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CORRECTED-ANALYSIS-Little sign Abe can shake up Japan's inbound FDI
Reuters(Corrects third from last paragraph to show Renault took a stake in Nissan) * Japan PM Abe set to compile growth strategy in June * Previous growth strategies have fallen flat * FDI boost could show Abe serious about trying new policies By Stanley...Tags: United Kingdom, Medical Specialization, Tokyo (Japan), Nursing, Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC
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Analysis: Little sign Abe can shake up Japan's inbound FDI
ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan risks missing, yet again, an opportunity to use foreign investment to help fuel sustained economic growth that has eluded it for the last two decades. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to make Japan "the world's easiest country...Tags: United Kingdom, Medical Specialization, Tokyo (Japan), Nursing, Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC
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Yen edges up on minister's comments, could dip again
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - The yen rose from a 4-1/2-year low against the dollar on Monday after Japan's economy minister suggested the country's currency might have weakened enough, leading some investors to cut hefty bets against it. The dollar fell 0.6...Tags: G20, China, Government Ministers, S&P 500, Inventories
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Bahrain nonoil trade grows 20%
Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaBahrain's real GDP is estimated to have expanded 3.9 percent in 2012 from the 1.9 percent growth seen in 2011. Even as the oil sector shrank by around 8.5 percent in 2012 due to a temporary technical disruption at the country's main Abu Sa'afa oil field,...Tags: Finance, Money and Monetary Policy, Industrial Production, Inflation and Deflation, Machine Manufacturing
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A generation of Young Turks enters Senate
Philippine Daily Inquirer, Manila / Asia News NetworkMANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) -- The results of the May 13 elections gave President Aquino a mandate to consolidate his control of both houses of Congress in the midterm of his office. But the more far-reaching consequence of the 9-3 result...Tags: Media Industry, Germany, Politics, HSBC Holdings plc, U.S. Congress
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Obama administration needs to change the conversation
By WILLIAM P. HOJNACKI I am very disappointed in the way that the Obama administration is dealing with the Republicans in the ongoing discussions concerning the federal budget. The administration has, once again, allowed the Republicans to set the agenda...Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Bill Clinton, Government, Indiana University South Bend, Labor Markets
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GBAD election: 8 candidates, many options
The Idaho StatesmanWill we build that new multisport stadium? A new convention center? Will we expand the existing Boise Centre? Something else? None of the above? Eight candidates are vying for three available seats on the five-member Greater Boise Auditorium District...Tags: Arts, Hotels and Accommodations, Finance, Arts and Culture, Voting
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Is working remotely on the way out?
Joyce Lain Kennedy - Careers NowDEAR JOYCE: I'm a single mom working from home three days a week. I can afford a sitter two days a week. I understand that Yahoo and Best Buy ended their policies of allowing employees to work out of the office. Maybe I'm overreacting, but are we seeing...Tags: Financial Aid, University of Pennsylvania, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Google Inc.
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OPINION: Community can only wait, worry about outcome of faceoff at GE
Erie Times-News, Pa.The high-stakes faceoff between GE Transportation and the union representing its Erie production workers creates a sensation of being swept along by events even for those of us whose livelihoods aren't directly in play. We know how critical GE's...Tags: Job Layoffs, Layoffs and Downsizing, Tom Corbett, Employees, General Electric Company
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Do your patriotic duty: Ask for a raise
Los Angeles TimesThe downturn we call the Great Recession officially started in 2007. But after spending the last two years talking to people who lost jobs, homes or savings during the official recession, I'd argue that the trouble actually started decades earlier....Tags: Finance, Prices, Economy, Business and Finance, Employees, Career and Workplace
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Letters: America's well-paid workers
Re "Go ahead, ask for a raise," Opinion, May 14 Barbara Garson's argument rests on the claim that from 1971 to 2007, worker productivity soared while inflation-adjusted worker well-being barely budged. This premise is faulty. Garson uses wages...Tags: Employees, Career and Workplace
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Caroline Baum: Federal Reserve handicaps race of its own making
Ed Koch, the late mayor of New York City, used to stop residents on the street and ask, "How am I doing?" With next month marking the four-year anniversary of the end of the 2007-2009 recession, the longest and deepest since the Great Depression, it...Tags: Bloomberg L.P., Money and Monetary Policy, New York City, Services and Shopping, Federal Reserve
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