SOURCEKeystone Research CenterMark Price Ph

For more information about TMXGroup, visit our website at Group Inc.Carolyn Quick, Director, Corporate Communications, TMX Group, (416) 947-4597,; Paul Malcolmson, Director, Investor and GovernmentRelations, TMX Group, (416) 947-4317, . (Adds Israel comment, paragraph four) TEHRAN, Jan 9 (Reuters) - An Iranian state televisionstation said two people were wounded by an Israeli rocket strikeon the building housing its office in Gaza on Friday. "Israeli rocket strikes Gaza media building, wounding two,"Press TV said in a breaking news headline, after initiallyreporting no casualties in the incident. An Israeli military spokesperson said the building had notbeen targeted, though it may have sustained "collateral damage". Equipment, including satellite transmission devicesinstalled on the roof, was damaged, Press TV said on itswebsite. It did not identify the wounded or say if other mediaoutlets were based in the same building. A Press TV news presenter said Israel knew the building'scoordinates and had given assurances it would not be attacked.Its website said staff had kept light projectors working on theroof of the building to mark it.

Iran has condemned Israel's 14-day-old offensive againstGaza, which Israel said it launched to end rocket attacks by thePalestinian militant group Hamas on southern Israel Israel has accused Iran of supplying arms to Hamas. HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ This morning the federal governmentreported that the national economy shed more than a half million jobs and thatthe unemployment rate rose to 7.2 percent. In response, the Keystone ResearchCenter in Harrisburg has issued the following statement from Labor EconomistMark Price:"Although the Pennsylvania economy did not entirely escape the early effectsof this recession, the commonwealth has fared better than many parts of thecountry. That situation changed in November when the Pennsylvania economy shed26,000 jobs as the national economy lost over half a million jobs."The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports this morning that national payrollsshrunk again in December by more than a half million jobs. The Pennsylvaniashare of December's job losses will not be known until the end of January, butall signs point to another round of job losses in the commonwealth.Pennsylvania's continued claims for unemployment insurance in December stood52 percent higher than during the same month last year. In a mild recession,the unemployment rate in Pennsylvania would likely peak in 2010 at 6.7percent; the Pennsylvania unemployment rate this November was already at 6.1percent."There is a clear and urgent need for a federal fiscal stimulus package toblunt the rise in unemployment in Pennsylvania.

While President-elect BarackObama has promised to deliver quickly a large stimulus, more than a third ofthe spending being discussed could be for tax cuts. This may not give theeconomy the full boost it needs at this time. Given the size of the federaldeficit, it is critical that every dollar of government stimulus is quicklyinjected into the economy to buy goods and services. But businesses andconsumers, concerned about the state of the economy, are likely to save ratherthan spend their tax cuts, thus defeating the intent of the economic stimuluspackage.

More of the fiscal stimulus package needs to be devoted to measureslike aid to state and local governments, infrastructure spending, andassistance to those who have lost their jobs as a result of this deepeningrecession." The Keystone Research Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization seekingto promote a more prosperous and equitable Pennsylvania economy. SOURCEKeystone Research CenterMark Price, Ph.D., Labor Economist, Keystone Research Center, 1-717-255-7158,1-717-440-2360, ; Chris Lilienthal, CommunicationsDirector, 1-717-255-7156, 1-717-829-4823, . (Adds quotes, details) Stocks Bonds Funds News ETFs News Private Capital OTTAWA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Ottawa has agreed to a request bythe Canadian arms of General Motors Corp GM.N and ChryslerLLC to defer their first emergency loans until mid-January, agovernment official said on Friday. "We have agreed to this request," said Pierre-Luc Poisson,a spokesman at Industry Canada The government unveiled a plan on Dec.