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- Greece speeds up $67bn privatisation program
- Debt crisis fears hammer banks
- China manufacturing falls to 10-month low: HSBC
- China Is Now Top Gold Bug
- Big four's rating clipped
- Rate rise to hurt like hell, says BoQ boss
- Australian dollar susceptible to 'vicious' decline, warns HSBC
- Treasury to tap pensions to help fund government
- Gold One strikes it rich with accepted takeover
- Myer steps up outsourcing to China
- Tully sugar mill's battle against global push
- Doubts cast on China's preferred method to fight inflation
- Forbes Predicts U.S. Gold Standard Within 5 Years
- U.S. ‘Underwater’ Homeowners Increase to 28 Percent, Zillow Says
- Portugal opens inquiry into international rating agencies, official says
- China's rising wages propel prices
- Tough budget won't stop rate rises: Reserve Bank of Australia
- SQM warns housing prices may drop over 5% as stock levels rise 3.9% in April
- Retail slump fuels fears the Australian economy shrank in the first quarter
- Alarms ring on rising mortgage arrears
- Reserve leaves rates on hold
- Hedge funds increase bets dollar will decline
- Mine boom raises fears of inflation
- Silver hits record near $50, first time since 1980
- CPI rise leading inflation back to pre-GFC days
- Central banks pump £3 trillion into world economy
- IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end
- US economy just a notch above Greece
- CEOs step up Canberra attacks, as they brace for tough budget
- The 'other' housing market, where house prices have regressed 60pc
- China tells banks to stress-test property loans
- Call to get house in order before global trade shock
- Gold price climbs to record $US1500
- U.S. credit rating outlook lowered by S&P
- Texas University Takes Cue From Kyle Bass to Hold $1 Billion in Gold Bars
- Max Keiser - Hang the bankers
- Greece Plans $110 Billion in Austerity Measures, Asset Sales to Cut Debt
- Lacker Says Fed Must Remove Stimulus Before Inflation Picks Up
- Nobody is Smarter Than The Markets
- US deficit up 15.7% in first half of fiscal 2011
- Big banks are government-backed: Fed's Hoenig
- M&M to shift acquired Boeing plant to Bangalore
- Giant tax hole sets up savage budget
- Debt Jumped $54.1 Billion in 8 Days Preceding Obama-Boehner Deal to Cut $38.5 Billion for Rest of Ye
- Gold settles at record; silver ends at $40.61 an ounce
- Gold, Oil Soar to Fresh Highs As Inflation Fears Mount
- Ryan: Debt on Track to Hit 800 Percent of GDP
- Gold price strikes new record high
- Monthly inflation surges most in 14 months
- Nat Rothschild in talks with former BP chief Tony Hayward over energy investment fund
- Revealed: More Secret Loans
- Soaring dollar puts jobs at risk
- We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers
- Foreign Banks Tapped Fed's Lifeline Most as Bernanke Kept Borrowers Secret
- Danes accuse MAp over tax loophole
- Wal-Mart CEO Bill Simon expects serious inflation
- The Fed Releases Thousands Of Secret Bailout Docs In The Least Transparent Way Possible
- Food Inflation Kept Hidden in Tinier Bags
- China's new gold rush: its nervous citizens are helping fuel the bullion boom
- US motorists rage against Macquarie toll
- RBA warns on mortgage push
- Gold near record, silver tops $37 on safe-haven bid
- Food, power add weight to CPI
- IMF deputy chief John Lipsky fears a fiscal debt crisis in the West
- China's Ghost Cities
- Rare G7 joint intervention in currency markets to force down the surging yen
- Indians and Chinese circle for Premier Coal sale
- First-time buyers offered £70,000 deposits by local councils
- Tokyo Shares End Day Down 11%
- Minerals tax 'unfair to small miners'
- Utah Legislature goes for gold, silver as currency options
- EU paralysis drives fresh bond rout
- Top UK businessmen among 9 arrested in bank probe
- Consumers' purses remain shut tight
- Inflation Endangering China ‘Dream’ Spurs Wen Pledge on Prices
- Gold hits record high in flight to safety from Libyan unrest
