World economy
No moves to correct yuan valuation: China
09 Feb 2010
Chinese minister, Zhong Shan, has said there are no moves to correct valuation of the Yuan, and that movement in a wider band would depend on China's economic development and broader economic conditions.
Dubai World receives $6 billion in state aid
08 Feb 2010
Troubled wealth fund Dubai World has received a $6.2 billion infusion from state-sponsored Dubai Financial Support Fund.
Dexia approves EU restructuring plan
08 Feb 2010
US: Getting a grip on false economy
06 Feb 2010
US president Barack Obama’s freshly announced policy to double US exports over the next five years would rely mainly on government promotional efforts to yield results, rather than focus on currency wars with China.
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
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