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12Aug

The Short View of US Federal Reserve

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The US Federal Reserve has a new policy–the Bernanke put. unlike the “Greenspan put”, the perception that Allan Greenspan’s Fed would cut rates aggressively to baial out equity maqrkets, which is the latest move by Ben Bernanke’s Fed benefited bond markets.
Tuesday’s decision was actually very modest. Instead of slowl shrinking it as bonds matured or [...]

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Sterling has continued to rise to meet a new six-month high against the dollar, analysts pointed to the increasing confidence both in the UK economic outlook and worries about the U.S. recovery. The pound strengthened to $ 1.5965, the highest level achieved since they beginning of February.
The United Kingdom has seen optimistic data manufacturing sector [...]

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President Barack Obama will raise the issue of BP’s alleged role in lobbying for the release of Libyan terrorist Abdel Basset al-Megrahi when he meets David Cameron.
President Obama’s administration has already publicly accepted the UK’s explanation for last year’s release from a Scottish jail of Mr al-Megrahi. However, the White House announced that the US [...]

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If the illegal immigrants in the US happened to be lawyers rather than construction workers or domestic helpers, they might have struck it bvery rich by now.
Sometime in the next two weeks, the Obama administration is likely to see the injunction it requested this week to put a stay on the anti-immigration law passed in [...]

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In the oppressive heat of Guantanamo Bay’s Camp 4, highly compliant detainees with long beards hang out their standard issue white uniforms to dry on the wire fences of their commual compound, as others wander around the yard, dropping seed for birds.
They are among the 90% of the 181 detainees remaining in this notorious prison [...]

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