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Finance History 2010-02-27 (27 February 2010 ) |
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| In case you missed them, here are the top 10 Personal Finance stories from MarketWatch for the week of Feb. 22-26: | |
| WASHINGTON - It didn't take long for the White House to name the next social secretary. Julianna Smoot, who was chief of staff to . Trade Representative Ron Kirk, takes over at the White House for Desiree Rogers. Smoot was finance director for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. | |
| In the UPA Government's second Budget, the Finance Minister has continued the consistent trend by using the Budget as an alibi to overrule numerous landmark judicial precedents. | |
| THE Finance Department has asked President Gloria Arroyo to veto a provision in the Migrant Workers Act that exempts money sent home by Filipinos from the documentary stamp tax, saying it had merely been inserted in the bicameral committee’s version of the bill. | |
| A National Clean Energy Fund. Doubling the money to clean India's holy Ganga. Budget 2010 appears to be one of the greenest ever. "With these proposals, I hope to see a smile on the faces of the green brigade!" Finance Minister Mukherjee said in Parliament. | |
| Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani and a visiting delegation of International Monetary Fund (IMF)have exchanged notes for possible replacement of Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, who is leaving the federal cabinet today, official sources said yesterday. | |
| Wipro Ltd has shunted out a few key employees from the finance department following an inquiry into embezzlement of funds for over three years, a senior company official said Saturday. | |
| NEW YORK -- Shares of some top finance companies were up at the close of trading: Bank of America rose $.11 or .7 percent, to $. Citigroup rose $.01 or .3 percent, to $. JPMorgan Chase rose $ or percent, to $. | |
| Bangalore, Feb 27 : Wipro Ltd has shunted out a few key employees from the finance department following an inquiry into embezzlement of funds for over three years, a senior company official said Saturday. | |
| Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Barnaby Joyce's days are numbered as opposition finance spokesman. |
Economic History
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| Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Treasuries advanced for the first time in three weeks as weaker-than-forecast economic reports and the threat of credit-rating downgrades for Greece spurred demand for the safety of . government debt. | |
| Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- . stocks declined this week, trimming the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index’s rally for February, as unexpected declines in consumer confidence and equipment orders signaled the economic recovery may lose momentum. | |
| The stock market eked out a gain Friday as investors took downbeat economic news in stride. | |
| Interest rates fell in the bond market Friday after another surprisingly weak economic reading. | |
| The dollar softened against major currencies Friday amid mixed economic reports, while concerns over European debt eased somewhat and inflation in the euro zone slowed. | |
| Stocks looked set to make their best monthly advance since November on Friday in a seesaw session as a drop in the . dollar offset economic reports that came in mostly weaker than expected. | |
| Stocks seesawed on Friday as a fall in the . dollar offset economic reports that came in mostly weaker than expected. | |
| SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- . stock investors, already seasick from choppy trading in the past month, aren't likely to find calmer waters as March begins. Some major economic releases in th... | |
| World markets rose Friday after mostly solid economic data helped shore up investor optimism, at the end of a week when concerns about Greece's debt crisis and the . recovery from recession have weighed on sentiment. | |
| The 2010 Mercer County Economic Summit will be held at the Conference Center at Mercer County Community College on Wednesday, March 24 from 1 to 6 . |
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