Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 03:10:20 +0000
President Donald Trump likes to take credit for the US economy, with historic low unemployment and few signs of rising prices, but his promises that surging growth would pay for massive tax cuts are falling flat.
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Read moreCredit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:02:33 +0000
BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela — Maria Lopez complains about gasoline rationing that Venezuela — home to the world’s largest oil reserves
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Read moreCredit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 25 May 2019 05:01:40 +0000
Newly-elected South African President Cyril Ramaphosa faces herculean tasks after he gets down to work after Saturday’s inauguration.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 07:55:50 +0000
Iran’s president has told a group of clerics that he is seeking expanded, wartime executive powers to better deal with an “economic war” triggered by the Trump administration’s pullout from the nuclear deal and escalating U.S. sanctions.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 11:48:57 +0000
BEIJING – China’s factory output and consumer spending weakened in April as a tariff war with Washington intensified, adding pressure on Beijing to shore up shaky economic growth.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 14:19:13 +0000
BEIJING – The tariff war between Washington and Beijing poses one of the biggest challenges yet for Chinese President Xi Jinping, potentially exposing his political vulnerabilities at a time when the Chinese economy is already slowing.
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Credit to Author: Allie Conti| Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 18:57:03 +0000
“It basically always feels like I’m one bad roommate drama away from being homeless.”
Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 01:26:48 +0000
Malacañang attributed the country’s higher credit rating to economic reforms attained under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:04:43 +0000
BEIJING – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday he hopes for “substantial progress” in talks with Chinese officials aimed at ending a tariff war over Beijing’s technology ambitions.
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 09:31:17 +0000
ECONOMISTS see inflation settling at 3.3 percent this year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said in a report, higher than its 3-percent full-year forecast but still within the 2-4…READ
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