Obama's popularity ratings up as US economy doing better

US President Barack Obama's approval ratings have improved and touched 50% amid people's growing optimism over the state of economy, according to a latest opinion poll.

Showing steady improvement since early December, Obama's approval ratings have reached the 50% mark thus gave him a much brighter chance of winning the presidential polls in November, according to the New York Times/CBS News poll.


This is his highest approval rating since May 2010 (excepting the brief bump he received after Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011), the New York Times said.

"For the first time since the election season began in earnest in the late summer, as many Democratic voters as Republicans said they were more enthusiastic than usual about voting in the 2012 presidential election," it said.

According to the NYT/CBS poll, though Obama led one-o-one against the four Republican presidential candidates, the president received poor marks on his handling of the federal budget deficit, with 59% of poll respondents expressing disapproval.

Meanwhile, a new CNN poll caught Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum - the two leading Republican presidential candidate - in a dead heat nationally. While Santorum got 34% of the poll support, Romney received 32%.

The poll also said that Santorum supporters are much more highly motivated than those backing Romney.

"The new numbers indicate a split in the Republican party that goes deeper than ideology, with signs of a gender gap and class warfare breaking out in the GOP ranks," CNN polling director Keating Holland said.

US stocks finish flat in late rally on Greece

US stocks erased losses to end little changed on Tuesday after a Greek government source said the conservative party leader was expected to deliver a letter of commitment to the country's international lenders.

A sign of Greece's commitment to the tough austerity measures demanded by euro zone leaders was a catalyst for buyers to jump into the stock market late in the session.

Euro zone finance ministers are due to hold a telephone conference call on Wednesday about a 130 billion euros bailout to avert a chaotic Greek default.

Late-day moves by stocks are often exacerbated by dealers who are hedging positions.

"There has just been no volume for the last week or so, so you are kind of able to push stocks around a little bit more," said Sam Ginzburg, head of capital markets at First New York in New York.

Bank shares, which have been the most affected by developments out of Greece, cut some of their losses.

The Dow Jones industrial average gained 4.24 points, or 0.03%, to 12,878.28. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index dropped 1.27 points, or 0.09%, to 1,350.50. The Nasdaq Composite Index edged up 0.44 points, or 0.02%, to 2,931.83.

Materials and financials were the worst performing sectors after rising more than 10% for the year.

The benchmark index has encountered strong resistance in the 1,355-1,360 area.

"If we don't take out 1,360 on the S&P, the more times we try to take it out and don't, it tells you that we keep making lower highs, which increases the probability that you have your 3, 5, 7% selloff," said Ginzburg.

The S&P materials index lost 1.3% as Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold fell 3.8% to $42.96 and the S&P financial index slipped 1.1% with Citigroup off 2.4% to $32.08.

Volume was light with about 6.78 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Amex and Nasdaq, shy of the daily average of 6.96 billion.

Economic data showed a weaker-than-expected gain in January retail sales, which was due in part to discounting in auto sales, but a rebound in an underlying measure of sales pointed to an improving economy.

The S&P retail index gained 0.3% after hitting an intraday high of 570.33, the highest level on record for the index.

Auto supplier BorgWarner Inc <BWA.N> added 0.7% to $79.41 after posting a fourth-quarter profit that beat Wall Street expectations on a 16% sales increase.

Accoring to Thomson Reuters data through Tuesday morning, of the 361 companies in the S&P 500 that have posted results, 63% have topped expectations, tracking below recent quarters through this stage in earnings season.

Micron Technology shares rose 6.2% to $8.34 after positive comments from analysts at JPMorgan and Oppenheimer. The stock is up 32.6% this year.

Moody's Investors Service put Britain's Aaa credit rating in jeopardy for the first time late on Monday. The agency also cut its outlook on the top-tier ratings of France and Austria and downgraded the ratings of six euro-zone nations, including Spain and Italy.

Data from Germany suggested Europe's bulwark economy is picking up its pace. The ZEW economic think tank's monthly poll of economic sentiment jumped to 5.4 from minus 21.6 in January, well above the consensus forecast in a Reuters poll of analysts.

Apple plans to announce a new version of its iPad in the first week of March, a Wall Street Journal report said, citing a person briefed on the matter. Apple shares rose 1.4% to $509.46 after closing above $500 for the first time on Monday.

Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by 1,888 to 1,088, while on the Nasdaq, decliners beat advancers 1,557 to 958.

