Paul Julius Reuter noticed that, with the electric telegraph, news no longer required days or weeks to travel long distances. In the 1850s, the 34-year-old Reuter was based in Aachen — then in the Kingdom of Prussia, now in Germany — close to the borders with the Netherlands and Belgium. He began using the newly opened Berlin–Aachen telegraph line to send news to Berlin. However,Cheap Abercrombie And Fitch outlet uk, there was a 76-mile (122 km) gap in the line between Aachen and Brussels, Belgium’s capital city and financial center. Reuter saw an opportunity to speed up news service between Brussels and Berlin by using homing pigeons to bridge that gap.

Factbox: Potash sales and market overview

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – BHP Billiton’s $39 billion hostile bid for Canada’s Potash Corp has shone a spotlight on the mineral, a key ingredient in fertilizers.

Below is an overview of the current market for potash.- Although there are a number of producers, international potash sales negotiations are handled by two main entities, one in Canada, the other serving Former Soviet Union (FSU) producers, which set annual contracts with main buyers India and China.- In Canada sales are led by Canpotex, the world’s largest exporter, owned by Saskatchewan producers, Agrium Inc, Mosaic Co, and Potash Corp.- The other sales entity handles FSU exports,coach handbags, and is known as Belarussian Potash Co (BPC). It is the export agent of Uralkali and Belaruskali.- The two marketing companies typically settle annual deals with big buyers in India and China. Other consumers, such as Brazil, tend to buy on a more ad-hoc basis.- Analysts said moves are afoot to go to a quarterly system and eventually market clearing pricing, as has been the case in iron ore and coal. BHP was a big advocate of that.- Annual demand for potash runs at around 50 million tonnes. In 2008-2009 demand fell toward 40 million tonnes in response to the collapse in world markets. Miners cut output,Conoco Q2 surges as refining buoys Big Oil_6562, but stocks built up and the industry is still running below capacity, using up stockpiled material.- Potash prices soared above $1,000 a tonne during the commodity boom in 2007-08. It has since crashed to about $350 to $375 a tonne levels, but is still well above its historical average.- The last big greenfield expansion phase took place in the 1970s and it has taken since then for demand to catch up with capacity.- Based on supply and demand forecasts, analysts said the market will remain well-balanced to 2014-2015 as brownfield expansions meet rising demand. After that conditions may tighten. (Reporting by Nick Trevethan; Editing by Lincoln Feast)

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Democrat says abolish Freddie, Fannie: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be abolished rather than reformed as part of the Obama administration’s planned overhaul of the government’s role in housing finance,Coach Backpacks Outlet, Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services committee, said on Tuesday.

“They should be abolished,Airline results affirm recovery on track_6794,Coach Op Art Handbags Outlet,” Frank said in an interview on Fox Business, when asked whether the mortgage giants should be elements in housing market reform. “They only question is what do you put in their place,” Frank said.The Federal Housing Administration should be fully self-financing and Freddie and Fannie should be replaced with a new mechanism to help subsidize housing, Frank said in the interview.”There is no more hybrid private-public,” the Massachusetts Democrat suggested. “If we want to subsidize housing then we could do it upfront and let the budget be clear about that.”Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were government-sponsored enterprises, privately owned companies supported by the government, until the Bush administration took control of the companies in 2008 to save them from collapse.Frank said that he does believe the federal government should have a role in building affordable rental housing but thinks money should go toward projects by private developers.On the question of whether the government should still provide some guarantees in the mortgage market, Frank said: “If we have it (guarantees), it has to be self-financed by the people who are benefiting.”Frank commented after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner convened a Washington conference of housing industry leaders to hear ideas about reforms for the $10.7 trillion mortgage market.The firms’ pursuit of growth and profits helped precipitate the financial crisis of 2007-2009,Coach Embossed Handbags Outlet, but their vast resources also helped minimize its impact.Together, Fannie and Freddie and the Federal Housing Administration now back 90 percent of new U.S. home mortgages.Fannie and Freddie have received $150 billion in taxpayer bailout money.In the Fox Business interview, Frank also was critical of public policy that promoted homeownership at any cost. He also said the federal government should not be a “backstop” in guaranteeing mortgages.”There were people in this society who for economic and, frankly, social reasons can’t and shouldn’t be homeowners,” Frank said. “I think we should,China bank property stress test finds risk- report_5789, particularly, stop this assumption that you put everybody into homeownership.”"Public policy has been too much to try to push people into homeownership.”(Reporting by Joanne Allen; editing by Sofina Mirza-Reid and Carol Bishopric)

