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Stocks rose sharply Tuesday following upbeat earnings reports and a fresh round of corporate dealmaking.







Investing – Business – Economy – Stocks and Bonds – Economic data

MANUFACTURING output increased by 14.4 per cent last month on a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis.

And excluding the volatile biomedical manufacturing cluster, output increased by 23.9 per cent.

The electronics cluster saw the biggest jump with a 57.3 per cent increase in output last month (y-o-y).
The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) attributed this to higher demand, coupled with the low b… more

American families were squeezed last year as their inflation-adjusted weekly wages fell 1.6 percent — the sharpest drop since 1990. Consumer inflation rose 2.7 percent.









Inflation – Wage – Economic – Grade Inflation – Education

Industrial production rose in line with expectations in December as electric and gas utilities stepped up output in an unusually cold month, a Federal Reserve report showed on Friday.







Federal Reserve System – Industrial production – Business – Economic – Social Sciences

President Barack Obama on Thursday described bank bonuses as “obscene” and called for a new tax on Wall Street’s largest firms.

Barack Obama – Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 – President of the United States – United States – Business

(SINGAPORE) Economic momentum may have fallen off a little more than expected in the last quarter, but economists say the underlying recovery in Singapore remains on track.

Indeed, with flash Q4 GDP data in hand, at least two forecasters yesterday jacked up their estimates of Singapore’s 2010 full-year growth, adding to the market consensus that was already above the official forecast of 3 to 5 … more

Remember when everybody thought that markets were all-knowing? Before the financial crisis struck in late 2008, the reigning dogma in economics was the “efficient-markets hypothesis.” The economists still vigorously defending markets today sound like alcoholics denying they have a problem.







Economic – Efficient-market hypothesis – Financial crisis – Social Sciences – Math

A historic economic crisis has left Americans with plenty of things to worry about. But is inflation one of them?







Inflation – Financial crisis – Economic – Grade Inflation – Money supply

The $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program was never used for the purpose for which it was originally intended. Yet it has been extended for another year.  Answer Desk.







Troubled Asset Relief Program – Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 – Federal Reserve System – Citigroup – Business

The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly narrowed in October as exports surged to the highest level in nearly a year.







Balance of trade – Balance of payments – Business – Economic – International Business and Trade