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1:32 PM EST
1/30/2012 Anti-austerity strike halts trains, disrupts flights in Belgium,A nationwide strike in Belgium greeted EU leaders meeting in a summit in Brussels on Monday as international trains were not in service and some flights at the capital’s international airport cancelled and delayed.

Source:AHN Topics:Labor, Strike, Economy, Business And Finance, Finance, Social Issue, Welfare

3:36 PM EST
1/24/2012 Supreme Court tax case to determine extent of IRS enforcement authorityThe U.S. Supreme Court plans to issue a ruling in a corporate tax shelter case this spring at a time of uncertainty in the tax laws.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Laws, Civil, Corporate Crime, Fraud, Economy, Business And Finance, Finance

10:40 PM EST
1/12/2012 Top European banks stand pat on key interest ratesThe European Central Bank met Thursday and kept its key interest rate unchanged at 1.0 percent. ECB officials made the decision after cutting rates for the previous two months in an effort to boost growth in the eurozone.

Source:AHN Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Macro Economics, Central Bank, Finance

4:31 PM EST
12/26/2011 China, Japan agree on direct yuan, yen tradeThe governments of China and Japan, the world’s second- and third-largest economies, announced Monday an agreement to directly trade in yuan and yen instead of converting their currencies first to dollars.

Source:AHN Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Finance, Politics, Government

10:49 AM EST
12/19/2011 Study: Nearly 1 in 3 will be arrested by age 23Nearly one in three people will be arrested by the time they reach the age of 23, a new study shows. Criminologists from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte say that the study shows that "arrest is a pretty common experience."

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Police, Arrest, Social Issue, Juvenile Delinquency

8:12 PM EST
12/18/2011 U.S. agency selects Nepal as eligible aid recipientNepal has been selected as eligible for the threshold program of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a United States aid agency established to help fight global poverty.

Source:AHN Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Finance, Politics, Foreign Aid

1:33 PM EST
12/9/2011 Fixed mortgage rates stay lowThe average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage stayed near its record low for the sixth consecutive week.

Source:AHN Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Finance

1:20 PM EST
12/6/2011 Rajaratnam reports to prisonFormer hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam reported to prison Monday to begin serving an 11-year sentence in one of the biggest insider trading scams in history.

Source:AHN Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Finance, Crime, Law And Justice, Corporate Crime, Corruption

10:31 AM EST
12/4/2011 Plunging Foreign Reserves Pose New Threat to EgyptWhile Egyptians make repeat visits to the polls over the next three months to elect a new government and debate the future of their country, the country’s foreign currency reserves are rapidly running down to perilous levels

Source:TML Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Finance, Money And Monetary Policy, Politics, State Budget And Tax

10:04 AM EST
12/1/2011 Opening stocks off Thursday after Wednesday's 490-point gainStocks slipped on the open Thursday following a strong rally on Wednesday that sent the Dow up 490 points.

Source:AHN Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Finance, Macro Economics, Stocks