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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Financial news: 02/19/2013

CG: Record high February gas prices due to regional refinery maintenance
CNBC: U.S. economy to contract Q1-Q2 '13, unemployment to exceed 8%
CNN: Furloughs await federal workforce if sequester goes unaverted
Option Queen: Consumer spending cutbacks are driving M&A activity
NYT: Employers biased against long-term unemployment per consultants
Business Insider: Wall St. bonuses fell 36% in 2012 per eFinancial careers
Bloomberg: Recollateralization of covered bonds a risk per investment firms
AP: BBC journalists strike before 30% of jobs are eliminated
Reuters: High valued Euro has ECB concerned about economic growth
MN: Use of European crisis funding  by German banks fell by 33% in Jan.
BBC: Loose Japanese monetary policy weakens Yen & spurs stock prices
ZH: Japanese Yen is 80% stronger than 1971 and high despite devaluation

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