Kingfisher Q3 loss widens by 75%, costs mount

Kingfisher Airlines reported a 75% wider net loss in the quarter to end-December from a year earlier, as the ailing carrier continued to feel the pinch of high fuel costs, a weaker rupee and fierce competition.

Kingfisher lost Rs 444 crore in the third quarter ended December, 2011, 74.8% more than a loss of Rs 254 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago.


Debt-laden Kingfisher, controlled by liquor baron Vijay Mallya, is around a quarter-owned by banks and its top lender State Bank of India has refused to lend more without a fresh injection of equity.

"Steep depreciation of the Indian rupee coupled with consistently high crude oil prices has led to a challenging quarter for the Indian aviation industry," Kingfisher said in a statement on Thursday.

Kingfisher, named after country's most famous beer owned by its parent company, has seen planes grounded for safety shortcomings and faced immense investor scrutiny on its plans to revive the airline.

Shares in Kingfisher, which has never made a profit, have dropped almost 60% since the beginning of last year, shrinking the airline's market value to around $270 million (Rs 1,330.96 crore).

The airline, which said last month it was in talks with Hong Kong-based distressed debt firm SC Lowy Financial for a possible investment, this month put on hold plans to join the global oneworld alliance.

A government panel this month approved a plan to allow airlines to directly import jet fuel, seen easing fuel costs for troubled carriers, while India is expected to soon allow foreign carrier to own up to 49% in local airlines.

TCS C Interview Questions - What Questions You Can Expect?

Are you a fresher preparing for TCS placements? You would now be knowing that the company gives much importance to questions from C during its placements and interviews. Being prepared with C questions is very essential to get placed in the company.

Why You Should Prepare Thoroughly For C Interview Questions?

C questions are quite different from other aptitude questions as they require good knowledge in programming concepts. Since C is the most widely known computer language amongst freshers, most companies opt to include programming questions from C.

How TCS C Interview And Placement Questions Are Different?

As far as TCS is concerned, the questions from C are not on the toughest side. In fact you would not be tested with syntax or in depth knowledge in C programming concepts. Instead the major focus of the questions would be to test your analytical skills and skill in developing algorithms for solving problems.

Some Sample C Interview Questions:

As I had mentioned in the previous paragraph, you would tested on algorithms and you might be asked to develop an algorithm using C on the spot to solve a puzzle like sudoku.

Another common C interview question you can expect would be to debug errors in a given program. Again the importance will not be on the syntactical errors. Instead there would certain logical errors like infinite loops or divide by zero exceptions deliberately created in the existing code. You will have to figure out the errors. Occasionally you might be asked to correct the code as well.

TCS Campus Recruitment 2011 - How to Prepare?

TCS or Tata Consultancy Services Ltd is of India's leading Information Technology consulting services and business process outsourcing company. They hires freshers in large numbers each year from premier engineering and technical institutions across the country. Attractive salaries, great work environment and excellent growth prospects attract freshers.

How to prepare for campus recruitment? TCS is known to put freshers through a rigorous campus recruitment process to hire only the best candidates. Minimum eligibility criteria for applying is aggregate of 60% marks in class X, XII, graduation and post graduation. First round of recruitment process is a tough online test where students are tested on their English language, critical thinking and logical reasoning skills. They hardly change its question patterns and studying up on previous year's question papers and other sample papers is vital preparation for this round. After clearing the first round candidates are given a presentation and talk on the company and its services. You should listen carefully to the pre-placement talks for you can get vital information regarding the company and this can really help you during the interview. Next is the technical interview round where candidates are thoroughly tested on their technical knowledge and problem solving skills. In order to clear this crucial round you must prepare one or more of your core subjects in detail. Next come management and HR rounds where your communication, leadership and teamwork abilities are tested.

Good preparation is vital for cracking TCS online test and technical interview rounds. Best way to gain an edge over others is to download placement papers e-book for this will provide you with all the probable questions and answers. Placement papers e-book will help you to come prepared for anything the recruiters throw at you.

TCS Freshers Recruitment 2011 - How to Find and Apply?

The last year of college is really spent in search of a good job. We all know that the key to success and a good life is a lucrative job with a reputable and well known company.

If you are a fresher in IT sector, then there really is no need to explain to you the importance of doing well at campus recruitment to land a good paying job. TCS or Tata Consultancy Services Limited is India's leading IT consulting Services Company that also happens to recruit large numbers of freshers every year. The company carries out campus recruitment drives periodically at all major engineering and technical education institutes in the country and hires only the best of the pool.

