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And You Thought The US Recovery Was Weak...

Reuters | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Interest Rates, Video, Europe Economy, G7, Reuters, Federal Reserve, Monetary Policy, Central Banks, Euro Zone, Pier Carlo Padoan, Oecd, European Central Bank, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Business News

* Annualised G7 growth seen at 1.9 pct in Q1, Q2 * No rush for central banks to start tightening By Leigh Thomas ...

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OECD Figures Indicate Economy's Future Continues To Darken

Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Great Recession, Double-Dip Recession, Euro Debt Crisis, G7, Oecd, Video, Business News

(Vicky Buffery) - The outlook for the world's major economies is continuing to darken according to the latest data from the OECD published on Mond...

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'We Are Witnessing A Growth Slowdown Across OECD Countries'

Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Bank of England, Growth Forecast, G7, Developed Countries, Fiscal Stimulus, Central Banks, Financial Crisis, Japan, Europe, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European Central Bank, Paris, Oecd, Business News

(Leigh Thomas) - The outlook for economic growth in developed countries has got much worse in the last three months, the OECD said on Thursday and...

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World Finance Leaders Call Emergency Meeting

AP | PAMELA SAMPSON | Posted 10.07.2011

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Emergency Meeting, Group of Seven, Financial Leaders, Debt Crisis, G7, Financial Crisis, Standard & Poor's, Credit Score, World Market Stability, U.S. Credit Downgrade, Business News

BANGKOK — Asian stocks dropped sharply Monday as the first-ever downgrade of the U.S. government's credit rating jolted the global financial sys...

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Global Economy's Expansion Will Comes Thanks To Emerging Powers: Poll

Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, G7, President Barack Obama, International Monetary Fund, United States, Global Recession, World Economy, Germany, Inflation, Double-Dip Recession, Euro Zone, FTN Financial, Imf, Economic Recovery, Chris Lowe, Europe, China, Video, Business News

The world economy should expand steadily this year and next thanks mainly to prospering emerging powers, a Reuters poll showed, but fiscal trouble...

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OPEC: Talks Broke Down Because Of Economics, Not Politics

Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Oil Supply, Opec, Inflation, G7, Saudi Arabia, OPEC Secretary General Abdullah Al-Badri, Oil Prices, International Energy Agency, Food Prices, Vienna, World Economic Forum, Video, Business News

VIENNA (Alex Lawler and Barbara Lewis) - Economics, rather than politics was behind the collapse of this week's OPEC talks and the group as a whol...

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U.S. Dollar Hits Three-Year Low Against Other Currencies

Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Australia, Stocks, G7, Asian Sovereigns, Standard & Poor's, Federal Reserve, Greenback, Corporate Earnings, Euro, Yen, U.S. Interest Rates, Credit Agricole CIB, Greece, Lehman Brothers, Dollar, Currencies, Business News

LONDON (Jessica Mortimer) - The dollar hit a three-year low against a basket of currencies on Thursday as strong corporate earnings buoyed risk ap...

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U.S. Economy Growing Faster Than Rivals, But Creating Far Fewer Jobs

AP | PAUL WISEMAN | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Union Contracts, Temporary Workers, Germany, G7, United States, Global Economy Tracker, Jobs, Economic Growth, US Economy, Canada, Business News

WASHINGTON — The United States is out of step with the rest of the world's richest industrialized nations: Its economy is growing faster than th...

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Libya Ceasefire, Yen Stabilization Help Stock Market Rally On Friday

Reuters | Al Yoon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaddafi, Libya Ceasefire, Currency Manipulation, Yen, Jpmorgan, G7, Oil Prices, Stock Market, New York Federal Reserve, Wall Street, Dow Jones, Nikkei, UN Security Council, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global stocks rose on Friday as traders took on riskier investments following a Libya ceasefire that reduced tension in the reg...

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Yen Intervention Resolves Immediate Crisis, But Japan's Economy Still Threatened

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Group of Seven, Yen, Trade, G7, Japan Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News, Yen Intervention, Central Banks, Monetary Policy, Japan Yen Intervention, Japan, Nikkei, Business News

The yen eased off its all-time high Friday as the world's major central banks lent their support, but Japan's economic troubles are far from over, exp...

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NY Fed Decides To Intervene In Currency Markets

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: NY Federal Reserve Bank, Yen, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, G7, Dollar, Currency Markets, Japanese Economy, U.S. Treasury, Exchange Rates, Euro, Business News

WASHINGTON — The New York Federal Reserve Bank confirmed that it intervened in currency markets on Friday for the first time in more than a decade. ...

