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*Delay comes after SEC gave green light to JPMorgan. Dec 24- U.S. regulators have delayed by two months a ruling on BlackRock Inc's plan to launch a copper exchange-traded fund backed by physical metal, a week after giving the go-ahead to a similar product proposed by JPMorgan Chase& Co..
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*Actor Matt Damon brings fracking to Hollywood. Now it's coming to Hollywood, as the fierce battle between environmentalists and oil firms is played out in several forthcoming films. Both sides are using movies to try to win the debate, though actor Matt Damon says viewers should not assume the movie he stars in, " Promised Land," is "a rabid anti-fracking polemic."
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NEW YORK, Dec 23- The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in the United States fell more than 10 cents over the past two weeks to the lowest level in more than a year, but prices are now set to rise, according to a widely followed survey released on Sunday.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 23- The leader of the U.S. gun lobby on Sunday defended his call for placing armed guards in all American schools despite withering criticism of the group's response to the massacre of 20 first-graders in Newtown, Connecticut.
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The International Longshoremen's Association, the union representing the dock workers, and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, the group of shippers and port operators, have been bargaining since March, but reportedly remain far from a deal covering cargo handling at 15 ports on the U.S.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 23- The leader of the U.S. gun lobby on Sunday defended his call for placing armed guards in all American schools despite withering criticism of the group's response to the massacre of 20 first-graders in Newtown, Connecticut.
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NEW YORK/ WESTBURY, N.Y., Dec 22- U.S. retailers may not see a sales surge this weekend as ho-hum discounts and fears about imminent tax hikes and cuts in government spending give Americans fewer reasons to open their wallets in the last few days before Christmas.
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NEW YORK/ WESTBURY, N.Y., Dec 22- Fears about imminent tax hikes and cuts in government spending are taking a toll on U.S. shoppers and could deprive retailers of a strong finish to the 2012 holiday shopping season.
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"What could have been a merry Christmas is going to turn to a ho-hum Christmas, and we can thank our, you know, politicians for getting in the middle of it all," said a retail analyst.
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Talks to avoid the fiscal cliff stalled on Thursday when Republican lawmakers rejected House Speaker John Boehner's proposal aimed at winning concessions from President Barack Obama.
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NEW YORK, Dec 21- Wall Street traders are going to have to pack their tablets and work computers in their holiday luggage after all.
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*Herbalife shares skid, down for 8th straight day. *Dow off 0.9 pct, S&P 500 down 0.9 pct, Nasdaq off 1 pct. Still, stocks managed to rebound from the day's lows near the end of the session, and for the week, the three major U.S. stock indexes still ended higher, with the S&P 500 gaining 1.2 percent.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 21- Any chance for national unity on U.S. gun violence appeared to wane a week after the Connecticut school massacre, as the powerful NRA gun rights lobby called on Friday for armed guards in every school and gun-control advocates vehemently rejected the proposal.
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NEW YORK, Dec 21- Wall Street traders are going to have to pack their tablets and work computers in their holiday luggage after all. Thursday's debacle in the U.S. House of Representatives, where Speaker John Boehner failed to secure passage of his own bill that was meant to pressure President Obama and Senate Democrats.
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*Iraq boosts gold reserves for first time in years. NEW YORK/ LONDON, Dec 21- Gold ended higher on Friday after rebounding off its lowest price in nearly four months, but the precious metal notched its steepest weekly decline since June, as uncertainties over the U.S. budget weighed on bullion prices most of this week.
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*Herbalife shares skid, down for 8th straight day. *Stocks fall: Dow 0.91 pct, S&P 500 0.94 pct, Nasdaq 0.96 pct. Still, stocks managed to rebound from the day's lows near the end of the session, and for the week, major averages still ended higher, with the S&P 500 gaining 1.2 percent.
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The S&P 500 lost 13.54 points or 0.94 percent, to finish unofficially at 1,430.15. For the week the Dow gained 0.4 percent, the S&P 500 added 1.2 percent and the Nasdaq gained 1.7 percent. It was the best week in the last four for both the Nasdaq and the benchmark S&P 500.
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The city has held that spot for five years running, with 64 percent of the household moves in Washington coming from outside the city in 2012.. Oregon ranked second, followed by Nevada, North Carolina and South Carolina.
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NEW YORK, Dec 21- Oil prices fell more than 1 percent on Friday, eroding this week's earlier gains after Republican lawmakers in the United States withheld support for a proposal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.
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*US judge in Los Angeles orders Chan Ming Fon held. Los Angeles Dec 21- A former Singapore banker accused of helping "liquidate" hundreds of millions of dollars in an accounting fraud at Japan's Olympus Corp was ordered to face charges in New York after he was arrested in Los Angeles on Thursday.