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Inflation-Scared China Raises Interest Rates Slightly
China staged its third interest rate increase since October on Tuesday, the latest sign of the authorities’ intensifying efforts to temper the blistering pace of economic growth and...
Google Mobile, Display Ad Revenues Way Up
Google’s strong fourth-quarter earnings proved that it is now firmly ensconced in e-commerce, and also showed that, with its Android operating system and related apps, it is smoothly transitioning...
Regulators Close More US Banks
Regulators last month closed banks in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Colorado, bringing to seven the number of closures in 2011. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took over...
AOL Buys Huffington Post
The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment, and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the...
Turkish Model for “New Egypt” Intriguing, Not Definitive
As Egypt struggles to reinvent itself, many experts in the region say that it might look to Turkey for some valuable lessons -- although there are significant major...
10 Most Jobless Countries
205 million people were unemployed in 2010 (according to a UN Report) and that number is not expected to improve this year – which leaves global economic growth on...
US Home Ownership Hits 12-Year Bottom
So what’s happened in the US property market since the mortgage-based derivatives meltdown in 2008? An even smaller percentage of Americans own their own homes today than at any...
John A. Paulson’s Gold Bets Net Handsome $5 Billion Profit
John A. Paulson is a hedge fund manager known for having the Midas touch. Founder and president of Paulson & Co., a New-York based hedge fund, Paulson is best-known...
Egypt’s Suez Canal Key for World Oil & Gas Shipping
Western oil and gas companies have halted most drilling in Egypt, but as violence has broken out in some cities, the biggest immediate threat to world energy supplies...
Social Media Innovation Aids Egypt Struggle
With the unruly sounds of protests in the background, the Egyptian man declared there were 50,000 demonstrators in the streets of Cairo. “And the number is growing,” he said,...


