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Nationals baseball players ask Fed chairman about quantitative easing
In Washington DC, everyone expects talk-radio-glued taxi drivers to know the ins and outs of foreign policy and bartenders to fine-pick legislative tactics in Congress. But Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has just found out that the US capital’s pervasive policy wonkishness extends even to the city’s league-leading baseball team,…
Oil prices rise on U.S. stimulus hopes
Oil prices rose Monday on hopes of more US financial stimulus aimed at boosting the world’s biggest economy, a prospect that was helping to offset disappointing Chinese data, analysts said. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in October gained 73 cents to $114.98 a barrel in London morning trade. New…
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