Thursday, January 22, 2009
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After balls and a day focused on foreign policy and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Barack Obama gets down to domestic policy on Thursday. And with governing comes politics. Treasury secretary-aspirant Timothy Geithner receives the Senate finance committee’s verdict on his nomination, spokesman Robert Gibbs holds his first briefing, and Republican congressional leaders may meet with President Obama over the economic stimulus package currently before the House.
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The U.S. Commerce department issues more year-end statistics to cap a dismal year. On Thursday, it’ll report on December housing starts and building permits.
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Several large companies publish quarterly earnings reports on Thursday, including Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Capital One, and Southwest Airlines. Plus, we’ll hear from a number of concerns whose growing U.S. operations or markets make them of interest to American marketwatchers, including Fiat, Nokia, Canadian National Railway, and PotashCorp.
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They buy so we can spend. Growth data from
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