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Finance History 2011-06-05 (05 June 2011 ) |
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| Hoping to attract Arab capital, Russia will take its first step into the world of Islamic finance in June by issuing sukuk, Islamic bonds which comply with Muslim religious rules. | |
| An Egyptian court convicted former finance minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali in absentia on Saturday and sentenced him to 30 years in prison for profiteering and abusing state and private assets, a court source said. | |
| Ex-Soviet finance ministers on Saturday agreed on a $3 billion (two-billion euro) loan for crisis-hit Belarus, a spokesman for the Russian prime minister said. | |
| An explosive device hit the security wall of Zimbabwe finance minister Tendai Biti's home in an attempted bombing early Sunday but caused no damage, a party spokesman said. | |
| Former Egyptian finance minister Yussef Boutros Ghali was on Saturday sentenced to 30 years in prison in absentia on corruption charges, an correspondent said. | |
| Oxford Finance LLC , a specialty finance firm that provides senior debt to life science and healthcare services companies, today announced that it provided a $ million credit facility to affiliates of Landmark Health Solutions LLC . | |
| Protesters took over the Finance Ministry building in Athens Friday morning, hanging a giant banner from the roof calling for a general strike, just as Greece wraps up tough negotiations with international officials on new austerity measures. | |
| The Texas Legislature has gone into special session to finish important legislation left over from the regular session. The legislation includes a school finance bill, a health care reform bill, and an overhaul of the windstorm insurance program. | |
| The 17-nation euro zone should consider establishing a central finance ministry as it tightens coordination of national economic policies to fight crises, the head of the bloc's central bank said on Thursday. | |
| CAIRO ? Egypt?s former finance minister was sentenced in absentia Saturday to 30 years in prison for squandering public funds and abusing his authority, the state news agency said. Yousef Boutros-Ghali, a nephew of former . Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, left Egypt during the uprising that forced out President Hosni Mubarak in February. Yousef Boutros-Ghali was a powerful confidant ... |
Economic History|
| Eight months before the Iowa caucuses, a spate of bad economic reports last week gave Republicans a chance to start framing the 2012 campaign on their topic of choice -- President Barack Obama's record. | |
| There have been fresh calls for an alternative economic plan ahead of the IMF's latest assessment of the state of the UK economy. | |
| Fundamentals decide the outcome of presidential campaigns, and this week?s economic and political news were reminders of that, leaving President Obama to wonder just how difficult his reelection bid may turn out to be. The first indicator was a grim report on housing prices , showing that long after the recession officially ended, and 3 1 / 2 years after the economy collapsed, home values in ... | |
| Gloomy data fanned fears the once robust economic recovery may be losing steam, igniting the first five-week losing streak for the blue chips in almost seven years.? | |
| A bill to overhaul Nevada's economic development efforts received mixed reviews Friday in testimony before a Senate committee. | |
| Any notion that President Obama?s reelection campaign was gaining momentum was shaken this week by a string of worrisome economic reports showing weakness in the job market and new lows for housing prices. The bad news for Obama stood in contrast to a run of positive developments that had given many Democrats reason for confidence. The economy had been adding jobs at a steady clip . A president ... | |
| Labor-saving technology, competition from skilled foreign workers and a debt hangover make it tough for the . economy to create jobs. Still limping two years after officially emerging from the recession and buffeted by a new wave of bad news, the . economy is struggling with problems that run far deeper than higher oil prices, the European debt crisis or auto industry slowdown stemming ... | |
| Despite some recent signs of economic recovery, 63% of Americans continue to feel ?not good? or ?bad? about the state of the . economy, representing a significant increase from May 2010 when only 49% of Americans felt this gloomy. | |
| Niagara was in an economic storm in 1991 and the clouds were darkening. A recession was pounding the region, with huge job losses and economic misery. Unemployment was at 14% ? the second highest in Canada.[...] | |
| Economic conditions in the occupied West Bank and Gaza can no longer be bolstered without an end to Israeli occupation and separation in those territories, a new report released Friday by the International Labor Organization said. |
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