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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent?

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To: siempre who wrote (20854)5/2/2004 6:38:46 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (3) of 81188
 
Siempre > in what way has this so-called "improvement" manifested itself?

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>>>U.S. companies kept adding workers in April to help meet rising corporate and consumer demand amid the fastest economic growth in two decades....

Payrolls grew by 168,000 last month and the unemployment rate held at 5.7 percent... Some 308,000 jobs were added in March, contributing to a gain of more than half a million positions in the first three months of the year.

``The message is, growth continues and manufacturing is in strong recovery,'' Chris Rupkey, senior financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. in New York, said. ``Firms remain focused on productivity and cost-cutting. The question is whether that's still going on, or are firms feeling confident enough to start hiring workers again?''<<<
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