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December 23rd, 2008Crunch financial
Credit crunch, financial crisis and recession: Impact, analysis and ...
We round up our most recent reports of how the credit crunch and the financial price squeeze is affecting the man in the street, together with bang-up-to-date advice on how to ... (more...)
Timeline: U.S. Credit Crunch & Financial Failures
NEW YORK (CBS News) ? Wall Street and Main Street have been caught up in credit market turmoil, which began in 2007 with rising defaults on mortgages made to financially shaky ... (more...)
World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch ...
Living Planet report calculates humans are using 30% more resources than the Earth can replenish each year (more...)
The Economic Crunch: Financial troubles have students rethinking ...
A year ago, they weren't worried. Six months ago, they weren't overly concerned. Now, Wall Street's nightmare has shown up to interrupt their grand college dreams. (more...)
Credit crunch | Business | guardian.co.uk
As far as the financial markets are concerned, August 9 2007 has all the resonance of August 4 1914 (more...)
Bank of Japan starts emergency lending program - Columbia Missourian
The Bank of Japan said Thursday it will provide 1.22 trillion yen ($13 billion) in emergency loans to financial institutions as part of a new program to spur lending to the country's businesses. Japan is mired in a recession with little relief in ... (more...)
Man City owner replaces Abramovich atop rich list - BusinessWeek
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich slipped to third on British soccer's rich list, replaced at the top by the man behind Manchester City, Sheik Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The annual list compiled by the soccer magazine FourFourTwo puts Sheik Mansour ... (more...)
Iowa lawmakers consider labor issues - Quad-Cities Times
DES MOINES, Iowa - Though labor-backed Democrats control the Legislature and governor's office, lawmakers concede that some top union priorities face a cloudy future in the upcoming session. Labor leaders and some legislators remain unhappy after a ... (more...)
Economic crunch brings down tourist arrivals in Boracay - ABS-CBN
The number of tourists who spent the holiday season on Boracay Island, one of the country?s foremost destination spots, has declined due to global economic meltdown. Reports said the tourist arrivals went down by almost 20 percent. In the previous ... (more...)
US firms face pension crunch - Straits Times
NEW YORK - COLLAPSING stock prices have created shortfalls in pension plans in dozens of large US companies, which may require them to pump in tens of billions of dollars of cash, hurting earnings. With corporate America facing pension plan ... (more...)