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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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U.S. home loans failed at a record pace in July despite ongoing federal and state programs to avoid foreclosures.
International Monetary Fund is evaluating whether Romania has met requirements for a multi-billion dollar bailout package.
For the first time, more than 34 million Americans received food stamps, which help poor people buy groceries.
U.S. stocks fell Wednesday as investors worried that China's banks might be poised to hit the brakes on lending.
Despite some improvement, 2009 will be a bad year for the world economy, said IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Improved home sales signaled the worst could be over for the housing market, as sales rose 11 percent in June.
Banks posted good profits, but also rising losses because of mortgage loan losses.
Heavy industries across eastern Europe may not live to see the end of the current economic crisis.
Germany may have already emerged from recession and Britain's central bank will not inject more cash in the economy.
The G8 nations should not presume a global economic recovery is near, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said.