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US jobless rate down to 9.7 per cent in January
06 Feb 2010
China’s currency manipulation: US floats on hope
06 Feb 2010
US officials may have adopted the ‘hopeful’ route to resolving the problem of getting China to stop manipulating its currency with Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner saying it was “quite likely” that Beijing would allow its currency to appreciate.
New US jobless claims jump to 480,000
05 Feb 2010
US builds pressure on China over currency manipulation
04 Feb 2010
China has responded to an American accusation that it was artificially deflating the value of its currency by saying it would not bow to pressure from the US to revalue its currency.
Yuan’s undervaluation to figure at G-7 meet
03 Feb 2010
With China recording scorching growth and advanced nations registering meagre or zero growth, the communist nation’s hugely undervalued currency, the yuan, is due to come up for discussion at this week’s G-7 meet.
India and Sweden to cooperate in healthcare
02 Feb 2010
Obama’s 2011 budget – playing the deficit game
02 Feb 2010
India begins free trade talks with New Zealand
01 Feb 2010
China says provinces cook up GDP figures
01 Feb 2010
The head of China's National Bureau of Statistics said over the weekend that the country's provincial governments may be rigging their growth statistics
Euro zone unemployment at 10%, hits 11-year high
30 Jan 2010
Unemployment in the 16-member euro zone hit 10 per cent in December 2009, the worst since August 1998, according to EU statistics office, Eurostat.
US economy shoots up as GDP grows 5.7 per cent in Q4
30 Jan 2010
The US economy, which last year faced its biggest annual decline since 1946, registered its strongest growth since 2003 in the final months of 2009
S&P downgrades UK’s banks; blames government
30 Jan 2010
The ratings agency warns that the high debts of the British government and consumers are likely to lead to banks accumulating losses.
Bernanke: Like the economy, wheezing through...
29 Jan 2010
Like the sputtering economy, Ben Bernanake’s nomination for a second term at the Federal Reserve has wheezed through a US Senate vote.
Shift of power to Asia figures on Day 2 at Davos
By CNN's London correspondent Richard Quest reports f | 29 Jan 2010
IT stocks dip on Obama’s outsourcing talk
29 Jan 2010
Japan’s exports rise first time in 15 months on Asian demand
28 Jan 2010
The resurgence in trade comes on rising demand from Asia which has seen shipments from Japan advance 31.2 per cent from a year earlier, the fastest since February 2000
Sarkozy calls for a “new Bretton Woods”
28 Jan 2010
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