Top news stories this week
Major pension assets reach record high: A new study by Towers Watson examined 13 major pension markets, totaling $27.5 trillion and accounting for 72.3 percent of the GDP of these markets. This represented a 3.9 percent increase compared to the year-end 2010 value.
Incomes up strong 0.5 percent, spending flat: Americans' income rose in December by the most in nine months, a hopeful sign for the economy after a year of weak wage gains. But consumers didn't spend any more than they had in November.
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