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Factory data offer glimmer of hope - Financial Times

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:18:12 -0800

Financial Times - Jan. 02 - Factory data offer glimmer of hopeFinancial TimesFranz Fehrenbach, chief executive of Germany's Bosch, the world's biggest supplier of car parts, said: “We are bracing ourselves for further weakening in economic growth but so far we don't foresee a global recession. ...and more »

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The classical view of the global recession

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Gavyn Davies - Jun. 01 (Opinion) - The disappointing economic data on US activity in recent months has brought a key policy debate back into focus. Is there a chronic shortage of growth in the developed world, and if so what should be done about it?

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Brazil: changing sides in currency war

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Jonathan Wheatley - Apr. 12 (Opinion) - Another day, another macro-prudential measure from Brazil. On Thursday night Guido Mantega, finance minister, announced a doubling in the tax due on personal loans, from 1.5 to 3 per cent a year.

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Beijing's motives are often just pragmatic

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:16:54 -0700

Financial Times - Mar. 25 (Opinion) - Yao warns the West against misinterpreting the Chinese government's increasing control over the economy as a dramatic policy change. The government is actually making difficult choices under growing political constraints. The domestic investment drive that has seen government stimulus packages and local spending rise to close to $1,000bn is cyclical rather than permanent, while China's insistence on a stable currency is designed to ensure stronger employment and social stability rather than an attempt to gain advantage from trading partners. Despite these explanations, Yao says the Chinese government can reduce anxiety in the West by recognizing that greater statism will not bring benefits to China in the long term. Equally, the US needs to recognize that not every move made by the Chinese government is the result of some grand orchestrated plan.

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JPMorgan fund eyes 10% stake in Twitter

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Financial Times - By David Gelles - Feb. 27 (News) - A JPMorgan fund is in talks to acquire a substantial stake in Twitter, one of the fastest-growing social networking sites.The fund hopes to acquire 10 per cent of the online messaging service for $450m, valuing Twitter at $4.5bn, according to people familiar with the plans.

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Internet returns to Egypt

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Financial Times - By Tim Bradshaw - Feb. 02 (News) - Internet services returned to Egypt on Wednesday morning, with even previously blocked sites such as Twitter available. The move comes as the Egyptian army encouraged protesters against Hosni Mubarak’s regime to return to normal life.

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US matches Indian call centre costs

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By James Lamont, Joe Leahy - Aug. 18 (Special Report) - Call centre workers are becoming as cheap to hire in the US as they are in India, according to the head of the country’s largest business process outsourcing company.

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The crisis of middle-class America

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Edward Luce - Jul. 30 (Special Report) - Once upon a time this was called the American Dream. Nowadays it might be called America’s Fitful Reverie. Indeed, Mark spends large monthly sums renting a machine to treat his sleep apnea, which gives him insomnia. “If we lost our jobs, we would have about three weeks of savings to draw on before we hit the bone,” says Mark, who is sitting on his patio keeping an eye on the street and swigging from a bottle of Miller Lite. “We work day and night and try to save for our retirement. But we are never more than a pay check or two from the streets.”

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The political genius of supply-side economics

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Martin Wolf - Jul. 26 (Opinion) - My reading of contemporary Republican thinking is that there is no chance of any attempt to arrest adverse long-term fiscal trends should they return to power. Moreover, since the Republicans have no interest in doing anything sensible, the Democrats will gain nothing from trying to do much either. That is the lesson Democrats have to draw from the Clinton era’s successful frugality, which merely gave George W. Bush the opportunity to make massive (irresponsible and unsustainable) tax cuts. In practice, then, nothing will be done.

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Pirates, Inc.

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Jay Bahadur - Jul. 01 (Special Report) - Like most Somali pirate gangs, the Victoria outfit was organised into “attackers” – those who carry out the hijacking – and “holders”, or guards taken on board to watch over the ship once it had arrived in Eyl. “The first one to jump on the ship, his name was Abdi,” said Hersi. “Computer bought him a $15,000 Land Cruiser as a gift.”

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US banks set to lose swaps desks

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Tom Braithwaite - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Banks are likely to lose a key lobbying battle in the US over whether they will be forced to spin off their lucrative swaps desks, according to people familiar with financial reform negotiations in Congress.

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World Bank’s newest director under scrutiny in Indonesia

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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FT.com / Asia-Pacific / India - Opinion: India faces new economic challenges

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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E Guinea ejected from industry clean-up body

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Tom Burgis - Apr. 16 (News) - A pioneering initiative aimed at cleaning up the oil and mining industries has ejected Equatorial Guinea from its ranks following a board meeting seen as a test of its credibility.

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Business flair in the slums of Lagos

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By William Wallis - Apr. 14 (Review) - A remarkable and counterintuitive new BBC television documentary about slum dwellers in the distressed mega-city of Lagos provides a compelling case for Nigeria’s economic potential and its greatest but often overlooked asset: its people.

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Eurozone makes €30bn Greek promise

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Joshua Chaffin, Stanley Pignal, Kerin Hope - Apr. 11 (News) - Eurozone members have made a commitment to providing up to €30bn in loans to Greece over the next year to help stave off a debt crisis that has roiled financial markets and posed the most serious challenge to the euro in its history.

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Latin American leaders look to China

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Naomi Mapstone - Apr. 08 (News) - China’s threat to halt soya oil imports to Argentina underscores the downside of Latin America’s increasing reliance on the 1.3bn-strong nation amid a prolonged downturn in the US, said Mauricio Cárdenas, director of the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution, on Wednesday.

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Female minister directs Nigeria oil overhaul

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Tom Burgis - Apr. 07 (News) - Nigeria’s first female oil minister has been in her post barely 24 hours, but already the demands on her allegiances are many and conflicting.

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FT.com / Reports - Exports: Trade with the Middle East soars as relationships thaw

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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FT.com / Middle East / Economy - Israel’s economic settlers eager to go home

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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China offer on free-trade talks with India - Financial Times

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:16:12 -0700

Financial Times - Apr. 02 - OneindiaChina offer on free-trade talks with IndiaFinancial TimesChina has offered to accelerate free trade agreement talks with India in a bid to balance a burgeoning trade relationship between two of Asia's largest ...China positive on relations with IndiaThe HinduIndia, China can't afford distortions of policy: NSAEconomic TimesIndia, China downplay differences, to keep ties on trackSifyIndian Express?-Times of India?-Oneindiaall 187 news articles??

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Berlin shifts stance on IMF role

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Gerrit Wiesmann, Quentin Peel - Mar. 19 (News Report) - Germany is leaning towards involving the International Monetary Fund should Greece call for help to stem its budget crisis, a move Berlin hopes would help avoid potential objections from the German constitutional court.

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Furore on nuclear liability stalls India bill

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - Mar. 16 (News Report) - India's Congress party-led administration has balked at submitting controversial legislation limiting the liability of foreign nuclear reactor suppliers in case of a...

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Rating agency warns on US public finances

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Chris Giles, David Oakley - Mar. 15 (News Report) - Moody’s Investor Service, the credit rating agency, will fire a warning shot at the US on Monday, saying that unless the country gets public finances into better shape than the Obama administration projects there would be “downward pressure” on its triple A credit rating. Examining the administration’s outlook for the federal budget deficit, the agency said: “If such a trajectory were to materialise, there would at some point be downward pressure on the triple A rating of the federal government.”

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Iraq investors trade polls for portfolios

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Financial Times - By Andrew England - Mar. 12 (News Report) - Change of focus: a man uses binoculars to track prices at the stock exchange in Baghdad, which has Nasdaq OMX-type technology

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