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Finance History 2010-02-03 (03 February 2010 ) |
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| Taiwan Finance Ministry To Propose Progressive Real-Estate Tax | |
| Democratic senators blasted the Supreme Court's landmark campaign finance ruling at a Rules and Administration Committee hearing Tuesday and called for a quick legislative response. | |
| A Senate committee on Tuesday discussed how to limit the US Supreme Court campaign-finance ruling that opened elections to corporate ads. One suggestion: a constitutional amendment. | |
| MANAMA, Feb 3 - Gulf Finance House , one of the leading investment firms in Bahrain, has been hit hard by a property market crash across large parts of the region. | |
| Monroe County sidesteps IDA law to help finance $ million project at the former St. Margaret Mary School and convent. | |
| BERLIN, Feb 3 - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, in a wide-ranging interview with , urged the Group of 20 economic powers to take a nuanced approach to tackling economic imbalances. | |
| Questions and answers about the Supreme Court's ruling on campaign finance and how it will change America's elections. | |
| NEW YORK -- Shares of some top finance companies were up at the close of trading: Bank of America rose $.18 or percent, to $. Citigroup rose $.07 or percent, to $. JPMorgan Chase rose $.92 or percent, to $. | |
| ” alt=”Madoff” />The man who served as Bernard Madoff’s finance chief has agreed to give up his New Jersey home so it can be sold for the benefit of those cheated by his jailed former boss. | |
| China has agreed to cancel 80 percent of the -billion-dollar debt it is owed by Iraq, the finance ministry in Baghdad said in an official statement on Tuesday. |
Economic History
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| Oil futures traded above $77 a barrel on Wednesday, continuing to rise on optimism about the pace of the global economic recovery, as traders awaited government data on petroleum inventories. | |
| Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- India’s rupee advanced the most in more than three weeks on optimism the nation’s accelerating economic growth will attract investors as emerging-market stocks extended gains. | |
| President Barack Obama warned on Tuesday that high budget deficits could hurt . economic recovery as he sought to reassure Americans that his latest budget would help create jobs and trim debt levels. | |
| Prices of food and other goods soared in the already-impoverished nation after Kim Jong Il's regime revalued the currency and cracked down on private vendors. A recent move by North Korean officials to rejigger the nation's economic system has introduced a new level of misery to everyday life. | |
| Oil had its biggest one-day rise in the last four months on Tuesday, as prices surged on higher stock prices and economic reports suggesting demand for crude could improve. | |
| Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- India’s rupee advanced for a second day on optimism the nation’s accelerating economic growth will attract investors as emerging-market stocks extended gains. | |
| The European Union released its pan-European social survey on Tuesday and the results show that while most Europeans are fairly happy with their lives, the economic downturn has hit them hard. | |
| Why you should bet against whatever idea is hot at the World Economic Forum | |
| Oil surged ahead for the second straight day on Tuesday as prices that were sliding lower for two weeks abruptly switched direction on economic reports that suggest demand for crude could improve. | |
| Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Malaysia’s ringgit rose for the first time in three days as economic recovery at home and abroad boosted expectations for interest-rate increases and demand for riskier assets. |
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