Monday, September 6, 2010

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Jobs data continues to lift global equities (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 07:17 AM PDT

People are reflected in a stock index board outside a brokerage in Tokyo August 31, 2010. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonReuters - World stocks rose on Monday on hopes that the U.S. can avoid slipping back into recession, although the International Monetary Fund's chief economist warned of weak growth in both the United States and Europe.

Obama to announce $50 bln infrastructure job plan (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 08:06 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama visits neighbors in the backyard of the Weithman family in Columbus, Ohio, August 18. Obama unveiled plans Monday to spend at least 50 billion dollars to expand and renew US roads, railways and airports, in a fresh bid to fire up sluggish economic growth.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mike Munden)Reuters - President Barack Obama will announce on Monday a six-year plan to revamp the United States' aging roads, railways and runways with a $50 billion up-front investment to jump-start job creation.

U.S. Gulf oil producers watch new storm Hermine (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 08:03 AM PDT

Reuters - Oil and natural gas producers in U.S.-regulated areas of the Gulf of Mexico were carefully watching Tropical Storm Hermine on Monday, though no cutbacks in production have been announced.

What might make the Fed flinch? (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 12:54 PM PDT

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke makes his way through the Dirkson building hallway after a Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission hearing on Reuters - The U.S. economy appears to be trudging along, neither booming nor busting, growing steadily enough to diminish double-dip recession fears but not quickly enough to bring down unemployment.

Nowotny says no ECB exit discussions before December: report (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 05:55 AM PDT

Reuters - The European Central Bank will not discuss its exit from unlimited liquidity provision before December, the central bank's Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny was quoted as saying on Monday.

"Quote stuffing" a focus in flash crash probe (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 12:23 PM PDT

Traders at the New York Stock Exchange on August 31. Asian and European stocks were rising, lifted by bargain-hunting and upbeat data, as dealers set aside Wall Street's worst August performance in nine years amid stubborn US recovery doubts.(AFP/Getty Images/Spencer Platt)Reuters - U.S. regulators probing the May flash crash are focusing on a trading practice known as "quote stuffing", in which large numbers of rapid-fire orders to buy or sell stocks are placed and canceled almost immediately.

Official: Obama backing research tax credits (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 09:23 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama visits neighbors in the backyard of the Weithman family in Columbus, Ohio, August 18. Obama unveiled plans Monday to spend at least 50 billion dollars to expand and renew US roads, railways and airports, in a fresh bid to fire up sluggish economic growth.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mike Munden)AP - Seeking ways to spur economic growth ahead of the November elections, President Barack Obama will ask Congress to increase and permanently extend research and development tax credits for businesses, a White House official said Sunday.

Report: Van der Sloot concedes extorting Holloways (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 03:56 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 4, 2010 file photo Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot is escorted by police officers outside a Peruvian police station, near the border with Chile in Tacna, Peru. A newspaper has quoted the Dutchman charged with killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman and suspected in the disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway as confessing to extorting money from Holloway's parents, it was reported, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)AP - The Dutchman charged with killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman and suspected in the disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway has acknowledged extorting money from Holloway's parents and says he did it to get back at them.

WTO chief wants G20 push on global trade deal (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 01:34 AM PDT

Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization, speaks during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. Group of 20 leaders should use their November summit to make a serious push for the conclusion of stalled global trade negotiations, Lamy said Monday. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP - Group of 20 leaders should use their November summit to make a serious push for the conclusion of stalled global trade negotiations, the head of the WTO said Monday.

Oil price rises above $77 in London (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 07:59 AM PDT

The sun sets over an oil platform waiting to be towed out into the Gulf of Mexico at Port Fourchon in Louisiana in May. World oil prices diverged on Monday, the end of the traditional peak demand season for motor fuel in the United States.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - World oil prices diverged on Monday, the end of the traditional peak demand season for motor fuel in the United States.

McCain Hits Democrats for 'Flailing Around' on Economy (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 10:28 AM PDT

CQPolitics.com - Leading voices in both parties sparred Sunday over the state of the economy and the role that Bush tax cuts should play in the recovery.
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