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Central bankers wary of deflation
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:50:53 -0500
LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone demand is plunging and price pressures vanishing, business surveys showed on Friday, while central bankers weighed the prospect of deflation.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=C8nZ6EeO"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=0xmAsf3q"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=0xmAsf3q" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=CvT2JR5i"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=CvT2JR5i" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/nTWudZnpTpU" height="1" width="1"/>

Obama on track to name Clinton as top diplomat
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:45:54 -0500
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Retired Marine Gen. James Jones emerged as a leading contender for White House national security adviser as President-elect Barack Obama worked on Thursday to assemble his foreign policy team.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=LXtLXxyk"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=3nwqtxCw"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=3nwqtxCw" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=4iaZrUJC"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=4iaZrUJC" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/igmT8Zn2hWA" height="1" width="1"/>

Democrats demand Big 3 offer survival plan
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:24:54 -0500
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic congressional leaders, seeking to salvage a bailout of the Big Three automakers, demanded executives provide a business survival plan in exchange for their support of up to $25 billion in loans.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=L5cyTga1"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=CQkRvwkE"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=CQkRvwkE" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=ZVs304w3"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=ZVs304w3" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/F0q9sLvA_YQ" height="1" width="1"/>

Baghdad locked down for U.S. troop pact protest
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:15:31 -0500
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces shut streets in Baghdad and placed snipers on rooftops on Friday before a protest by followers of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr against a pact allowing U.S. troops to remain for three more years.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=XxsFMM9Z"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=VSJUVk3T"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=VSJUVk3T" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=Zo5EZHTz"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=Zo5EZHTz" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/MmwFd0dbumE" height="1" width="1"/>

Citigroup eyes options including merger
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:09:54 -0500
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc lost more than one-quarter of its market value on growing worries over whether it has enough capital to withstand billions of dollars of potential losses and despite new support from its largest individual investor.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=MDBbO9C1"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=9ut2qXYu"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=9ut2qXYu" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=gsJOkZel"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=gsJOkZel" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/Elh-z6bfYWo" height="1" width="1"/>

Verizon staff had unauthorized access to Obama's cell
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:58:24 -0500
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless said on Thursday that some employees had gained unauthorized access and viewed a personal cell phone account held by President-elect Barack Obama that is now inactive.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=2zj14Ah5"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=mAmpR2cH"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=mAmpR2cH" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=NLdBeEvF"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=NLdBeEvF" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/4lZ0SIO-4tE" height="1" width="1"/>

Attorney General Mukasey vital signs strong after collapse
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:46:01 -0500
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey was "conscious, conversant and alert" at a local Washington hospital after collapsing while delivering a national security speech at a hotel, the U.S. Justice Department said late on Thursday.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=FhK4L1ka"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=OVokGYMS"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=OVokGYMS" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=7uyvulQF"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=7uyvulQF" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/Q2pmOSrbKOM" height="1" width="1"/>

Bush takes financial reform agenda to APEC forum
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:09:12 -0500
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - George W. Bush makes his last scheduled trip abroad as U.S. president on Friday, heading to an Asia-Pacific summit where he will seek support for global financial reform and hold talks on ending North Korea's nuclear program.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=UJYP7UWf"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=cCsvRF3l"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=cCsvRF3l" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=0nx1exX4"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=0nx1exX4" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/Cp5Irgi2GKw" height="1" width="1"/>

Fed's Bullard: U.S. deflation an issue Fed must face
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:45:30 -0500
EVANSVILLE, Indiana (Reuters) - Deflation would be very damaging to the United States economy and with nominal interest rates already very low, quantitative easing may be needed to keep it at bay, a top Federal Reserve official said on Thursday.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=g4Nxrlot"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=uXQsruxf"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=uXQsruxf" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=8MrC86T7"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=8MrC86T7" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/DIcIADnJ0VA" height="1" width="1"/>

U.S. judge orders five Algerians at Guantanamo freed
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:05:10 -0500
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five of six Algerians held nearly seven years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba must be released, a federal judge ruled on Thursday in a setback for the Bush administration.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=r2tfwPd5"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=rxaljCwO"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=rxaljCwO" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=PacTZqUC"><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=PacTZqUC" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/bAZr_YLEAq8" height="1" width="1"/>