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The Federal Reserve sought Wednesday to defuse fears that the trillions it's spending to revive the economy could spark inflation later on. But Wall Street didn't seem to buy it.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues said that despite an easing of the recession, the economy remains frail enough to keep inflation at bay.
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| Posted by boing |
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Billionaire Warren Buffett said Wednesday the economy has not yet had any bounce and will take some time to recover, but he complimented the government's efforts over the past year to solve the problems.
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"There were a lot of excesses to be wrung out, and that process is still under way," Buffett said. "And it looks to me like that process will be under way for quite a while."
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| Posted by boing |
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The worst of the global economic crisis is over, multi-billionaire financier George Soros told Polish news channel TVN24 on Sunday urging the creation of international regulations to oversee global markets.
"Decidedly the worst is already behind us," said Soros, a 78-year-old Hungarian-born American with Jewish roots.
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| Posted by boing |
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A private research's group forecast of economic activity rose more than expected in April, the first gain in seven months and fresh evidence that the recession could end later this year.
The Conference Board said Thursday its index of leading economic indicators, designed to forecast economic activity in the next three to six months, rose 1 percent last month. Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected a 0.8 percent increase.
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| Posted by boing |
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Where might the bottom for shares prove to be?
EVERY time the stockmarket rebounds, as it has recently, commentators wonder whether this at last marks the bottom for share prices. The danger is that bear markets are pitted with “suckers’ rallies” that break investors’ hearts.
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| Posted by boing |
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Stocks rally as G-20 leaders meet, accounting rules ease; Dow climbs above 8,000
Financial stocks led the rally, getting a big boost after the Financial Accounting Standards Board relaxed accounting rules forcing banks to value their assets at current prices. The change should help banks reduce losses.
Another positive indicator on the economy also lifted Wall Street sentiment. Factory orders posted a large increase in February, coming on the heels of better-than-expected readings on pending home sales, manufacturing activity and auto sales the day before.
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| Posted by boing |
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Oil prices surged nearly 8 percent Thursday as investors shrugged off a jump in unemployment and focused instead on rising stock markets and the hope that the U.S. economy has finally bottomed out.
Meanwhile, natural gas prices dropped as a government report said U.S. inventories were unchanged since last week and remain well above historical levels.
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| Posted by boing |
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The economy contracted at a staggering 6.2 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, as consumers and businesses ratcheted back spending, plunging the country deeper into recession.
The Commerce Department report released Friday showed the economy sinking much faster than the 3.8 percent annualized drop for the October-December quarter first estimated last month. It also was considerably weaker than the 5.4 percent annualized decline economists expected.
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The U.S. government will exchange up to $25 billion in emergency bailout money it provided Citigroup Inc. for as much as a 36 percent equity stake in the struggling bank.
The deal announced Friday — the third attempt at a rescue plan for Citigroup in the past five months — is contingent on private investors also agreeing to a similar swap.
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| Posted by boing |
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Singapore could lose a total of 99,000 jobs during the current recession, with more than half of the cuts in the key manufacturing sector, an analysis by local bank DBS said Wednesday.
"There will be a net loss of about 99,000 jobs due to the current recession and we also expect this to stretch into 2010", the bank said in its report.
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