Posts Tagged ‘Grow’

Baucus Predicts IRS Scandal Will Grow

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) predicted to Bloomberg that there will be much more to the IRS scandal than we currently know. Tweet This Post

Immigration Debate May Grow More Complicated

Congress is set to focus on immigration reform this week, though the landscape may shift as details emerge in the Boston Marathon bombing case that could alter the debate. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Thousands mourn Palestinian prisoner, revolt fears grow

SE'EER, West Bank (Reuters) – Masked Palestinian gunmen fired in the air and youths clashed with police on Monday as thousands marched at the West Bank funeral of a prisoner following days of rioting that have stoked Israeli fears of a new uprising. Israeli police shot and wounded five Palestinian youths during confrontations in Bethlehem [...]

Investors grow cagey as Italy election nears

LONDON (Reuters) – As Silvio Berlusconi's pre-election media blitz intensifies, so do fears of a costly detour from Italy's road back to economic strength. Yields on short-term Italian debt, which have fallen sharply, are creeping up again, reflecting concerns that the billionaire tycoon, who lost power at the peak of Italy's fiscal woes in 2011, [...]

China economy may grow 8.2 percent in 2013: top think-tank

BEIJING (Reuters) – China's economic growth may quicken to 8.2 percent in 2013 from an expected 7.7 percent this year in response to official growth-promoting polices, but downside risk remains from global uncertainties, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) said on Wednesday. The country's top think tank said in its "blue book" report on [...]

Calls grow for probe into police violence at Myanmar mine

MONYWA, Myanmar (Reuters) – Buddhist monks marched in Myanmar's two biggest cities on Saturday to protest at police violence during a crackdown on demonstrators at a copper mine, while Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and a rights group called for an official inquiry. Activists said at least 50 people had been injured on [...]

BNP Paribas to grow as rivals shrink: executive

PARIS (Reuters) – BNP Paribas , France's No. 1 bank, is confident it can profit from rivals' distress after a year of cutting assets and staff to meet tougher regulations, its head of corporate and investment banking said. At a time when lenders such as Deutsche Bank , Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS are [...]

Expectations Grow for Vice Presidential Debate

In the wake of President Obama’s widely panned performance in his first debate against Mitt Romney, the Washington Post says the stakes for Vice President Biden “are suddenly higher than ever. In the Oct. 11 vice-presidential debate he must not only avoid making any gaffes but also try to puncture his Republican opponent’s arguments on [...]