BEIJING - China must balance the need to control inflation and keep its vast economy growing although any policy steps would need time to take effect, its central bank governor chief said on Friday.Speaking just two days after China raised interest rates for the third time this year, Governor Zhou Xiaochuan noted the country’s June inflation data, to be released today, may be higher because of a low...
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's federal health secretary says swine flu cases in January have surpassed the number for all of 2011, a year when the virus barely appeared worldwide.Salomon Chertorivski Woldenberg says there have been 1,623 cases of all strains of flu in Mexico so far in January, 90 percent of them H1N1.It...
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Average interest rates on 30-year, fixed-rate home loans hit a new low at 3.91 percent this week, while 15-year, fixed-rate mortgages stayed at its record low,The...
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markets edged higher from Wednesday's multi-year lows as traders picked up cheap stocks, but activity was muted with volumes in Dubai at a two-week low.The...
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Oil futures closed lower Friday as weak data out of China and ongoing demand concerns pulled prices to their lowest settlement of the year.Vladimir...
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European stock markets pulled back Monday, led lower by banks and miners, as China cut its economic growth forecast to its lowest level in eight years.The...
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Natural-gas futures on Thursday returned to 10-year lows after a supplies report showed a lower-than-expected weekly decline.While...
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Mortgage price war sees rates hit record lows as banks try to kick-start housing marketPrice war: Rates on five-year and ten-year fixes have plunged to the lowest ever level in the past weekA mortgage price war has seen rates hit record lows as banks desperately try to kick-start Britain’s housing market.Rates on five-year and ten-year fixes have plunged to the lowest ever level in the past week.Y...
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closed Tuesday at a new low for the year, succumbing to world-wide concerns...
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climbed, extending the Stoxx Europe 600 Index's rally from a two-year low, while...
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