Easing inflation fails to bolster RBI rate cut hopes By Suvashree Dey Choudhury MUMBAI (Reuters) - Softening headline inflation alone will no longer be enough to spur the Reserve Bank of India to cut interest rates at a time when it faces other pressing ...
June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance
European growth still on US agenda, not as loudly WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after President Barack Obama made an emphatic pitch to Europe's economic powers to focus more on economic growth than austerity, much of the eurozone remains mired in or near recession. Obama's appeals have had mixed results in softening the demands on some of the most debt-ridden European nations to cut their spending.
June 14, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
D.C. Gridlock Slicing Into Services of Cities Across U.S. Philadelphia is scrounging for money to reduce child lead poisoning. Mesa, Arizona ’s sales- tax revenue is softening as Boeing Co. (BA) suppliers cut back. Oklahoma City anticipates less spending from its largest employer, Tinker Air Force Base.
June 14, 2013 - Bloomberg
Ben Bernanke in Bloomberg Bernanke said yesterday in the symposium's opening speech that "the financial storm that reached gale force" last year "has not yet subsided, and its effects on the broader economy are becoming apparent in the form of softening economic...
Glenn Stevens in MarketWatch Surveys suggest a softening in business activity, and there have also been early signs of an easing in labor market conditions,wrote Stevens.
Doug Parker in Washington Post As we begin 2008, our industry appears to be headed for another difficult period due to extremely high oil prices and a potentially softening economy,Parker said in a statement.