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China car market goes bust, boost, boom. Repeat

China is planning to give the world’s largest auto market a shot in the arm. Don’t be so sure it’ll work. As the nation prepared to post its first annual decline in car sales in at least two decades, a senior official said the government would announce measures to encourage consumers to buy cars and other goods. The statement finally ...

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How Fed can engineer a soft landing in economy

Despite President Donald Trump criticisms that the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates too far, too fast, thereby penalizing the economy, the flatness of the bond market’s yield curve suggests policy rates are just about at a level that neither stimulates nor restrains growth. But in order for the Fed to engineer a soft landing from last year’s heady growth ...

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UK’s nuclear future fades as Hitachi exit follows Toshiba

Bloomberg Britain’s plan for a nuclear revival was thrown into disarray after the second Japanese company in as many months seemed to pull the plug on a new plant. The UK government has put atomic energy at the heart of its effort to attract 100 billion pounds ($130 billion) of investment to upgrade its aging reactors it needs to keep ...

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