US: Congress avoids fiscal cliff

By Petah Marian | 2 January 2013

The US Congress has reached an agreement with the White House to avoid the "fiscal cliff", a combination of tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts set to come into effect from the beginning of January, which were threatening to push the country into recession.

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