The Commerce Department stopped short of making a stronger ruling on claims by U.S. leaders and manufacturers that an undervalued Chinese currency gives Beijing’s exporters a lopsided price advantage. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged a-lopsided-price, a-stronger-ruling, beijing, chinese-, commerce-department, currency-gives, del-icio-us, img-alt, leaders-and, npr, ruling-on-claims, stopped-short, stronger-rulingThe drop in July is significantly worse than expected and provides the latest sign that the economic recovery is fading. The Commerce Department says new-home sales fell 12.4 percent in July from a month earlier. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged 12-4-percent, commerce-department, economic, economic-recovery, expected-and, latest, latest-sign, provides-the, provides-the-latest, says-new-homeThe nearly-completed 2010 census is ending the fiscal year 22 percent under budget. That means the Commerce Department will be able to return more than $1.5 billion in unspent funds to the Treasury. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged 1-5-billion, 2010-census, commerce-department, ending-the, ending-the-fiscal, fiscal, means-the-commerce, percent-under, return-more, treasury, unspent-fundsSome corporate leaders have been labeling President Obama anti-business in recent weeks. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been leading the charge when it comes to criticism. But plenty of people in the labor movement say the president has gone too far to accommodate business. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged del-icio-us, has-gone, have-been, leading-the, movement-say, president-obama, recent-weeks, the-labor, the-president, too-farBEIJING (Reuters) – China will expand schemes that give consumers a discount if they trade in old cars and household appliances for new ones, according to Vice Commerce Minister Jiang Zengwei. Read more: China to expand old-for-new car, appliance schemes
Also tagged a-will-expand, appliance-schemes, china, expand-old-for-new, jiang, jiang-zengwei-, new-ones, old-cars, will-expandState regulators shuttered Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida in Fort Myers, Fla., Friday night, bringing the 2009 national tally to 124. Link: FDIC announces 124th bank failure
Also tagged 2009-national, announces-124th, bank-failure, bringing-the, bringing-the-2009, fdic, southwest, southwest-floridaWASHINGTON (Reuters) – An activist group seeking to draw attention to the debate over climate change policy staged a hoax on Monday, posing as representatives of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Read the original post: Activists snare media with Chamber of Commerce hoax
Also tagged activist-group, activists, chamber, commerce-read, debate, over-climate, posing-as-representatives, read-the-original, the-debateWASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Chamber of Commerce spokesman said on Monday that a statement put out earlier by another group that the Chamber no longer opposed climate change legislation was a “hoax.” Read more: Chamber says climate change statement a “hoax”
Also tagged a-statement-put, another-group, chamber, change-statement, climate-change, group, longer-opposed, monday, out-earlier, said-on-monday, says-climate, statement-putThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce—the self-proclaimed voice of business in Washington—has been wrong on virtually every major public-policy issue of the past decade: financial deregulation, tax and fiscal policy, global warming and environmental enforcement, consumer protection, health care reform … [ more ... ] Sponsored Topics: United States – United …
Also tagged and-environmental, consumer-protection, financial-deregulation, global-warming, major-public-policy, more-, self, tax-and, the-past, the-self-proclaimed, united-states, virtually-everyThink it sucks to be a TD Bank customer this week, especially if you were formerly a Commerce Bank customer? Try being a TD Bank employee. One insider tells what it what was like yesterday on the other side of all those (still) unprocessed transactions and new fees. See …
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