*Labor dispute cost Southern California about $8 billion. LOS ANGELES, Dec 4- Striking harbor clerks reached a tentative deal with management at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Tuesday night, settling an eight-day labor clash that has idled most of America's biggest cargo-shipping complex.
LOS ANGELES, Dec 4- Striking harbor clerks reached a tentative deal with management at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Tuesday night, settling an eight-day labor clash that has idled most of America's biggest cargo-shipping complex.
*Work stoppage cost Southern California an estimated $8 billion. LOS ANGELES, Dec 5- The largest U.S. cargo shipping complex resumed full operations on Wednesday after harbor clerks and management settled an eight-day strike that left two Southern California ports mostly idle, sapping the region's economy of an estimated $8 billion.
*Brazil central bank eases export financing rules. *Brazil real up 0.17 pct, Mexico peso gains 0.36 pct. The Mexican peso gained after data out on Tuesday showed consumer confidence in Mexico rose for the second month in a row in November, bolstering bets that the global slowdown is not weighing too heavily on Latin America's No. 2 economy.
MUMBAI, Dec 5- Wal-Mart Stores Inc prepared its entry into India's supermarket sector in 2010 with a $100 million investment into a consultancy with no employees, no profits and a scant $14,000 in revenue.
LONDON, Dec 5- Companies should get more involved with university courses to close a skills gap and ease graduates' path to employment, according to a report on Wednesday.
*Brazil central bank eases export financing rules. *Brazil real up 0.4 pct, Mexico peso gains 0.2 pct.
*Labeling program ruled unfair to Canada, Mexico meat. The WTO ruled on June 29 that the U.S. country-of-origin labeling program, known as COOL, unfairly discriminated against Canada and Mexico because it gave less favorable treatment to beef and pork imported from those countries, which brought the case, than to U.S. meat.
*Kansas City Southern railroad leading charge. Over the past five years, Kansas City Southern has spent about $300 million to lay roughly 90 miles of new track in Texas, buy and update terminals in Mexico and make other network upgrades.
Every day, about 10 Kansas City Southern trains hauling everything from cars to chemicals crisscross the border between Mexico and the United States at Laredo, Texas, up from about six just three years ago.
MEXICO CITY, Dec 3- U.S. anti-virus software guru John McAfee said on Monday he has left the Caribbean country of Belize where police want to question him in connection with a neighbor's murder, and will not turn himself in. "I am not in Belize.
*Brazil central bank calls swap, dollar auctions to support real. *Brazil real up 0.51 pct, Mexico peso edges down 0.25 pct. Brazil has been deploying an array of policies such as tax and energy price cuts in a bid to spur growth. "
LOS ANGELES, Dec 3- Freighters with no place to unload cargo lined up at anchorages off Los Angeles and Long Beach for a seventh day on Monday as shippers and striking clerks resumed talks to end a labor dispute that has idled most of America's biggest container port complex.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 3- Yahoo Inc believes it has "numerous" grounds to appeal a Mexico City civil court's $2.7 billion preliminary judgment against the company, including both errors in procedure and in application of law, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.
MEXICO CITY, Dec 3- U.S. anti-virus software guru John McAfee said on Monday he has left the tropical paradise of Belize, where police want to question him in connection with his neighbor's murder. McAfee says he believes authorities in Belize would kill him if he turned himself in for questioning.
LOS ANGELES, Dec 3- Freighters with no place to unload their cargo lined up at anchorages off Los Angeles and Long Beach for a seventh day on Monday as shippers and striking clerks resumed talks to end a labor dispute that has idled most of America's biggest container port complex.
DETROIT, Dec 3- Ford Motor Co is still working on a remedy for a defect that raises the risk of an engine fire in almost 90,000 just-launched Escape and Fusion models, an executive at the second-largest U.S. automaker said on Monday.