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18 Dec 2009 20:17:24 GMTMidday Glance: Finance companies ( via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK -- Shares of some top finance companies are up at noon: Bank of America rose $.10 or .7 percent, to $. Citigroup rose $.06 or percent, to $. JPMorgan Chase rose $.26 or .6 percent, to $.
18 Dec 2009 16:15:40 GMTPersonal Finance Daily: Flying home for the holidays just got cheaper (Market Watch)
A roundup of personal finance stories on MarketWatch Friday.
18 Dec 2009 15:47:10 GMTEarly Glance: Finance companies ( via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK -- Shares of some top finance companies are mixed at 10 .: Bank of America rose $.12 or .8 percent, to $. Citigroup rose $.02 or .6 percent, to $. JPMorgan Chase fell $.08 or .2 percent, to $.
18 Dec 2009 18:30:09 GMTDecade in Review: A wild ride in personal finance (San Francisco Chronicle)
It was a decade of living dangerously. With interest rates low and lending standards lower, credit became the currency of the decade. Exotic mortgage products helped housing prices more than double. Consumer spending shot up more than 48 percent _ even while... Mortgage - Personal finance - Interest rate - Credit - Business
18 Dec 2009 11:07:27 GMTIndia Finance Ministry Says Food Inflation Caused by Shortages (Bloomberg)
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- India’s finance ministry said the acceleration in food inflation to an 11-year high is because of shortages, playing down an immediate need to raise interest rates to tackle rising prices.
18 Dec 2009 10:02:48 GMTNew Finance Opus Commodities Fund of Funds Tops Feri Ranking (Bloomberg)
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- New Finance Capital LLP’s Opus Commodities Fund managed by David Mooney topped the performance ranking of 45 funds of commodity hedge funds surveyed by Feri Institutional Advisors GmbH, an investment adviser.
18 Dec 2009 13:04:48 GMTFinance ministers gather for pension summit (CBC Ottawa)
The country's finance ministers were gathering in Whitehorse Thursday ahead of discussions planned for Friday on how to get Canadians to save more for their retirements.
18 Dec 2009 20:52:03 GMTFinance minister pegs GDP growth at % (The Times of India)
The finance ministry on Friday projected a GDP growth upwards of % for 2009-10, hopeful of clocking a better performance in industry and service sectors in the second half of this fiscal.
18 Dec 2009 16:50:25 GMTFinance Board should have accepted 'Click It or Ticket' grant (Norwalk Advocate)
I was under the impression that "The general duty of the Board of Finance is to review and determine the City's fiscal policies and to protect the financial well-being of both the City government and its taxpayers."
18 Dec 2009 20:11:46 GMTPAC pulls up finance ministry for excess spends (The Economic Times)
The Public Accounts Committee has pulled up the finance ministry for incurring excess expenditure and asked it to overhaul the budgetary mechanism to plug various loopholes.

Economic History


18 Dec 2009 18:54:08 GMTFord in better shape after economic storm: CEO ( via Yahoo! News)
The economic storm that battered the US automotive industry has forced Ford Motor Company into a better position, chief executive Alan Mulally said Friday.
18 Dec 2009 14:02:49 GMTEuropean Shares Gain on Upbeat Economic Report (New York Times)
Markets in Europe rose Friday after encouraging German economic data, and on Wall Street futures pointed higher.
18 Dec 2009 19:54:16 GMTA look at economic developments around the globe ( via Yahoo! Finance)
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: ------ LONDON -- The British government's growing budget deficit blew out by an additional billion pounds in November, the largest monthly figure since records began in 1993.
18 Dec 2009 20:15:09 GMTA look at economic developments around the globe (San Francisco Chronicle)
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: ___ LONDON _ The British government's growing budget deficit blew out by an additional billion pounds ($33 billion) in November, the largest monthly figure since... Stock market - Her Majesty's Government - Deficit - Business - Economy
18 Dec 2009 21:47:16 GMTFord in better shape after economic storm: CEO (The Age)
The economic storm that battered the US automotive industry has forced Ford Motor Company into a better position, chief executive Alan Mulally says.
18 Dec 2009 21:02:18 GMTFord in better shape after economic storm: CEO (Malaysian Mirror)
DETROIT, Michigan -The economic storm that battered the US automotive industry has forced Ford Motor Company into a better position, chief executive Alan Mulally said Friday.
18 Dec 2009 20:04:27 GMTA look at economic developments around the globe (Seattle Times)
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday:
18 Dec 2009 21:36:43 GMTEconomic Outlook up for 8th Straight Month
Putting Economic Trouble Behind Us After a bipartisan meeting with Congressional leaders, President Obama stressed the importance rebuilding the . economy and putting our nation's economic woes beh...
18 Dec 2009 11:08:59 GMTCopper Heads for Weekly Advance in London on Economic Outlook (Bloomberg)
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Copper rose in London, heading for a weekly advance, after a report of higher business confidence in Germany, the world’s third-largest copper buyer, added to speculation that economic growth will spur demand for metals.
17 Dec 2009 21:40:13 GMTData points to economic recovery continuing ( via Yahoo! News)
Factory activity in the . mid-Atlantic region hit a 4-1/2-year high in December and a gauge of future economic conditions rose last month, adding to evidence of a pick-up in the pace of the economy's recovery.
 
 

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