March 10th, 2010
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One year after U.S stocks hit their post-financial-crisis low on March 9, 2009, the benchmark Standard & Poors 500 Index has risen more than 68 percent, and its up more than 41 percent since Obama took office. Credit spreads have narrowed. Commodity prices have surged. Housing prices have stabilized.
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March 9th, 2010
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President Barack Obama is trying to keep a campaign pledge to close the U.S. military prison in Cuba, a promise that has attracted criticism from Republicans who say it would jeopardize national security. He has also lately been under fire from people within his party who say Obama should not accept any deal that would [...]
March 8th, 2010
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Insurgent attacks on polling stations killed at least 36 people even with extraordinary security measures in place, including closure of the countrys borders and the Baghdad international airport. But American officials and Iraqis had feared far worse.
The president has seen a paucity of good news from overseas, and when he appeared in the White House [...]
March 8th, 2010
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Soon after passage the measure would give tax credits to small businesses, bar insurance companies from refusing coverage and help senior citizens afford their medications, Obama said in his weekly address on the radio and Internet.
“There are numerous protections and benefits [...]
March 6th, 2010
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White House spokesman Nicholas Shapiro said Obama will meet with Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on Monday.
The president is “looking forward to hearing more about their efforts toward producing a bipartisan bill,” Shapiro said Friday.
The meeting will be the first Obama has had with Schumer [...]
March 5th, 2010
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He now wants congressional Democrats to move ahead without Republican support and pass the legislation with a bare majority in the Senate instead of the broader majority he favored as a presidential candidate.
To be sure, Obama has tried to get Republicans behind him. Having failed, hes reverting to a “50-plus-one” strategy that he [...]
March 5th, 2010
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“Honduras has taken important and necessary steps that deserve the recognition and the normalization of relations,” Clinton said yesterday in Costa Rica, citing moves by President Porfirio Lobo to form a unity government and establish a truth commission to investigate abuses after President Manuel Zelaya was ousted and sent into exile by Hondurass military. [...]
March 4th, 2010
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While Brazil and the U.S. differ over whether sanctions are the best approach, both countries “do not want to see Iran become a nuclear weapons country,” Clinton told reporters in Brasilia yesterday after meeting Foreign Minister Celso Amorim.
Brazil, which holds a [...]
March 4th, 2010
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Obamas top aides have discussed whether to postpone the overseas travel in case the timing for a vote on the presidents signature legislative priority slips, according to a person familiar with the discussions. For now, the trip is on.
The president is [...]
March 2nd, 2010
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Donald Kohn, 67, said yesterday he will leave when his four-year term as vice chairman ends in June. Timothy Geithner, a former New York Fed president, and Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, are conducting the search to replace him and fill two other vacancies on the Fed board, said an official familiar [...]