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  • Asia Day Ahead: Bernanke's Rate Decision May End Dollar Slide

    Bloomberg - Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Ben S. Bernanke's decision to lower interest rates 1.25 percentage points last month will end the dollar's two-year slide, according to the world's biggest currency traders. TOP STORIES/MOST READ ON BLOOMBERG Bernanke Ease Makes ...
    2008-02-03 02:20:00
  • Australia May Raise Benchmark Rate to 7% to Counter Inflation

    Bloomberg - Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Australia's central bank will probably raise its interest rate to an 11-year high tomorrow to cool the fastest inflation since 1991. Governor Glenn Stevens and his board will increase the overnight cash rate target by a quarter ...
    2008-02-03 02:42:00
  • Teaching Deductive Thinkers Is Elementary, My Dear HR Manager - Workforce Management

    Teaching Deductive Thinkers Is Elementary, My Dear HR ManagerWorkforce Management, Ca - 49 minutes agoThirty-two years of trial work and employee training leads to the following suggestions to reach deductive thinkers: Use self-interest—their self-interest. ...
    2008-02-03 02:29:27
  • Newcastle experiencing building downturn - ABC Regional Online

    Newcastle experiencing building downturnABC Regional Online, Australia - 49 minutes ago"I think things are on hold at this stage because there is a bit of a concern with the interest rate situation and also the financial markets, ...
    2008-02-03 02:30:07
  • World growth to drop by one-fifth, but no US recession: IMF - The Financial Standard

    World growth to drop by one-fifth, but no US recession: IMFThe Financial Standard, Australia - 47 minutes agoThe uncertainty in world equity markets, unstable currencies and mixed interest rate signals also highlights the breadth of the nervousness encircling the ...
    2008-02-03 02:31:29
  • Banks likely to copy HDFC's rate cut - Economic Times

    Banks likely to copy HDFC's rate cutEconomic Times, India - 42 minutes agoThis should translate into lower interest rates for borrowers and given the positive externalities associated with the housing sector, positive spin-offs ...
    2008-02-03 02:37:16
  • Family incomes fall £1000in five years - Daily Mail

    Family incomes fall £1000in five yearsDaily Mail, UK - 39 minutes agoResearch will reveal today that increases in the tax burden, escalating fuel bills and interest-rate hikes have forced down the average couple's disposable ...
    2008-02-03 02:39:29
  • Murphy's law for central banks - Economic Times

    Murphy's law for central banksEconomic Times, India - 37 minutes agoIf the economy is expanding they want it to expand faster; if they see an interest rate they want it to be lower and the Fed’s monetary policy discipline ...
    2008-02-03 02:42:05
  • Aussie dollar opens above US90 cents - Sydney Morning Herald

    Aussie dollar opens above US90 centsSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 33 minutes agoFirming expectations of another interest rate rise tomorrow are tipped to keep the domestic currency above $US0.9000 today. At 7am, the Australian dollar ...
    2008-02-03 02:45:37
  • Dollar approaches record low against euro after Fed rate cuts - Tehran Times

    Dollar approaches record low against euro after Fed rate cutsTehran Times, Iran - 31 minutes agoInterest rate futures contracts on the Chicago Board of Trade show a 70 percent chance the central bank will cut the benchmark rate a half-percentage point ...
    2008-02-03 02:48:02
  • Recession in the air: first decline in US jobs since August 2003 - MercoPress

    Recession in the air: first decline in US jobs since August 2003MercoPress, Uruguay - 28 minutes agoThe Federal Reserve cut interest rates to 3% from 3.5% on Wednesday. It followed an emergency unscheduled cut last week, when the Fed slashed the cost of ...
    2008-02-03 02:51:21
  • Call for residents to have say - This Is Lancashire

    Call for residents to have sayThis Is Lancashire, UK - 20 minutes agoThese sites - commonly called 'social bookmark' or 'social news' sites - have large communities of web users who share and rate interesting, useful and fun ...
    2008-02-03 02:58:30
  • Mainframe Group Gains Momentum - PC World

    Mainframe Group Gains MomentumPC World - 16 minutes agoHarper said the raw power a mainframe possesses holds far more interest for her than Web programming, for example. "You get to learn something new every day ...
    2008-02-03 03:02:27
  • Central Bank Moves To Combat Inflation - The Moscow Times

    Central Bank Moves To Combat InflationThe Moscow Times, Russia - 15 minutes ago... of its deposit rates, a currency swap rate and a rarely used refinancing rate, seen as a ceiling for its official interest rates, by 25 basis points. ...
    2008-02-03 03:04:02
  • January Closes With An 'Irrational' Selloff - The Moscow Times

    January Closes With An 'Irrational' SelloffThe Moscow Times, Russia - 15 minutes agoIn Russia, trading was volatile during the week, and a rate cut by the US Federal Reserve had quite the opposite effect of what might have been expected, ...
    2008-02-03 03:04:07