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19 Feb 2011 17:58:20 GMTHighlights: Comments from Paris G20 finance ministers meeting
Following are highlight quotes from officials at the end of a G20 finance ministers meeting which reached a compromise agreement on imbalance indicators.
19 Feb 2011 01:11:00 GMTFinance panel votes to set aside more money for Anderson County?s legal bills
A finance committee has approved setting aside another $150,000 to cover Anderson County?s anticipated legal bills for this fiscal year.
19 Feb 2011 21:49:29 GMTFinance Ministry nod likely for % PF interest soon
NEW DELHI: The tussle between the Labour and the Finance Ministries on the payment of per cent interest instead of per cent to the employees' Provident Fund (PF) subscribers for 2010-11 may end smoothly next week, with the Finance Ministry reversing its ?objection? for the new rate and pave way for issuing a notification by month end.
19 Feb 2011 15:22:30 GMTG20 finance ministers after Paris meeting
Following are highlight quotes from finance ministers at the end of a G20 meeting which reached a compromise agreement on imbalance indicators.
19 Feb 2011 23:00:29 GMTKolenberg to lead finance board
STAMFORD -- Bob Kolenberg , the vice chair of the Board of Finance , said he will head the board on an interim basis until other members elect a new chairman at a special meeting after Joe Tarzia makes his resignation official on Wednesday.
20 Feb 2011 14:04:22 GMTSavvis CEO: iPhone, Finance and the Cloud
Savvis CEO Jim Ousley is optimistic about cloud-computing opportunities in the financial sector and Verizon's iPhone.
20 Feb 2011 05:09:48 GMTFinance board asks schools to reduce budget by $500K
The town Board of Finance has asked the Board of Education to cut about $500,000 out of its budget proposal for the year. The board made the request after a brief discussion at its meeting on Tuesday, February 15. ?Nobody wants to cut education,? said board member Robert Spangler. ?These [cuts] are all about operations.?
19 Feb 2011 19:04:46 GMTG20 ministers fudge deal on imbalance indicators
Finance ministers of the world's major economies reached a fudged accord on Saturday on how to measure imbalances in the global economy after China prevented the use of exchange rates and currency reserves as indicators.
19 Feb 2011 17:16:25 GMTFinance swoop
Officials from the Insolvency and Trustee Service have swooped on a group of companies related to failed Gisborne finance firm Rockforte Finance, seizing documents and interviewing key petitions from the Inland...
17 Feb 2011 22:21:56 GMTFinance committee attacks budget
The Stormont finance committee strongly criticises the draft budget, claiming that it should have been finalised much sooner.

Economic History

20 Feb 2011 14:05:39 GMTEconomic Preview: . manufacturers still key to economy
Investors focus this week on . manufacturing orders, consumer confidence.
18 Feb 2011 19:26:30 GMTBahrain, Economic Knowns and Unknowns
Violence playing out in Bahrain?s public square is regrettable on many levels, but one of the
19 Feb 2011 19:52:05 GMTG20 deal on economic indicators after China compromise
The G20 countries overcame initial Chinese opposition to clinch a deal Saturday on which economic indicators to use to evaluate and tackle the economic imbalances at the heart of the global crisis.
19 Feb 2011 18:01:54 GMTG20 seals deal on economic indicators
The G20 developed and developing countries reached a deal Saturday on which economic indicators to use to evaluate and tackle the economic imbalances at the heart of the global crisis.
20 Feb 2011 20:22:39 GMTEconomic crisis: warning signals ignored
Members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission speak at the release of the commission's report on the causes of the financial and economic crisis, in Washington late last month.
19 Feb 2011 08:31:31 GMTG20 strive to reach deal on economic stability indicators
G20 nations sought to reach a deal Saturday on a set of agreed indicators to measure the economic health of nations, key to their flagship initiative to try to avoid another global financial crisis.
20 Feb 2011 02:14:58 GMTMerkel selects economic hawk to lead Bundesbank
German chancellor selects economic adviser Jens Weidmann, 42, as youngest ever head of the Bundesbank German chancellor Angela Merkel will instal her economic adviser Jens Weidmann as the youngest ever chief of the Bundesbank in a move widely seen as designed to maintain the country's hawkish monetary policy. The German government announced the move after last week's surprise resignation by the ...
18 Feb 2011 09:35:41 GMTEconomic growth, jobs and reforms dominate agenda
Economic growth, jobs and political reforms were under the spotlight during today?s general election campaign.
19 Feb 2011 08:33:59 GMTChina launches first ocean economic zone
China's first ocean economic zone in the coastal province of Shandong was inaugurated Friday when it signed contracts worth $ billion, signaling the country is enlarging its economic focus from the land to cover the ocean, as well.
20 Feb 2011 20:01:17 GMTCorporate America's economic outlook
Wall Street and the . government statisticians seem to have very different views on the state of the economy.
 
 

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