A job seekers talks to a potential employer in California. The United States said it would expose "troublesome" foreign trade barriers in a strategy to prise open markets for doubling American exports to ease an unemployment crisis at home(…... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 10:38 pm

US Trade Representative Ron Kirk delivers an address at the National Press Club in Washington DC. The United States said it would expose "troublesome" foreign trade barriers in a strategy to prise open markets for doubling American exports…... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 10:38 pm

US President Barack Obama visits a software company in Virginia. The United States said it would expose "troublesome" foreign trade barriers in a strategy to prise open markets for doubling American exports to ease an unemployment crisis at…... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 10:38 pm

Workers assemble phone handsets at a factory in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province. The country's trade surplus reached 7.61 billion dollars in February, customs authorities said Wednesday.(AFP/File)... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 10:33 pm

A man looks at a poster showing the Slovak edition of the euro. Talk of a European version of the International Monetary Fund to rescue errant EU states is little more than a distracting sideshow, analysts and a key central banker say.(AFP/File/Samue…... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 10:17 pm

The share price indicator for Macquarie Group is seen in red on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) board in central Sydney February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 10:11 pm

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Date: 9 March 2010, 8:47 pm

An Hitachi worker at assembles parts on an air-conditioning production line in the town of Ohira in Tochigi prefecture. Japan's core private-sector machinery orders, a leading indicator of corporate capital spending, fell 3.7 percent in January f…... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 8:05 pm

Ahead of a meeting Tuesday with President Barack Obama, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said the United States cannot afford to ignore the financial woes of his country and, by extension, Europe. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Markus Schreiber/ file... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 6:58 pm

New Zealand Finance Minister Bill English talks to journalists in 2009. New Zealand will next month close a wholesale funding guarantee introduced at the height of the global financial crisis, Finance Minister Bill English said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Ad…... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 6:28 pm