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Finance History 2010-01-05 (05 January 2010 ) |
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| Japan's aged finance minister is to quit due to poor health after weeks of exhausting wrangling over the budget, the Nikkei news agency said on Tuesday, a fresh blow for Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama as he struggles with a frail economy and huge public debt. | |
| Japan's aged finance minister is likely to quit after weeks of exhausting wrangling over the budget, Kyodo news agency said on Tuesday, a fresh blow for Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama as he struggles with a frail economy and huge public debt. | |
| Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii offered to resign for health reasons but the prime minister asked the veteran lawmaker to stay on to steer the fragile economy to recovery, local media reported on Tuesday. | |
| Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The Japanese government has decided to accept the resignation of Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii because of poor health, Kyodo News reported, citing an unnamed ruling party lawmaker. | |
| Japan's finance minister declined to comment Tuesday on whether he might step down for health reasons, saying he was still waiting for test results after being hospitalised last week with fatigue. | |
| Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii left financial markets guessing on Tuesday on whether he will remain in his post, saying he was still awaiting test results after being hospitalized last week suffering from exhaustion. | |
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| NEW YORK -- Shares of some top finance companies are up at noon: Bank of America rose $.33 or percent, to $. Citigroup rose $.10 or percent, to $. JPMorgan Chase rose $.69 or percent, to $. | |
| NEW YORK -- Shares of some top finance companies are up at 10 .: Bank of America rose $.09 or .6 percent, to $. Citigroup rose $.03 or .8 percent, to $. JPMorgan Chase rose $.44 or percent, to $. | |
| Japan's elderly finance minister has offered to resign due to health reasons after being hospitalized last week, reports said Tuesday. |
Economic History
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| Investors turned cautious on the second trading day of the year as a pair of economic reports sent mixed signals about how the recovery was going. | |
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Tuesday: ------ REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- Iceland's president blocked a bill to pay Britain and the Netherlands $ billion for losses from the collapse of one of its banks, potentially undermining the nation's attempts to repair international relations. | |
| Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil traded near a 14-month high in New York as freezing weather in the . and global signs of an economic revival bolstered the outlook for fuel demand. | |
| The economic news today was more muddled. The Commerce Department reported that factory orders rose by more than twice what had been expected in November, reflecting demand in the steel, computer and chemical industries. | |
| NEW YORK — Wall Street turned cautious on the second trading day of the year as a pair of economic reports sent mixed signals about how the recovery was going. | |
| Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil traded near a 14-month high in New York as freezing weather in the . and signs of economic revival around the world bolstered the outlook for fuel demand. | |
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Tuesday: | |
| (RTTNews) - Stocks were able to shed some of their earlier losses and are nearly unchanged in mid-morning trading on Tuesday following the release of mixed economic data. The major averages are on op... | |
| (RTTNews) - Stocks ended Tuesday's session little changed as a mixed batch of economic data prompted a lack of direction in the equity markets. The major averages closed on opposite sides of the unchanged mark by mostly thin margins. | |
| THE CLOSING BELL -- DOWN 12: Investors became cautious on the second trading day of the year as a pair of economic reports sent mixed signals about how the recovery was going. NYSE, NASDAQ TODAY'S BUSINESS NEWS: » Northrop Grumman moving HQ to . » Pending home sales fall 16% in November » Ford sales rise in December, GM drops » Google launches Nexus One mobile phone » Pump prices on pace to ... |
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