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People wait with their cars to get on a ferry to Morocco at the southern Spanish port of Algeciras July 31, 2015. REUTERS/Jon Nazca


Morocco Imports Up 4.8% by End of July

Morocco Imports Up 4.8% by End of July

Casablanca- Moroccan commercial deficit increased end of last July around 7.5% due to imports exceeding exports. The Moroccan Exchange Office, a governmental authority assigned to monitor currencies exchange and funds transfer, attributed the pick-up of Moroccan...
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A bank clerk counts U.S. dollar banknotes on bundles of 100 Chinese yuan banknotes at a branch of a bank in Huaibei, Anhui province in this file photo dated April 26, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer


Opinion: What the World Economy Needs

Opinion: What the World Economy Needs

The global economy desperately needed some good news. That’s what it got in the latest U.S. jobs report. Ahead of today’s release of the U.S. employment report for July, the mood was decidedly gloomy, with economic activity slowing in most other advanced...
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Yosri Adjili, 25, who is unemployed, goes on a hunger strike with his mouth sewed shut during a sit-in protest to get jobs, at the local government office courtyard in Kasserine, Tunisia, January 27, 2016. On December 17, 2010, a young, desperate Tunisian vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself ablaze in a suicide protest over unemployment and police abuse that spread revolt across the Arab world. Five years on, Ridha Yahyaoui, another young Tunisian, has killed himself in frustration after being refused a job, inflaming protests through the same impoverished towns that once brought down the regime of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra


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A man pushes his shopping cart down an aisle at a Home Depot store in New York, July 29, 2010.
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