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Chinese tourists have overtaken Germans as the world's biggest-spending travelers after a decade of robust growth in the number of Chinese holidaying abroad, reports the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).
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Pinnacle Foods is expected to price tonight. CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports the name behind Duncan Hines, Birdseye and other brand name foods is one of the most highly-anticipated IPOs this year.
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Sales of Mercedes across America have been accelerating at twice the industry average so far this year, with Steve Cannon, CEO of Mercedes Benz U.S.A. The company is fighting BMW for younger buyers.
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James Millstein, Chairman & CEO of Millstein & Co., says the problem in Europe is that the banks are too big to save. "These banks are four times the size of Cyprus' GDP," he says.
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BRUSSELS, March 27- Confidence in the euro zone's economy worsened in March, falling after four straight months of gains and suggesting a hard route out of recession, European Commission data showed on Wednesday.
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US Airways and American announced a merger last month to create the world's largest airline. Doug Parker, chairman & CEO of US Airways, offers insight.
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The Chamber of Commerce announces the 100,000th hire in the veteran jobs initiative, with CNBC's Brian Shactman.
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LISBON, March 27- Portugal's business and consumer confidence improved for the third consecutive month in March when the recession-hit country passed the quarterly bailout review by its lenders who eased its budget deficit goals, data showed on Wednesday.
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BRUSSELS, March 27- Confidence in the euro zone's economy worsened in March, falling after four straight months of gains, the European Commission said on Wednesday.
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Jared Bernstein, former chief economist & economic policy adviser to U.S. Vice-President Biden, says the U.S. government should focus on bipartisan cooperation to build on the nascent recovery instead of setting continual fiscal traps that slow down confidence growth.
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ISTANBUL, March 27- Turkey's consumer confidence index fell 2.3 percent to 74.9 points in March from 76.7 points a month earlier, Turkish Statistics Institute data showed on Wednesday.
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HELSINKI, March 27- Finnish consumer confidence rose slightly and industry confidence held steady in March from February, data published on Wednesday showed. Consumer confidence rose marginally to +10.2 points in March compared with +9.6 points in February, Statistics Finland said.
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Paul Donovan, global economist at UBS, tells CNBC that two years of negative growth in a row in the euro zone takes 'monumental policy incompetence to achieve'.
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WELLINGTON, March 27- New Zealand's business confidence eased back from a 19- month high in March, but firms remained cheered by the economic outlook despite a drought, an ANZ Bank survey showed on Wednesday.
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SEOUL, March 27- South Korea's key consumer sentiment index rose to its highest in nearly a year in March, the central bank said on Wednesday, raising hopes that Asia's fourth-largest economy may start recovering after prolonged sluggishness.
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George Gero, precious metals strategist at RBC Capital Markets, discusses headwinds facing the yellow metal, with CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis and the Futures Now Traders.
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Robert Shiller, professor of economics at Yale University, explains why the housing recovery gets an OK grade, with CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis and the Futures Now Traders.
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Economist Robert Shiller tells "Futures Now" why it won't necessarily be clear sailing for the housing recovery. (3:10)
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NEW YORK, March 26- U.S. consumer confidence tumbled in March as Americans turned more pessimistic about economic prospects in the short term, according to a private sector report released on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK, March 26- U.S. consumer confidence tumbled in March as Americans turned more pessimistic about economic prospects in the short term, according to a private sector report released on Tuesday.
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Michelle Meyer, BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research; and Jim Dunigan, PNC Wealth Management, discuss how the morning's economic data will impact the markets.