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...passing a bill that fits the confines of a pay-as-you-go budget that a coalition of 30 organizations pushing for health-care reform - including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, organized labor, the drug lobby, AARP and organizations representing hospitals, doctors and patients - wrote a letter in March asking lawmakers to suspend the rule with respect to health-care reform. But officials at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue say that would be political suicide at a time of record deficits - and a guarantee that Republicans and fiscally conservative Democrats would not support the plan...
...region, from Japan to Singapore, has seen exports contract sharply, usually by eye-popping double-digits. Taiwan registered year-over-year declines of more than 20% for five straight months starting in November. China saw year-over-year declines of more than 17% in January, February and March. Millions of Asians lost their jobs as tens of thousands of factories were closed...
...there might be a glimmer of hope. Recent data shows that exports are starting to inch off their lows, an indication that the worst of the recession in Asia may be passing. In Singapore, exports rose 11% in March from February, the second straight month-on-month increase. Japan's grew by 2.2% in March from the month before, leading Merrill Lynch economists to speculate that "it is possible that exports are bottoming." Most importantly, China's exports rose 7.6% in March from February, after six straight months of contraction. "While exports growth is likely to remain weak...
...consumer spending in China have boosted purchases of items like appliances and automobiles. The success of the stimulus program, economists say, may be rejuvenating intra-Asia trade links and created a boost to exports from other Asian nations. Singapore's exports to China actually rose a substantial 14% in March from a year earlier, while those to the U.S. and EU fell 31% and 22%, respectively. "China is definitely coming on line and re-activating its call on the Asia supply chain," says Glenn Maguire, chief Asia-Pacific economist for Société Générale...
...Economists, however, warn that exports are still greatly reduced from levels seen a year ago, so the improving statistics don't necessarily herald a full-scale economic revival. Japan's March exports to the U.S., for example, were less than half the amount sold a year earlier. Société Générale's Maguire says that he is encouraged by the recent figures, but not enough to drastically alter his outlook on Asia's overall growth. "We've definitely seen the low, the worst of the collapse of demand," says Maguire, "but we shouldn...