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Japan trade surplus dives after quake and tsunami

TOKYO (AFP) – Japan's exports fell for the first time in 16 months and the trade surplus plunged after a record earthquake and tsunami hit production, the finance ministry said Wednesday.

The country may fall into a trade deficit in the near term amid rising prices of oil and raw materials, which inflated the value of March imports and ate into the trade balance, analysts said.

The latest data further illustrate the emerging impact of the March 11 disasters, in which a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and the tsunami it unleashed devastated swathes of the northeast coast and triggered an atomic emergency.

Economists see Japan sliding into a temporary recession after the devastation to infrastructure and manufacturing facilities in the northeast, amid the nation's worst crisis since World War II.

"If Japan posts a trade deficit in April and May, GDP is also likely to contract in the April-June period," said Akiyoshi Takumori,buy Abercrombie and fitch mens, chief economist at Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management.

Japan's trade surplus in March reached 196.5 billion yen ($2.37 billion), down 78.9 percent but still managing to stay in the black for the second straight month, the finance ministry said.

Exports in March dropped 2.2 percent to 5.87 trillion yen, falling for the first time in 16 months due to reduced shipments of automobiles, it said.

This compared with a 2.0 percent decline expected in a joint poll by Dow Jones and the Nikkei financial daily.

The fall was led by vehicle exports, which contracted 27.8 percent, the ministry said, after Japan's leading automakers were forced to halt production amid broken supply chains and power shortages.

The export fall is likely to continue, said Japan Foreign Trade Council chairman Shoei Utsuda, also a chairman for major trading house Mitsui & Co.

"I cannot help but think the fall in April might be even sharper," he told Japanese reporters, calling the rate of the fall in March "unprecedented".

The yen came under pressure in Asia on Wednesday after the trade data, weakening to 82.90 against the dollar from 82.57 yen in New York late Tuesday.

"As the data showed a clear picture of sluggish exports, the market moved to dollar buying against the yen," said Sumino Kamei, senior analyst at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.

"The data revealed a steep decline in automobile exports. As the supply chain damaged by the quake has not been restored yet, it is seen to take time until automobile exports will recover."

Many key component manufacturers are based in the worst-hit regions of Japan, their facilities damaged by the earthquake or inundated by the giant wave that followed. Shortages are expected to last for months.

The parts shortage has hit companies and production worldwide.

Since stopping production on March 11, Toyota Motor gradually reopened factories and is now operating at a 50-percent capacity, as it struggles to secure necessary parts.

March Japanese imports rose for the 15th straight month, increasing 11.9 percent to 5.67 trillion yen,Abercrombie And Fitch Outlet online, on surging prices of oil and iron ore, the ministry said.

The value of oil imports rose 14.8 percent. The value of iron ore imports soared 74.9 percent. Coal imports also rose 39.4 percent.

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The disaster has depressed Japan's business and consumer confidence, as Tokyo Electric Power Co, which operates the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, makes slow progress to stop the world's worst atomic disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl explosion.

The ministry also said Japanese exports for the year to March rose 14.9 percent to 67.8 trillion yen, while imports rose 15.9 percent to 62.4 trillion.

The annual trade surplus rose 3.9 percent to 5.4 trillion yen, the ministry said.

