Economy News

When economy perks up, where will your cash be?
USA Today - USA
The Federal Reserve is a powerful force in the economy and in the markets. Sooner or later, the economy will turn around. When that happens, you'll want to ...
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Economy barely grows in 4th quarter
Boston Globe - United States
(Mark Lennihan/Associated Press) WASHINGTON - The US economy grew at an annual pace of 0.6 percent from October though December, weakened by a deepening ...
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Loose Political Lips Can Sink Our Economy
Wall Street Journal - USA
It would take much more than a weak dollar and the sub-prime mortgage collapse to shake confidence in an economy as strong as the United States is. ...
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Obama, Clinton call for more action on economy
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Rival Hillary Clinton called for a new job retraining program to remedy what both candidates derided as Republican indifference to a sputtering economy. ...
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Cameron looks to take initiative on economy from 'exhausted' Labour
Financial Times - London,England,UK
By George Parker and Jean Eaglesham David Cameron yesterday targeted the economy as Gordon Brown's weak spot, saying the "success" of a Conservative ...
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The Candidates' Plans to Fix the Economy
BusinessWeek - USA
by Jane Sasseen If there was ever any doubt the economy has moved to center stage in the Presidential campaign, this was the week that dispelled it. ...
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New Zealand Economy Grows at Fastest Pace in 3 Years (Update3)
Bloomberg - USA
The economy grew 3.7 percent from a year earlier. The fastest annual growth since mid-2004 justifies Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard's decision to leave ...
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Fed's Rosengren Says Reduced Bank Lending Crimping US Economy
Bloomberg - USA
``Banks' balance-sheet constraints can transmit financial shocks to the real economy,'' he said. The comments by Rosengren, who doesn't vote on interest ...
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New Zealand economy speeds up in December quarter
AFP -
WELLINGTON (AFP) — New Zealand's economy grew a faster than expected one percent in the December quarter, propelled by business investment and exports, ...
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Low tax and high returns needed to kick-start global economy
Scotsman - United Kingdom
By J BRADFORD DELONG IT IS not yet foredoomed that the world economy will undergo a substantial recession in the next three years or so; we might still ...
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Japan February CPI up 1.0%, Unemployment up 0.1%, Household ...
By Ken Worsley
We will be getting into these figures a bit more later in the day, but for now just a quick note on the numbers released this morning by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications:. February 2008 Nationwide Consumer Price ...
Japan Economy News & Blog - http://www.japaneconomynews.com

China’s reduced Industrial Profit Growth
By Peter Charalambous
The attempts of the Chinese government to control inflation has prevented oil refineries and power generators to raise their prices and as a result Chinese industrial companies profits have risen at slowest pace in three years as their ...
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Struggling Economy Affects School Systems
Montgomery, Al. (WSFA) -- Every time you take a dollar out of your wallet part of it goes into classrooms.
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Economy Sputters With 0.6 Percent Growth
By The Huffington Post News Editors(webmaster@huffingtonpost.com)
The reading _ unchanged from a previous estimate a month ago _ provided stark evidence of just how much the economy has weakened. In the prior quarter, the economy clocked in at a sizzling 4.9 percent growth rate. ...
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The Global Attention Economy and the Classroom
By Clarence Fisher
You need to read his entire paper, but basically he outlines that economic and trade relationships affect reporting much more then actual news events. So what does all of this have to do with classrooms? ...
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