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Finance History 2011-03-29 (29 March 2011 ) |
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| How do the crises in Japan and the Middle East affect your mortgage rate? Today in her Home Economics column, Amy Hoak explains that the uncertainty surrounding global events such as these tends to spur investor flight to quality. | |
| The Finance Ministry has maintained its estimate for this year's economic growth at 4-5 per cent, as exports and domestic consumption could help cushion the effect of rising oil prices and other negative factors. | |
| A Supreme Court that is increasingly skeptical of campaign finance restrictions is returning to the issue for the first time since last year’s game-changing Citizens United ruling. | |
| The Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared to hold the cards Monday in a key campaign finance reform case involving an Arizona election law that would provide matching funds to underfunded candidates. The justices could continue a recent legal trend and strike down another effort at government restrictions on election spending. | |
| Volkswagen Finance Private Limited, a subsidiary of Germany based Volkswagen Financial Services AG, today said it has received a licence from the RBI to set up a Non—Banking Finance Company (NBFC) in India. | |
| The superannuation industry's peak body is launching a campaign to persuade the Federal Opposition and small business groups to back a three-percentage-point rise in the minimum super level. | |
| It’s difficult if not impossible to predict what lawmakers will do to future tax rates, but an increase in federal income-tax rates may be inevitable, Andrea Coombes points out today in her Ways and Means column. That’s a concern, she writes, because delaying the tax hit on retirement-plan contributions — a much vaunted benefit of 401(k)s — isn’t as valuable if you face higher income-tax rates ... | |
| Waterford - The Board of Finance did not make any further cuts Monday to the 2011-12 school budget proposal on Monday and voted 6-1 to approve the $ million spending board member | |
| The justices heard spirited arguments in two consolidated cases challenging the matching funds trigger in the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Act. By the end of the hour-long session, the same justices who prevailed in last year's blockbuster Citizens United v. | |
| NOT FOR RELEASE, DISTRIBUTION OR PUBLICATION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES***** Guernsey, 29 March 2011 -The Board of Directors of Volta Finance Limited (the "Company") decided at its last Board Meeting (the 28 March) to pay … |
Economic History|
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Tuesday: | |
| The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet's guest contributor program, which is separate from the company's news coverage. NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- This Friday, April 1, the most important economic data in a month will be released and could turn unwary investors into April Fools. While all eyes will be focused on the employment report to ... | |
| Money may be tight and jobless figures are high but most Americans say they still manage to have fun, according to a new poll. | |
| A nonprofit to help create jobs would take private donations and be eligible for some federal funding. | |
| By ANTHONY HALL United Press International The Dodd-Frank financial overhaul bill is still being written, debated, and re-written -- fiddled with, let's say -- as . regulators finalize some rules. | |
| The nonprofit arm of Gov. Terry Branstad's proposed economic development authority will focus on innovation, the state's economic development director says. | |
| If you have an interest in the economic future of your community, Douglas County wants to hear from you. | |
| Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said recent reports indicating a more sustainable economic expansion won’t alter the central bank’s plan to purchase $600 billion in . Treasuries through June. | |
| Stocks edged higher to start the week after economic reports suggested that the recovery is continuing. | |
| Qatar’s economic outlook for the next five years is broadly favourable, with the global recovery continuing, thanks to robust growth in emerging markets and rebounding world trade, according to the National Development Strategy 2011-2016 document released yesterday. |
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