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  • Fed Interest Rate Forecast Update - DailyFx

    Sep 23 - Fed Interest Rate Forecast Update Sep 23 - Canadian Inflation Surges Higher But Fails to Trigger Bullish Sentiment for the Loonie Sep 23 - Euro-Zone Industrial New Orders Increase, Euro Slips Below 1.47 Sep 23 - ECB Fails to Talk Up the Euro ...
    2008-09-23 05:50:00
  • India to Cut Rates in 2009, No Increase This Year, Goldman Says - Bloomberg

    Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- India's central bank may cut benchmark interest rates in the first quarter of 2009 for the first time in more than five years as inflation and growth slow, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc . The Reserve Bank of India will ...
    2008-09-23 12:00:00
  • Ruble Rises for Fifth Day Versus Basket as Borrowing Costs Fall - Bloomberg

    Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Russia's ruble rose for a fifth day against the dollar, its longest streak of gains in almost 11 months, as declining local interest rates made it easier for companies to borrow money to invest. The rate of interest Russian ...
    2008-09-23 05:50:00
  • Ohio and Arizona become the focal points in national debate over ... - Newsday

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ The payday loan industry is bankrolling ballot issue campaigns in Ohio and Arizona to preserve the average 391 percent annual interest rates they charge, as the two states become the focus of industry watchers and consumer ...
    2008-09-23 02:01:00
  • Big payoffs off the table for banks (Traverse City Record-Eagle)

    The reorganization of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs marks a historic end to a period of investment banks driving Wall Street and leaves open what -- if anything -- will assume the role of taking big risks that have powered the market's booms and busts.
    2008-09-23 06:56:28
  • Major Adult Vaccine Clinical Trial for Pneumonia Prevention Begins (FinanzNachrichten)

    Collegeville, Pennsylvania (ots/PRNewswire) - - 85,000 Expected to Enroll in Phase 4 Study Initiated Pre-Registration - Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division ...
    2008-09-23 06:58:16
  • Area jobs continue to slip away (Vallejo Times-Herald)

    As with the rest of California, hundreds of jobs were lost in the Vallejo area in the past month and even more over the past year, the latest state employment figures show. Despite this, employee confidence was up in August, according to a new report.
    2008-09-23 07:04:20
  • Audit Roundup: Context, Please (Columbia Journalism Review)

    Bloomberg takes a stab; Ritholtz on point; the Times looks for outrage, etc.
    2008-09-23 07:05:54
  • Dollar Trades Near One-Month Low as Bernanke, Paulson Testify (Bloomberg.com)

    Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar traded near a one-month low against the euro as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said in the text of his Senate testimony that failure to pass the U.S. financial bailout would threaten the economy.
    2008-09-23 07:06:39
  • Blast from the past (The Peterborough Examiner)

    Stephane Dion's Liberal plan for a "richer, fairer and greener Canada"' in some respects goes back to the future, proposing to eliminate a number of [...]
    2008-09-23 07:12:00
  • SRI International Awarded Defense Threat Reduction Agency Contract To R&D Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics (Medical News Today)

    SRI International, an independent nonprofit research and development organization, announced it has been awarded a contract to develop broad-spectrum antibiotics from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), an agency within the United States Department of Defense (DoD). The new three-year, $8.
    2008-09-23 07:13:32
  • China Sees Business, Consumer Confidence Slide (Manufacturing.net)

    Public confidence in China's economy is weakening as growth slows, and export orders and planned home purchases have fallen to the lowest in at least nine years.
    2008-09-23 07:14:17
  • Mayor honors Habitat for Humanity (Park Hills Daily Journal)

    FARMINGTON — It was one of the shortest Farmington City Council sessions in several years. Council members worked through a moderate agenda and watched as the mayor delivered a proclamation to an area self-help group.
    2008-09-23 07:15:29
  • HK shares drop 4 pct on US concern; Mengniu dives - Reuters

    HONG KONG, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares fell nearly 4 percent on Tuesday on concerns a huge bailout plan may not revive the ailing U.S. economy, with selling intensifying late in the day as investors bet a typhoon would close markets on ...
    2008-09-23 01:47:00
  • Relief from foreclosure joins huge rescue plan - Detroit Free Press

    WASHINGTON -- Michigan residents facing foreclosure stood to get help from the federal government as part of a $700-billion bailout for financial markets, as lawmakers and the Bush administration tacked Monday toward compromise on the rescue package ...
    2008-09-23 05:43:00