NEWS
| Growth, valuation to keep Europe share alive |
| European equities have a lot more ammunition to fire in 2010 even after an eight-month bull run to new highs, as improving economic data and impressive earnings in the third quarter tempt investors to grab risky assets. |
| Weak home building a drag on recovery |
| The budding economic recovery isn’t getting much help from the home-building industry, which normally creates jobs and drives growth when a recession ends. |
| EU to look at new airline slots, charges rules |
| BERLIN - European airports could face new directives on how they award slots to airlines and how ground handling services are charged, a European Commission official told Reuters on Wednesday. |
| Rebalancing means jobs: Geithner |
| WASHINGTON - Weaning the global economy off its reliance on U.S. consumers will help rebalance growth and support attempts to bring down unemployment, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday. |
| Obama, Hu vow cooperation but produce few deals |
| BEIJING — President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao promised a determined, joint effort to tackle climate change, nuclear disarmament and other global troubles yet emerged from their first full-blown summit Tuesday with scant progress beyond goodwill. |
| Kashmiri saffron industry withers |
| PAMPORE, India - Saffron spice cultivation should be a growth industry for Indian Kashmir as it begins to recover from decades of unrest, but drought, pollution and corruption are threatening its future. |
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