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Finance History 2011-05-21 (21 May 2011 ) |
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| German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble backs his French counterpart Christine Lagarde as the EU candidate to head the International Monetary Fund, a German weekly reported Saturday. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 ... | |
| 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 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. | |
| In case you missed them, here are the top 10 Personal Finance stories from MarketWatch for the week of May 16-20. | |
| Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's high-flying career in politics and world finance took him to the peak of success with a real shot at becoming the next president of France. |
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| 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. | |
| Idea floated of 'managed competition,' which would pit city union workers against private companies to bid on contracts to provide services such as garbage pickup Mayor Rahm Emanuel's top economic advisers promise nothing less than reinvention of city government as they develop strategies for slashing a looming massive deficit. | |
| How do you privatise when no-one wants to buy? | |
| So, while we could certainly continue arguing about the data, we could also simply watch the linkage | |
| 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... | |
| NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- With earnings season wrapping up, investor focus will likely switch back to the macro picture in the coming week, as worries about an economic slowdown mount. Stocks struggled this past week as several economic reports came in weaker than expected, raising concerns about the recovery. Regional manufacturing activity in the New York and Philadelphia region fell sharply ... | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| The World Economic Forum celebrated the fifth anniversary of its official establishment in China at the Beijing Diaoyutai State Guest House and inaugurated its expanded China Representative Office in Beijing on May 19, which has been recently relocated to the Central Business District. |
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