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Get a Model, Make a Guess, Cure Unemployment: Caroline Baum
Just when you thought you’d heard the last of “jobs created or saved,” the Obama administration’s quarterly report card on its $814 billion fiscal stimulus, along comes the Federal Reserve with its own model-derived guesstimates.

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Smear attempt
Frenemies of Kashmir Snowdon-Jones are spreading rumors that the sticky-fingered socialite is so down on her luck, she responded to a seedy Craigslist ad looking…

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NFL Draft: Indianapolis Colts, Bill Polian Need To Focus on Offensive Line
After a Super Bowl XLIV loss to the New Orleans Saints, Colts president Bill Polian credited the lackluster play of the offensive line as the reason for the 31-17 defeat. And after Nick Folk and the New York Jets kicked the Colts out of the playoffs in Wild Card action last Saturday, Polian again pointed his finger at the offensive line. So it doesn’t take a genius to guess where the Colts will …

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Bangkok Bank expects loans to rise 5-7 pct in 2011
* Sees net interest margins flat at 3 pct next year

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From Big 3′s Clouds to Greener Pastures
Detroit

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Focus on China
As investors position themselves for the year ahead, the mining sector and Australia’s largest trading partner, China, are central to their considerations.

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What are the things i should do after I choose a credit card? How to maintain the best credit score? How does credit score work? I want to know everything about credit card.

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Blue Ribbon Committee on Highway Finance Cost $129,590
The Arkansas Blue Ribbon Committee on Highway Finance issued there final report this past week with several recommendations on how the state can fill the deficit between the billions of dollars in highway needs and the projected revenue under the existing tax structure based primarily on fuel consumption. But records indicate this report came at [...]

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Scholar on More Than 50 Boards Opposes Limits: Islamic Finance
Restricting the number of boards religious scholars are involved in would curb growth in the $1 trillion Islamic finance market, says a Bahraini scholar who advises Citigroup Inc. and HSBC Holdings Plc.

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Microfinance Can Be New Focus In Islamic Finance
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 23 (Bernama) — Microfinance can be the new focus in Islamic finance as industry players are looking at news avenues to channel excess liquidity in the system, says an industry expert.

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UK inflation drops half point to 3 pct in February
UK consumer inflation rate falls half point to 3 percent in February, still above target

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5-4-3-2-1…lift off for UK’s space agency
BRITAIN’S own space agency took off yesterday, represented by the Union Flag morphed into a soaring arrow.

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-23 08:02 Israel’s First International Bank posts Q4 profit
TEL AVIV, March 23 (Reuters) – First International Bank of Israel (FIBI), the country’s fifth-largest bank, swung to a quarterly net profit, boosted by lower bad debt provisions and higher financing income as the economy improved. FIBI reported on Tuesday a fourth-quarter net profit of 152 million shekels ($41 million), after an 80 million loss in the 2008 period. Income from financing …

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Fed seeks public comments on proposed credit card reforms
In what feels like never-ending regulatory fiddling with the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009, the Federal Reserve wants to know what consumers think about certain fees that lenders charge as penalties for late payments or other issues.

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Fed seeks public comments on proposed credit card reforms
In what feels like never-ending regulatory fiddling with the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009, the Federal Reserve wants to know what consumers think about certain fees that lenders charge as penalties for late payments or other issues.

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-19 02:38 NZ credit card billings fall in February – RBNZ
WELLINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) – Credit card billings in New Zealand edged lower in February, as consumers remained cautious amid patchy economic recovery and rising unemployment. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand said on Friday total billings fell a seasonally adjusted 0.3 percent last month, compared with a 1.4 percent increase in January. Billings were 1.1 percent higher than a year earlier …

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Texas Couple Charged with Credit Card Fraud
Bryant Police cracked a credit card fraud conspiracy that crossed state lines. Officers arrested Patrick Long and Jennifer Bonilla Friday. Both are charged with 23 counts of conspiracy to commit credit card fraud, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-15 18:57 WRAPUP 2-Credit card data signals US consumer stress easing
By Jonathan Spicer

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-15 18:56 WRAPUP 2-Credit card data signals US consumer stress easing
By Jonathan Spicer

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Private equity firm to take over Annie Leibovitz’s loans
Colony Capital will help her market a library of photographs that includes such images as her Vanity Fair magazine cover of a naked, pregnant Demi Moore and her Rolling Stone photo of a nude John Lennon embracing Yoko Ono

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JSC Alliance Wins U.S. Bankruptcy Court Protection (Update1)
March 9 (Bloomberg) — JSC Alliance Bank , the sixth-largest bank in Kazakhstan by net loans, won bankruptcy court permission to protect itself from U.S. lawsuits and distribute about $500 million to creditors.

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-08 00:10 Japan Feb bank loans fall 1.5 pct – BOJ
TOKYO, March 8 (Reuters) – Outstanding loans held by Japanese banks fell 1.5 percent in February from a year earlier, matching a decline in January which was the biggest annual drop in four years, the Bank of Japan said on Monday.

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Darling: UK’s on thin ice… and it may crack
ALISTAIR Darling has risked a further split with PM after admitting economy is on ‘thin ice’

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-05 14:50 US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-Wall St opens up after payrolls data
NEW YORK, March 5 (Reuters) – U.S. stocks rose at the open on Friday after data showed U.S. employers cut a smaller number of jobs than expected in February, bolstering views the economy was on the brink of creating jobs. The Dow Jones industrial average added 57.14 points, or 0.55 percent, to 10,501.28. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose 6.36 points, or 0.57 percent, to 1,129.33. The Nasdaq …

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-05 14:52 CANADA STOCKS-TSX rises as U.S. jobs data reassures
TORONTO, March 5 (Reuters) – Toronto’s main stock index climbed on Friday after data showed the U.S. economy shed fewer jobs than expected in February, lifting investor confidence about economic recovery. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 46.23 points, or 0.39 percent, at 11,871.20 at the open.

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-03 17:26 Italy’s Tremonti says time ripe to begin tax reform
ROME, March 3 (Reuters) – Italy’s Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti said on Wednesday the moment had arrived to undertake a long-expected overhaul of the country’s creaking tax system — but warned it would take time. Leading figures in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right government have called in recent months for tax breaks to stimulate the euro zone’s third largest economy ahead of …

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-03 18:25 UPDATE 1-Fed’s Lockhart sees modest recovery, low rates
NEW YORK, March 3 (Reuters) – The U.S. economy will recover slowly and the unemployment rate will take some time to come down, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart said on Wednesday. This should keep inflation at bay for the foreseeable future, and allow the central bank to keep interest rates on hold for some time, he said. “I fully support the message of the most recent …

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-03 17:25 Multinationals that leave Italy must repay aid- min
ROME, March 3 (Reuters) – Multinational companies that withdraw from Italy must repay all state aid and pay all pending taxes, Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti said on Wednesday. “If you have a multinational company that wants to leave Italy, first you have to assess them because it is not right to cut jobs but not pay your taxes. Cut the jobs but pay back state aid,” Tremonti said. Italy’s …

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