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Just what the devastated Detroit housing market didn’t need: more plant closings, more layoffs.
The Motor City absorbed the news Monday that General Motors […]
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Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s lowered its outlook on Britain to negative on Thursday, citing government debt that would be hard to rein in […]
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The U.S. economy is set to emerge from recession in the second half of this year as consumer spending and the housing sector recover, […]
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Toys “R” Us has rolled out shops in the front section of its U.S. stores, highlighting toys for $3 and under as it responds […]
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President Obama’s economic A-team went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to address questions about the administration’s ambitious budget request.
But they also ended up […]
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned that a fiscal stimulus won’t be enough to spur an economic recovery and that the government may […]
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Pension funds and other big investors in commodities are reassessing strategies for 2009 after their huge buildup in commodity index exposure this year backfired […]
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The nation’s stores finally got some relief this Thanksgiving weekend, according to data released late Monday, but the sales gains were modest and analysts […]
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Alberta and Saskatchewan are determined to clean up coal and pump carbon dioxide back into the ground, two achievements that would turn the world’s dirtiest […]
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President-elect Barack Obama’s Treasury secretary must be a regulator, diplomat, defender of the dollar and master of depleted coffers, all while figuring out how […]
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