Posts Tagged ‘year’

DealBook: Goldman Sachs Trumps Expectations

Earnings fell from the previous year, but the investment bank nearly doubled analysts’ estimates. View full post on Business Stories

Consider This – Selling Your Home Quickly May Save You Money

As we reach the end of another year, I find myself musing over the latest housing market trends and wondering just how hard it might be to sell my house next year. We have had more than a decade of non-stop house price growth, but now the housing market has reached a point of instability [...]

Obama’s debt relief plan could spare Florida up to $500M, White House says, but could hurt later

Florida would not have to pay back between $400 million and $500 million in jobless insurance debt owed to the federal government over the next two years under a plan President Obama will outline next week, the White House said. Obama has to sell the moratorium to Congress as part of his 2012 budget proposal [...]

Economy could face ‘another year of surprises’

Canada’s economic recovery will continue in 2011 but at a slower pace than this year, with stronger exports only partially compensating for weaker domestic spending. View full post on Business Stories

Economy ending year in a more upbeat mood

The economy gave off signs that it was continuing to heal, although slowly and in fits and starts, as one of its roughest years ever was drawing to a close. View full post on Business Stories

FTSE in-depth: Flying start for flotation three

Fingers crossed – the market is set for a bullish 2011; equity strategists are mostly confident the Footsie will end the year above 6,000 View full post on Business Stories

Historic settlement with black, Native American farmers signed into law

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Legislation settling decades-old discrimination cases against the government from black and Native American farmers was enacted late Wednesday. President Barack Obama signed into law H.R. 4783, which provides $1.15 billion in compensation for plaintiffs in the Pigford II case, and $3.4 billion in [...]

Arab Economies Face Import Onslaught as Turkey Pursues Free Trade

The Media Line Staff Ankara, Turkey (TML) – Turkey and its Arab neighbors are due to enter into a free-trade area (FTA) agreement early next year, a pact both sides see as politically beneficial. But closer trade ties have already begun causing economic disruptions in Syria and could threaten the other Arab partners as Turkey’s [...]

Japan to levy tax to counter global warming in ’11

Japan, the world’s third largest economy, will introduce an environmental tax from next year to boost revenue and promote energy conservation steps to counter global warming. The Government Tax Commission has decided to introduce an environmental tax to counter global warming in fiscal 2011, Kyodo news agency reported, quoting informed sources as saying. View full [...]

UK growth tipped to slow in 2011

The UK economy will will grow by less than expected next year, a report by the British Chambers of Commerce predicts. View full post on All Stories

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