Economic & financial indicators

MONEY AND INTEREST RATES

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MONEY AND INTEREST RATES America's government-bond market took a dive following strong retail-sales figures. Thirty-year Treasuries yielded 6.31% on December 14th. Japanese broad-money growth slowed to 3% in the year to November.

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Bleak and bloody Russia

From the December 18th 1999 edition

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