Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Quick Overview

  • Economic sentiment in Germany rose from -53.5 to -45.2

  • White House, Congress reach 15 billion auto bailout deal.

  • Japan machinery orders fall 4.4% in October

  • U.K.'s manufacturing output fell 1.4%.

  • Canada reduce its interest rate from 2.25% to 1.50

  • Japan's GDP fell 0.5% QoQ and 0.4% YoY.

  • YoY South Africa's gold production fell 14.4% in October

  • Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, responding to evaporating profits and public ire, won't pay bonuses this year to their chief executives.

  • (Reuters) - The United States and other rich nations must pledge by the end of next year specific targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 to win agreement on a U.N. climate pact, the U.N.'s top climate official said.

  • (Bloomberg) -- Cisco Systems Inc., General Electric Co. and Emcor Group Inc. may be winners as President-elect Barack Obama seeks to revive the U.S. economy by rewiring classrooms and libraries for high-speed Internet service and repairing bridges and highways.

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