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Guardian Unlimited - STOCKHOLM, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Swedish retail sales fell 0.7 percent in November and grew a weaker-than-expected 5.7 percent from a year earlier, official data showed on Friday in the latest sign the Nordic country's economy is coming off the boil ...

Xinhua News Agency - BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- China's economy is likely to expand at a slower rate in 2008 than it did this year, or by less than 11 percent, as the government tries to avoid overheating, according to Yao Jingyuan, the chief economist of the National ...

Forbes - Dealers said worries over the US economy, following weaker-than-expected durable goods orders data, and a fresh rise in oil prices also kept investors cautious. The market faced additional pressure due to settlement of December futures contracts today ...

Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON -- President Bush and top congressional leaders will be looking for quick agreement on how to pump as much as $150 billion in tax cuts and government spending into the ailing economy to head off a recession. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D ...

Bloomberg - Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy may be ``one shock'' away from a recession, Lehman Brothers Inc. said, pointing to the global slump in equity markets as a possible ``tipping point.'' Lehman sees the odds of a recession in the world's largest ...

International Herald Tribune - Investors have sold off shares on concerns that the U.S. economy, battered by a credit crisis and housing slump, will shrink, weakening demand for Japanese exports. Unless the U.S. Federal Reserve acts boldly and cuts rates by more than 75 basis ...

Forbes - PARIS (Thomson Financial) - French finance minister Christine Lagarde said US President George Bush must do more to revive the US economy and explain how he will inject more than 140 bln usd into the world's biggest economy. Speaking on Europe 1 ...

International Herald Tribune - The slowdown in the U.S. economy has become a major issue for candidates in both parties in the 2008 president...

Bloomberg - Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Corn declined the 20-cent daily limit, the most in more than three months, and soybeans extended losses as the risk of recession in the U.S. and a drop in equity markets curbed speculative buying. Wheat also fell by the daily ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - You don't need a degree in economics to know where Congress should send rebates to stave off a recession: to people who will spend the money faster than Paris Hilton in a shoe store. The economy is faltering on several fronts. Home sales, the credit ...