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Finance History 2011-05-20 (20 May 2011 ) |
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| Housing Finance Ltd. , Kenya?s only publicly traded mortgage company, said investment in housing may slow in 2012 ahead of an election that may aggravate political tensions that exploded into violence three years ago. | |
| Southeast Asian nations backed Singapore Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam as a possible choice to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn as head of the International Monetary Fund. | |
| Shanmugaratnam ?is certainly well qualified? and the IMF should consider all candidates for the role of managing director, including those from Asia or Latin America , Philippine Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima said in a Bloomberg Television interview today. | |
| In its attempt to break into the personal finance market, Google has launched a new tool for finding and comparing financial products. At its core, Google Advisor is a personal finance comparison tool. | |
| The Finance Authority of Maine's board has approved a loan insurance program to help more than 200 independent Maine grocers who were caught by surprise by the recent closure of their vendor, Associated Grocers of Maine. | |
| Finance ministers sought to bolster confidence in the International Monetary Fund as they began discussing a successor to Managing Director Dominique Strauss- Kahn, who was jailed on charges including attempted rape. | |
| New Mountain Finance Corporation (the "Company") (NYSE: NMFC) announced today that it has priced its initial offering of 7,272,727 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $ per share for total gross ... | |
| Commentator Howard Gold writes today in his No-Nonsense Investing column that he?s worried about the markets ? at least for now. He cautions investors to not let a correction wipe out gains and suggests three simple ways to protect profits. | |
| Finance Minister, Michael Noonan, has today published the Bill necessary to have the measures announced in the Jobs Initiative brought in to effect. Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011 will, the Minister said, stimulate economic growth across the domestic sectors and especially the tourism sector. | |
| France's frank, hard-working and chic finance minister, Christine Lagarde, emerged Friday as Europe's likely candidate to lead the International Monetary Fund. |
Economic History|
| Conflicting signs about the economic recovery erased early gains in the stock market Thursday, overshadowing the largest Internet stock debut since Google began trading in 2004. | |
| President Barack Obama will Thursday unveil a multi-billion dollar economic plan to spur and reward democratic change in the Arab world, modeled on the evolution of post-Soviet eastern Europe. | |
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: ------ PARIS -- France's frank, hard-working and chic finance minister, Christine Lagarde, emerged as Europe's likely choice to lead the International Monetary Fund. | |
| A round of softer data out of the US on Thursday has driven the latest round of Greenback selling. However, the Dollar may not be as exposed this time around, with uncertainty in the broader global macro markets also concerning... | |
| President Barack Obama is set to announce a government-directed plan for economic development in the Middle East that emphasizes the role of Western multinational organizations, but that also sidelines the role of companies, ignores the new democracy in Iraq and downplays regional cultural, tribal and religious practices. | |
| So, while we could certainly continue arguing about the data, we could also simply watch the linkage | |
| America's much-heralded manufacturing revival may be slowing, according to a distinctly glum new set of economic numbers. Meanwhile, several other pieces of negative economic news indicate the fragile recovery could be losing steam. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank's business activity index for manufacturing in the mid-Atlantic region plummeted to in May, from last [... ] | |
| Thailand?s economic growth probably quickened last quarter to the fastest pace in a year, sustaining pressure for higher interest rates to contain inflation. | |
| With home prices dropping and unemployment climbing in Miami-Dade, the Economic Time Machine turns glum. | |
| Thailand?s economic growth probably quickened last quarter to the fastest pace in a year, sustaining pressure for higher interest rates to contain inflation. |
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