Analysis: Expedia Against Everyone Else After Orbitz and Travelocity Deals

After acquiring Travelocity last month and Wotif in Australia a few months earlier, Expedia Inc. cleaned up a few missing pieces and agreed to acquire Orbitz Worldwide, including Orbitz, CheapTickets, eBookers, and HotelClub in a $1.6 billion cash deal. The announcement of the deal today was a stunner -- although it shouldn't have been. When Expedia initially began running Travelocity's North America sites in late 2013 Expedia stated that it...

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Euro zone lions' den

ATHENS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis headed for a showdown with euro zone finance ministers on Wednesday after his new leftist-led government won a parliamentary confidence vote for its refusal to extend an international bailout. The former academic said he was ready for a clash with euro zone paymaster Germany and its allies over Greece's determination to scrap austerity measures, end cooperation with the "troika"...

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The poor China trade

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares wobbled on Monday after dismal Chinese trade data eclipsed a strong U.S. jobs report, raising concerns about a deepening slowdown in the world's second-largest economy and sending the Australian dollar sliding. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slipped 0.8 percent while U.S. stock futures also shed 0.4 percent. Japan's Nikkei share average bucked the trend and rose 0.2 percent on the back...

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This Week's Economic Horizon On 8 Points

1. The swing in the pendulum of expectations back toward a mid-year Fed rate hike is one of the key developments that will shape the investment climate. The data in the week ahead, including the broader measures of the labor market, like the Fed's new index (Labor Market Activity Index) and JOLTS (Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey), and core retail sales will strengthen the view. The rise in US interest rates will lend the dollar support and...

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Orang Terkaya di Dunia Awal Tahun 2015

Daftar orang terkaya versi majalah Forbes dikuasai oleh Amerika Serikat. Di posisi 10 besar, AS diwakili oleh delapan orang. Berikut lima orang terkaya dunia menurut daftar yang diperbarui pada 22 Desember 2014. 1. Bill Gates Salah seorang pendiri perusahaan raksasa software komputer, Microsoft, bernama lengkap William Henry Gates II ini dilahirkan pada tahun 1955. Ia merupakan langganan tetap dalam daftar orang terkaya dunia versi Forbes....

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