Reuters reports on Mr Obama's speech:

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The economy cannot sustain "21st century markets with 20th century regulations," Obama told reporters after the meeting with lawmakers.

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Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC's investment show "Mad Money", and Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", spent twenty minutes together on Stewart's show. Actually, to be precise, Cramer spent twenty minutes with Stewart being lectured to.

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"Hitherto Mr Zardari may have trusted to support from America, Britain and Pakistan’s army, who are all, to varying degrees, wary of the populist and conservative Mr Sharif. He can no longer do so—the Punjab police’s decision to free Mr Sharif from confinement was very likely in response to an…

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