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Globe and Mail Perils Remain Despite Recovery's Pace, IMF Head Says New York Times WASHINGTON — The head of the International Monetary Fund said Saturday that the global economic recovery, while moving along faster than expected, was vulnerable to threats posed by long-term unemployment and unsustainable public debts. … IMF Puts Focus on Debt Burden Wall Street Journal IMF chief Strauss-Kahn tries to ease Greece fears BBC News Greeks 'Should Not Fear' Advice-Bearing IMF, Strauss-Kahn Says BusinessWeek Reuters
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Perils Remain Despite Recovery’s Pace, IMF Head Says
Posted by Joel Backman on April 25th, 2010
Posted in General, Markets 
Tags: bbc, business, focus-on-debt, global-economic, Greece, international, monetary-fund, perils-remain 
No Comments »Greek crisis hangs over IMF talks
Posted by Joel Backman on April 24th, 2010
The debt crisis in Greece looks set to dominate a regular meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington.
Posted in Markets Tags: business, debt-crisis, Greece, imf, international, looks-set, monetary-fund, regular-meeting No Comments »UK economic growth slows to 0.2%
Posted by Joel Backman on April 23rd, 2010
The UK economy continued to recover from recession in the first three months of the year, according to official estimates.
Posted in Markets Tags: business, continued, economy-continued, the-first, the-year, three-months, year No Comments »Greece worries hammer euro, stocks drift
Posted by Joel Backman on April 23rd, 2010
Reuters Greece worries hammer euro, stocks drift Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) – Stop-loss selling hammered the euro to a one-year low on Friday on growing speculation that debt-laden Greece could default on its sovereign debt. Asia stocks mostly drifted lower, but were supported by strong earnings predictions as …
Posted in Forex, Stock Market Tags: business, discuss-greece, Forex, its-sovereign, strong-earnings, tokyo, worries-hammer No Comments »Wall Street Claws Its Way To Gains After Obama Speech
Posted by Joel Backman on April 22nd, 2010
Globe and Mail Wall Street Claws Its Way To Gains After Obama Speech Forbes Mixed earnings and lower jobless claims did less to lift stocks than the president's mild push for financial reform.
Posted in Markets, Stock Market Tags: angeles-times, business, Markets, obama, obama-speech, online, president-obama, procedural-vote, speech-pushing No Comments »Obama to Castigate Wall Street
Posted by Joel Backman on April 22nd, 2010
New York Daily News Obama to Castigate Wall Street Wall Street Journal President Barack Obama will return to Manhattan's Cooper Union on Thursday, two years after a campaign speech that laid out his vision for Wall Street, to castigate a financial industry that he will say has too often forgotten the …
Posted in General, Stock Market Tags: business, campaign-speech, cnn, cooper-union, daily, international, USA No Comments »Greek 2009 Deficit Was Wider Than Expected
Posted by Joel Backman on April 22nd, 2010
MiamiHerald.com Greek 2009 Deficit Was Wider Than Expected Wall Street Journal LONDON—The European Union's official statistics agency Thursday said the Greek budget deficit in 2009 was wider than the government had estimated, and added that it has reservations about the accuracy of Greek budget data that may lead … Euro-Area Deficit Widens to More Than Double Limit BusinessWeek Eurostat chides Greek data as bonds slammed again MarketWatch IMF/EU mission to Greece may last 2-3 weeks -source Reuters The Associated Press
Posted in General, Markets Tags: business, data-as-bonds, double-limit, european, government, Greece, Markets, the-government No Comments »Goldman CEO attacks SEC fraud charges: report
Posted by Joel Backman on April 22nd, 2010
BBC News Goldman CEO attacks SEC fraud charges: report Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein attacked US Securities and Exchange Commission fraud charges against the bank in phone calls to clients, the Financial Times said on Wednesday. In its civil fraud lawsuit on …
Posted in General, Stock Market Tags: business, chief-executive, fraud-lawsuit, Goldman Sachs, paulson-holds, USA, york No Comments »Grassley Bucks GOP, Backs Derivatives Curbs
Posted by Joel Backman on April 21st, 2010
CBS News Grassley Bucks GOP, Backs Derivatives Curbs Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—Democrats won the support of a senior Republican who voted in a Senate committee Wednesday for a sweeping overhaul of the market for derivatives, the complex financial instruments at the heart of the financial … Dems, GOP compete for title of bank bailout foe Washington Post Senators Back Plan to Make Banks Spin Off Swaps Desk BusinessWeek Snap analysis: US swaps bill lays ground for compromise CNBC MiamiHerald.com
Posted in General, Stock Market Tags: business, complex, financial, grassley-bucks, market, support, swaps-desk, the-financial No Comments »US Stocks Drop as Energy, Health-Care Losses Overshadow Apple
Posted by Joel Backman on April 21st, 2010
MiamiHerald.com US Stocks Drop as Energy, Health-Care Losses Overshadow Apple Bloomberg April 21 (Bloomberg) — US stocks retreated as a drop in oil prices dragged down energy shares and health-care companies slid, snuffing out an early rally spurred by better-than- estimated results at Apple Inc. and Morgan Stanley. …
Posted in General, Stock Market Tags: after-earnings, bbc, business, companies-slid, earnings-power, energy, morgan, morgan stanley, stocks, stocks-drop No Comments »