- Defaults on credit cards hit more than £1 billion
- Job cuts blamed on cheap glass imports from China
- Sleepless night for day traders after a hi-tech glitch hits ASX
- Bosses gloomy about growth prospects
- Creditors get money back as Indian buys Griffin
- Industry slams carbon Gillard's call
- Oil Touches $100 a Barrel on Libya Unrest
- UK: House prices to fall '20% in two years'
- 700,000 unsold new-build houses in Spain
- BBC takes last slice of Planet
- China's hunger for gold fuels bull run
- White House Economists Won’t Testify on Stimulus
- QR National major job cuts
- UK Inflation Surges to 4%, Highest Since Nov. 2008
- Korean group submits non-binding bid for Whitehaven Coal
- Administrators race to sell Griffin Coal's $1.2bn power stations
- Store owners blue as shoppers skip retail therapy
- Dry bulk faces catastrophic bankruptcies
- Home-Price Drop Leaves 27% of U.S. Owners Underwater on Loans, Zillow Says
- Wheat Jumps to Highest Since 2008 as Chinese Crop Faces Drought
- China escalates battle with inflation
- New Jersey's Pension Crisis Is Getting Worse
- UK banks at risk from property loans
- India's NMDC buys into two iron ore mines
- China property bubble to pop this year, says analyst
- IMF, warning of war, says ready to help Egypt
- 'China syndrome' means country faces dangerous property bubble
- Spain's jobless rate surges to 20.33%
- Japan's Credit Rating Cut to AA- by S&P on Debt Load
- Wall Street Partying in Davos as Bankers Overcome Crisis Angst
- E-mails Suggest Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out of Billions
- Kimberly-Clark sheds 170 jobs in South Australia
- Chevron, Kyushu reach liquefied natural gas deal
- Chocolate price fears as cocoa jumps
- Bank of England's Posen Sees Housing `Downside Risk' Over Lack of Credit
- Shanghai plans to raise minimum wage by 10 pct in '11
- World needs $100 trillion more credit, says World Economic Forum
- What is Plan B if China dumps its U.S. debt?
- Inflation fears as reconstruction pushes demand for tradespeople
- Hedge funds bet China is a bubble close to bursting
- Fed Officials Saw Housing Bubble in 2005, Didn't Alter Policy
- US banks 'foreclosured on record 1m homes in 2010'
- Qld floods to wipe 1 per cent off GDP
- Home price drops exceed Great Depression: Zillow
- You're insane if you don't own gold, investors told
- CBA's Chinese partner caught in fraud probe
- Europe unveils sweeping plans to govern reckless banks
- Brazil pledges to stop US 'melting the dollar'
- Stimulus 'forcing RBA to lift rates'
- Pain deepens for Australia's factories
- European debt markets 'face second credit crisis'
- US must raise debt ceiling, says Obama's top economic adviser
- China Manufacturing Growth Slows as Interest Rates Rise to Curb Inflation
- Liquidity of assets 'must be regulated', says funds adviser
- Big retailer in dire straits on the back of poor sales
- Japan's Dai-ichi to bid for Tower Australia
- Either America Or China Will Crash In 2011
- The UK inflation genie is out of the bottle
- China raises interest rates on Christmas Day
- Nigeria borrows $900 million from Chinese bank
- Bloomberg Sues ECB to Force Disclosure of Greece Swaps
- Bunge to buy Tully Sugar for $127m
- $2tn debt crisis threatens to bring down 100 US cities
- Aussie Leads `Extreme' Currencies Deutsche Says Avoid
- Banks face an extra £80bn of bad debts
- Santos seals $70bn Gladstone gas deal with Korea
- India beats China to WA coal mines in $850m deal
- Banking regulator warns of too much competition
- CBA glitch wipes account balances
- Low interest rates failing to rescue British households from £1.45 trillion debts, says BOE
- A Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives
- NAB and Westpac's Secret Bailout Revealed
- Ron Paul, Author of `End the Fed,' to Lead Panel Overseeing Central Bank
- Container ships slow speed as demand slumps for Asian exports
- Global bond rout deepens on US fiscal worries
- Max Keiser: Naked short sell JP Morgan’s stock to zero
