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...Harare. Taking their cue from International Development Secretary Clare Short, many British political commentators have sputtered at the thought of the captain of England, Nasser Hussain, shaking hands with Mugabe before the game. Even Prime Minister Tony Blair weighed in, calling on the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to withdraw from the Harare game: "In the light of the deteriorating political and humanitarian situation in the country, ministers have made clear that if the decision were for them, England should not play in Zimbabwe." His Australian counterpart, John Howard, appealed to the International Cricket Council, the sport's governing...
...often that Wall Street sells off 6 percent on a morning that Alan Greenspan cuts interest rates by 50 basis points before the bell, the ECB follows suit, and the SEC, looking to make sure somebody has a reason to buy, loosens its controls on companies buying back their own stock. But as pipe dreams of a patriot?s rally quickly went up in smoke, it became clear before long that this wasn?t going to be a coward?s panic either. The losses stabilized by late morning and actually bounced a bit off their lows before slipping again...
...avoid a recession are still resting, and will probably rest until Christmas. Personal income is expected to inch up along with personal spending; hair splitters will try to figure out how much of that was tax cuts/rebates, and how much of that went straight into the bank. Also, the ECB has a chance to cut rates (it's not shown nearly the desperation so far that Greenspan's outfit has) and some say the relatively strong euro makes that likely...
...ECB dragging its feet? Because despite the region's subpar growth and high unemployment (8.3%), every one of the 12 euro-zone countries has inflation rates in the red zone, defined as anything above 2%. Higher energy costs, rising wages and the outbreak of livestock disease have plunged the Continent into stagflation, a brutal combination of poor growth and high inflation. That could prove to be the first big test for Europe's 2 1/2-year-old single-currency system. If the ECB fails to respond soon, it will antagonize European governments and possibly influence coming elections in Germany and France...
...some of the rules to enable each country to have more control over its domestic economy. "No one is questioning the basic premise of the euro," says Carl Weinberg, chief international economist of High Frequency Economics. "It is here to stay, and it's going to work. But the ECB may be subject to more criticism...