US jobless claims drops suddenly

New claims for jobless benefit has dropped as the number of Americans claims has reduced. The new claims remained same in the line as the labor market was troubled showed a government data. Last week the figure of the labor department was 504,000 but the present week showed the data [...]

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Home sales down for the third month

The number of homes sale fell for the third month of July says a report. The report is a call for the new federal government and to follow the three point plan. The three point will help the federal government to come out off the problem. The residential builders [...]

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Oldest population in Japan is missing

Japan is known for its world’s oldest people who have crossed century easily. The old people are with superior diet and youngsters are committed towards the elders. But nowadays a recent incident showed that people are collecting pension in spite of his elders were dead.
An incident [...]

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UK justice department staff may lose jobs

About 15,000 Britain’s Justice jobs are under threat of losing their jobs. The staff may lose their jobs as the government is planning to reduce its budget from the month of October. The reduction of the number of job is a part of governments deficit reduction plan. The reduction of [...]

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Top energy consumer is China

The world’s largest energy consumer U.S is overtaken by China announced the International Energy Agency.
The report of the largest energy consumer was announced on Tuesday last week. The reports were being immediately questioned by China to prove the calculations which was unbelievable. The agency described the year 2009 consumption of [...]

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Is US heading for a double dip recession ?

US has so far been able to keep it’s head above waters in the last two quarters, thanks to the massive trillion dollar stimulus spending. And in the coming months, all these schemes are coming to an end one by one.
First, the housing credit scheme will be out next month, due to which there [...]

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Can Greece pull down the entire European zone ?

The Greece debt problem was indicated at less than 60 billion dollars by the European Union at the beginning of April 2010 and the markets were not in a mood to believe the statement. So they went on hammering the Euro currency and also the Greece debt insurance cost to all time record on [...]

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The Greek Tragedy Deepens

The debt crisis in Greece looks set to dominate a meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington.
Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou is due to hold talks with IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn and EU economy commissioner Olli Rehn.
On Friday, Greece asked for an EU-IMF bailout of its debt-ridden economy.
Ahead of the meeting, the Group [...]

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IMF says global recovery is faster than expected

The global economy will grow a faster than expected 4.2% this year, says the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
However, recovery in many advanced economies remains “tepid” and high government debt levels need to be addressed, the IMF said.
For this reason, governments must continue with economic stimulus measures this year, it added.
The IMF forecast the UK recovery [...]

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Home loan modification program

The people world over, particularly in US, have seen their worst times during the recent recession. Many lost their jobs. In families, where there was only one bread winner underwent greater sufferings when the person lost the job or had a salary cut. Moreover, people who had taken home loans could repay their [...]

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