In this photo taken, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012, a notebook of comments written to Occupy DC is seen at the 'People's Library' in McPherson Square in Washington. The Occupy Wall Street movement is flickering across the country. In New York, the city removed police barriers from Zuccotti Park, allowing protesters to re-Occupy the space, but they are still not allowed to sleep there. In Seattle, a handful of people were kicked out of a vacant house that had been taken over as part of the movement. Through it all, the demonstration in the nation's capital has remained. The protest in Washington carries on because demonstrators are on federal land in a city that has a tolerant, even celebrated, history of civil disobedience.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP – Asian stock markets fell Thursday, amid inflation data in China that failed to meet expectations and fears of a possible recession in Europe.


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Egypt stocks drop after Israeli Embassy attack (AP)

By admin on September 11th, 2011

Egyptian Army soldiers stand guard outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. The storming of the Israeli embassy by a mob of Egyptian protesters inflicted a 'severe injury to the fabric of peace' between the two countries, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Saturday. The ambassador and the entire embassy staff except for one deputy ambassador were evacuated from Egypt along with their families in the face of the overnight rampage at the Nile-side embassy in Cairo, when hundreds of protesters tore down a concrete security wall outside the building, set fires in the street and dozens broke into an office of the embassy tossing documents off the balcony to the crowd below.(AP Photo/Ahmed Ali)AP – Egypt’s benchmark stock index fell slightly on Sunday, weighed down by investor unease after the storming of Israel’s embassy and protests in Cairo over the weekend. Inflation, meanwhile, eased in August to 8.5 percent on a slower increase in food prices.


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AP – China’s government will sell pork from stockpiles to dampen inflation that pushed up the price of its staple meat by 57 percent last month, the Commerce Ministry said Friday.

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, June 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP – Asian stock markets mostly fell Wednesday as investors anticipated rate hikes by central banks in India and China to contain stubbornly high inflation.


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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, June 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP – A round of confidence-building corporate deals supported global stocks Tuesday, despite fresh tightening measures in China as inflation there jumped to a three-year high and another savage credit rating downgrade of Greece.


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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, June 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP – A round of confidence-building corporate deals in the U.S. helped lift Asian stock markets Tuesday, despite China’s inflation rate jumping to a near three-year high.


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FTSE down 0.11% at open (AFP)

By admin on June 10th, 2011

London shares eased at the start of trading on Friday following advances the previous day when the European Central Bank signalled plans for an increase in eurozone interest rates to fight high inflation.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP – London shares eased at the start of trading on Friday following advances the previous day when the European Central Bank signalled plans for an increase in eurozone interest rates to fight high inflation.


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Jack Neele (Robeco) about consumer trends

By admin on June 8th, 2011



Interview with Jack Neele, senior portfolio manager, on consumer spending, inflation and consumer trends

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