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Finance History 2011-05-25 (25 May 2011 ) |
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| New Mountain Finance Corporation announced today the closing of its initial offering of 7,272,727 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $ per share for total gross proceeds of approximately $100 million. | |
| French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde announced her bid to become head of the International Monetary Fund Wednesday, after its former managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned in the wake of charges he tried to rape a hotel maid in New York. | |
| Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on Wednesday called for an "open, merit-based and transparent" process for choosing the next head of the International Monetary Fund. | |
| French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde announced her bid Wednesday to become head of the International Monetary Fund, after its former managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned in the wake of charges he tried to rape a hotel maid in New York. | |
| The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association?s Monthly Leasing and Finance Index , which reports economic activity for the $521 billion equipment finance sector, showed overall new business volume for April was $ billion, up 11 percent compared to the same period in 2010. | |
| French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde on Wednesday launched her bid to lead the IMF, a candidacy that would put the first woman in charge of the scandal-rocked fund . | |
| "All regulatory approvals have been obtained" Abu Dhabi, May 25, 2011 - Finance House Finance House PJSC ( FH FH ) has today obtained all regulatory approvals to open up shareholding to foreign ownership, to the extent of 20% of its paid up equity share capital. | |
| Lots of financial shocks come with losing your job. Eva Rosenberg writes in her TaxWatch column today about another one. The 401(k) loans people took in better times become due and payable ? and if they aren?t paid back, taxes and penalties are the result. | |
| Sami Altaher, Executive Director of FGI Finance , will serve as one of the expert panelists at the Commercial Finance Association?s 2011 International Lending Conference. The conference will take place June 13-15, 2011 in London, UK. | |
| Two former board members of Xinhua Finance Inc. accused of taking part in a $50 million insider- trading scheme said they aren?t guilty of defrauding investors and lying to regulators. |
Economic History|
| CORAL GABLES, Fla., May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Economic recessions are weaker, expansions are stronger, and economic recovery is faster in . states where people are more optimistic says a new study from the University of Miami School of Business Administration. Further, the effects are stronger in states where people are older, less educated and less socially connected. | |
| The Conference Board Leading Economic Index?? for Mexico increased percent in March, to , following a percent decline in February, and a percent increase in January. | |
| The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development boosted its growth outlook for the . and said the global economic recovery is strengthening and becoming more ?self-sustained? even as millions of people still struggle to find work. | |
| The Conference Board Leading Economic Index?? for Australia increased percent in March to , following a percent increase in February, and a percent increase in January. | |
| The Conference Board Leading Economic Index?? for Germany was unchanged in March at , following a percent increase in February, and a percent increase in January. | |
| Greece's economic crisis highlighted Tuesday growing divisions at the highest levels in Europe over the rights and wrongs of a risky Greek debt re-scheduling or wider restructuring involving the banks. | |
| Social unrest is making the world less peaceful for the third year running and economic strains could point to rising risks in China, a think tank said on Wednesday. | |
| By ANTHONY HALL United Press International When it comes to an economic medical prescription, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris was very specific. | |
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Tuesday: ------ ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's main opposition leader bluntly refused to back new austerity measures designed to tackle the crippling debt crisis, arguing they would only bring further recession, despite the European Union's insistence for cross-party support. | |
| Belarus is headed for an economic ?meltdown? and the ruble will need to drop another 51 percent as the former Soviet republic?s import-dependent economy is starved of foreign currency, according to Russia?s second- largest bank. |
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