http://onlinebusinesssurvey.com News Business Finance Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:04:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Scientists for the Food and Drug Administration say that an Amgen drug slowed the spread of cancer to the bone in men with hard-to-treat prostate cancer, though the drug did not extend life and carried significant side effects. The Food and Drug Administration will ask a panel of outside experts ... http://onlinebusinesssurvey.com/fda-questions-amgen-drug-for-prostate-cancer/ So many times when the big credit-rating companies have embarrassed themselves, the world has sighed and chalked it up to a business model that by design invites corruption and incompetence. Perhaps never before have the public's expectations for the industry been lower. The fundamental flaw is that the major rating ... http://onlinebusinesssurvey.com/credit-raters-broken-image/ ST. LOUIS • The money to renovate the Edward Jones Dome could come partly from higher fees for tickets and parking. Those are among the possible sources of public funding listed in a financial plan the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission has sent to the Rams. The plan is ... http://onlinebusinesssurvey.com/teams-tab-on-dome-could-be-645-million/ Facebook's long-awaited IPO filing is imminent, according to several news reports.The Wall Street Journal kicked off the hoopla on Friday, citing anonymous sources who said that Facebook may file for an initial public offering as early as this Wednesday. The New York Times and CNBC echoed that with ... http://onlinebusinesssurvey.com/facebook-readies-for-blockbuster-ipo/ Singapore http://onlinebusinesssurvey.com/singapore-unemployment-rate-held-at-2-last-quarter-on-construction-boost-bloomberg/ Turnout was low as Egyptians voted on Sunday for the upper house of parliament, in elections that are the latest step in the country's planned transition from military to civilian rule. Few voters showed up to cast their ballots at polling stations in Cairo, one of 13 provinces where the ... http://onlinebusinesssurvey.com/egyptians-vote-for-upper-house-of-parliament/ Just 302,000 new homes were sold in 2011, 6.2% below 2010 and the lowest number of annual sales since the government started tracking home sales in 1963. In December, sales of single-family homes fell 2.2% month-over-month to an annual rate of 307,000, according to estimates released by the ... http://onlinebusinesssurvey.com/new-home-sales-hit-a-record-low/ The Federal Reserve has downgraded its outlook for U.S. economic growth this year but is slightly more optimistic about the unemployment rate. The Fed expects the economy to grow between 2.2 percent and 2.7 percent in 2012, according to its updated economic forecasts released Wednesday. That's down from November's forecast ... http://onlinebusinesssurvey.com/fed-slightly-lower-growth-unemployment-in-2012/ The director of the International Monetary Fund said Monday that Europe needs a stronger financial firewall to stop the spread of debt contagion in the eurozone. Speaking in Berlin, IMF chief Christine Lagarde supported a plan to fold the resources of the European Financial Stability Facility into its ... http://onlinebusinesssurvey.com/imf-calls-for-larger-firewall-in-europe/ Vancouver displaced Sydney as the least-affordable housing market after Hong Kong among large English-speaking cities, as home prices rose faster than incomes, a study of 325 metropolitan areas worldwide showed. Vancouver http://onlinebusinesssurvey.com/vancouver-is-second-costliest-housing-market-bloomberg/