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Will Fed end 2013 with bang or whimper?

Will Fed end 2013 with bang or whimper?

By means of Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve holds the wild card for the U.S. stock market next week. Fed policymakers gather for the remaining time in 2013 for a two-day meeting that concludes on Wednesday. Many traders are still anticipating the Fed to lengthen scaling […]

 
 

No Pacific trade pact this year, ministers to try again next month

No Pacific trade pact this year, ministers to try again next month

By means of Kevin Lim and Masayuki Kitano SINGAPORE (Reuters) – An bold alternate % between a dozen nations across the Pacific Rim will not be finalized this yr as hoped, and not using a settlement on thorny issues like intellectual property, agricultural tariffs and state-owned organisations. The U.S.-backed deal, […]

 
 

China’s 2014 growth in focus as leaders met on reform plans

China’s 2014 growth in focus as leaders met on reform plans

With the aid of Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s leaders started out mapping out their economic and reform plans for 2014 behind closed doors on Tuesday, and would have drawn self assurance from knowledge showing the economic system has sustained momentum from a mid-12 months pick-up into the final […]

 
 

Policy centrist says ready to taper Fed bond buys

Policy centrist says ready to taper Fed bond buys

A high Federal Reserve reputable who is occasionally seen as a bellwether for U.S. financial coverage on Monday offered his voice to a growing contingent on the vital bank that has argued for lowering the Fed's bond buying at a meeting subsequent week. The remarks from St. Louis Federal Reserve […]

 
 

UK’s Osborne says vindicated by growth rebound, vows to stay on course

UK’s Osborne says vindicated by growth rebound, vows to stay on course

With the aid of David Milliken and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – Finance minister George Osborne celebrated a pointy turnaround in Britain's financial system as vindication of his austerity push on Thursday, but said he would no longer chill out his grip on public spending within the years in advance. […]

 
 

Stock futures little changed before initial claims, GDP data

Stock futures little changed before initial claims, GDP data

By using Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures had been little modified on Thursday, ahead of knowledge on the labor market and economic boom that may assist investors check whether or not the Federal Reserve could accelerate its timetable to wind down its financial stimulus. The […]

 
 

Japan approves $182 billion economic package, doubts remain

Japan approves $182 billion economic package, doubts remain

By means of Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) – Jap High Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet licensed a $182 billion package deal on Thursday to tug the economic system out of deflation, but doubts remain concerning the affect. The package deal has raised issues that Japan's executive has not damaged away from […]

 
 

Exclusive: EU Commission to fine banks 1.7 billion euros for benchmark rigging

Exclusive: EU Commission to fine banks 1.7 billion euros for benchmark rigging

By means of Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A gaggle of top European and American banks will likely be fined a report 1.7 billion euros ($2.3 billion) by way of the European Commission for the rigging of interest-price benchmarks, a supply acquainted with the topic informed Reuters on Wednesday. […]

 
 

Asian shares slide as data-wary investors take profits

Asian shares slide as data-wary investors take profits

Via Hideyuki Sano TOKYO (Reuters) – Most Asian shares slumped on Wednesday because the possibilities of a discount in the U.S. Federal Reserve's stimulus early next year caused buyers to money in features from up to date rallies. That retreat, which got here after European shares had suffered their greatest […]

 
 

Wal-Mart pays lawyer fees for dozens of executives in bribery probe

Wal-Mart pays lawyer fees for dozens of executives in bribery probe

Through Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Wal-Mart Shops Inc is buying legal professionals to signify more than 30 of its executives concerned about a international corruption investigation, in line with people conversant in the subject, an unusually high quantity that shows the depth of the federal probe. The U.S. Department […]

 
 

Wall Street to open flat after eight-week run-up; data on tap

Wall Street to open flat after eight-week run-up; data on tap

Via Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. shares were set for a flat open on Monday, in the wake of eight straight weeks of positive aspects, after knowledge showed manufacturing rebounded in November and ahead of two studies which may provide some clues on the potential of the recovery. […]

 
 

Bank of America to pay Freddie Mac $404 million in mortgage settlement

Bank of America to pay Freddie Mac $404 million in mortgage settlement

Bank of The usa Corp pays $404 million to Freddie Mac to get to the bottom of all repurchase liabilities on dwelling loans sold to the federal government-controlled mortgage firm from 2000 to 2009, the financial institution stated on Monday. The agreement covers about 716,000 loans and compensates Freddie Mac […]

 
 

Manufacturing growth rebounds in November to 10-month high: Markit

Manufacturing growth rebounds in November to 10-month high: Markit

Financial data agency Markit said its remaining U.S. Manufacturing Buying Managers Index rose to 54.7 from fifty one.eight in October, which had been a one-yr low. November’s reading was the easiest for the index on account that January, and greater than the preliminary reading October of fifty four.three. A studying […]

 
 

Futures flat after 8-week run-up; data on tap

Futures flat after 8-week run-up; data on tap

By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures had been little changed on Monday in the wake of eight straight weeks of good points after mixed data on China and the euro zone and ahead of U.S. financial reports which may provide some clues on the strength […]

 
 

Nobel Prize economist warns of U.S. stock market bubble

Nobel Prize economist warns of U.S. stock market bubble

An American who received this 12 months’s Nobel Prize for economics believes sharp rises in fairness and property costs might lead to a perilous financial bubble and could finish badly, he advised a German magazine. Robert Shiller, who gained the esteemed award with two different American citizens for research into […]