Tokyo, Osaka exchanges eye merger in autumn 2012: report (Reuters)

TOKYO (Reuters) ? Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange (8697.OS) are in the final stages of talks to merge with the aim of combining forces in the autumn of 2012, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday.

Under one likely scenario being discussed, the unlisted Tokyo bourse (TSE) would first take a majority stake in the smaller but listed Osaka exchange (OSE) as early as next spring through a public tender offer, the Nikkei said.

The two would then merge operations and the Osaka exchange would remain listed as the surviving entity, the newspaper said.

Merger talks between the exchanges began in March with the aim of better competing amid weak stock market conditions in Japan and a wave of mergers and alliances among global exchanges.

The two have complementary strengths, with the Tokyo bourse controlling more than 90 percent of cash-equity trading volume in Japan and the Osaka exchange the top player in Nikkei index futures and other derivatives.

The head of the Tokyo exchange, Atsushi Saito, who originally said he wanted to list it before a merger, told Reuters last month that avoiding an initial public offering might speed up the process.

"From the viewpoint of TSE shareholders, they will be listed, whether that is a direct listing or a consolidated, indirect listing," Saito said in the interview.

Two proposals being discussed would set the maximum stake to be purchased in the tender offer at either 50.01 percent or 66.6 percent, the Nikkei said.

The two firms would create a holding company and four units specializing in cash products, futures trading, settlement and self-regulation, the newspaper said.

Saito is expected to become CEO of the new company while OSE head Michio Yoneda will become chief operating officer, the Nikkei said.

The TSE and OSE both issued statements saying nothing had been decided.

Saito and Yoneda are due to meet soon with discussion likely to focus on the merger ratio.

The two sides had been unable to reach a consensus on the value of the TSE but appear to have made progress on this point, the paper said.

The TSE's market value is expected to be set at 1.5 to 2 times that of the Osaka bourse, which was 98.5 billion yen ($1.3 billion) as of Friday's close, the Nikkei said.

(Reporting by Nathan Layne; Editing by Michael Watson)

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"Bones" return wins nightly TV ratings for Fox (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) ? The return of "Bones" on Fox Thursday night enjoyed a 22 percent leap over last year's season premiere, helping to push Fox to an overall ratings win, while CBS' "The Big Bang Theory" retained its ratings dominance during a night that saw improvements pretty much across the board, according to preliminary numbers.

Fox started the night with "The X Factor" at 8 p.m., which received a 3.6 rating/10 share in the adults 18-49 demographic and 11.2 million total viewers. The "Bones" premiere followed, which grew 22 percent to a 2.7/6 and 10 million total viewers. Combined, the two shows nabbed Fox an average 3.4/9, the highest rating of the evening, and 10.6 million total viewers.

"The Big Bang Theory" on CBS at 8 p.m. grew 11 percent from last week, taking the night's top ratings with a 5.1/15 in the demographic and 15.4 million total viewers, making it the most-watched program of the night. "Rules of Engagement" followed at 8:30 p.m, growing 12 percent to a 3.7/10, with 11.9 million total viewers. "Person of Interest" at 9 p.m. was flat with last week, taking a 2.7/7 and 11.6 million total viewers, while "The Mentalist" finished the night at 10 p.m. with a 16 percent boost for a 2.9/8 and 13.4 million total viewers. Overall, CBS was the most-watched network of the night, with an average 12.9 million total viewers.

ABC started the night by continuing to burn off the remaining episodes of the recently canceled "Charlie's Angels." "Angels" at 8 p.m., performed flat with last week, taking a 1.2/3 in the demographic with 5.3 million total viewers. "Grey's Anatomy" followed at 9 p.m, declining 5 percent for a 3.5/9 and 9.2 million total viewers. "Private Practice" closed the night at 10 p.m, inching up 8 percent for a 2.6/7 and 6.7 million total viewers.

NBC enjoyed growth throughout the evening, starting with "Community" at 8 p.m, which grew 21 percent for a 1.7/5 and 3.8 million total viewers. "Parks and Recreation" at 8:30 p.m., was also up, 11 percent, receiving a 2.0/6 in the demographic and 3.9 million total viewers, while "The Office" at 9 experienced a modest improvement, taking a 3.1/8 in the demo and 6 million total viewers. "Whitney" at 9 p.m., had a 5 percent uptick, taking a 2.1/5 in the demographic and 4.3 million total viewers, while the recently ailing "Prime Suspect" closed the night at 10 p.m., with a 9 percent improvement over last week., taking a 1.2/3 in the demographic and 4.4 million total viewers.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111104/music_nm/us_ratings

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Pilot Who Flew While Drunk Gets 6 Months In Prison

DENVER -- A United Express pilot convicted of flying while drunk will serve six months in prison.

Thirty-three-year-old Aaron Jason Cope of Norfolk, Va., was sentenced Friday in Denver federal court.

Cope was also ordered to serve six months in home detention after completing his prison term followed by two years of supervised release.

