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Finance History 2011-03-18 (18 March 2011 ) |
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| Twenty years ago, if you asked the average person about finance, he or she would have spouted off about stocks and bonds. Today, the list would go on and on into other asset classes such as private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate, and fixed income, just to name a few. | |
| Three executives accused of bilking Ohio investors out of $200 million Area investors glad to hear of indictments | |
| The finance ministry has approved an interest payout of % on employee's provident fund for 2010-11, bringing cheer to millions of subscribers. | |
| NEW DELHI: Given the turmoil in Parliament over the expose in WikiLeaks cables, accessed by The Hindu, the passing of the Finance Bill may have to be rescheduled. | |
| Finance officials from the Group of Seven major industrialized countries on Thursday agreed on a coordinated effort to weaken the Japanese yen, which has surged to record levels following last week's earthquake and tsunami. | |
| STAMFORD -- Board of Finance members on Wednesday night questioned possible savings in the school board's budget they said could be achieved by reevaluating the cost of employee benefits and grant-funded positions. | |
| Convinced fiscal responsibility is smart politics, top Tories’ silence on budget likely a result of having so little to tout | |
| NEW DELHI: The Union Finance Ministry, which had raised some queries on the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation's (EPFO) ability to pay per cent interest to about 5 crore PF subscribers, on Thursday finally approved the rate. | |
| Fair Finance Co. Chief Executive Officer Timothy S. Durham and two other men were indicted on fraud charges by a . grand jury. | |
| NORTH HAVEN — After a lengthy discussion Wednesday night, the Board of Finance approved an $84 million budget for 2011-12. |
Economic History|
| Factories are producing more cars, computers and household appliances, and applications for unemployment benefits over the past four weeks are at the lowest point since summer 2008. | |
| Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced “several hundred million” dollars in economic aid to help Tunisia create the economic growth needed to stabilize as it makes the transition to democracy. | |
| Is the crisis in Japan an economic disaster? And what will it mean for the . economy? | |
| By ANTHONY HALL United Press International Workers at a General Motors plant in Louisiana are now feeling the effects of the earthquake that rocked Japan a week ago. | |
| The Fed maintained its ultra-loose monetary policy on Tuesday, saying the economy was gaining traction while flagging potential inflation risks from costlier energy and food. | |
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Thursday: | |
| The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development cut its forecast for . economic growth in 2011 and said the Bank of England should refrain from increasing interest rates until the second half of the year. | |
| WASHINGTON -- The nation this early spring is filled with half-baked talk of national "decline." What could have happened to our historically "exceptional" nation? What's more, I have noticed that the decline we are supposedly suffering is all of one piece -- only economic. | |
| Riding a wave of new orders, manufacturers in the Philadelphia area ramped up production this month to the highest level in more than 27 years, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported Thursday. | |
| Japan's devastating earthquake and deepening nuclear crisis could result in losses of up to $200 billion for the world's third largest economy but the global impact remains hard to gauge five days after a massive tsunami battered the northeast coast. |
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