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UAE trade surplus to hit $ 90.7 billion
Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaThe UAE economy growth is expected to lower to 3.9 percent in 2012 after a solid 2011, when the GDP expanded 5.2 percent led by high oil prices and a 10.2 percent increase in oil production, according to a review of the UAE economy by Global Investment...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Finance, Central Bank, Petroleum Industry, Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
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Food prices continue to rise in Kingdom
Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaThe Central Department for Statistic and Information (CDSI) released Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation data for April, showing prices slightly rising to 4 percent year-on-year compared with 3.9 percent in the previous three months. This level of...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Prices, Money and Monetary Policy, Inflation and Deflation, Consumer Confidence
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Buyers feeling more confident
MarketWatchWASHINGTON -- Consumer sentiment perked up in May to its highest level in more than six years, according to a survey released Friday, helped by falling gasoline prices, a rising stock market and firmer housing prices. The preliminary May reading of the...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Labor Markets, Consumer Confidence, Thomson Corporation, Stock Market
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Senior advocate: Don't balance federal budget on backs of elderly
La Crosse Tribune, Wis.The federal budget shouldn't undermine Social Security in the quest to control the deficit, says the executive director of the Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans. "Social Security should be a separate discussion from the federal budget to make...Tags: Barack Obama, Health Insurance Cost, U.S. Congress, Budget Control Act of 2011, Physical Conditions
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Moody's: Global economicrecovery losing momentum
Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaOver the past three months, the global economic recovery from last year's slowdown has lost momentum, with several economies still facing significant challenges and unlikely to quickly resume "normal" growth rates, says Moody's Investors Service in a...Tags: Labor Markets, Financial and Business Services, Moody's Corporation, Saudi Arabia, Marketing
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Consumer prices fall 0.4% on cheaper gas
A sharp fall in the cost of gas drove a measure of U.S. consumer prices down last month by the most since December 2008. Outside the drop in fuel costs, prices were largely unchanged. The consumer price index fell 0.4 percent in April from March, the...Tags: Labor Markets, Economy, Business and Finance, AAA, Money and Monetary Policy, Inflation and Deflation
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Can the EU be saved?
William PfaffPARIS -- It is not simply the euro zone that is threatened by the dramatic economic discrepancies that now exist among its members, as well as the large indebtedness gap that exists between the southern members of the zone and the German-led bloc of...Tags: European Central Bank, Germany, Viktor Orban, Paris (France), William Pfaff
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Mesilla trustees vote to raise utility rates
Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M.Utility bills could be increasing for many of Mesilla's approximately 1,000 customers as the Mesilla board of trustees conducted a first reading Monday of a proposed ordinance that would raise monthly charges for water, wastewater and solid waste...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Prices, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning
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Kuwait trade surplus to shrink 10.3% to $ 88.3 bn
Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaKuwait GDP is estimated to grow by 1.1 percent in 2013 as oil prices and production stabilizes, exports remain subdued, and government expenditure slows down, according to Global Investment House's review of the Kuwait economy. Kuwait's GDP is estimated...Tags: Economy, Finance, Saudi Arabia, Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Money and Monetary Policy
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LePage wants wind energy goals out of Maine law
Bangor Daily News, MaineGov. Paul LePage wants to strip from state law goals for increasing the state's wind energy capacity over the next two decades. LePage's energy director, Patrick Woodcock, made recommendations Thursday to rewrite the state's 2008 Wind Energy Act,...Tags: Prices, Crime, Law and Justice, Wind Power, Energy, Local Government
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Summer gasoline prices won't go much lower
Summer gasoline prices will be lower in the U.S. than they were last year. But they won't be much lower, experts say, because U.S. refineries have been exporting record amounts of fuel overseas. That's behind what would normally just be a good news...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Gasoline Industry, George W. Bush, Petroleum Industry
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Europe has no exit
WASHINGTON -- For most Americans, Europe is out of sight and out of mind. We figure that the worst of its debt crisis has passed. Italy has a new government. To mute social unrest, some countries are slightly relaxing austerity policies. The European...
Tags: Prices, Labor Markets, European Central Bank, Germany, International Monetary Fund
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