… they'll let everyone's income taxes rise on Jan . 1 and slash defense spending amid 8-plus ..... warnings of possible layoffs 60 days before Jan . 1 — meaning they'd arrive just days ..... since most of the increases taking effect Jan . 1 can be addressed retroactively. For all …

… purchase the water utility retroactively, effective Jan . 1, 2012. France's Veolia Environnement SA (VE ..... willing to sell its stake in water utility. Write to Jan Hromadko at jan .hromadko@dowjones.com Copyright © 2012 Dow Jones …

… well below Microsoft's last offer price. Jan . 13, 2009: Yahoo names technology veteran ..... chip-maker Altera Corp., is named interim CEO. Jan . 4, 2012: Yahoo names Scott Thompson ..... CEO, its fourth in less than five years. Jan . 17: Co-founder Yang leaves the company …

… investigating the purchase. Prosecutors have also launched investigations against Mr. Notheis and Mr. Mappus. Write to Jan Hromadko at jan .hromadko@dowjones.com Copyright © 2012 Dow Jones Newswires

… to head off the automatic cuts scheduled to go into effect on Jan . 1. These meetings will lead to a lot of frothy rhetoric from ..... cliff, the new Congress and whomever takes the Oath of Office on Jan . 20, 2013 would act quickly and retroactively to undo what …

… South Africa in the night match. No. 7 seed Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium dropped the first set 7-6 (6) to qualifier Yung- Jan Chan of Taiwan before retiring with a lower back injury. The 20-year-old McHale was trailing 5-4 in the second set when …

… margins in the Swedish branches. -Handelsbanken estimates that the transition from the Basel II to the Basel III banking rules by Jan 1, 2013, will reduce the core tier 1 ratio -- a measure of banks' financial strength -- by between 1.5 and 1.8 percentage …

… but it examined the shared pain for defense and domestic programs from the across-the-board reductions slated to kick in Jan . 2. The cuts would reduce the nation's gross domestic product by $215 billion next year while consumer confidence would …

… refused to sign up for the central bank's plan. The company instead said it would lower some of its interchange rates unilaterally from Jan . 1, 2013. Write to Marynia Kruk at marynia.kruk@dowjones.com Copyright © 2012 Dow Jones Newswires

… which aim to wring savings of EUR1.5 billion from its operations through to 2015. Ilan Brat in Madrid, Sean Carney in Prague, Jan Hromadko in Frankfurt and Liam Moloney in Rome contributed to this story Copyright © 2012 Dow Jones Newswires