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8 hours ago ago from Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog

From today's NYT : China's rapid consumption growth is good news for the whole world. For the fir st time, China, not the United States, is a locomotive helping to pull the global economy out of a slump. But China's tiny appetite for American exports means that the main benefit has gone to commodity exporters and to businesses in China. Automakers are on track to sell 12.8 million cars and light trucks in China this year, virtually all of ...

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Himfr.com Reports Global Economy To Rise By 2.4% In 2010, But Recovery Still “Fragile”: UN

3 hours ago ago from Legal Stuff

The United Nations predicted on Wednesday that the world economy would bounce back next year with a global growth rate of 2.4 percent, but warned of a risk of a double-dip recession if wrong policies are implemented. We're not out of the woods yet, said Rob Vos, Director of Development Policy and Analysis from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), ahead of the launch next month of the World Economic Situation and ...

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London stock market up by midday Dec. 10|Tantao News Network

10 hours ago ago from Tantao News Network | Powered By Xinhua

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Greens Real Target: U.S. Economy | The Cynical Economist

15 hours ago ago from The Cynical Economist

From Investors.com Economy: The 16,000 delegates to the two-week-long orgy of self-flagellation known as the Copenhagen Climate Conference want to shrink global output of CO2 not because of hard science, but out of envy. Even as Climate-gate suggests that sham science lies behind global warming, delegates are swarming into the Scandinavian city to push for steep cuts in carbon dioxide output by industrialized nations. We'll let ...

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The Year 2009 - outcomes, part 1

14 hours ago ago from vyrud

The year 2009 is approaching the end. The world will remember this year as the year of economic crisis. It is clear that this topic was dominant and overwhelmingly dominant in the mass-media. Crisis isn't good thing but here I have own opinion: I believe that in principle this year was healthier for the economy than the last year. Probably from the year 2005 there were seen signs that many bubbles are clearly forming and causing many ...

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Emerging markets too hot? Try mature economies

8 hours ago ago from U.S. News

Emerging markets too hot? Try mature economies BOSTON (AP) -- Spicy numbers make it easy to see emerging markets' allure: The average Latin American stock fund has more than doubled this year. Results are outsized anywhere you venture across the globe's emerging markets, to countries like China, Russia and Morocco. Their stocks are up an average 70 percent in 2009. Gains elsewhere seem comparatively bland: 26 percent for developed markets ...

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World stocks seek direction as debt worries linger

14 hours ago ago from PopEater

LONDON -World stock markets lacked direction Thursday as worsening government finances in the West and weak economic figures in Japan continued to shake investors' confidence in a global recovery. In morning trading in Europe, Britain's FTSE 100 was 0.2 percent higher at 5,213.72, Germany's DAX rose 0.3 percent to 5,664.64 and France's CAC 40 dropped 0.7 percent to 3,757.39. In Asia, Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average fell 1.4 percent ...

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Brazil economy expands in Q3 after short slump

7 hours ago ago from PopEater

SAO PAULO -Brazil's economy expanded in the third quarter as the nation continues to experience robust growth after a short recession brought on by the global meltdown, the government said Thursday Gross domestic product rose 1.3 percent from July through September compared to the second quarter when Latin America's largest economy shook off its recession. Third-quarter growth was down 1.2 percent from the same quarter a year ago, according ...

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James Jubak: How to escape the next lost decade

45 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post

A lost decade. 1999 to 2009 sure qualifies for many investors in stocks. A lost decade to come? I can't tell you what stocks or stock markets will perform best over the next ten years. But I can tell you that many U.S. investors are still sitting in portfolios that increase the odds that the next ten years will be as unrewarding as the last ten. The last ten years have been really, really painful for investors in U.S. stocks. It you ...

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International market performance in 2009

7 hours ago ago from PopEater

-Stock prices in most international markets have risen faster than in the U.S. this year, with the biggest numbers in emerging markets. Here's a look at year-to-date gains for some key market indexes, and details on the countries that make up each index: EMERGING MARKETS: 95 percent MSCI EM Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru) 86 percent MSCI BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) 70 percent MSCI Emerging Markets (22 countries ...

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