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Finance History 2011-03-15 (15 March 2011 ) |
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| Open Finance SA, the consumer financial advisory company controlled by Polish billionaire Leszek Czarnecki , will start selling million zloty ($167 million) of shares tomorrow in an initial public offering, the country?s biggest in five months. | |
| VICTORIA - The finance minister who unveiled British Columbia's unpopular harmonized sales tax is out and the dissident who quit the party over the controversial tax is back in new . Premier Christy Clark's took the oath of office and unveiled a pared-down cabinet, announcing plans to follow a prudent financial course and a promise to "engage citizens in decision-making as never ... | |
| Mutual Finance's receivers expect to recover no more than 53 per cent of the $ million owed to 340 secured deposit holders when the government guaranteed property financier was tipped into receivership last their second... | |
| Finance Logix announced today the availability of a new, interactive retirement planning application for Apple?s iPhone. Designed specifically for the intuitive touch screen navigation of the iPhone, Retire Logix uses innovative sliders and charts to forecast an individual?s retirement situation via an easy to use touch-screen graphical user interface. | |
| Reality seems to be setting in for retirement savers, and many of us are coming to grips with the fact that we don?t have what we need to support ourselves in retirement. | |
| BRUSSELS - European Union officials and finance ministers meeting on Tuesday to discuss details of an agreement on strengthening the euro zone bailout fund and resolving a year-long debt crisis. ... | |
| But David Perry says the budget crisis has created opportunities for positive changes. | |
| BETHEL -- The Board of Finance 's proposed $63 million budget for 2011-2012 would require a percent increase, which is less than a mill. The finance board voted 4-3 to adopt the spending plan March 9, but has yet to finalize the capital portion of the plan. | |
| VICTORIA - .'s new Premier Christy Clark says she's gearing up to convince British Columbians to keep the harmonized sales tax, the unpopular tax that forced premier Gordon Campbell's early retirement and paved the way for Clark's takeover of the Liberal government. | |
| The receivers of failed Auckland finance company Mutual Finance say the government may get back only 40 to 53 percent of the money paid out to the firm's secured debentureholders under the retail deposit guarantee scheme. |
Economic History|
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Tuesday: | |
| The Federal Reserve expressed more confidence in the . economy even as Japan's nuclear crisis raised worries around the globe. | |
| China approved economic plans for the next five years that aim to empower consumers but rejected any hints of political reforms as it closed its annual legislative session Monday. | |
| The United States is confident Japan will be able to handle economic challenges in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami, and does not expect the disaster to stall the world's recovery from economic recession, a White House spokesman said on Monday. | |
| The disaster in Japan threatens to significantly impede the nation's economic recovery, perhaps spreading to other nations, say economists. | |
| The world has entered "a new economic era" that will be more volatile and more dependent on the growth of emerging economies, General Electric Co Chief Executive Jeff Immelt said in a letter to shareholders. | |
| The Federal Reserve meets Tuesday at a time of widening economic risks: higher oil and food prices; unemployment near 9 percent; crises in the Middle East and Japan. | |
| Germany's economic sentiment weakened unexpectedly in March, as the hint from the European Central Bank on a possible rate hike and severe earthquake in Japan weighed on the assessment of financial market experts. | |
| The Bank of Japan said it will provide "massive" liquidity to the banking system in order to assure the crisis will remain one of massive damage and not massive deflation. | |
| Manufacturers in the New York region said business improved in early March to the best level in nine months, but they also reported that they were grappling with higher prices, according to a report released Tuesday. |
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