Topic: U.S. Dollar

Asian shares rise on European debt talks

Asian shares surged on Monday after weekend meetings of European leaders resulted in "good progress" on tackling a regional debt crisis that has threatened to plunge the world economy into recession.The eurozone wants to beef up its 440-billion-euro ($610 billion) rescue fund, ...

ECB's Noyer doesn't expect bigger EFSF

TOKYO (Reuters) - European Central Bank member Christian Noyer said on Monday it is unrealistic to expect an increase in Europe's bailout fund beyond what was agreed in July, but that he is open to schemes that would allow leveraging to expand ...

AIG's financial condition improving: U.S. watchdog

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American International Group's financial health is showing signs of improvement because of the billions of dollars in taxpayer funds used to bail out the ailing insurer, a government watchdog agency said on Thursday."Overall, federal assistance appears to be facilitating ...

Euro rescue pledges fail to dispel market unease

European Union leaders on Friday vowed to defend debt-plagued euro nations with a permanent bailout mechanism, but their pledges made little impression on markets as Ireland was hit with a punishing debt downgrade.EU President Herman Van Rompuy, speaking at the close of ...
In 1974 Columbia economics professor Robert Mundell gave an interview to Wall Street Journal editorial writer Jude Wanniski that changed the world. "The most important initiative you could take to improve the world economy would be to stabilize the dollar-euro rate. Stabilizing ...
The foundation for the economic health of the world for the last fifty years has been the relatively free flow of capital begun in the 1960s. More specifically, in terms of the situation that the world is now facing, is the ability ...
Ron Paul is the name on every political hack's lips when discussing candidate popularity on among younger voters. Which means that, for some reason, the college students of America have obviously taken complete leave of their sense. Ron Paul 's stands on ...
President Obama's newly approved $787 billion dollar stimulus package, is a huge bill which contains over eleven hundred pages of proposed allocations of almost eight hundred billion dollars All the information contained in the document has not yet been released. These things ...
During the summer of 2007, risk managers at JP Morgan Chase were becoming increasingly concerned with the company?s booming derivatives business. The implosion of the housing market lit the fuse that detonated the United States economy. While many ancillary issues have contributed ...
What does the new Congress mean for the markets?. And there's a two-month lame duck Congress to get through before the new team takes charge. And large companies are most able to benefit from overseas growth and a weaker dollar (more on ...
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