Analysts Expect Smaller Budget Deficit
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Congress' top budget analysts still expect the 2004 federal deficit to set a record, though a smaller one than they and the White House anticipated earlier in this election year.
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The U.S. economy will grow at a  moderate clip in 2007 as consumer spending growth slows and  business spending moderates during the second half, a key  economic forecast released on Tuesday showed.
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SCHEVENINGEN - The French public deficit is expected to come to 3.6% of output this year and around 3% or slightly less in 2005, Finance Minister Nicholas Sarkozy predicted.
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The U.S. economy will grow at a moderate clip in 2007 as consumer spending growth slows and business spending moderates during the second half, a key economic forecast released on Tuesday showed.
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The new forecast will reflect the drag from the housing slump and a slightly lower-than-expected unemployment rate.
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Its rate cuts haven't been aggressive enough to boost the economy, say some analysts.
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California's state government  faces a year-end shortfall of $6.7 billion in its 2005-06 year,  a gap it can close with $3.5 billion in deficit-financing bonds  and with improving revenues, the state legislative analyst's  office said on Wednesday.
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Germany's budget deficit for 2004 is expected to be far lower than forecast and fall below the record of 40 billion euros (52 billion dollars), a finance ministry spokesman revealed.
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The US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Tuesday released its budgetary and economic forecast, and its predictions were not substantially different from those of the Bush administration.
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President George W. Bush will estimate that the U.S. budget deficit for fiscal year 2007 will come in at $205 billion, a drop from last year, U.S. administration officials said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON -- The deficit for the first five months of the budget year is down sharply from a year ago as the growth in government tax collections continues to outpace growth in spending.
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The Italian central bank estimated the government could bring the public deficit down to 2.7 percent next year, but expressed doubt regarding a growth forecast by the International Monetary Bank.
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China will selectively reduce spending to help trim its ballooning fiscal deficit, state media reported Monday, citing top economic officials.
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Americans are right to be concerned  about the long-term impact of budget deficits projected to  reach $2.3 trillion over the next decade, but there is little  near-term danger of an economic catastrophe, the head of the  Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday.
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U.S. budget deficits pose a problem for both the domestic and world economies, but there seems little political will to fix them, Federal Reserve Board Governor Edward Gramlich said on Saturday.
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Iin about 15 years, and probably less, this nation&#39;s retirement system will start to run a deficit, according to the Social Security&#39;s trustees.
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. trade deficit declined during the third quarter to the lowest level in two years, raising hopes that the country's trade troubles could be easing.