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21 Feb 2011 19:42:11 GMTBusiness : Finance professionals role is fast changing
DUBAI - Finance professionals who fail to respond to the increasing strategic demands of them are in danger of becoming extinct, a senior management consultant with 30 years of global experience has asserted.
21 Feb 2011 01:02:19 GMTStrategic Finance liquidator probes transactions
The liquidator of failed property development financier Strategic Finance says although he's putting a few transactions under the spotlight, nothing found so far is likely to be reported to the Serious Fraud McKay,...
21 Feb 2011 16:07:00 GMTFinance transactions going under microscope
Liquidators of Strategic Finance say they are investigating transactions involving company directors and third parties and are "progressing pursuit of possible avenues for recovery".
21 Feb 2011 06:31:14 GMTG20 financial chiefs reach consensus: French finance minister
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde attends a new conference after the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Paris, capital of France, Feb. 19, 2011. Finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 dominant economies reached consensus on several indicators to monitor global economic imbalances on Saturday, Lagarde said here on Saturday.
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.
20 Feb 2011 22:28:19 GMTStrategic Finance liquidators pursue recovery
Liquidators of Strategic Finance say they have identified several transactions requiring further investigation and are ''progressing pursuit of possible avenues for recovery''.
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.
21 Feb 2011 08:18:13 GMTG20 Finance Ministers express concern over slow global economic recovery
ISLAMABAD: Finance ministers of the world's 20 wealthiest economies has assessed during a wrap up of two-day G-20 meeting in Paris that the global economic recovery is strengthening but it is still uneven and downside risks.
21 Feb 2011 19:52:06 GMTNew lease for The Finance
The Finance Company PLC will be re-structured where all future decisions will be made in the best interest of the company. The Company?s new Chairman Preethi Jayawardena told Daily News Business The Finance will regain its lost image due to mismanagement during the recent past.
19 Feb 2011 20:56:19 GMTFinance Ministry may agree 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.

Economic History

21 Feb 2011 13:53:19 GMTCan the G-20 Solve the World's Economic Problems?
Once again, the industrious finance ministers of the G-20 met to solve the world's economic problems.
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 them is economic. The tiny kingdom in recent years has opened itself in many respects to international commerce and in this respect is different from many despotic situations in the Mideast and elsewhere. (Egypt had [...]
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.
21 Feb 2011 15:47:40 GMTEconomic Outlook: Girding the tree
By ANTHONY HALL United Press International Remember the adage of the willow tree that bends in the wind, but does not break? That profound, little witticism was written before the invention of the chainsaw.
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 install her economic adviser, Jens Weidmann, as the youngest-ever chief of the Bundesbank in a move designed to maintain the country's hawkish monetary policy. The German government announced the move after last week's surprise resignation by the current boss ...
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.
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 20:42:24 GMTCandidates tout economic development in race for Riviera Beach mayor
Economic development and jobs are taking center stage in the four-way race for mayor. Incumbent Thomas Masters, seeking a third term, refers to himself as "the jobs mayor," a reference to the job fairs he holds for residents.
 
 

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