McCain missing in action.
IF JOHN MCCAIN wins the presidency, his comeback--after the bankrupt debacle his campaign had become in the summer of 2007 with his backing of the amnesty bill--will be the stuff of legend. And as nominee, he is entitled to conduct his own campaign and be cut slack...

Ultra high-strength steels for automotive applications.
ThyssenKrupp Steel and Japan's second-biggest steel producer JFE Steel Corp have jointly developed a multiphase steel for automotive applications. The steel has a minimum strength of 780 MPa, similar to that of the advanced ultra-high-strength steels CP-W 800 from ThyssenKrupp Steel and Nano 780 from JFE. However,...

P/$ rate stands at P40.50/$ 1.
The peso exchange rate closed at P40.50 to the US dollar last Friday at the Philippine Dealing & Exchange Corp., (PDEx). The weighted average rate stands at P40.511. More infra spending urged Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr. said the central...

Governor rejects railroad's request.
Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard FLORENCE - Oregon's governor stood his ground in a letter his office released Tuesday to the company that shut down a 120-mile rail line between Coquille and Eugene. The owners of the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad are asking the...

Irving W. Bergstrom.
SHREWSBURY Irving W. Bergstrom, 86, formerly of Melody Ln., died Wed., Feb. 20 in Shrewsbury Nursing Home. He was the husband of the late E. Viola (Borg) Bergstrom, who died in 2000. He is survived by four daughters, Christine Leach and her husband, Robert of Shrewsbury, Beverly...

U.S. economic slowdown begins?to impact China.
Byline: Joe McDonald The Associated Press BEIJING - Oyimay Sofa Co. is already feeling the pain of a looming U.S. economic slump. Orders from skittish American retailers, who buy nearly two-thirds of Oyimay's output, are down 10 percent this month from the same time last...

P/$ rate stands at P40.50/$ 1.
The peso exchange rate closed at P40.50 to the US dollar last Friday at the Philippine Dealing & Exchange Corp., (PDEx). The weighted average rate stands at P40.511. More infra spending urged Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr. said the central...

Deutche Bank okays mine $ 40-M financing facility.
Deutsche Bank signed a $ 40 million pre-export financing facility with Philippine mineral processing company, Platinum Group Metals, to help support the acquisition, rehabilitation and development work at the company's two ferronickel smelter plants. This mandate was completed in November 2007, according to FinanceAsia.com, Asia's leading financial...

Safe food and fertilizer: food is a four-letter word.
Each year, approximately 110 billion pounds of fertilizer are applied to farm fields throughout the US. Unfortunately, almost one-half of that total is non-nutrient material of unknown composition. The fertilizer industry has acknowledged that about 150 million pounds of hazardous waste end up in the agricultural system each year--wastes...

Business briefs.
COLUMN: BUSINESS BRIEFS TELEGRAM & GAZETTE Bloomberg Index Central Massachusetts +0.51 167.44 Volume: 63,287,875 Up: 14 Down: 6 Unchanged: 10 Gainer: Evergreen Solar Inc. $10.69 +$.71 (volume...