- Gold, silver and copper hit record highs on fears of weakening dollar
- China's credit bubble on borrowed time as inflation bites
- KPMG auditor suspended over Allco bungle
- JP Morgan revealed as mystery trader that bought £1bn-worth of copper on LME
- Bernanke Doesn't Rule Out QE Exceeding $600 Billion
- Want JP Morgan to crash? Buy silver
- Fed Names Recipients of $3.3 Trillion in Crisis Aid
- BofA Mortgage Morass Deepens After Employee Says Trustee Didn't Get Notes
- Economy tipped to slide back
- U.S. Aircraft Carrier Group Enters Korea Seas as War Talk Rattles Market
- Foreclosed Homes May Flood Spanish Market as Banks Offload Unwanted Assets
- China, Russia quit dollar
- Australian shares struggle as Korean tensions mount
- More state assets set for fast train
- Euro Gains After Ireland Agrees With European Union on Bank Rescue Package
- Bernanke Takes Aim at China
- More rate rises on the cards, says OECD
- Chinese grapple with soaring cost of food, the biggest driver of inflation
- World Gold Council Releases Third Quarter Gold Market Outlook
- Euro Dominos Will Fall Until Currency Is Split: Matthew Lynn
- Banks could raise money using depositors' funds as collateral
- Bidders charge ahead in state electricity sale
- Max Keiser: "Buy A Silver Coin, Destroy JP Morgan"
- Fed `New World Order' May Boost Treasury Volatility, Caron Says
- JP Morgan and HSBC being sued for silver market manipulation
- Thai company buys into MSF sugar mills
- IMF warns of inflation outbreak
- JPMorgan, HSBC Accused of Manipulating Silver Futures
- State super scheme blows out by $7b
- ASX Singapore merger in political crossfire
- Asian bid for $14bn merger with ASX
- We may have landed booby prize in the currency wars
- Dollar dazzles but parity could cost tourist industry
- US Cities Face Half a Trillion Dollars of Pension Deficits
- Japan signals move on free trade talks
- Super-rich investors buy gold by ton
- Fears of Chinese land grab as Beijing's billions buy up resources
- Distressed Homes Sell at 26% Discount in U.S. as Supply Swells
- Czech president tells UN to stay out of economics
- Goldman plays dual role with Quinn Group
- Burry, Predictor of Mortgage Collapse, Bets on Farmland, Gold
- Lack of controls exposes farmers to water market rorts
- Alcohol drinking in Britain sees sharpest fall since 1948
- Drowning in Debt: US students helpless to pay off education
- `Zombie' Hotels Arise in Ireland as Recession Empties Rooms
- Greens & Labor to tax Australian industry into oblivion
- 'Say no' to Chinese investment: adviser
- British Nightclubs Shut as Economy Forces Revelers to Stay Home
- Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts Say
- SAB Miller plots $12bn takeover of Carlton and United Breweries
- Plight of the 1.1million stuck in homes they can't sell
- Western profits wilt on China's surging wages
- Gold hits six-week high as geenback weakens
- Australia to appeal WTO ruling on import ban on New Zealand apples
- Australia 'too reliant on offshore funds'
- Jamaica sells 3 sugar plants to China's Complant
- Watch out, the great £50bn property unload is about to begin
- Gold Coin Sellers Angered by New Tax Law
- US private equity snaps up private hospitals
- QR float 'too big a risk', says QIC executive
- Seriously Underpriced Silver
- Mystery around BIS gold swaps impugns them as market rigging
- Centennial Coal accepts takeover offer
- Wilmar outbids Bright Food for CSR's sugar unit Sucrogen
- Mining figures 'based on student's paper'
- German Households Are More Indebted Than Greeks
- MacBank's code red
- Trader blows whistle on gold & silver price manipulation
- Goldman Again Tries To Dispel Notion That It Bets Against Its Clients
- China Gold Demand May Double Within Decade, WGC Says
- It's admitted to the CFTC: London gold market is a Ponzi scheme
- Stevens warns against property craze
- A London trader walks the CFTC through a silver manipulation in advance
- China puts its foot on the gas in $60bn deal
- Report: U.S. has lost 2.4M jobs to China
