Recent Economy Articles page 2

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 ...

CNBC - Oil prices deepened losses to a new six-week low on Tuesday as global stock markets swooned on the growing prospect of a U.S.-led economic recession. [ US@CL.1   Loading...       ( %)   ] traded lower. The NYMEX exchange did not set a settlement ...

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...

San Francisco Gate - Washington is in the throes of a "Kumbaya moment." Both President Bush and the Democrats controlling Congress want a quickie stimulus for a slowing economy. It's a rare moment of cooperation that, for now, minimizes rancor and maximizes chances for ...

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 ...

CNBC - Yesterday's unexpectedly weak US durable goods orders data added to fears about the state of the US economy and increased the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will need to cut interest rates further next year. "US economic data continues to ...

New York Times - For the world economy as a whole — and especially for poorer nations — growing trade between high-wage and low-wage countries is a very good thing. Above all, it offers backward economies their best hope of moving up the income ladder. But for ...

Bloomberg - Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The yuan rose and ended the year with a 7 percent advance, as strategists raised their forecasts after China's central bank signaled faster gains are needed to cool the economy. The currency advanced twice as fast as in 2006 as ...