PHILADELPHIA COMPANIES - UPDATE: Irish PM: Forex Rate Is 2/3 Of Competitiveness Loss - Wall Street Journal PHILADELPHIA COMPANIES - UPDATE: Irish PM: Forex Rate Is 2/3 Of Competitiveness Loss - Wall Street Journal

Saturday, February 7, 2009

PHILADELPHIA COMPANIES - UPDATE: Irish PM: Forex Rate Is 2/3 Of Competitiveness Loss - Wall Street Journal

DUBLIN (Dow Jones)--Prime Minister Brian Cowen said Saturday that "two-thirds" of the loss in Ireland's competitiveness is due to the hit on exports from the weakening of sterling against the euro. Speaking on state broadcaster RTE Radio, Cowen said in Dow Jones News >

NEW YORK -- Investors have taken another big gamble on the government's plans to help the economy -- hoping that this one will finally work. All the major indexes rose more than 2 percent Friday, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which rose in Dow Jones News >

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) reached a tentative agreement early Saturday with the United Steel Workers, the union that represents workers at its Port Arthur, Texas refinery, the company said in a news release. Valero, the largest in Dow Jones News >

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)-The director of compliance inspections and examinations at the Securities and Exchange Commission, whose division has come under fire in the Bernard Madoff scandal, said Saturday her department needs to have a "no excuses in Dow Jones News >

BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- German Economics Minister Michael Glos has offered his resignation only to his party chairman but not to the chancellor and therefore is still in office, a German government official who declined to be named told Dow Jones in Dow Jones News >

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