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Video: Newton Says Luxury Car Makers Boosted by Chinese Demand

August 4, 2010

Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) — Paul Newton, an analyst at Global Insight Inc., talks about the outlook fot luxury car makers. He speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “Countdown” with Maryam Nemazee

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Joe Minarik: An Imbalanced Recovery

July 20, 2010

Co-authored with Joseph E. Kasputys, Chairman and Founder IHS Global Insight Before the economic and financial crisis hit with full force in 2008, we warned of the dangers of imbalances in the global economy

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A ‘Double-dip’ Recession Defined

July 1, 2010

WASHINGTON — Concerns are rising that the economy is at risk of slipping into a “double-dip” recession. High unemployment, Europe’s debt crisis, a slowdown in China, a teetering housing market and sinking stock prices are all weighing on a fragile U.S. recovery.

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Spyker In Talks to Build Version of 1950s Saab Model

May 28, 2010

By Ola Kinnander May 28 (Bloomberg) — Spyker Cars NV , Saab Automobile’s owner, is in talks with automakers to share technology and an underbody for a new car based on a 1950s Saab model, Chief Executive Officer Victor Muller said in an interview. “Discussions are already ongoing,” Muller said in a telephone interview yesterday on his way from Gothenburg, Sweden, to Saab’s plant in Trollhaettan. “That will be on my plate for the next 100 days.” The new small car would be tear-drop shaped, inspired by the Saab 92 model that was in production between 1949 and 1956, he said, declining to say with whom he’s been negotiating.

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Geely Buys Volvo From Ford for $1.8 Billion in Record Chinese Auto Deal

March 28, 2010

By Ola Kinnander and Keith Naughton March 28 (Bloomberg) — Zhejiang Geely Holding Co.

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Housing Woes To Continue, More Losses Coming

February 25, 2010

The nation’s second-largest bank expects the number of delinquent home loans to skyrocket over the next year, echoing analysts’ expectations of a gloomy housing market that is nowhere near recovery. JPMorgan Chase’s pessimistic outlook cuts across the entire housing market. In its annual report filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the lender says its writeoffs — those loans so delinquent they’re uncollectible — could jump 26 percent for its prime mortgage loans, 25 percent for subprime loans, and 19 percent for home equity loans

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GM Hummer Sale to Sichuan Said to Be Imperiled as China Withholds Approval

February 24, 2010

By Katie Merx Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Co. failed to win approval from Chinese regulators to sell its Hummer brand to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co.

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Harvard Economist Kenneth Rogoff to Address World Economic Outlook Conference

September 29, 2009

LEXINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University economist and former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, will address the IHS Global Insight World Economic Outlook Conference October 20 in Boston. Rogoff’s speech at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 20, will focus on the impact of high public and private debt levels, factors affecting the strength of the dollar and the risk of a structural shift in global reserves away from the dollar, and the risk of high inflatio More: Harvard Economist Kenneth Rogoff to Address World Economic Outlook Conference Institutional Partners News Search – InstitutionalPartners.com

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Broker snap: Next, UK unemployment – MoneyWeek

September 15, 2009

Unemployment , using the International Labour Organization (ILO) measure, is expected by economic forecasting group IHS Global Insight to have risen by more than 200000 in the three months to July, after rising by 220000 in the three … Go here to see the original:  Broker snap: Next, UK unemployment – MoneyWeek

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