High-Tide Floods to Triple for Some East Coast Cities, Study Finds October 8, 2014 Flooding during high tides, which used to be rare, is now common in some places and could worsen to the...
Judge Awards Dow Jones $5 Million in Claim Against Aggregator Ransquawk October 8, 2014 Dow Jones & Co. on Tuesday won a $5 million judgment against the London-based service Ransquawk, which it accused of...
Local Governments May Be Affected by Breach at Bond Insurer MBIA October 8, 2014 By Edward Krudy and Hilary Russ Bond insurer MBIA was told two weeks ago about a server breach that compromised the data of thousands of local...
Phone Apps, Facebook, Google Aid Nigerians in Time-Sensitive Fight Against Ebola October 8, 2014 By Yinka Ibukun When Nigeria was hit by its first outbreak of the Ebola virus, health workers monitoring suspected cases armed themselves with...
Canadian Railway Oil Train Crashes in Saskatchewan October 8, 2014 By Rebecca Penty, Jennifer Kaplan and Thomas Black Firefighters contained the blaze triggered by the derailment of a Canadian National Railway Co. train carrying petroleum products and toxic...
Geithner Asked Buffett for Opinion on AIG Before 2008 Bailout October 8, 2014 By Laura Davison and Zachary Tracer Billionaire Warren Buffett said he gave an appraisal of American International Group Inc. to Timothy Geithner, then the head of...
Lloyd’s CEO Expects Cyber Insurance Surge October 8, 2014 By Sarah Jones Lloyd’s of London Chief Executive Officer Inga Beale expects the market for cyber insurance to surge after hackers attacked some...
Missing Vietnamese Oil Tanker May Have Been Hijacked October 8, 2014 By John Boudreau and Mai Ngoc Chau A Vietnamese oil tanker missing for five days may have been hijacked after sailing from Singapore last week, say maritime...
Mayor de Blasio: New York City Could Handle Ebola Outbreak October 8, 2014 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he’s “very confident” the city’s hospital system could handle an Ebola outbreak....
Allied World Assurance to Take Stake in Blue Vista October 8, 2014 Allied World Assurance Co. agreed to take a stake in private-equity firm Blue Vista Capital Management LLC in a push...