TCS has a global presence and offers great growth prospects for its employees. No wonder it is the cherished dream of many to get a job with the company. Keep careful track of all recruitment announcements in all major newspapers and online job portals. You may even subscribe for job alerts so that you will be informed of all latest recruitment information regarding job vacancies for freshers. You can visit the website from time to time to check out any new announcements. Candidates can even send resumes and apply for jobs through online submission of form. Short listed candidates will be called for written online examination. On clearing online test round the candidates will be called for technical interview round. Successful candidates have to then pass HR interview round before being welcomed into the TATA family.

Preparation is the key to success at any endeavour, so download sample question sets and begin your studies now. Brush up on both technical knowledge and English language proficiency for you will be tested on these skills mainly.

TCS Careers For Freshers

India has a well established Information Technology services business in India lead by Tata Consultancy Services which is the largest software exporter in India. TCS employs freshers for most of the projects. It conducts a TCS freshers recruitment drive and TCS freshers walking for recruiting freshers.

The updated TCS freshers salary package is around 3.15 lakhs (as on June 2010) and it may change anytime. A lot of TCS fresher openings and TCS fresher job details will be posted as advertisements in the leading news papers in India. Once you find such advertisements you have to apply for the tata consultancy services fresher post and start preparing for the test and interview by collecting tata consultancy services freshers interview questions and tata consultancy services freshers aptitude questions from the internet.

Once you get shortlisted in the interview, TCS gives a specific joining date, where you have to report to the intimated "ILP - Initial Learning Program" centre and you have to join the freshers training program. Once you successfully complete the TCS training program, you will be posted in a particular office. You will be asked for preference location of posting and if any vacancy is available in that particular city, you will be given preference and if not, they will post you in a particular location where current vacancy is available for the projects. In that case, TCS gives preferences to girls to post them to their nearest home town. Tata Consultancy Services has offices all over in India including Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Gurgaon etc.

TCS Openings in Bangalore

TCS is one of the largest software exporters in India and it has offices all over India. The main office is located in Bangalore which is considered as the Silicon Valley of Asia. A lot of TCS Bangalore openings are available for the candidates aspiring for TCS it jobs as well as TCS Bangalore BPO jobs.

The TCS office in Bangalore is located at:

Tata Consultancy Services

Salarpuria G.R Tech Park

K.R. Puram, Bangalore.

Some of the candidates prefer to join Tata Consultancy Services in Bangalore because of the opportunities that are available in plenty in Bangalore. As it is one of the big offices in India, a lot of TCS Bangalore careers options is available for the candidates to switch from one technology to other technology. As Bangalore is called as "Silicon Valley of Asia", you can get opportunity to switch between various information technology companies of the world and you can get to know more details on a lot of IT job openings in Bangalore.

Tata consultancy services in Bangalore recruits freshers as well as experienced candidates. The freshers are trained through the "Initial Learning Program" and are posted in the projects directly or may be kept in bench for a time period. The projects may be based at United States of America or United Kingdom or internal projects. It depends on the demand for engineers at the time of joining. TCS also recruits experienced persons for their projects in Bangalore office. A lot of experienced talent pool is available in Bangalore as a lot of companies are present in Bangalore. So TCS prefers to recruits more experienced p

TCS Openings For Freshers

Tata Consultancy Services is the software company owned by Tata Group of Companies, Headed by Mr.Ratan Tata. It is the largest software exporter in india. They are the largest employment provider for information technology sector.

TCS mostly recruits freshers for its projects. Currently TCS Recruitment 2010 is going on where it is recruiting freshers for the year 2010. You can find more details on the TCS freshers opening in TCS careers website.

You have to collect TCS interview questions and TCS aptitude questions and answers from the internet and prepare well to clear the aptitude test.

Tata consultancy services also has employees abroad. A lot of tata consultancy services america jobs openings are also available for the suitable candidates. If you want to work in the business process outsourcing jobs, then tata consultancy services bpo is available for you where you can get the job. You have to prepare well for TCS bpo questions well and then appear for the same.

Once you clear the first aptitude test conducted, then you will be selected for the technical interview and hr interview. Technical interview will be conducted mainly in the areas mentioned in the resume and you can collect TCS hr questions online. The HR Questions will be generally related to your areas of interest, hobbies and other details. This HR interview is mainly conducted to check your conversation skills, logical thinking and reasoning and the way of presentation. So dress neatly when you appear for a HR Interview and present yourselves very neatly.