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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama stood firm on Thursday in opposition to a Republican push to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the rich but stopped short of threatening to veto such a measure if passed by Congress. "There are a whole ...
(Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has seen a surge in tip-offs concerning alleged corporate fraud as the Financial Reforms Act offers millions of dollars in bounty payments to whistleblowers, the Wall Street Journal said. Whistleblowers who provide "original ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will propose on Wednesday that businesses be allowed to write off all their new investments in plant and equipment through 2011, an administration official said on Monday. The plan, aimed at jump-starting job growth, would cut ...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's 10 biggest banks may need 105 billion euros ($141 billion) of additional capital under a revamp of banking rules designed to prevent future financial crises, the country's banking association said. International banking regulators known as the Basel Committee ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, previewing a big push on the U.S. economy next week, on Saturday defended policies that he said "have stopped the bleeding" and put the middle class on the road to recovery. Obama, struggling to bring down ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Friday greeted a better than expected August employment report as reassuring news after a recent spate of "unsettling" economic data, and reiterated it was working with Congress to take additional steps to boost U.S. growth ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jason Furman, an economic adviser to President Barack Obama, told a meeting on Tuesday there was a concern that even a temporary extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy would be a "foot in the door" to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and bank regulator Sheila Bair will testify this week before a panel exploring the causes of the financial crisis. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a 10-member Congressionally appointed panel, said on Monday it will ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday he and his economic team discussed additional steps to promote economic growth, including looking at tax cuts for businesses. "My economic team is hard at work in identifying additional measures that could make ...
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (Reuters) - Tax and budget policies need the same regularity and independence as monetary policy if countries around the world are to cope with looming stresses from pension programs, world central bankers were told at a Federal Reserve conference ...