WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The global economy saw more signs of distress on Thursday with U.S. stocks plunging for a second consecutive day, oil prices falling, a surprise rate cut in Switzerland , export woes in Japan and rescue loans to...
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WASHINGTON: Barack Obama picked former Senate leader Tom Daschle to end the US healthcare crisis and stocked his White House staff with loyal campaign aides, as new contenders emerged yesterday for key cabinet posts. The president-elect, who takes office in...
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Fresh worries about widening unemployment added to investors' list of concerns about the economy Thursday and extended Wall Street's sell-off to a second day. The major indexes each fell more than 1.5 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which...
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Fresh worries about widening unemployment added to investors' list of concerns about the economy Thursday. The major indexes declined in volatile trading, extending losses from Wednesday's steep sell-off. Wall Street was unnerved after new claims for unemployment benefits climbed to...
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by Judith Stein, financial analyst for Biodun Iginla, BBC new in Minneapolis, who is suffering from jetlag after transiting from Paris, where he was on assignment. ____________________
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WASHINGTON – No matter how careful he is, sooner or later President-elect Barack Obama is likely to make a bum nomination or two. "It's unavoidable," says Paul Light , a New York University professor and expert on presidential transitions. It...
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Oil prices fell below $53 to almost a two-year low Thursday as investors, worried by plummeting stock markets , priced in lower crude demand as the global economic downturn shapes up to be the worst in decades. Light, sweet crude...
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(CBS/AP) Analysts gazing into what amounts to an intelligence-based crystal ball see a future world marked by dwindling resources, more people and diminished power for the United States, as CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports. The grim assessment, entitled "Global...
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Fears that Citigroup would need a huge new capital injection intensified on Thursday as a public show of support for the group’s management by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal with a pledge to boost his stake to 5 per cent failed...
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More "Hope for Homeowners" facing foreclosure, or just more hot-air from Washington, DOA? Well it appears that Fannie Mae and Fredie Mac - the semi-defunct, quasi-government holders of trillions in mortgage debt have announce today, November 20, 2008 that they...
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