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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 ...
Every insurer evaluating property risk today is running the same math: more perils, more models, more data sources, and not...
Fracking Growth Too Fast For Regulators In California: Report
A new report on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") in California warns of the risks of irreversible contamination of surface and groundwater near oil drilling sites, unless the technique is carefully ...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 ...Slowdown in Global Warming No Argument for Policy Change: Wynn
A recent slowdown in the rise of the Earth's surface temperatures has led some commentators to question whether scientists have exaggerated the global warming problem. Scientific advances have ...
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 ...