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Wednesday, November 07, 2012
By Edward Krudy and David Lawder
NEW YORK: Exit US presidential elections. Enter looming budget crisis. And once again, a disconnect between how Washington and Wall Street see the world could cause pain for investors if the two get their signals crossed. At the ...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
David Lawder
WASHINGTON: US deficits for the next two fiscal years would be slightly higher than the White House envisions if President Barack Obama’s budget plan were adopted, the Congressional Budget Office said on Friday. The CBO’s latest ...
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Sunday, March 04, 2012
David Lawder
WASHINGTON: Republican legislation to limit the Federal Reserve’s mandate to fighting inflation would restrict the types of bonds the US central bank could buy and potentially force sooner-than-expected sales of mortgage-backed ...
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Sunday, October 09, 2011
David Lawder
WASHINGTON: Facing the prospect of a deeper crisis in Europe, the International Monetary Fund is weighing whether it could expand its rescue lending capacity through debt issuance or bilateral borrowing. The options are being ...
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Marc Jones and David Lawder
WASHINGTON: European policymakers showed signs they were preparing new steps to cope with the region’s debt crisis even as talk of a possible Greek default gained pace on Friday. World stock markets, which had plunged to a ...
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
David Lawder
WASHINGTON: Finance chiefs from the United States and India have pledged to deepen efforts to open up India’s financial, retail, manufacturing and infrastructure sectors to competition but offered no specific measures to boost access ...
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