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Emerging Markets Fuel Recovery For Luxury-Car Makers - WSJ.com »
Posted by: cliff99 1 week, 6 days ago in News
Soaring demand in China, Brazil and India helped the world's three largest luxury-car makers eke out sales gains last month, the latest sign that ...
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Healthy School Lunch Efforts Face Daunting Hurdles »
Posted by: ZagatBuzz 5 months, 4 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
Institutions are facing a tough hurdle in trying to change students' eating habits.
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The Stock Market's Coffee Craze - BusinessWeek »
Posted by: coffeecupnews 3 months, 3 weeks ago in News
While Starbucks has staged a nice recovery, the real action has been in shares of smaller outfits such as Green Mountain, Caribou, and Diedrich. Credit ...
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World emerging from deep slump but can it last? »
Posted by: Progressive 3 months ago in Business & Finance
Turnabouts in European and Asian economies, along with recent gains in the U.S., are raising hopes that the worldwide recession is drawing to a ...
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Asian markets sink as investors ready for earnings »
Posted by: myfairlady 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Most Asian markets retreated Tuesday, led by a steep fall in Japan, as commodities stocks followed oil prices lower and a bleak outlook for earnings ...
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Credit markets just part fixing economic puzzle »
Posted by: myfairlady 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Since the start of the financial meltdown, government officials have faced a chicken-and-egg question: Will healthy credit markets fix the economy or does a healthy ...
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Why Isn't the Market Listening? »
Posted by: populist 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
You can't buck the market. Nor can you force home buyers to buy when they know darn well prices will go down even more ...
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China's Leader Says He Is "Worried" Over U.S. Treasuries »
Posted by: elzorro2162 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The Chinese premier Wen Jiabao spoke at a news conference on Thursday at the end of the Chinese parliament’ s annual session.
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Citigroup to split as losses grow »
Posted by: suzanek 10 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
Struggling US banking giant Citigroup is to split the firm in two, as it reports a quarterly loss of $8.29bn (£5.6bn).
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“Free Market” Economists and Economic Ignorance »
Posted by: populist 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Economist Robert Higgs writes that a number of economists who have called themselves “free market” endorsed one statist scheme after another that lead the U ...
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What the Heck Are Derivatives? »
Posted by: populist 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Simplified, the term "derivative" refers to a "derived" wager, or bet, on the price of something, in this case rice, at some point in the ...
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Six Chicago food shops entice with the flavors of faraway places »
Posted by: ZagatBuzz 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Small shops nestled throughout Chicago and its suburbs carry foods from around the world, giving us a taste of many cultures. We not only find ...
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Who Needs One Big Market? »
Posted by: populist 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
It is remarkable that the prospect of One Big Market—planetary, inescapable, open all hours—raises no questions for libertarians, who scorn the idea of ...
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NY Foreign Policy Examiner: G20 Summit: Sarkozy sets the tone, and yes he can »
Posted by: Sasha56 7 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Nicolas Sarkozy has been threatening for days leading up to the G20 summit that if certain concrete results were not achieved during this international conference ...
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Asian stock markets open 2009 mostly higher »
Posted by: myfairlady 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Asian stock markets opened 2009 mostly higher Friday, with Hong Kong's benchmark up more than 2 percent, as shares in commodities and telecom companies ...
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