China's economy expanded last year at 7.8pc - its slowest pace in more than a decade - and recent data has fuelled concerns that any rebound in the country's growth is losing steam. However, the OECD was upbeat, predicting in a new survey of China's prospects that the...
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Sugary Drinks Kill 25k per Year in the U.S. Alone
Consumption of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages may contribute to hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world, mainly due to Type 2 diabetes, a new study says. The results show sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is linked to 180,000 deaths a year...
Moody’s Downgrades Chicago’s Motor Fuel Debt
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded to A3 from Aa3 the rating on the City of Chicago's (IL) $181 million of outstanding rated motor fuel tax debt. The outlook has been revised to negative. via Moody's. Surprises no one. Barely qualifies as news actually. The...
SEC Hits Illinois with Securities Fraud Charges
Illinois broke federal securities laws in misstating the true health of the state's depleted pension funds when going out onto the bond market between 2005 and early 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday. ... The finding of securities fraud...