2012 Major World Issues

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  • Timothy Geithner, U.S. Treasury Secretary, Visits China To Find Support For Iranian Oil Sanctions

    Timothy Geithner, U.S. Treasury Secretary, Visits China To Find Support For Iranian Oil Sanctions

    [Huff Post World Canada](Timothy Geithner, U.S. Treasury Secretary, Visits China To Find Support For Iranian Oil Sanctions)
  • S&P downgrated 9 Euro-zone countries

    S&P downgrated 9 Euro-zone countries

    Reuters
  • Premier Wen Jiabao Visits Three Gulf Countries

    Premier Wen Jiabao Visits Three Gulf Countries

    Ministry of Foreign Affairs of PRC This is the First Visit of Primier in 20 years.
  • Obama's 2012 Union Address

    Obama's 2012 Union Address

    IIP Digital
  • Fitch downgrades 5 Euro-zone Countries

    Fitch downgrades 5 Euro-zone Countries

    CBC
  • Sany Group (China) aquired Putzmeister (German)

    Sany Group (China) aquired Putzmeister (German)

    Financial Times This merge, along with the deal of Purtual EnergeticasNacionais 25% share, possibly suggests that Germany Minister Merkel intends to draw China's Capital to the EU side.
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    Fed's Benchmark Rate Remain low till Mid 2015

    ABC News
  • The Federal Reserve's Explicit Goal: Devalue The Dollar 33%

    The Federal Reserve's Explicit Goal: Devalue The Dollar 33%

    Forbes
  • VP Xi Visting US, Ireland, Turkey

    VP Xi Visting US, Ireland, Turkey

    Youtube
    His speech on major policy.
    Note: Turkey is also heavily depedent on Iranian Oil and refused to support US on Iranian Oil Sanction。 Korea was not very supportative at first but later turned to the US side.
  • China's absent Vice-President Xi Jinping prompts rumours

    China's absent Vice-President Xi Jinping prompts rumours

    BBC
    This is reproted in China as well. It happened right before the Election. As the author implys, Xi said he just wanted to quit. However, the "big sharks" panicked because if he left the entire goverment will be at risk. So they kept lobbying and visiting him and finally got him back.
  • Fed's QE3

    Fed's QE3

    Bloomberg
  • Nexen shareholders approve $15.1-billion takeover by China’s CNOOC

    Nexen shareholders approve $15.1-billion takeover by China’s CNOOC

    Globe And Mail
    The Deal is under review extention for at least 30 days.

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