated on Fri Oct 9 08:45:01 EDT 2009

Table of Contents

General News Update
Sports News Update
Business News Update
Miscellaneous Daily Information
Boston Area Weather


General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

File - U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 64th session of the United AP
In a surprise, Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize AP – 20 mins ago

OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism. Full Story »

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

IOC President, Jacques Rogge delivers his speech after he won re-election as AP

Golf, rugby accepted as Olympic sports

AP – 42 mins ago

COPENHAGEN – Golf and rugby will be included in the 2016 and 2020 Summer Games, following a vote Friday by the International Olympic Committee. Full Story »

Aug. trade deficit narrows unexpectedly to $30.7B

AP – 8 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly narrowed in August as exports posted a small gain and imports fell on a big drop in demand for foreign oil. Full Story »

  • U.S. anti-foreclosure programs are not enough: watchdog

    Reuters – 27 mins ago  
    Police tape marked as a Foreclosure Free Zone is seen outside... Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government programs to fight the U.S. home foreclosure crisis look increasingly inadequate and should be reworked, expanded and supplemented with new ideas, a congressional watchdog said in a report on Friday. Full Story »

  • Chevron sees 3Q earns up significantly from 2Q

    AP – 6 mins ago  

    SAN RAMON, Calif. - Chevron Corp. expects its third-quarter earnings to be significantly higher than the second quarter on higher crude oil prices and gains from asset sales and tax items. Full Story »

  • What's Ahead for Financials

    BusinessWeek – 36 mins ago  

    Financial-services stocks have come roaring back since their collapse last fall. Are the gains sustainable? For insight on smart ways to play such stocks now, Personal Finance editor Lauren Young spoke with Anton Schutz, manager of the top-ranked Burnham Financial Services Fund, which delivered an annualized gain of 14.3% over the past decade. Full Story »

  • TARP Oversight Group Says Treasury Mortgage Plan Not Effective

    Bloomberg – Fri Oct 9, 12:01 am ET  

    Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The group Congress created to oversee the U.S.’s $700 billion financial bailout said the government needs to increase its efforts to help struggling homeowners modify their mortgages. Full Story »

  • Betting Big on a Boom in Natural Gas

    BusinessWeek – 36 mins ago  

    Earlier this year the time came for Lloyd M. Yates, CEO of Progress Energy , to decide how the big Raleigh (N.C.) utility would meet the state's stringent smokestack laws. First he considered the easy solution: installing pollution scrubbers on the utility's old coal-fired plant in Sutton, N.C., at a cost of $330 million. Then his attention turned to natural gas, the price of which had plunged by two-thirds in the previous year. Sure, the recession accounted for some of the slide. But reports were also circulating of massive discoveries of natural gas in the U.S. ... Full Story »

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 9, 2009
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
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Robert A. Humphrey
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
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Erma Bombeck (1927 - 1996)
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
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Nick Faldo

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