By Paul Owers
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Home buyers in South Florida are petrified of tainted Chinese drywall.
rule out entire neighborhoods or houses and condos built within the past seven years. Others don’t want anything to do with builders known to have used Chinese drywall. And buyers who do sign contracts [...]
China’s manufacturing sector expanded for the eighth straight month in October, pointing to further signs that the recovering economy is on firmer ground, a survey by an industry group said Sunday.
The state-sanctioned China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said its purchasing managers index, or PMI, rose to 55.2, nearly a full point higher than [...]
Going overseas to work can be a great way to jump-start your career, especially given the slow U.S. job market.
The economic rebound might feel good if you’re in the Goldman Sachs bonus pool, but for everyone else? Not so much. In fact, if you’re a fresh-from-B-school MBA, a frustrated manager, or a newly minted [...]
With Halloween quickly approaching, a spooky item is deemed a fire hazard. Haunted House candle holders sold exclusively at Yankee Candles are being recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
// About 7,800 of these “Haunted House Screen Tea Light Holders” have been distributed to Yankee Candle stores nationwide, including here in Charlottesville. They [...]
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The U.S. is an empire in decline, according to Niall Ferguson, Harvard professor and author of The Ascent of Money.“People have predicted the end of America in the past and been wrong,” Ferguson concedes. “But let’s face [...]
ALLISON ROSS
PALM BEACH POST Homeowners’ efforts to get relief from their Chinese drywall problems are moving ahead as court-appointed inspectors began examining a handful of affected properties this week.
A house in the Cobblestone Creek subdivision west of Boynton Beach will be inspected next week. It and 14 other Florida homes will help set a [...]
LESLEY CLARK
The Miami Herald
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from Florida and Louisiana Thursday pressed new Consumer Product Safety Commission chairman Inez Tenenbaum for answers to the Chinese drywall problem plaguing thousands of homeowners in their states.
Tenenbaum – who took over the agency in June – pledged to lawmakers that the agency will “vigorously pursue its investigation” [...]
BEIJING — China’s Ministry of Commerce said Monday it has made a preliminary ruling to impose tariffs of up to 36% on nylon 6, or polycaprolactam, from the U.S., saying the imports have damaged the domestic industry.
The antidumping measure is the latest in a series of trade measures by China after the Obama administration [...]