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December 28th, 2010 by Financial Writer
Limiting the compensation of banking executives is not the best way to curb their risk-taking, but it might be the option most readily available, an economist writes.
Buy vs. Rent: An Update
Should you buy a home or rent one? An updated list of the relationship between home prices and rents in 55 metropolitan areas.
The Holiday [...]
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December 15th, 2010 by Financial Writer
It’s been a long way back, but two of the most widely watched stock market barometers are now trading right around where they were before the financial excrement really hit the fan in September 2008.
The Dow closed Tuesday at 11,476.54, its highest close since September 8, 2008 — a week before the bankruptcy of Lehman [...]
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November 17th, 2010 by Financial Writer
U.S. economic growth edged up as expected in the third quarter, but not enough to chip away at high unemployment or change perceptions of more monetary easing from the Federal Reserve next week.
Gross domestic product expanded at a 2.0% annual rate as consumer spending rose at its quickest pace since 2006 and businesses continued to [...]
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November 4th, 2010 by Financial Writer
The yuan was set for its first weekly gain in three weeks on speculation foreign governments, notably the U.S., will step up calls for the currency to appreciate when leaders from the Group of 20 nations meet next week in Seoul.
The yuan advanced 0.19 percent yesterday after the Federal Reserve said on Nov. 3 that [...]
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October 19th, 2010 by Financial Writer
The central bank’s move is aimed at reining in an unbridled real estate market and inflation in China. The move sends stocks and commodity prices plunging around the globe and raises new concerns about the U.S. recovery.
Reporting from Washington and Beijing — A surprise interest-rate hike by China raised the prospect Tuesday that the world’s [...]
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August 20th, 2010 by Financial Writer
The euro fell to the lowest level in five weeks against the dollar after European Central Bank council member Axel Weber said the region’s economy may need help from the central bank through the end of the year.
The shared currency dropped to the least since July 1 versus the Swiss franc after Weber told Bloomberg [...]
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August 15th, 2010 by Financial Writer
Germany has sparred with its European partners over how to respond to the financial crisis, argued with the United States over the benefits of stimulus versus austerity, and defiantly pursued its own vision of how to keep its economy strong.
Statistics released Friday will buttress the German view that they had the formula right all along. [...]
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August 3rd, 2010 by Financial Writer
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said U.S. unemployment may rise again before it falls and the economy isn’t recovering rapidly enough.
“It’s possible you’re going to have a couple months where it goes up,” he said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” program. “People start to come back into the labor force, and that can cause the [...]
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July 31st, 2010 by Financial Writer
Economic growth slowed in the second quarter as a capital investment drive by businesses sucked in imports at the fastest pace since the first quarter of 1984.
Gross domestic product expanded at a 2.4 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said in its first estimate on Friday, after an upwardly revised 3.7 percent growth pace in [...]
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July 6th, 2010 by Financial Writer
Traders returned to Wall Street on Tuesday from a long holiday weekend and promptly began to buy.
Shares in Europe and Asia were also higher as investors tried to recover losses that piled up after a string of disappointing economic reports.
The jump as investors looked past a report that growth in services businesses slowed last month. [...]
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