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World markets were mixed Thursday due to investor concerns over the U.S. stimulus plan and more gloomy corporate news. In Britain, the Royal Bank of Scotland, or RBS, has posted the largest annual loss in U.K. corporate history with a $34 billion sh

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund expect the world economy to shrink this year for the first time since World War Two. As recently as January, the I.M.F. had predicted growth of

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As the financial crisis claimed more victims this week on Wall Street, the rest of the world's markets and banks have been in turmoil. In Britain, 45,000 banking jobs are now in jeopardy. VOA's Mandy Clark looks at the global financial fallout of th

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Despite Senate passage of its massive stimulus package and the U.S. banking bailout plan announced by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, overseas markets did not react with enthusiasm. A screen showing stock prices at a local bank in Hong Kong, 11

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World markets have responded positively to a public-private investment program designed to buy up hundreds of billions of dollars worth of questionable assets currently on the books of American banks. US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner listens durin

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Global Financial Leaders Ponder Jobs, Growth and Politics Many Europeans have been angered by government efforts to slash pensions and salaries, while raising taxes in an effort to balance battered budgets. Public anger is one of many things limiting

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