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Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Yuan forwards advanced the most since the end of the dollar peg in 2005 as China pledged to maintain stability in the currency. Bonds rose.
WASHINGTON - U.S. automakers drew fresh skepticism from lawmakers Thursday in a rocky confrontation over their pleas for an expanded $34 billion rescue package they say they need to survive. Congressional analysts said one bailout plan under consideration would fall short of what the carmakers want.
WASHINGTON - Desperate U.S. automakers ran into fresh obstacles from skeptical lawmakers Thursday as they appealed with rising urgency - and a new dose of humility - for a $34 billion bailout. Without help, said one senator, “we're looking at a death sentence.”
With the economy sinking faster, employers are giving more Americans dreaded pink slips right before the holidays.
With the economy sinking faster, employers are giving more Americans dreaded pink slips right before the holidays. The Labor Department releases a new report Friday that's expected to show the employment market deteriorated in November at an alarming clip as the deepening recession engulfed the country.
Stock intended to eventually earn taxpayers a profit as part of the Bush administration's massive bank bailout has lost a third of its value — about $9 billion — in barely one month, according to an Associated Press analysis. Shares in virtually every bank that received federal money have remained below the prices the government negotiated.
Stock intended to eventually earn taxpayers a profit as part of the Bush administration's massive bank bailout has lost a third of its value -- about $9 billion -- in barely one month, according to an Associated Press analysis.
BEIJING - China and the United States on Friday ended key economic talks with vows of 20 billion dollars of trade financing to boost commerce amid uncertainty over whether the biannual discussions would continue.
LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China and the United States sparred on Friday over how to handle an economic crisis that has forced central banks around the globe into a series of dramatic interest rate cuts.
US Treasury chief Henry Paulson says the United States and China have agreed to make 20 billion dollars available in boost trade amid the global slowdown. Paulson made the announcement at the end of a two-day Strategic Economic Dialogue meeting in Bejing.
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