He was convicted in June of flying under the influence from Austin, Texas, to Denver in December 2009. The flight was operated by Shuttle America for United Express.

The plane's captain thought he smelled alcohol on Cope's breath and an initial breathalyzer showed he had a blood alcohol content of 0.09 percent. A later confirmation test showed a 0.08 level.

The Federal Aviation Administration prohibits anyone from flying with a blood alcohol content of 0.04 percent or higher.

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Lenovo says 1H profit nearly doubled

(AP) ? Lenovo Group, one of the world's leading personal computer manufacturers, reported Wednesday that its profit in the first half of the year nearly doubled on strong emerging market sales.

The company also announced a management reshuffle, as company chairman and founder Liu Chuanzhi stepped down and CEO Yang Yuanqing took on the chairmanship.

Net profit for the half-year period was $252 million, or 2.52 U.S. cents per share, up 92 percent from $131 million a year earlier.

The results built on Lenovo's expansion into mobile Internet, competing with Apple Inc. and other foreign rivals, and in developed markets with an acquisition this year in Germany and a joint venture in Japan.

Lenovo, which acquired IBM Corp.'s PC unit in 2005, overtook Taiwan's Acer Group this year to become the third-largest PC vendor, according to International Data Corp.

The company said improving commercial demand helped make up for weakness in consumer purchases.

After spending the past two years focusing on expanding sales, Lenovo has adjusted its strategy to give equal emphasis to profits.

A "protect and attack" strategy of sustaining its leading market position in China while expanding into other regions with diverse products helped fuel "balanced, strong growth in all geographic segments and products and customer segments," it said.

Lenovo said it held a worldwide PC market share of 13.5 percent in its second fiscal quarter, July-September, a trend that helped it regain a ranking among the Fortune Global 500 companies for the first time since 2008.

Lenovo entered wireless Internet last year and has launched smartphones and Web-linked tablet computers in competition with Apple, South Korea's Samsung Electronics Corp. and Taiwan's HTC Corp.

Liu, who founded Lenovo in 1984, will remain chairman of Lenovo's parent company, Legend Holdings. He also was named "honorary chairman and senior advisor" of Lenovo, "In order to commend Mr. Liu's valuable contribution to the company ... and to benefit from Mr. Liu's tremendous experience," the company said in its notice to the Hong Kong stock exchange.

Yang held the chairmanship of Lenovo from 2005 to February 2009, when Liu returned to help guide the company through the global crisis.

Associated Press

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Police bust baby trafficking ring in eastern China (AP)

BEIJING ? Police in eastern China have busted a human trafficking ring involving poor migrant couples who were selling their babies, a state-run newspaper reported Friday.

Police in Shandong province's Zoucheng city found last month that 17 infants had been sold in the city to Chinese buyers, the Global Times newspaper said. Police rescued 13 of the babies and sent them to welfare centers, and a search is under way for the other four, the paper said.

The report cited an investigating police officer as saying the couples were mainly migrants who had moved from poor areas in Sichuan province in southwest China to Zoucheng to seek work.

It quoted the officer, Chen Qingwei, as saying the husbands would go out to work while their wives sold their babies to raise money.

There was no immediate comment from police in Zoucheng.

One couple had sold three children, the newspaper said.

Chen said baby boys could be sold for up to 50,000 yuan ($7,730), while the price for girls was 30,000 yuan, much more than the parents could earn from farming.

There is a thriving black market in children in China ? mostly involving buyers who either want more children or want them as slave labor ? that endures despite harsh penalties for traffickers, including death. The country's one-child policy limits most urban couples to one child and rural families to two.

In July, authorities in southern China rescued 89 trafficked minors, including one as young as 10 days old, and arrested 369 suspects after uncovering two child trafficking gangs.

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Obama jobs plan vs. GOP's: Which ideas will yield most jobs soonest?

Obama is unrelenting about touting various parts of his jobs bill. Wednesday's theme: construction jobs. But Republicans have their own job-creation ideas. If Congress eventually takes bits from both sides, where's the biggest bang for the buck??

Jobs, jobs, jobs. That's what opinion polls say Americans want most ? and what they most want their representatives in Washington to address. Yet in the seven weeks since President Obama put forward his American Jobs Act ? which some independent analysts say would create more than 1 million jobs next year ? Congress has not approved one piece of it.

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Nor have lawmakers been able to advance any part of the Republican Jobs Through Growth Act counterproposal.

Expectations now are that Congress will pick and choose pieces of both plans that can win bipartisan appeal. Mr. Obama notes that many ideas in his plan have had such support in the past. But Congress has shown little appetite for compromise.

Mr. Obama, however, keeps pitching his job-creation ideas ? though he's talking now as much to American voters, as he looks ahead to a reelection bid, as to Congress. He stood Wednesday in front of Washington, D.C.'s Key Bridge to tout the transportation piece of his jobs bill, saying it would make an immediate investment of $50 billion in national transportation infrastructure and a $10 billion investment for a bipartisan National Infrastructure Bank.

