The U.K. is already a way down this path with the U.S. coming up behind.
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On days when the process moves in the forward direction, the euro is bid up, the yen is bid down, and stocks in the U.S., Europe and Australia are bid up.
In 2006 emissions in EU countries participating in the cap-and-trade program went up while U.S. emissions went down.
The claim comes as European countries step up efforts to clamp down on U.S. companies which minimize their tax bills in the continent by channeling profits through low-tax regimes.
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Under that authority any trade agreement the U.S. negotiates must be voted up or down without amendments by Congress.
The world spent the summer worrying about terrorism and paying higher oil prices while watching the politics of the U.S. But economies were going up and down in newsworthy ways.
Labor unions in Greece declared a four-hour strike Friday while in Germany , police broke up a sit-down protest outside the U.S. military's European Command in Stuttgart.
He always says when the Iraqi soldiers and military are ready to stand up and defend themselves then the U.S. will stand down.
He couldn't care less about the quality of management inside his companies (how do you quantify that?) or about who will win U.S. presidential elections or whether hemlines are headed up or down.
First, as I noted here a few weeks ago, the Congressional Budget Office and other economic forecasters see U.S. growth picking up in the near term but slowing down significantly on a sustainable basis.
So the shape of things to come became a U. Asia will stay down for a spell and then slowly climb up again.
It is down even as the U.S. stock market is up.
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The major markets in Europe, which had been holding up well along with the U.S. market, have been down 11 of the last 15 trading sessions, now down about 5% from their levels of three weeks ago.
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As Gordon Chang has reported, steel inventories are piling up as the economy slows (shares in U.S Steel are down nearly 25% this year), while other macro names tied to China like Alcoa are still underperforming the market.
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However, the urgent need to replace aging air fleets before overseas adversaries catch up with U.S. capabilities has not prevented the Pentagon from slowing down and restructuring the program as development problems were detected.
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The outlook could worsen if the U.S. falls into a deep recession, driving rents down and vacancies up.
Many fear that the massive stimulus efforts are merely whipping up an inflation crisis down the road without doing anything to get the U.S. economy out of its current malaise, which includes tepid growth and unemployment above 8%.
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By stark comparison, the U.S. market, although volatile in recent sessions, has seen each triple-digit down day followed by a triple-digit up day, keeping U.S. stock indexes within a percent or two of their rally and bull market highs.
While the Nikkei stock average ended the year down 3 percent in yen terms, it was up 10 percent in U.S. dollar terms.
Investors who aren't under Uncle Sam's thumb can move their money elsewhere, bidding up prices and driving down yields on other fixed-income assets in the U.S. and offshore.
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Mr. Fayyad enjoyed wide support from the international community, particularly the U.S., for moving to clean up the Palestinians' unwieldy bureaucracy and clamping down on corruption during his six years in power.
Ahmed Khalil set up the 33rd-minute opener for U.A.E. when he burst down the right and squared the ball to Ahmed Ali, who got ahead of David Guzman and put the ball past goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado.
Our sales were down, you know, in the U.S. But somehow earnings went up 55% because our international sales are booming.
The Federal Reserve completed its daily purchase of U.S. long-term Treasury bonds Monday, sending Treasury bond prices up and yields down from the morning's levels.
The U.S. unemployment rate is down, but that is because many Americans have given up or better yet are struggling to find full-time work.
The yellow metal has backed well off the session high as the U.S. dollar index has moved up from its low and crude oil prices have moved down from their daily highs.
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Violence appeared to be out of control that month: Six U.S. helicopters were shot down, deadly bombings were common and nearly 500 bodies turned up in the capital -- many of the victims killed execution-style.
The Fed's asset purchases help keep down U.S. bond yields, and higher U.S. yields could also push up yields on Japanese bonds.
It helped produce the success of the last decade: not a single follow-up al Qaeda attack in the U.S. Exclusive reliance on drones and a no-capture policy spend down the investments in intelligence that made this hiatus possible, without replenishing the interrogation-gained information needed to predict future threats.
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