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Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said containing Japan

Now that we’ve essentially socialized the mortgage business, the federal government finds itself with two incompatible objectives.
It wants to help people stay in their homes, […]

Sales (RSTAMOM) at U.S. retailers probably rose in December as Americans bought discounted holiday items, giving the economy a boost entering 2012, economists said before […]

The Food and Drug Administration says it will step up testing for a fungicide that has been found in low levels in orange juice.
FDA officials […]

Europe

New Zealand authorities trying to clean up a wrecked cargo ship that split in two over the weekend want beachgoers to stay away from the […]

Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site built to withstand possible airstrikes, a leading hard-line newspaper reported Sunday in another show of […]

China will roll out measures to boost consumption this year as it strives to meet challenges posed by a global slowdown, Commerce Minister Chen Deming […]

Hungary’s top financial negotiator said his nation is open to working out a standby loan with the International Monetary Fund but insisted Thursday that Hungary […]

Well, that didn’t take long.
Verizon said Friday that it was scrapping a controversial $2 fee for one-time bill payments announced just a day earlier. […]