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WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of federal background checks for firearms sales declined in the U.S. last month, as retailers continue to run out of guns to sell during a buying spree driven by Washington's new focus on gun control. Tweet This Post
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Gun background checks drop by 10 percent in Jan.
Posted by admin on February 5th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of federal background checks for firearm sales declined last month following a surge in gun sales toward the end of the year that's left many retailers out of stock as Washington considered new gun control measures. Tweet This Post
France on track to meet 0.8 percent growth target: minister
Posted by admin on February 3rd, 2013
PARIS (Reuters) – French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici on Sunday said the government believed it could reach its 2013 economic growth target of 0.8 percent. Moscovici told France 2 television that he is maintaining the target ahead of the publication of the European Commission’s euro-zone economy forecasts, expected on February 22. “We will have discussions,” [...]
Confirmed: John Boehner is 98 percent full of it on sequester
Posted by admin on January 30th, 2013
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Bobby Jindal: Republicans should ‘compete’ for votes from ‘the 47 percent’
Posted by admin on January 26th, 2013
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No Comments »Poll shows 63 percent of French back gay marriage
Posted by admin on January 26th, 2013
PARIS (Reuters) – The number of people who support the legalization of same-sex marriage in France has risen despite major protests against the government’s planned reforms earlier this month, a new poll by Ifop for news website Atlantico.fr showed. The proportion of those surveyed supporting the change in the law rose to 63 percent from [...]
Japan government welcomes BOJ easing steps towards 2 percent inflation
Posted by admin on January 22nd, 2013
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Tuesday that the government highly appreciated the Bank of Japan’s decision to switch to an open-ended commitment to buying assets next year and double its inflation target to 2 percent. He said he hopes that the BOJ will pursue strong monetary easing to beat deflation, [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: easing, government, inflation, Japan, percent, Steps, Towards, welcomes No Comments »German economy contracted 0.5 percent in fourth-quarter on euro crisis
Posted by admin on January 15th, 2013
WIESBADEN, Germany (Reuters) – The German economy was hit hard by the euro zone crisis in the final quarter of last year, shrinking more than at any point in nearly three years as traditionally strong exports and investment slowed, the Statistics Office said on Tuesday. Economists expect Germany to bounce back after forecasts for weak [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: contracted, Crisis, Economy, Euro, fourthquarter, German, percent No Comments »Japan PM says Bank of Japan must set 2 percent medium-term inflation goal
Posted by admin on January 13th, 2013
TOKYO (Reuters) – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the Bank of Japan (BOJ) must set a 2 percent inflation target and make it a medium-term, not long-term, goal to show markets it was determined to pursue bold monetary easing to end nearly two decades of deflation. The government is negotiating with the BOJ to issue [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Bank, goal, inflation, Japan, mediumterm, Must, percent, says No Comments »December jobs: 155,000 added, unemployment rate at 7.8 percent
Posted by admin on January 4th, 2013
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