Funds boosted bets on rising agricultural prices for the first time in four weeks, led by rebounds in holdings of wheat and soybeans, as extreme weather threatened to limit output as global demand increases.
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Lewis Ranieri, a mortgage-bond pioneer, said proposed rules requiring lenders who securitize home loans to shoulder more risk may “complicate” a U.S. government withdrawal from the housing market.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co., Toshiba Corp., East Japan Railway Co. and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. are among companies that may be most hurt by the strongest earthquake on record to hit Japan, analysts and investors said.
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Crude rising to that level would offset the benefit from the recent federal tax cut, and begin to slow economic growth
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Tiger Asia Management LLC, the New York-based hedge-fund being investigated by U.S. and Hong Kong regulators, told clients it is disappointed with its 2010 results after many of its short positions performed poorly.
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China’s bank reserve-ratio increase doesn’t change the “quite positive” outlook for the nation’s stocks, which will be boosted by the expanding economy and improving earnings, said Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc.
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Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) — Mortimer Zuckerman, chief executive officer of Boston Properties Inc., talks about the outlook for the U.S. housing market and economy. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda renewed his warning to take “bold” action against the yen’s advance if needed, a sign of concern among policy makers about the currency’s climb slowing the recovery.
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