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Obama Pushes Climate Bill in Cambridge
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 15 days ago
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Continuing on his Doing Too Many Things at Once ’09 Tour, President Barack Obama made a stopover at Cambridge, Mass., on Friday to push for “the passage of comprehensive legislation that will finally make renewable energy the profitable kind of energy...
Tags: Barack Obama, Mr. Obama, Obama Energy Speech, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, president barack, obama pushes, America, global economy, U.S, United States
US criticises 'inflexible yuan'
Washington :: DC :: USA | 23 days ago
Credibility It also criticised the rapid build-up of China's foreign exchange reserves in a report to the US Congress. The Treasury said it had serious concerns about the rigidity of China's exchange rate. But it stopped short of accusing China of currency manipulation,...
Tags: China, U.S. Treasury, Treasury Department, US Treasury, foreign exchange, gain unfair, exchange rate, global economy, exchange reserves, currency manipulation
U.S. presses for service trade openings in Doha
Washington :: DC :: USA | 25 days ago
Credibility The United States cannot agree to a world trade deal until more concessions are made for big banks, insurance companies and other service companies, the top U.S. trade official said on Tuesday. "We know that the biggest gains to the global economy are...
Tags: Doha Round, U.S, services trade, United States of America, global economy
Global financial organisations look to evolve
Lon :: Burkina Faso | about 1 month ago
Credibility But opinions are still divided over how to share influence at the World Bank. The International Monetary Fund may become a global central bank with at least $1 trillion to support countries in crisis. That, at least, is the goal of its Managing Director,...
Tags: IMF Ayodele Aminu, global economy, Africa Deserves Stake
Climate deal in peril, says Brown
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility Gordon Brown has become the first world leader to offer to go to the Danish capital to help seal the deal. He told Newsweek magazine there is no second chance to undo "catastrophic damage" to the environment if "we miss the opportunity to protect the...
Tags: Gordon Brown, Lester Brown, Barack Obama, Pittsburgh, U.S, prime minister, global economy, climate change, obama hosts, speed rail
Crude oil prices settle down
Shanghai :: China | about 1 month ago
Credibility A week of escalating energy prices settled down during the weekend, with the price of crude oil falling below $69 per barrel in New York on Monday. Prices began to ease back on the New York Mercantile Exchange Friday after a run-up triggered by a meeting...
Tags: crude oil, New York Mercantile Exchange, gold price, U.S, oil futures, oil fell, oil fall, global economy, China
Turkish finance minister speaks at global economy symposium
Berlin :: Germany | about 1 month ago
Credibility Speaking at a panel discussion "Balancing Risk Taking and Financial Regulation" held during the Global Economy Symposium at Plon Castle near Hamburg city of Germany, Şimşek said, "we need to increase capital adequacy ratio and capital quality of banking...
Tags: global economy
Too soon for exit strategies in healing global economy: IMF (AFP)
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The global economy is recovering from a severe downturn but it is too soon for governments to begin winding down stimulus efforts, an International Monetary Fund spokeswoman said Thursday. "The global economy is of course improving... today's US GDP numbers...
Tags: IMF, global economy
Hong Kong emerges from recession
Hong Kong :: China | 2 months ago
Credibility The seasonally adjusted figures were better than had been expected and the government has raised its forecast for growth in the whole year. It followed the emergence from recession of Singapore, which grew an annualised 20.7% in the second quarter. In...
Tags: Hong Kong, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., global economy, consecutive quarters, kong emerge, seasonally adjusted, Asia
Obama calls for deeper US-Chinese ties
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama called for deeper U.S.-Chinese economic cooperation on Monday and outlined a broad agenda for a positive relationship between two countries that do not always see eye to eye. Obama opened two days of talks between high-ranking...
Tags: US-China, Barack Obama, Mr. Obama, North Korean, U.S, United States, nuclear weapons, president barack, global economy, Timothy Geithner
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