?Construction workers have been among the Americans hit hardest over the past few years. And that makes no sense when there's so much of America that needs rebuilding,? Obama said. His plan would put hundreds of thousands of construction workers back to work rebuilding roads, bridges, airports, and transit systems, he said.

Nonpartisan economists, however, lack a clear consensus on whether so-called fiscal stimulus programs like Obama's can make a meaningful impact.

So, if Congress were actually to do something to try to help the 14 million Amer?icans who are out of work ? a number that goes higher if you count people too discouraged to seek a job ? what parts of the various jobs bills should it undertake first?

Here's an analysis of the job-creation potential of Obama's plan, according to the generally pro-stimulus Moody's Analytics, and of a counterproposal from Republicans.

Temporary tax cuts = total job gains of 1.05 million

Obama would extend payroll-tax cuts for workers for another year and enlarge the scale of the cuts. Giving con-sumers more money to spend ? an estimated $1,500 for a household earning $50,000, the White House says ? would help spur private-sector job creation. The cost to the government in lost revenue next year, according to Moody's: $175 billion, with job gains as high as 750,000.

Obama would also cut for 2012 the payroll tax that employers pay, including a year-long total payroll-tax holiday for firms that expand their payrolls by hiring or boosting wages. The president also proposes a one-year extension of "100 percent expensing," an incentive for businesses to invest in new equipment now to get a full tax deduction upfront. Cost next year: $70 billion, with job gains as high as 300,000.

Proponents say the business tax cuts offer a new and direct incentive for firms to invest and hire. On the tax cut for employees, former White House economist Jared Bernstein says Congress should extend the current cut for at least another year. The alternative is to see US workers get a tax hike. "That would actively harm the economy," Mr. Bernstein says.

That argument carries enough weight that many policy analysts expect this provision to be extended.

Critics argue that broad tax cuts for consumers are one of the less efficient forms of fiscal stimulus because some of the money goes toward household savings, not immediate spending. On the business side, skeptics say employers don't typically hire because of tax breaks. At best, the tax incentive can spur firms to hire workers a little sooner than they otherwise might have.

Infrastructure spending = job gains of 400,000

The Obama plan would invest in traditional transportation infrastructure: repairing highways, airports, and transit systems. Another aim is to set up a National Infrastructure Bank, which would use federal loans alongside state or private-sector funds. And the White House would help pay for public school modernization across the nation. Total cost: more than $100 billion, with as much as half of that spending in 2012.

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PFT: Bradshaw might play vs. Pats with busted foot

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Though the full slate of opponents for each season are known as soon as the prior regular season ends, sometimes the significance of the 256 games isn?t fully appreciated until the games are played.? Lately, for example, I?ve noticed a lot of Super Bowl rematches.? (This weekend, the Giants and Pats will get together for a reunion of Super Bowl XLII.)

So I whipped out the full schedule, and I started counting.? Of the 45 prior Super Bowls, 19 of the matchups will be played again this year.

In Week Two, the Seahawks visited the Steelers.? As in Super Bowl XL, the Steelers won.

In Week Three, the 49ers and Bengals squared off in Cincinnati.? And the same outcome arose as it did in Super Bowl XVI and Super Bowl XXIII.

In Week Four, the Packers hosted the Broncos.? This time, the team that lost Super Bowl XXXII won the rematch.? That same day, the Chiefs and Vikings got together, more than 40 years after Super Bowl IV, with the same result.? (Also in Week Four, the Jets faced Baltimore in a quasi-rematch of Super Bowl III, even though the team in Baltimore isn?t the same as it was in 1969.)

In Week Six, the Giants beat the Bills, just like they did in Super Bowl XXV.

The next Sunday, the Steelers once again beat the Cardinals (as they did in Super Bowl XLIII), and the Saints beat the Colts by a touchdown more than the total points scored in Super Bowk XLIV.

Last week, the Redskins and Bills played in a different northern dome, 20 years after Super Bowl XXVI.

Still to come?? In Week 10, Bills-Cowboys, a rematch of Super Bowls XXVII and XXVIII, and Dolphins-Redskins, a rematch of Super Bowls VII and XVII.? On Thanksgiving, the Dolphins and Cowboys primarily will conjure memories of Leon Lett in the snow, with less focus on the fact that they played in Super Bowl VI. ? That same weekend, the Eagles and Pats will square off, nearly seven years after Super Bowl XXXIX.

In Week 14, Super Bowl II will be played again, with the Raiders visiting the Packers.? The following Sunday, it?s a Super Bowl I reunion, with the Chiefs facing the Packers.? On Christmas Eve, Super Bowl XIV will be played again in Pittsburgh, with the Rams facing the Steelers.

That?s 19.? There?s a chance I missed one.? If I did, feel free to point it out in the comments.

As if you needed an engraved invitation.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/03/ahmad-bradshaw-could-still-play-this-week/related/

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