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| | | | | | Reuters - Japan's government sharpened its rhetoric on foreign exchange intervention on Wednesday as a rise in the yen to a 15-year high underlined concerns that the currency's strength could threaten the economic recovery. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - China and the United States said on Wednesday that their sometimes rocky relationship is sounder after talks in Beijing, with both putting an optimistic face on ties that have been jolted by economic and security tensions.
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| | | | | | Reuters - Republicans in Congress showed little willingness to help President Barack Obama approve billions of dollars in measures to boost the economy with midterm elections less than two months away.
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| | | | | | AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid knows who's to blame for the sickly economy. And it's not him. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  AFP - The United States said Tuesday it has requested 50,000 dollars in emergency aid for flood-hit Guatemala and reprogrammed another 4.38 million dollars in economic aid for recovery efforts.
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| | | | | | AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid knows who's to blame for the sickly economy. And it's not him. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | AP - NO QUICK CURE: Even if they were enacted soon, President Barack Obama's proposed tax breaks for businesses would hardly be a fast fix to bolster hiring or the economy, analysts say. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | AP - Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in Tuesday's auction to the lowest levels since late June. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | AP - A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Tuesday: | | | | | |
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| | | | | | AP - Even if they were enacted soon, President Barack Obama's proposed tax breaks for businesses would hardly be a quick fix to rejuvenate hiring or the economy, analysts say. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | AP - SEEKING SAFETY: Gold settled at a record high Tuesday as more worries resurfaced about European banks and the global economy. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | AP - Gold prices settled at a record high Tuesday following renewed worries about European banks and the global economy. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | AP - NEW MOVES TO AID ECONOMY: President Barack Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks for businesses, a move aimed at spurring more economic growth and job creation. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - Republicans in the Congress showed little willingness to help President Barack Obama approve $350 billion worth of measures to boost the economy with midterm elections less than two months away.
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| | | | | | Reuters - Tax cuts should be extended for all Americans to help spur the economy, but even the middle-class cuts should end in two years, former U.S. budget director Peter Orszag said on Tuesday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | AP - Their control of the House in peril, Democrats are playing defense all across the country. Disgruntled voters, a sluggish economy and vanishing enthusiasm for President Barack Obama have put 75 seats or more - the vast majority held by Democrats - at risk of changing hands.
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| | | | | | Reuters - Republicans in Congress showed little willingness to help President Barack Obama approve $350 billion worth of measures to boost the economy with midterm elections less than two months away.
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| | | | | | Reuters - The State University of New York has adopted new practices to help prevent students from falling victim to deceptive credit card marketing that can burden them with too much debt in tough economic times. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - Millions of commuters across the British capital struggled to get to work on Tuesday as a 24-hour strike by workers on London's underground rail system crippled much of the network, hurting the city's convalescent economy. Passengers took to bikes, buses, walked, or made use of extra boat services on the River Thames that runs through the city in a bid to beat the stoppage, called in protest at 800 job cuts driven by austerity measures.
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| | | | |  Reuters - Cuba will soon turn some small-scale manufacturing and retail services into cooperatives as the state retreats from minor businesses in an effort to boost the island's troubled economy, government and Communist Party sources said.
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| | | | | | AFP - Republicans in the US Congress may be able to handle the country's struggling economy better than President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats, according to a new national poll released Tuesday.
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| | | | | | Reuters - U.S. employers were more aggressive about cutting jobs and otherwise lowering costs during the recession than their peers in other parts of the world, according to a global study by Towers Watson and Co , a global consultancy and professional services firm. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | AP - President Barack Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011, the latest in a series of proposals the White House is rolling out in hopes of showing action on the economy ahead of the November elections.
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| | | | | | AP - Americans' economic struggles persisted in July, largely unchanged from the previous month, according to The Associated Press' monthly analysis of conditions around the country. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - Samsung Electronics, the world's top memory chipmaker, warned of an oversupply in the computer memory chip market from next quarter as a sputtering global economy may further weaken PC sales. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | AP - Here are the 20 most economically stressed counties with populations of at least 25,000 and their July 2010 Stress scores, according to The Associated Press Economic Stress Index: | | | | | |
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| | | | | | AFP - US President Barack Obama has pledged 50 billion dollars to create jobs in a massive transportation infrastructure campaign, targeting huge unemployment and ripping resurgent Republicans.
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