http://us-fast-cash-now.com/blog Finance blog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:53:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The unemployment rate in the U.S. held at 9.7 percent in February and employers cut fewer jobs than anticipated, indicating improvement in the labor market even as East Coast blizzards forced temporary closings of some businesses. Payrolls dropped by 36,000 last month after a revised 26,000 decrease ... http://us-fast-cash-now.com/blog/us-labor-market-poised-for-gains-as-jobless-rate-stabilizes/ Winners in the first annual Best Bay Area Corporate Counsel Awards were named at an event Wednesday night. About 400 people attended the awards ceremony at the Westin San Francisco Airport in Millbrae. The program was co-produced by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal and the San Francisco Business ... http://us-fast-cash-now.com/blog/bay-area-corporate-counsel-award-winners-named/ Japanese Financial Services Minister Shizuka Kamei said the central bank should contemplate directly purchasing government debt, increasing political pressure for the policy board to overcome deflation. “The central bank should consider underwriting debt to help the government create funds for fiscal stimulus,” Kamei said at a parliamentary ... http://us-fast-cash-now.com/blog/kamei-urges-boj-to-underwrite-debt-to-beat-deflation/ Lawmakers grilled Toyota's president, Akio Toyoda, in a hearing Wednesday aimed at discovering, among other things, why the automaker was slow to respond to safety issues related to sudden acceleration. Mr. Toyoda acknowledged that the company had made mistakes and repeatedly apologized for the recent lapses in quality ... http://us-fast-cash-now.com/blog/toyota-recall-what-took-so-long/ Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd., the world’s biggest developer by market value, won Hong Kong’s first land auction of the year with a bid that exceeded most analysts’ estimates after selling 900 homes over the weekend as demand for property in the city surges. The shares closed ... http://us-fast-cash-now.com/blog/sun-hung-kai-wins-hong-kong%e2%80%99s-first-land-auction-of-the-year/ Hopes that the economy can sustain its recovery drew support Wednesday from news that industrial output rose for a seventh straight month and house construction hit a six-month peak in January. Analysts cautioned, though, that the gains could falter if consumer demand weakened. The report on ... http://us-fast-cash-now.com/blog/industrial-output-house-construction-rise/ China is likely to soon overtake Japan to become the world's second largest economy, a milestone that will only fuel growing fears about the economic might of the world's largest country.China's economy grew by 8.7% in 2009, even in the face of a global economic slowdown. Japan, which ... http://us-fast-cash-now.com/blog/china-to-push-aside-japan-as-no-2-economy/ Democratic leaders have told Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski they won’t craft legislation that would change Oregon’s kicker laws. Kulongoski said in a release late Thursday that leaders “do not intend to refer kicker reform and an emergency reserve fund to the November ballot during this special session, or anytime ... http://us-fast-cash-now.com/blog/lawmakers-reject-kicker-reform/ Bets against the fiscally unfit are multiplying, and there's no telling where they will stop.So far, Dubai, Greece, Portugal and Spain have come under attack as investors demand higher interest rates on bonds sold by cash-strapped nations. For now, few observers expect to see defaults. But rising borrowing ... http://us-fast-cash-now.com/blog/europes-pigs-dont-fly/ Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said today the government has no plans for new measures to curb the European Union’s largest deficit. Plans to tame the government finances are “credible,” he told reporters in New Delhi. The EU backed on Feb. 3 the government’s proposals to trim ... http://us-fast-cash-now.com/blog/papandreou-says-greece-has-no-plans-for-new-deficit-measures/