Dollar rises vs yen on Nikkei and Nakagawa remarks - Reuters UK
TOKYO, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The dollar rose over one yen from the day's lows on Friday as Tokyo share prices turned positive in the afternoon, and after Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa said authorities must be ready to deal with big swings ...
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac halting foreclosures - Morris County Daily Record
WASHINGTON -- Mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are suspending foreclosures for about 16,000 households during the holiday season. The two companies said Thursday that they will halt foreclosure sales between Nov. 26 and Jan. 9 ...
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Former Sen. Fred Thompson plans return to acting - WTOP Radio
In a Dec. 21, 2007, file photo Former Sen. Fred Thompson smiles while speaking in Sioux City, Iowa. His former finance chairman, B.C. "Scooter" Clippard, said Thompson told him Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2008,that he was returning to acting. (AP Photo ...
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Hill sources: Treasury won't use full bailout - Guardian Unlimited
AP Special Correspondent= WASHINGTON (AP) - The outgoing Bush administration has told top lawmakers it does not plan to use at least half of the $700 billion bailout fund that Congress approved this fall to aid the financial industry, congressional ...
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Stocks headed down on fears about auto industry fallout - Newark Star-Ledger
Wall Street headed for a lower open this morning with investors worried about the economic fallout if Detroit's Big Three automakers are unable to persuade lawmakers to give them a $25 billion bailout. The market will again be glued to testimony ...
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Finance crisis reaches UNC-CH - Raleigh News & Observer
The university's $2.5 billion endowment has lost 13 percent of its value, about $320 million, since July CHAPEL HILL - A few indicators of the lousy economy: Tuition is going up at state universities; the value of their endowments are going down ...
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Finance Bill 'a missed opportunity to stimulate growth' - Independent
Share IBEC has described the Government's Finance Bill as a missed opportunity for stimulating economic growth. The employers' group says it is particularly disappointed with improvements to the research and development tax credit scheme, which it ...
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RPT-Romania Finance Ministry- '09 debt needs at 16 bln lei - TMCnet
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UPDATE 1-ABN, Fortis merger in Netherlands scrapped -report - Reuters
AMSTERDAM, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The banking merger between the Dutch retail operations of Fortis (FOR.BR: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) and ABN AMRO will no longer take place, the Dutch Finance Ministry has decided, a Dutch newspaper ...
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Commentary: Everybody's Business: Personal Finance in the Coming ... - Caymen Net News
There are many poor Caymanians who rely on public and private charities even in the best of times. In the worst of times, much more so. After each hurricane, many of them eat at free soup-kitchens and live for free in public shelters; their uninsured ...
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