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Minister is given a bracing assessment of the cost and may need to spent more than 10 trillionien, 120 u.s. dollars on disaster relief and rebuilding. they will ask the public to should their burden and will mean major tax hikes. japan's government could also issue bonds to help cover the costs. the country's manufacturing industry are also sagging under the weight of the march earthquake and ensuing tsunami. manufacturing activity slumped to a two year low in march similar to the disasters in japan. the index released thursday fell to 36.4 down from 52.9 the previous month. japanese manufactu...

David petraeus is trying to assure the senate armed services committee that the president has the right plan to turn around the war in afghanistan. his confirmation hearings continue at this hour. we've also got some breaking news. shaky consumer confidence. this is bad news. shaky consumer confidence is taking its toll. look at the dow right now. down 256 points and dropping. it's down below 10,000. the dow went below 10,000, that very important threshold down 238 points after learning that the consumer confidence index fell nearly ten points to 52.9. nasdaq is also down falling 66 points. th...

Stopped 685,724, a 600% increase since 2002. the first year of michael bloomberg's tenure as mayor of new york city. during his ten-year tenure in office, the number is 10.4 million. what was the number one reason? furtive movements which accounted for more than 50% of the stops. furtive, fly, shifty, sort of how trayvon martin was acting on the night he was shot and killed? make no mistake there, is a definite racial component of those stops, 52.9% were black. 33.7% were latino, 9.3% were white. the numbers flip when looking at the city's overall population. only 25.5% of the population is bl...

Beijing's official purchasing managers index slipped slightly to 52.2 last month. that's down from 52.9 in january. and hsbc's february pmi reading fell to a seven-month low of 51.7, down from 54.5 in january. any figure above 50 signals growth. well, shares of hspc fell more than 5% in hong kong trade as asia got its first chance to react to the company's full-year earnings. the company's results were released after the close on monday. its profit more than doubled from the previous year to $13.2 billion. but, here's the key, it's still missed expectations. it's pre-tax profit came in at ...

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