Boris Schlossberg
Boris Schlossberg
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The fact that it's actually shrinking gives the dollar a short-term boost.
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The country's 7.25% short term rates - the highest in the industrialized world - are choking economic demand with many analysts now predicting the possibility of a recession in 2006.
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Katrina's effect was far less destructive than initially feared. The true extent of the damage, however, may not be known until next month when the Labor Department will make adjustments to this preliminary reading,