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India Seeks Investors from U.S., Canada to Fund Current Deficit
India's finance minister will seek to drum up foreign investment from the United States and Canada this week to fund a record high current account deficit, even as policymakers debate the risks of ...
Details of U.S. Deal to Let Japan into Pacific Trade Talks
The United States and Japan on Friday reached a deal paving the way for Tokyo to join talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed regional free trade agreement that already has been under ...
Will HUD’s Disparate Impact Rule Have Say in Ratemaking?
Despite the McCarran-Ferguson Act, which reserved the regulation of the "business of insurance" to the states, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has given itself the ability to ...U.S. Revives Probe Of Media’s Handling Of Economic Data
U.S. law enforcement officials have reversed a decision to wind down an investigation into how news agencies handle the release of economic data to investors, concerned some sensitive information may ...
U.S. Agrees to Japan Joining Trans-Pacific Talks; Japan Vows Action on Insurance, Auto
Japan and the United States have agreed on a deal to allow Tokyo to join talks on a U.S.-led Asia-Pacific free trade pact that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is making a keystone of his strategy to open ...
Global Economy Won’t Deliver Big Growth In 2013: Reuters Poll Of Economists
This year now looks unlikely to deliver much improvement in the world economy's growth rate, with a weaker outlook for Europe and the United States tempering the cautious optimism that was evident in ...
Above-Average Hurricane Season Predicted: 72% Chance Of East Coast Landfall
The Colorado State University team is predicting an above-average 2013 Atlantic basin hurricane season with 18 named storms and a 72 percent chance one will make landfall somewhere along the entire ...
Federal Reserve: Low Interest Rates Not Inducing High Risk-Taking…Yet
Federal Reserve staff conducted a wide survey but found no evidence so far that the U.S. central bank's ultra-low interest rate policy has encouraged excessive risk-taking, the Fed said on Wednesday. ...