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		<title>Obama Defies Pessimists as Rising Economy Converges With Stocks</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/obama-defies-pessimists-as-rising-economy-converges-with-stocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The political consensus may be that President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy has been weak. The judgment of money in all its forms has been overwhelmingly positive, and that may be the more lasting appraisal.
One year after U.S stocks hit their post-financial-crisis low on March 9, 2009, the benchmark Standard &#38; Poor’s 500 Index has risen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greek Bailout Needs IMF `Bad Cop&#8217; to Relieve Euro</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/greek-bailout-needs-imf-bad-cop-to-relieve-euro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Who you gonna call?” wasn’t just a catchphrase in the 1984 film “Ghostbusters.” If the worst happens in Greece, Spain or Portugal, we’re going to hear it all over again, and Europe’s taxpayers will want to know the answer.
The European Union? The European Central Bank? Or the International Monetary Fund?
Senior officials, including ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yuan Faces Appreciation Pressure on Rates, SAFE Says</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/yuan-faces-appreciation-pressure-on-rates-safe-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[China’s yuan is facing increasing pressure to appreciate because of a widening interest-rate differential, the country’s top currency regulator said in a statement.
Speculative capital is flowing into China disguised as foreign direct investment and trade accounts through “underground money shops,” Yi Gang, head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, said at a briefing in Beijing today.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US may raise rates within six months: survey</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/us-may-raise-rates-within-six-months-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON: The US Federal Reserve is expected to hike benchmark interest rates within six months as the economy recovers from one of the most brutal recessions, a poll among economists showed Monday.
When asked what monetary policy posture they would prefer in the next six months, 63 per cent of 203 economists of the National Association [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British economy faces &#8216;high&#8217; risk of relapse, says business group</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/british-economy-faces-high-risk-of-relapse-says-business-group/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/british-economy-faces-high-risk-of-relapse-says-business-group/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON: Britain, which emerged from recession in the final quarter of 2009, faces a &#8220;high&#8221; risk of relapse and below-average growth in the next two years, the British Chamber of Commerce warned on Sunday.
&#8220;The UK economic outlook will remain highly uncertain for a considerable time,&#8221; the BCC said in the group&#8217;s latest economic forecast.
&#8220;The recovery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greece Aid Plea Snubbed by Germany in ‘Historic Moment’ for EU</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/greece-aid-plea-snubbed-by-germany-in-%e2%80%98historic-moment%e2%80%99-for-eu/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/greece-aid-plea-snubbed-by-germany-in-%e2%80%98historic-moment%e2%80%99-for-eu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greece’s pledge to ramp up planned budget-deficit cuts by half failed to yield commitments of financial assistance from Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, to help solve its financial crisis.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said a meeting tomorrow with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou won’t be “about aid commitments.” Her finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, said the deficit-reduction measures announced in Athens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mercedes Doubles ‘Green’ Spending in Battery Battle</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/mercedes-doubles-%e2%80%98green%e2%80%99-spending-in-battery-battle/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/mercedes-doubles-%e2%80%98green%e2%80%99-spending-in-battery-battle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daimler AG’sMercedes-Benz unit, the world’s second-largest maker of luxury cars, will almost double investment on “green” technologies to take on BMW in the race to offer electric vehicles.
Stuttgart, Germany-based Mercedes intends to spend 1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) in each of the next two years to develop batteries and fuel-saving engines, Thomas Weber, Daimler’s development chief, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia GDP Growth Accelerated to 0.9% Last Quarter</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/australia-gdp-growth-accelerated-to-0-9-last-quarter/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/australia-gdp-growth-accelerated-to-0-9-last-quarter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia’s economy grew last quarter at the fastest pace in almost two years, underscoring the central bank’s decision yesterday to boost borrowing costs for the fourth time in five meetings.
Gross domestic product climbed 0.9 percent from the third quarter, when it gained a revised 0.3 percent, the Bureau of Statistics said in Sydney today. That matched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toyota Offers Discount Loans, Leases to Lure Back U.S. Buyers</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/toyota-offers-discount-loans-leases-to-lure-back-u-s-buyers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/toyota-offers-discount-loans-leases-to-lure-back-u-s-buyers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. will offer incentives including no-interest loans and discounted leases to win back buyers as the world’s largest carmaker tries to offset a U.S. sales slump amid record vehicle recalls.
From this month, Toyota buyers can choose either a loan with no interest for as long as five years or a low-cost lease on models [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s lower house passes record trillion-dollar budget</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/japans-lower-house-passes-record-trillion-dollar-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/03/japans-lower-house-passes-record-trillion-dollar-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO : Japan&#8217;s lower house on Tuesday passed a record trillion-dollar budget for fiscal 2010, adding to the country&#8217;s bulging public debt burden as Tokyo tries to stimulate a sluggish economic recovery.
The 92.3 trillion yen (1.0 trillion dollar) budget includes new child-care allowances, free public high school tuition and other measures promised by the centre-left [...]]]></description>
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