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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Sandy storms through US budget debate

Sandy storms through US budget debate


Sandy storms through US budget debate

Posted: 31 Oct 2012 11:16 AM PDT

Romney praises Federal Emergency Management Agency, in contrast to remarks in Republican primary debate when he queried need for such an organisation

Wall Street reopens after shutdown

Posted: 31 Oct 2012 10:35 AM PDT

A higher opening on US equity markets quickly fizzles out as traders return to work after the first weather-related two-day shutdown in more than a century

Sandy set to cost insurers at least $7bn

Posted: 31 Oct 2012 11:08 AM PDT

Investors are confident the well-capitalised insurance industry can withstand the looming multibillion-dollar payouts from hurricane Sandy

New debt forecasts dash Greece hopes

Posted: 31 Oct 2012 10:23 AM PDT

Athens presents new budget plan showing debt growing beyond worst-case scenario envisioned by international lenders eight months ago

US election claims dismay policy wonks

Posted: 31 Oct 2012 11:06 AM PDT

Marauding presidential campaigns rampage through economics and trade, leaving a trail of wrong-headed assumptions and falsehoods

US concerns grow over Chinese economy

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 11:06 PM PDT

As China prepares for leadership change US experts question whether its political system has become too clogged by special interests to reform

Palestinians in Syria face off over Assad

Posted: 31 Oct 2012 10:32 AM PDT

Violence moves closer as rival militias prepare to face off in a strategically important Damascus district heavily populated by refugees

Draghi expands role in fight to save euro

Posted: 31 Oct 2012 12:43 PM PDT

Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, has stopped the rot but he still has much to prove as he enters his second year in office

China steps up rhetoric on disputed islands

Posted: 31 Oct 2012 08:19 AM PDT

China has made more forceful claims over the disputed islands since Japan's decision to nationalise them , a move that generated a furious response from Beijing

Little reward for builders of new India

Posted: 31 Oct 2012 10:13 AM PDT

The nation's construction industry is thriving, but its success rests on a vast and growing army of mobile rural labourers who live in squalor

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