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Accuride wants to speed up closing of Elkhart's Gunite plant
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's manufacturing industry has seen its recovery stall, and experts predict things will get worse as many of the state's largest companies feel the effects the European financial crisis and slowing growth in China. The U....
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Anti-Wall Street protests spread nationwide
NEW YORK (AP) — Protests against Wall Street spread across the country Monday as demonstrators marched on Federal Reserve banks and camped out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, in a show of anger over the wobbly economy and what they see...Tags: Demonstration, Police Arrests, Michael Jackson, NYSE Euronext, Inc., Boston
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Bonds, shares slump as Fed signals end to stimulus
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve's explicit signal it will stop pumping money into the world economy and data showing China's economy slowing down swept across financial markets on Thursday, sinking bonds, shares and commodities alike....Tags: Economic Policy, Greenwich, Nasdaq Composite, Central Bank, Emergency Incidents
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Big harvest may hit grain prices, test high farmland values
ReutersCHICAGO (Reuters) - With the grain harvest set to bounce back and pressure crop prices after last year's drought, some economists have cautioned that sky-high U.S. farmland prices may be a bubble about to burst. Kansas City Fed President Esther George...Tags: Farms, Renewable Energy, Biofuels, Values, Money and Monetary Policy
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INSIGHT-Big U.S. harvest may hit grain prices, test high farmland values
ReutersBy Christine Stebbins CHICAGO, June 19 (Reuters) - With the U.S. grain harvest set to bounce back and pressure crop prices after last year's drought, some economists have cautioned that sky-high U.S. farmland prices may be a bubble about to burst....Tags: Farms, Renewable Energy, Biofuels, Values, Money and Monetary Policy
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RPT-INSIGHT-Withdrawal syndrome sparks anxiety for Fed
Reuters* Consensus building at Fed to adjust bond-buying pace * Economy not ready for a move at Fed meeting this week * Officials want markets to adjust on economic signals * Market volatility up as investors try to gauge Fed By Ann Saphir, Jonathan Spicer...Tags: Economic Policy, Money and Monetary Policy, Economy, Ben Bernanke, Employment Opportunities
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Insight: Withdrawal syndrome sparks anxiety for Fed
Reuters(Reuters) - When do you take the addict off the methadone? That's essentially the dilemma facing the U.S. Federal Reserve's 19 policy makers when they meet in Washington this week. Since the height of the financial crisis in 2008, the U.S. economy and...Tags: Economic Policy, Money and Monetary Policy, Central Bank, Economy, Ben Bernanke
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Dollar rebounds as U.S. jobs data shows economic resilience
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar on Friday recouped sharp losses posted the previous session after a government report showed reasonably healthy U.S. job creation in May, renewing expectations the Federal Reserve might scale back its massive asset...Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Prices, Economic Policy, International Monetary Fund, Memorial Day
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FED FOCUS-How much U.S. jobs growth is enough? Fed papers show divide
ReutersBy Ann Saphir SAN FRANCISCO, June 7 (Reuters) - In the debate over when the Federal Reserve is likely to start scaling back its massive bond-buying stimulus, the number of jobs the U.S. economy generates is key. And there's little agreement on exactly...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Ben Bernanke, Employment Opportunities, Financial Markets, Employment
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Economic growth to gain speed in 2014: Chicago Fed survey
Reuters(Reuters) - Economic growth will probably pick up enough speed this year and next to push the unemployment rate down to 6.9 percent by the fourth quarter of 2014, according to participants of a symposium held last week by the Federal Reserve Bank of...Tags: Productivity, Labor Markets, Central Bank, Charles Evans, Consumer Confidence
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Trajtenberg, Flug top candidates for Bank of Israel post -sources
ReutersBy Steven Scheer JERUSALEM, May 29 (Reuters) - With a month to go before Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer steps down, sources say his deputy and a former government economic adviser the top two candidates. Sources in the prime minister's office...Tags: National Government, Politics, Government, Benjamin Netanyahu, Elections
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Fed's Rosengren: 'Modest' QE3 cut may make sense in a few months
ReutersMINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The job market and the economy as a whole may be strong enough in a few months' time to allow the Federal Reserve to pare its bond buying by a small amount, one of the Fed's most dovish policymakers said on Wednesday. Halting...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Central Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Robin Williams, Economic Indicator
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