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Finance History 2011-05-30 (30 May 2011 ) |
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| French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde arrived in Brazil on Monday seeking to win support from one of the most influential emerging economies for her bid to the lead the International Monetary Fund. | |
| A critical audit of Greek finances to enable the debt-hit eurozone country to access a badly-needed slice of EU-IMF funds will conclude this week, the Greek finance minister said on Monday. | |
| Sundaram Finance, the Chennai-based non-banking finance company, has reported an 81 per cent increase in standalone net profit to Rs 98 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2011, as against Rs 54 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. | |
| AUSTRALIAN stocks closed lower today as weakness among finance-linked companies dragged the broader market into the red. | |
| People who were there say the event was classy and elegant: hors d'oeuvres and delicious paella served in a restored 19th-century brick mill building more commonly reserved for wedding receptions. Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua reported hauling in $13,250 from guests who had paid as much as $500 to be at the April 2010 fund-raiser for the state's first Latino mayor. | |
| Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst announced Friday that lawmakers reached a deal on a new school finance law that allows the state to legally give schools less money over the next two years. | |
| Setting a sharp tone for talks by finance mandarins from the Group of 20 leading economies on Thursday, a prominent Chinese economist renewed Beijing's attacks on . dominance of the world financial system, accusing the . Federal Reserve of playing an unfair and destabilizing role. | |
| The finance ministry has cleared the RBIs draft guidelines on new bank licences with a rider that the existing 74% cap on FDI be retained. | |
| COVINGTON ? A finance and home-buying education course funded by the Covington Redevelopment and Housing authorities recently graduated its first class. | |
| MANAMA: Bahrain has pioneered the modern Islamic finance industry in the region, as its history on Islamic finance goes back to more than 40 years, according to a senior central bank official. |
Economic History|
| Amid the thick brush of international economic and political gatherings, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum has always been a sort of second-string operation ? attended by heads of state, of course, but as noted for its tribal garb ?family photo? of leaders as for its trade or diplomatic breakthroughs. As one corporate lobbyist recently noted, the group has been derided as ?four ... | |
| MEMBERS of the Philippines' economic team will be spared from looming changes in the Cabinet, President Benigno Aquino III said on Monday, the same day the country reported weaker growth for the first quarter this year. The economic team "is performing well," Aquino said, allaying fears of slower growth ahead. "Our economy last year grew by percent. Do we need to reshuffle our economic team ... | |
| The British Chambers of Commerce cuts its growth forecast for the UK economy, blaming inflation and a squeeze on incomes. | |
| Asian stock markets were muted Monday as signals the global economic recovery has hit a plateau kept investors from delving into riskier assets. | |
| Slow government spending and weakening global trade constricted Philippine economic growth to percent in the first quarter of the year, officials said Monday. | |
| Reports will include S.& P./Case-Shiller housing price index for March, and unemployment and consumer confidence for May. | |
| Colombia?s central bank raised its borrowing costs for a fourth month to cool inflationary pressures as bank lending and consumer spending fuel faster- than-expected economic growth. | |
| Commodity prices advanced during a volatile trading week in which investors weighed up the impact of weak US economic growth and an escalating European debt crisis on demand for raw materials. | |
| Shaky economic data from the . canceled out gains on Wall Street to keep Asian shares in check on Friday. | |
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: |
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