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Finance History 2011-04-16 (16 April 2011 ) |
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| World finance leaders on Saturday chastised the United States for not doing enough to shrink its massive overspending and warned that budget strains in rich nations threaten the global recovery. | |
| The German finance ministry on Saturday denied it was drawing up contingency plans for a Greek debt restructuring after the Financial Times reported the ministry was studying various options if Athens fails to meet its fiscal targets. | |
| Below are highlights of comments on Friday from officials attending the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings. | |
| Behavioral finance is the study of the influence of psychology on the behavior of investors and the | |
| Below are highlights of comments on Friday from officials attending the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings. | |
| Finance ministers and central bankers from the world?s most powerful industrialized and developing economies are expected to make some inroads on measuring the world?s imbalances ? but not correcting them. | |
| WASHINGTON: Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh arrived in Washington on Thursday evening to head the Pakistani delegation at IMF-World Bank annual spring meetings. | |
| Austrian Finance Minister Josef Proell quit on Wednesday for health reasons, in a fresh blow to his conservative OeVP party whose popularity has slumped following a spate of recent corruption scandals. | |
| MONSON - Videotaping Finance Committee meetings and studying the current governance structure are some of the questions that will come before voters at the May 9 annual Town Meeting. | |
| Austrian Finance Minister and deputy chancellor Josef Proell announced his resignation on Wednesdsay for health reasons. |
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| World financial officials pledged increased cooperation in dealing with threats to the global economic recovery such as rising oil prices. | |
| The economic boom in China and India will help more than two-thirds of developing countries meet a 2015 goal of reducing poverty and hunger, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund said in a report. | |
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: | |
| Economic hard times may drive more people to suicides, whereas economic prosperity appears to help lower suicide rates in the United States, according to a newly-released government report. | |
| Italy's economic recovery continued in the first quarter due to foreign demand but the labour market remained sluggish, slowing household consumption, the Bank of Italy said Friday. | |
| Sri Lanka last year registered its second highest economic growth since independence and the highest in 32 years, according to the 2010 Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Annual Report. | |
| The rate of suicides rises during times of economic hardship and declines in periods of prosperity, with the association strongest for working adults ages 25 to 54, a CDC study finds. Everyone is familiar with stories of businessmen jumping to their deaths from window ledges during the Great Depression. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that those stories ... | |
| By Jim Tankersley National Journal Long before he chaired President Obama's Council of Economic Advisors, back in his professorial salad days at the University of Chicago, Austan Goolsbee wrote a seminal academic critique of what economists call the "Laffer Curve" ? | |
| Encouraging economic indicators sent . stocks higher on Friday, but the market's recent struggles are set to continue into next week when more than one-fifth of S&P 500 companies report results. | |
| Overall, the economic challenge of nuclear power generation is to ensure that the large upfront cap |
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