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		<title>US productivity jumps to 9.5% in Q-3</title>
		<link>http://stockpreacher.com/2009/11/06/us-productivity-jumps-to-9-5-in-q-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Productivity in the US non-farm-business sector grew at an annual rate of 9.5% in Q-3 Y 2009, the biggest quarterly gain in six years, the US Labor Department reported Thursday. The Q-3 reading for productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, was also better than the 6.4% gain that economists had estimated. Employers&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New home sales in the USA drop 3.6% in September</title>
		<link>http://stockpreacher.com/2009/10/29/new-home-sales-in-the-usa-drop-3-6-in-september/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US new home sales dropped in September as the government&#8217;s tax credit for 1st time home buyers is about to expire, according to official data released on Wednesday. The Commerce Department said sales decreased 3.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 402,000 from the downwardly revised 417,000 in August, and slumped 7.8% from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Q-3 growth seen strongest in 2 yrs</title>
		<link>http://stockpreacher.com/2009/10/11/us-q-3-growth-seen-strongest-in-2-yrs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US economy now appears to have grown at its strongest rate in 2 years during Q-3, rebounding from a steep downturn that began in December 2007, according to survey of top economists released Saturday. Private economists polled October 5-6 for the Blue Chip Economic Indicators October survey said gross domestic product grew at an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US consumer credit falls by 5.8% in August</title>
		<link>http://stockpreacher.com/2009/10/08/us-consumer-credit-falls-by-58-in-august/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumer credit in the USA fell by a 5.8% annual rate in August to US$2.46T, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday. The US$12B dollar decrease, much worse than the US$7.5B decline that economists forecast, followed a record cut of US$19B in July, or a 9.1% annualized drop. For August, consumer credit in revolving loans, a category [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In View: The Secret of China&#8217;s rising Economy</title>
		<link>http://stockpreacher.com/2009/08/24/in-view-the-secret-of-chinas-rising-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://stockpreacher.com/2009/08/24/in-view-the-secret-of-chinas-rising-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In China the Government owns the Banks; the bankers do not own the Government. China&#8217;s stimulus plan is working better than in the US and the UK because the government is using the banks for public ends, rather than allowing the banks to use the government for private ends.  In the USA, the banks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gold gains on soaring Crude Oil and weak US$</title>
		<link>http://stockpreacher.com/2009/08/20/gold-gains-on-soaring-crude-oil-and-weak-us/</link>
		<comments>http://stockpreacher.com/2009/08/20/gold-gains-on-soaring-crude-oil-and-weak-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange closed higher on Wednesday as crude oil jumped sharply upon unexpectedly plunging oil inventory. Silver finished lower, but platinum rose. Gold price for December delivery climbed US$5.60, or 0.6%, to finish at US$944.80 oz. The Energy Information Association reported on Wednesday that US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US economy contracts 6.2%</title>
		<link>http://stockpreacher.com/2009/03/05/us-economy-contracts-62/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. economy shrank in the Y 2008 Q-4 at its fastest rate since 1982 after a massive decline in inventories held by companies, according to official figures released on Friday. 
Economists said that given bleak near-term prospects for consumption and investment, the US faced its worst economic downturn since the second world war, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Topic: G-7 Takes ‘Back Seat’ as Crisis Pushes G-20 to the Front Line</title>
		<link>http://stockpreacher.com/2009/02/18/hot-topic-g-7-takes-%e2%80%98back-seat%e2%80%99-as-crisis-pushes-g-20-to-the-front-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Group of Seven, convened again in Rome, has ceding its traditional power to rebuild the world economy to a broader body of governments that now wield greater sway over global growth., the Group of Twenty. The U.S. Treasury Secretary and European Central Bank President joined their G-7 counterparts, for the discussions but it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The US “Buy American” proposal will lead to protectionism</title>
		<link>http://stockpreacher.com/2009/02/12/the-us-%e2%80%9cbuy-american%e2%80%9d-proposal-will-lead-to-protectionism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher warned against &#8220;Buy America&#8221; provisions in a proposed fiscal stimulus law and said it could lead to devastating trade protectionism. &#8220;Let me just be blunt. Protectionism is the crack cocaine of economics. It may provide a high. It&#8217;s addictive and it leads to economic death,&#8221; Fisher told C-Span TV. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer confidence edged slightly higher in December</title>
		<link>http://stockpreacher.com/2008/12/24/consumer-confidence-edged-slightly-higher-in-december/</link>
		<comments>http://stockpreacher.com/2008/12/24/consumer-confidence-edged-slightly-higher-in-december/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumer sentiment improved this month helped by falling gasoline prices, retail discounts and lower inflation. 
The University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers said its index of confidence for December rose to 59.1 from November&#8217;s 55.3, aided by the fall in one-year inflation expectations to their lowest in five years, the highest since September and contrary [...]]]></description>
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