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July 2008

Business and finance

NZ Inflation looms
ASB
Business Weekly Economic Report
Monday, 14 July 2008

Last week's Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion indicated businesses have an even greater desire to put up prices in an environment of rising cost pressures. However, the most significant news in the survey was More...

US inflation rate at 17-year high
bbc.co.uk
Wednesday, 16 July 2008

US inflation accelerated at its fastest pace in 17 years in June, official figures have shown, driven higher by surging energy prices More...

US consumer gloom deepens in June
bbc.co.uk

US consumer confidence fell by more than expected in June, according to a key confidence survey.
The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index fell to 50.4, the lowest level since February 1992. Confidence is down with the More...

Cracks in China's economy?
bbc.co.uk

Rising inflation may be an early indicator of more challenging times ahead for China's booming economy.
The BBC's James Reynolds examines how China's economic performance affects people in the UK. July 15, 2008 . More...

Europe looks no longer immune to U.S. economic storm
International Herald Tribune
July 15, 2008

FRANKFURT: Europe, which held the world's economic storms at bay for the last year, has finally succumbed.
Spain, Ireland and Denmark are either in, or on the brink, of a recession. Italy is stagnating. France is weakening fast. And Germany, the sturdy locomotive of European growth, is suddenly faltering - dashing most residual hopes that Europe could escape the upheaval in the United States. More...

Consumer

Nanotechnology might be very tiny but its implications can be quite large.
Nanotechnology holds vast potential for producing energy efficient products and processes �" from purifying water to making better solar cells and the market for such products could be worth trillions of dollars in coming years. More...

Country, the city version: Farms in the sky gain new interest
International Herald Tribune
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

What if "eating local" in Shanghai or New York meant getting your fresh produce from five blocks away? And what if skyscrapers grew off the grid, as verdant, self-sustaining towers where city slickers cultivated their own food? More...

Drought hurts vital Australian wheat
CNN
July 14, 2008

POOCHERA, Australia (AP) -- Glen Phillips kneels down, scoops up a handful of dirt and squashes it in his fist to test whether the soil in this dry patch of the Australian Outback is ready to take a crop of wheat. More...

Health

Drugs to build bones may weaken them
International Herald Tribune
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

New questions have emerged about whether long-term use of bone-building drugs for osteoporosis may actually lead to weaker bones in a small number of people who use them. More...

Technology

A new kind of cab is part of the landscape in Sacramento, California's Midtown section. More...

Take two Prozac and e-mail me in the morning
International Herald Tribune
By Richard A. Friedman, M.d
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Ah, the promise of e-mail! The minute I started giving out my address to my patients, I fantasized about how much time I would save on routine phone calls and how clear and unambiguous the communication would be. More...

Chinas New Great Wall
CNN
July 4, 2008

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Forget the "Bird's Nest" and the "Water Cube". If you're traveling to China this summer, or even if you are watching the Olympics on television, make sure you look out for a glittering new landmark structure in Beijing. More...

Environment

French Environment and Energy Minister Borloo has made energy efficiency a priority for the French EU presidency. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters) More...

The pros and cons of scrapping targets for biofuels
International Herald Tribune
Jul 8 2008

British transportation secretary, Ruth Kelly, is one of many politicians calling for a slowdown in the use of biofuels. (Phil Noble/Reuters)
Scientists and environmentalists have been warning for more than a year that many types of biofuels are helping drive up food prices, contribute to deforestation, and may be little better for the climate than conventional oil. More...

World Economy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Oil prices tumbled Wednesday, extending a steep and unusually volatile slide into a second day, after the government reported a surprising spike in U.S. crude and gasoline supplies. More...

Economist warns of looming water crisis
Journal Online
July 13, 2008

AN impending global water crisis in the next few years could further aggravate the global food crisis, hence the need to develop alternative food commodities as staple food. More...

Obama not closing US racial divide
TVNZ.co.nz
July 16 2008

Americans are sharply divided by race ahead of the first presidential election in which a black candidate will represent a major party, a New York Times/CBS News poll showed on Tuesday.
The poll found that blacks and whites hold vastly different views of Sen. Barack Obama, an Illinois Democrat who would be the first black president, and are also divided on the state of race relations in the United States, the newspaper reported. More...

Origin plan could affect power supply
TVNZ.co.nz
July 15 2008

Origin Energy Ltd's pursuit to monetise its coal seam gas reserves could jeopardise supply to its power stations on the eastern seaboard of Australia, says the energy company's predator BG Group Plc. More...