Veterans with disabilities have a staggering 41% unemployment rate. That’s especially true for veterans who return from Iraq and Afghanistan with two signature disabilities: post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain in…
China has officially bumped Japan as the world’s second largest economy. Japan reported its GDP grew only 1.8% last year to $5.47 trillion, while China’s climbed 10.3% to $5.88 trillion.
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Investors piled into Chinese stocks after news broke that China’s GDP surpassed Japan’s for 2010, making the People’s Republic the world’s second largest economy after the U.S. The Shanghai Composite climbed 2.5% and in Hong Ko…
The market heads into a busy week of economic reports and the end of fourth-quarter earnings season primed for yet more gains. After all, if traders could sustain the rally through 18 days of Egyptian turmoil, a return to keyin…
Hosni Mubarak resigned as Egyptian president today and handed control to the military, driven from the top after 30 years of rule.
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