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G7 Financial Ministers Plan Emergency Meeting

REUTERS | Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Group of Seven, Toshiba Corp, Yen, Yoshihiko Noda, G7, Kaoru Yosano, JP Morgan, Japans Nuclear Plant Crisis, Global Markets, Business News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Financial leaders of the world's richest countries will hold talks on Friday on ways to calm global markets roiled by Japan's nucl...

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Dollar Close To Lowest Value Since WWII

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yen, Bank of Japan, Middle East, G7, Dollar, Currency, Japan, Europe, World War II, China, Japanese Yen, Business News

NEW YORK — The dollar dropped to a record low against the yen late Wednesday as Japan's nuclear crisis deepened. Debt woes in Europe, tension in...

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Beyond the G20: A World We Can Believe in

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Postwar Economy, g20, Globalization, National Aspirations, China Economy, G7, India Economy, Obama Peace Prize, World News

When the rich man's club of nations expanded from the G7 to the G20, a new element was added. Instead of being about money and trade, the G20 is about something else: aspiration.

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SIMON JOHNSON The New Global Creditors And Instability

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Creditors, Wealthy Economies, g20, Simon Johnson, G7, Group of 20, G20 Finance Ministers, Emerging Markets, Business News

Most accounts of the ministerial meeting last weekend of the Group of 20 -- 19 nations plus the European Union, together representing the world's weal...

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Can Brazil Save the World From War With Iran?

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Iran, UN Security Council, Brazil, Npt, Nuclear Power, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran Nuclear Program, G7, World News

The enrichment of uranium by Iran is not a violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and it is generally acknowledged that the NPT gives Iran the right to enrich uranium.

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Simon Johnson: U.K. Economy 'Faces Crisis', G7 Is 'Fundamentally Useless'

BBC | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: G7 Canada Meeting, Global Financial Crisis, Global Economy, G7, Simon Johnson, Business News

Britain should be seen in the same category of countries as Greece and Spain, who are facing severe debt problems, a leading economist has said. Ex-I...

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G-7 To Meet, Talk Less As G-20 Ascends: Officials

Bloomberg | By Rainer Buergin and Simon Kennedy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Imf, United States, Canada, G7, G-20, Pittsburgh, Global Policy, Japan, France, G-7, g20, Global Economic Policy, US, Un, Economy, Business News

Group of Seven finance chiefs said they will meet less and issue fewer statements as the G-20 becomes the main arena for setting global economic polic...

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Geithner To Host G-7, G-20 Meetings

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Monetary Fund, Foreign Affairs, G7, g20, G-20, Global Economic Crisis, Geithner G-20, Tim Geithner, G-7, Geithner G-7, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Advocacy, World News

U.S. efforts to stimulate the economy with infrastructure projects are "ahead of schedule and under budget," President Barack Obama said on Monday, as...

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Nakagawa's Career Karoshi

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Disney Quality College, Nasa, Smoking, Shoichi Nakagawa, Wretched Excess, Meeting Narcolepsy, Boring Financial Presentations, Youtube, Karoshi, G7, Drinking, Suntory, Business News

Mr. Nakagawa may be Japan's worst Finance Minister ever, but that doesn't stop me from taking a moment as he leaves the world stage to bow my head in empathy.

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World Finance Chiefs: "Severe" Downturn Will Persist

Bloomberg | Simon Kennedy and Sandrine Rastello | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: G7 Summit, Global Recession, G8 Summit, G7, G& Summit Italy, Recession, Business News

Group of Seven finance chiefs vowed to tackle a "severe" economic downturn that will persist for most of 2009 without spelling out new steps to do so....

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G7 Finance Ministers Reject Protectionist Measures

AP | COLLEEN BARRY and ARIEL DAVID | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: G7 Summit, Protectionism, G7, G7 Meeting, Business News

ROME — The Group of Seven finance ministers pledged Saturday to avoid resorting to protectionism as they try to stimulate their own economies in...

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G7 Nations Vow Coordination On Financial Crisis But Offer Few Details

New York Times | MARK LANDLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, G7 Nations, G7, G7 Financial Crisis, Business News

The United States and six other nations that are among the world's richest agreed on Friday to a coordinated plan to rescue the financial industry, bu...

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G7: Economic Crisis Must Be Confronted As One

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Group of Seven, Bailout, Economy, G7, Wall Street Crisis, Home News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Finance leaders from the world's rich nations struggled on Friday to agree on a unified approach to cure a credit crisis that t...

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G7 To Meet On World Financial Crisis

Reuters | Daniel Trotta and Kevin Krolicki | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, World Financial Crisis, G7, G7 Meeting, Business News

ear-driven selling sent U.S. stocks plummeting to five-year lows on Thursday, on the eve of a G7 meeting of economic powers to try to halt a global sp...

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