– Dow Jones Newswires contributed to this report –

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Analyst View: Moody’s slashes Greece,Abercrombie And Fitch Outlet, may cut further

ATHENS (Reuters) – Moody’s slashed Greece’s credit rating on Monday on fears the country’s efforts to cut its debt will not be enough, heaping further pressure on EU leaders to ease the repayment terms of its bailout loans or risk a default.

Moody’s cut the country’s rating by three notches to B1 with a negative outlook, citing significant risks to the country’s fiscal consolidation plan and risks of a debt restructuring.Following are analyst comments on the Moody’s action.CHRISTOPH WEIL, ECONOMIST AT COMMERZBANK”This is not going to be the last downgrade for Greece. The market has already discounted that Greece will need to restructure its debt, so the rating agencies are just running behind the market.”This will not affect the ongoing negotiations with the EU. The ECB has already said it is accepting all kinds of euro zone government bonds as collateral.”JUERGEN MICHELS, ECONOMIST AT CITIGROUP”This is a sign that measures proposed by (EU Monetary Affairs) Commissioner Rehn in his Handelsblatt interview, such as privatizations and lowering the interest on Greek bailout loans, will not eliminate the problem.”"Greek debt remains high and there is always the risk of a haircut. We expect, not immediately but in the coming years, that more measures will be needed, maybe even a haircut.”SARAH CARLSON, LEAD ANALYST ON GREECE, MOODY’S”Our central case remains that the Greek government is going to achieve its objectives without needing to impose losses on creditors.”(Compiled by Harry Papachristou and William James; Editing by John Stonestreet)

The latest go-around between the two media giants has to do with the Dodgers. News Corp.’s Fox is in hot water with Major League Baseball for lending struggling Dodgers owner Frank McCourt money to meet the team’s payroll. On Wednesday, Major League Baseball said it was taking control of the franchise away from McCourt.

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Izzard finds his kind of role in Showtime’s ‘Tara’

LOS ANGELES – Eddie Izzard says he’ll never abandon stand-up, but he’s looking for more than laughs as an actor.
Izzard decided to guest star in a multi-episode arc on Showtime’s “United States of Tara” this season, because of the show’s complexity.
“I normally try not to do comedies, but it’s a dramatic comedy, a drama with a comedic edge. There seem to be two different types of comedies that exist these days. I thought, `Let’s go do it,’” he said.
“United States of Tara,” which airs 10:30 p.m. EDT Monday, stars Toni Collette as a suburban wife, mom and troubled host to multiple personalities. Izzard plays a professor who meets Tara when she decides to finish her college degree and signs up for his abnormal psychology class.
The professor’s doubts about the authenticity of her diagnosis begin to waver when he sees Tara’s startling alter egos emerge.
He’s a complex character to explore, Izzard said.
“This guy is a broken genius. He’s brilliant but has (erred) in his past, and that’s why he’s teaching in Kansas. I thought I could tap into that, someone who thinks that he’s brilliant but the world says is not brilliant.”
Collette calls working with Izzard a joy.
“I love his humor, his swagger and all that he has brought to season three,” she said.
Izzard,Abercrombie And Fitch Outlet, 49, said he has wanted to act since age 7 and, at 30, “it started working.”
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Izzard has put his own stamp on standup, delivering amalgams of wide-ranging observations and impressions while sometimes garbed in dresses. That has led people to assume he’s gay, but Izzard has described himself as a “straight transvestite.”
He has developed a theory that a comedian intent on an acting career has to be strategic, because he or she starts with “baggage.”
“I think Jim Carrey suffered from this baggage. If you have transferred over (to drama), people say they are used to you” as the funnyman, Izzard said.
To stretch his boundaries, he has actively avoided sketch shows and most sitcoms and focused on drama or dark comedy such as “United States of Tara,” which was created by Oscar-winning writer Diablo Cody (“Juno”) and co-stars John Corbett and Rosemarie DeWitt.
“It’s a harder way, a slower way, but this is the way I’ve decided to do it,” Izzard said.

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