Economics and Policy Gold edged up on Monday, off a two-week low hit in the previous session on better-than-expected US jobs data, as the Federal Reserve is expected to continue to prop up the economy through 2013 with monetary stimulus, giving support to gold. More from Reuters Lebanese Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi has presented a revised draft budget to cabinet which sees expenditure of $14.08 billion and a deficit of $3.48 billion, the ministry has said. More from The Daily Star Iran has agreed to supply 2 million litres of diesel a day to neighbouring Iraq, Iran's oil ministry news service Shana has said. More from Reuters Egyptian inflation has leapt as a sliding local currency pushes up food prices, badly hurting the poor who are suffering most during the country's economic, political and security crisis. More from Reuters But despite this, Egypt has rejected the idea of
