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• U.K. slashes interest rates to historic low
Inflation, meanwhile, is expected to fall from 4.1 percent currently to well below the government’s 2 percent target, heading toward destabilizing negative inflation. “The Bank of England is now facing another balancing act,” said Hetal Mehta ...
• Gotti Victim Dissolved in a Barrel of Flesh-Eating Acid
Charles Carneglia, an alleged mob soldier awaiting trial on five murders, made sure there was no body to be found by dissolving Favara's remains with flesh-eating acid, which he kept by the drum in his basement, a government witness testified. "In a ...
• Drugmakers aim to polish image with ad blitz
The pharmaceutical industry, confronting sluggish growth, low prestige and the prospect of more-aggressive government oversight, is moving on several fronts to burnish its image and align itself rhetorically with the health reform goals of President ...
• Wall Street treads cautiously, awaiting data
Government bond prices were mostly higher in premarket trading Wednesday. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, slipped to 2.47 percent from 2.50 percent late Wednesday. The yield on the three-month T-bill ...
• Obama assembles powerful West Wing
It tends to lead to disruption, and sometimes chaos, in terms of how the larger government works," Destler said. "It cuts out other people. They think the worst about what's going on in the White House. Loyalty to the president is diminished." There ...