Topic: United States

BOJ's Miyao: may get less support from overseas demand

HAKODATE, Japan (Reuters) - Bank of Japan board member Ryuzo Miyao said on Wednesday the country's economy may get less support than initially expected from overseas demand as the recovery in the U.S. and European economies loses steam."Japan's economy will continue a ...

U.N. warns austerity plans damage economic recovery

GENEVA (Reuters) - Austerity measures being adopted by many industrialized world governments in the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis are undermining economic recovery, a United Nations report said on Wednesday.Cuts in spending on health, education and other social programs in both ...

Danger of uneven Europe recovery has fallen: Nowotny

VIENNA (Reuters) - The danger of an uneven economic recovery in Europe has fallen despite the patchy nature of the upturn that remains worrying, European Central Bank Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny said on Monday."One cannot exclude the possibility of a slowdown ...

Obama sees spending deal near

US President Barack Obama said Friday that a deal with his Republican foes on deep government spending cuts was "within reach," as lawmakers groped in private for a compromise by an April 8 deadline."Now, there's still details and differences to work out," ...

THE RUNDOWN

Report forecasts slight economic improvements Economic improvement in the U.S. will trickle down to Nevada in 2011 and 2012 and slightly boost visitor volume and gaming revenue, according to a forecast released Wednesday by UNLV's Center for Business and Economic Research. But ...

Canada urges 'moderate' monetary policy

Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on Thursday called for a "pragmatic and moderate" monetary policy so as not to derail the country's fragile recovery, amid warnings of rising consumer debt."We have a fragile economic recovery," Flaherty told reporters."So, we have to watch ...
In my latest column for DailyFinance, " Will the U.S. Enjoy a Swedish-Style Rebound? Don't Bet on It," I take issue with the view put forth by one economist in a New York Times article by Gretchen Morgenson, published this past weekend, ...

U.S. small businesses say recovery is months away: survey

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. small-business owners believe a U.S. economic recovery is unlikely to accelerate before the second half of 2011 amid worries about issues such as healthcare costs, according to a quarterly survey.The survey, by human resources services company Administaff ...
Economists lower expectations about pace of recovery; rise in demand and capital spendingThe U.S. economy should continue to grow this year, though forecasters have lowered their expectations about the pace of recovery, according to a new survey.The National Association for Business Economics ...
The title of a recently released Yahoo! We're hearing it now and we're going to hear these kinds of statements many times down the road before the economy actually fully recovers which, again, means that we should be cautious.Just 9 days ago, ...
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