So this weakness could delay a rate hike, even as 12 month rolling IPCA inflation is around 6.4%, not where the Central Bank wants it.

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Reassembling for their lame-duck session last month, the first thing the Republicans did was scrap this provision so that the majority leader, Tom DeLay, could stay on even if he were to be indicted in a Texan money-politics scandal.

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Best Buy originally planned to report full fourth-quarter numbers this afternoon, but decided to delay until tomorrow so that Schulze had the full day to scrutinize his plans.

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And with that, Republicans had control of the House, the Senate and the Governor's Mansion, and so Tom DeLay and his Republican colleagues in the capital in Austin embarked on this mid-decade redistricting effort to redraw Texas' congressional lines.

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This strained logic will only delay development of a coherent energy policy, so oil prices will remain volatile.

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And so it begins this week, as Warner's first title to be affected by the t hree week delay for HD DVD is released for Blu-ray.

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The delay in getting the Nook into the stores so that customers can see them isn't surprising at this point.

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Their efforts to delay the regulation went no where as earlier this month the Senate voted to moved ahead on the so-called Durbin Amendment, thereby allow the Federal Reserve to essentially dictate how much banks can collect for each swipe.

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