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By Vidya Ranganathan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The yen's fall past 100 per dollar highlights growing concerns about ultra-loose monetary policy around the globe and raises the prospect that policymakers elsewhere may take action to protect their economies from a tide of hot money. Fears that a global currency war is brewing were fuelled when the [...]
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Analysis: Race politics may stunt reforms after Malaysia election
Posted by admin on May 8th, 2013
By Stuart Grudgings KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia's racially divisive election result has sparked a battle within the country's ruling party that is likely to slow Prime Minister Najib Razak's drive to reform the economy and roll back policies favoring majority ethnic Malays. Najib's Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition retained power in Sunday's election in the [...]
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No Comments »Analysis: Big insurers wary of entering new Obamacare markets
Posted by admin on May 2nd, 2013
By Caroline Humer NEW YORK (Reuters) – The nation's largest health insurers are far from leaping at the chance to join new state health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama's reform law, making it likely that some markets will have little or no competition next year. These new insurance marketplaces are due to open their [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: 'Obamacare', analysis, Entering, insurers, Markets, wary No Comments »Analysis: In force-feeding detainees, Obama has courts on his side
Posted by admin on April 26th, 2013
By David Ingram and Jane Sutton WASHINGTON/MIAMI (Reuters) – As detainees at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, press ahead with a widening hunger strike nearly three months old, President Barack Obama has come under increasing criticism for his policy of force-feeding them. But U.S. law is on his side, an analysis of [...]
Analysis: Senate vote shows gun-control advocates the size of challenge
Posted by admin on April 18th, 2013
By Samuel P. Jacobs NEW YORK (Reuters) – In the end, nothing could persuade enough U.S. senators to approve the most significant gun legislation in two decades: Not the carnage from Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six adults were massacred by a gunman in December, igniting a national debate on gun control. Not the [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Advocates, analysis, Challenge, guncontrol, Senate, shows, Size, vote No Comments »Analysis: Supreme Court energizes gay rights even as it resists
Posted by admin on March 28th, 2013
By Joan Biskupic WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After two days of Supreme Court arguments over same-sex marriage, the United States may be left with this irony: While the high court is not likely to alter the constitutional landscape for gays, the justices nevertheless have provided a rallying point for the gay-rights cause. Three major legal outcomes [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: analysis, Court, energizes, Even, resists, rights, Supreme No Comments »Analysis: Dow 30 companies show what a joke calling corporate tax burden ‘heavy’ has become
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Analysis: Supreme Court seems poised to avoid same-sex marriage tide
Posted by admin on March 26th, 2013
By Joan Biskupic WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For nearly four years, proponents of same-sex marriage have been strategically building a test case aimed at convincing the conservative-leaning Supreme Court to declare that gay marriage is a constitutional right. The advocates felt they were ready. But on Tuesday, after an intense, wide-ranging hearing, it appeared the justices [...]
Analysis: Obama’s climate agenda may face setbacks in federal court
Posted by admin on March 24th, 2013
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's plan to use federal agencies, and the Environmental Protection Agency in particular, to drive his second-term climate change agenda might be in peril if he cannot fill vacant seats on the federal court that has jurisdiction over major national regulations, legal experts say. Obama is the [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Agenda, analysis, Climate, Court, face, federal, Obama's, setbacks No Comments »Analysis: Budget balance is in eye of the beholder
Posted by admin on March 23rd, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to budgets, balance is in the eye of the congressional beholder. Tweet This Post
