{"id":6314,"date":"2012-12-02T16:45:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T21:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=6314"},"modified":"2012-12-02T16:45:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T21:45:48","slug":"even-without-u-s-cliff-world-economy-teeters-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/02\/even-without-u-s-cliff-world-economy-teeters-reuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Even without U.S. cliff, world economy teeters &#124; Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Nicolaci da Costa at Reuters writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color:#ddddff;\">\n<p>In the United States, the economy faces growing challenges even without the ongoing political wrangling&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The coming week brings a slew of reports expected to show the U.S. economy struggling. Data on Friday will likely show employment growth slowed to just 100,000 jobs last month from 171,000 in October, according to a Reuters poll of economists.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. manufacturing data this week is also likely to suggest a fourth-quarter slowdown is at hand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/12\/02\/us-global-economy-idUSBRE8B10DR20121202'>Even without U.S. cliff, world economy teeters | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Nicolaci da Costa at Reuters writes: In the United States, the economy faces growing challenges even without the ongoing political wrangling&#8230;&#8230;. The coming week brings a slew of reports expected to show the U.S. economy struggling. Data on Friday will likely show employment growth slowed to just 100,000 jobs last month from 171,000 in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/02\/even-without-u-s-cliff-world-economy-teeters-reuters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Even without U.S. cliff, world economy teeters &#124; Reuters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[59,1959,2209],"class_list":["post-6314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-canada-countries-regions","tag-fiscal-cliff","tag-job-creation","tag-manufacturing-orders"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Even without U.S. cliff, world economy teeters &#124; Reuters - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Even without U.S. cliff, world economy teeters &#124; Reuters - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pedro Nicolaci da Costa at Reuters writes: In the United States, the economy faces growing challenges even without the ongoing political wrangling&#8230;&#8230;. 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