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Global economy at risk as US, Europe and Asia slow

Jun 03rd 2012 - 01:30PM

WASHINGTON -The global economy's foundations are weakening, one by one.

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Interest Rates: Hikes Mark Carney Warned About Now Seem Unlikely

Jun 03rd 2012 - 11:16AM

OTTAWA - Is the next move for Mark Carney to cut interest rates?

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Bank Of England Considering Printing More Money As UK Economy Stalls

Jun 03rd 2012 - 06:24AM

The Bank of England will seriously consider another dose of emergency money printing on Thursday if evidence emerges of a further deterioration in the economy.

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Alan Grayson: Yesterday: The Lowest Interest Rates in History

Jun 02nd 2012 - 07:34PM

Yesterday, the 10-year Treasury note hit its lowest interest rate in history.

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Spain PM insists on sticking to austerity measures

Jun 02nd 2012 - 10:38AM

MADRID -Spain insisted Friday it is financially stable because its heavily indebted regions are now meeting deficit reduction targets, but investors remained worried about the country's ability to rescue another part of its financial system - the banks - and kept the government's bond yields dangerously high.

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  • 06/03/12 Aussie market braces for a wipeout Source: The Daily Telegraph - Australia The weakest US jobs figures in a year released on Friday (8.2 per cent unemployment) have triggered heavy falls on both north American and European markets.
  • 06/03/12 Strong Yen Belies a Worrisome Japanese Economy Source: Bloomberg.com Investors have enough to worry about: the crisis in the euro area, the uneven U.S. recovery and the probable hard landing in China.
  • 06/03/12 Business › Savvy Japanese look overseas to escape... Source: Japan Today Hiroshi Kosaka has an unorthodox pitch for his realty business: instead of pictures of swanky condominiums his website features Japanese debt statistics and budget meltdown scenarios usually left to credit rating agencies.
  • 06/03/12 Fears of further slip Source: The Telegraph of India Industrial growth is expected to decelerate sharply in the first quarter of the current fiscal, according to a CII-Ascon survey.
  • 06/03/12 Cut rates to bolster confidence, Reserve urged Source: f2 Network THE Reserve Bank is being urged to cut interest rates by a further 0.5 percentage points at its board meeting tomorrow to head off a fall in confidence before the introduction of the carbon tax on July 1.

Background on interest rates

An interest rate is the rate at which interest is paid by a borrower for the use of money that they borrow from a lender.

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