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by Paul Handley JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) -- Visiting US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday praised the massive investments by Arab countries of the Gulf aimed at helping to drive the global economy back to growth. Geithner, addressing Saudi businessmen, invited more Arab investments into the US economy stressing that the security issues which blocked the investment by Dubai Ports World into US ports three years ago had been addressed. "I think the world has yet to fully... Read Full Story

by Paul Handley JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) -- US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged Gulf countries on Tuesday to invest in his country and praised their domestic investments for helping push the world economy back to growth. Addressing a group of Saudi businessmen in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, he stressed that the security issues which blocked the investment by Dubai Ports World into US ports three years ago had been addressed. "Since the controversy surrounding the Dubai Ports... Read Full Story

This has some interesting ramifiacation for our General Growth Properties... WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--U.S. lawmakers rang alarm bells about the troubled commercial real estate industry, which has been walloped by the credit crunch and an implosion of property values. "The commercial real estate time bomb is ticking," Joint Economic Committee Chairman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said in opening remarks to a hearing before her panel Thursday. U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, the panel's top... Read Full Story

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Font size: By ANNE FLAHERTY | Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is telling lawmakers the U.S. economy stumbled last year in part because the power and risks of an explosive derivatives market blindsided the government. In congressional testimony prepared for delivery Friday, Geithner said the ease with which derivatives were bought and sold in an era of easy credit... Read Full Story

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It's an investor's worst nightmare: Losing a life's savings to the lies of a trusted financial advisor. The story of former financier Bernard Madoff has intensified those fears in the minds of many investors. Madoff recently was sentenced to 150 years in prison for defrauding clients of billions of dollars. Investors can take steps to avoid getting caught in a scam, according to noted financial advisor Todd Kernaghan in his blog at http://www.toddkernaghan.com/ . 'Unfortunately, there... Read Full Story

LONDON (AFP) -- British 12-month inflation slowed to 1.8 percent in June, dropping under the Bank of England's 2.0-percent target for the first time in almost two years, official data showed Tuesday. "Consumer Prices Index (CPI) annual inflation fell to 1.8 percent in June, down from 2.2 percent in May and the first time it has fallen below the government's 2.0-percent target since September 2007," the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement. It added: "The largest downward... Read Full Story

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today strengthened employment eligibility verification by announcing the Administration's support for a regulation that will award federal contracts only to employers who use E-Verify to check employee work authorization. The declaration came as Secretary Napolitano announced the Department's intention to rescind the Social Security No-Match Rule, which has never been implemented and has been blocked by court order, in favor of... Read Full Story

BUTNER, N.C., July 14 (UPI) -- Convicted multibillion-dollar swindler Bernard Madoff was transferred Monday to a federal prison in Butner, N.C., to serve his 150-year sentence. The Federal Bureau of Prisons transferred Madoff to the Butner Federal Correctional Complex after he was housed temporarily in an Atlanta facility, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Butner facility is about 30 miles north of Raleigh, and an eight-hour drive from New York. Madoff's attorney had requested his... Read Full Story