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WASHINGTON, Nov 30- Sixteen U.S. senators have appealed to President Barack Obama to divert more water to the Mississippi River to prevent barge traffic from shutting down due to low water on the country's inland waterway, a crucial route for goods bound for export.
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NEW YORK, Nov 30- Since the Dodd-Frank law gave shareholders a say in executive pay in 2010, courts have routinely rebuffed efforts by shareholders to force companies to heed their voice. In fact, the main financial beneficiary so far has been a small New York law firm that brought the bulk of the cases.
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Once found in abundant numbers across much of Southeastern Colorado, Eastern New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, Western Oklahoma and Western Kansas, the lesser prairie-chicken's historical range of native grasslands and prairies has been reduced by an estimated 84 percent, the service said.
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HATFIELD, Penn., Nov 30- President Barack Obama turned up the pressure in "fiscal cliff" talks on Friday, hitting the road to drum up support for his drive to raise taxes on the wealthy and warning Americans that Republicans were offering them "a lump of coal" for Christmas.
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On his return, he worked for seven years at Aspe's investment bank, Protego, when he met Pena Nieto- then a young congressman from the state of Mexico- during talks on a debt restructuring.
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*Special monitoring of Zimbabwe production to end. WASHINGTON, Nov 30- The global Kimberley Process initiative set up to stem the flow of so-called conflict diamonds on Friday confirmed that Zimbabwe had fully met its standards for exporting the gems, following a meeting that exposed deep continued divisions in the group.
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NEW YORK, Nov 30- Since the Dodd-Frank law gave shareholders a say in executive pay in 2010, c ourts have routinely rebuffed efforts by shareholders to force companies to heed their voice. In fact, the main financial beneficiary so far has been a small New York law firm that brought the bulk of the cases.
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Trade Representative Ron Kirk on Friday urged Russia to keep its market open to U.S. meat products and expressed hope the U.S. Senate would soon pass a bill upgrading trade relations between the two countries, his office said.
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The loan allows the project proponents to seek financing at lower costs, eventually making electricity cheaper for residents of the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia.
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*Myriad Genetics sought to patent genes linked to cancer. The nation's highest court in a brief order agreed to review a case over whether Myriad Genetics Inc may patent two genes linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.
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BOSTON, Nov 30- The Federal Reserve should continue buying long-term bonds to support economic growth until the outlook for U.S. employment gets considerably better, Fed Board Governor Jeremy Stein said on Friday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 30- Chevron Corp's efforts to restart oil output in Brazil received a boost after a court overturned a ban on operations and the company agreed with prosecutors on a plan to improve safety and operating procedures after a November 2011 oil spill.
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*US Airways in effect blocked from making hostile bid. Its smaller competitor, US Airways Group Inc, is making a push to acquire it out of bankruptcy. AMR said earlier this year it would prefer to exit as a standalone company, but is discussing merger options, including with US Airways.
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Studies using measures of market risk including credit default swaps show "that the size of the too-big-to-fail problem has fallen over the past couple of years but remains large," Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, said in remarks prepared for a conference sponsored by the Boston Fed and Boston University.
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BOSTON, Nov 30- The Federal Reserve should continue buying long-term bonds to support economic growth until the outlook for U.S. employment gets considerably better, Fed Board Governor Jeremy Stein said on Friday.
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The court agreed to review a bid by Mutual Pharmaceutical Co to overturn a $21 million jury award to Karen Bartlett, a New Hampshire woman who had taken its generic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug sulindac for shoulder pain.
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Since 1980, hard-pressed mayors, county executives and other leaders among some 90,0000 local governments across America have filed just 274 Chapter 9 cases, according to James Spiotto, partner at Chapman and Cutler LLP in Chicago.
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MIAMI/ LOS ANGELES, Nov 30- America's rarely used municipal bankruptcy law is presenting unexpected risks for investors in the $3.7 trillion U.S. tax-free bond market.
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According to the regulator, the former banker, Igor Cornelsen, 64, prodded his broker, Waldyr Da Silva Prado Neto, for tips after Prado, who then worked at Wells Fargo& Co, learned from a customer that Burger King was up for sale. Burger King agreed on Sept. 2, 2010, to be bought by private equity firm 3 G Capital Partners Ltd for $3.26 billion, or $24 per share.
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CALGARY, Alberta, Nov 30- Ottawa may try to tug at Canadians' emotions as a way to build public support for building pipelines to ship growing crude production to the West, East and South, the federal natural resources minister said on Friday.