Posted by Reuters: Business News on February 5, 2012
(Reuters) – The United States is coming to be seen as a global threat, acting unilaterally with aggressive new market rules that critics say will hurt U.S. firms, foreign banks, and international markets in one swoop.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on February 3, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to a near three-year low, giving a boost to President Barack Obama.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to a near three-year low, giving a boost to President Barack Obama.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on February 2, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New claims for unemployment benefits in the United States fell more than expected last week, pointing to more healing in the nation’s battered jobs market.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 27, 2012
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pressed Europe on Friday to boost its bailout fund resources, citing the euro zone debt crisis and oil prices as the two main factors influencing the pace of the United States’ economic upturn.
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(Reuters) – Starbucks Corp reported a quarterly profit that topped Wall Street’s view, but its shares fell as investors in the world’s biggest coffee chain focused on softness in Europe rather than strength in the United States.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 25, 2012
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – World No.1 mobile network gear maker Ericsson missed fourth-quarter profit forecasts, hit by lower demand from the United States and Russia, and said weak margins and cautiousness from its operator clients would continue in the short term.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 23, 2012
(Reuters) – Oil and gas producer Apache Corp will buy privately held Cordillera Energy Partners III for $2.85 billion in cash and stock, expanding its holdings in one of the most lucrative emerging oil and gas fields in the United States.
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(Reuters) – Oil and gas producer Apache Corp will buy privately held Cordillera Energy Partners III in a cash-and-stock deal worth $2.85 billion, part of a plan to expand its holdings of energy-rich reserves in the Midwestern United States.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 19, 2012
WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The IMF is seeking to more than double its war chest by raising $600 billion in new resources to help countries deal with the fallout of the euro zone debt crisis, but the plan faces roadblocks from the United States and other countries.
