(Reuters) – American employers hired at the slowest pace in nine months in March, a sign that Washington’s austerity drive could be stealing momentum from the economy. The economy added just 88,000 nonfarm jobs last month, the Labor Department said on Friday, well below market expectations for a 200,000 increase. The jobless rate ticked a […]
Has Obama lost advantage over G.O.P. on economy?
23 March 2013 by
Recent poll numbers seem to indicate that the American public is pretty evenly split on who can best handle the economy going forward. Most economic indicators show that we are in a recovery. Is this in spite of the gridlock or because of it? Read the New York time column here.
Online forex: One man’s point of view
22 March 2013 by
BY ’KUNLE ADEYERI ([email protected] ) In Forex trading, you will see that technical indicators (charts, moving average lines, etc.) are very important for determining how currency prices move. Of course, fundamental analysis (economic data, current events, etc.) is also useful for predicting how a currency price will change. Underlying the fundamental and technical methods is […]
A southern boom. Latin America ignites.
18 March 2013 by
In the annals of geopolitical insults, few have been more sweeping than Richard Nixon’s admonition to a young Donald Rumsfeld as he pondered his future career. “Latin America doesn’t matter,” he offered. “People don’t give a damn about Latin America”. He said it in 1971. Would anyone in Washington dare say it again? If the […]
Oil, Obama and Israel. Strange bedfellows.
17 March 2013 by
Even as it plans to illegally drill for oil in the occupied Golan Heights, “Israel appears to have its eye on the occupied West Bank oil”, according to a classified Foreign Office correspondence [Reuters] The schedule for President Barack Obama’s first visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories next week has just been released and […]