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Finance History 2011-06-09 (09 June 2011 ) |
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| French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde just wrapped up two days in China, her latest stop on her world tour to woo emerging nations to support her candidacy for chief of the International Monetary Fund. | |
| Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, an advocate of a higher sales tax to fix state finances, emerged on Thursday as a possible frontrunner to replace Naoto Kan as premier after a newspaper said ruling party executives would back his candidacy. | |
| During the financial crisis, job offers for finance professionals in Asia were scarce. Today's employment market is considerably different. Talent is in short supply, the number of vacancies is increasing and it's not uncommon for several financial institutions to be chasing the same candidate at the same time. | |
| Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, an advocate of a higher sales tax to fix state finances, emerged on Thursday as a possible frontrunner to replace Naoto Kan as premier after a newspaper said ruling party executives would back his candidacy. | |
| China Finance Online Co., Ltd. , the technology-driven, user-focused market leader in China in providing vertically integrated financial services and products including news, data, analytics and brokerage through web portals, software systems, and mobile handsets, today announced that the Company will report its 2011 first quarter financial results ended March 31, 2011, after the market closes ... | |
| Oxford Finance LLC , a specialty finance firm that provides senior debt to life science and healthcare services companies, today announced that it provided $4 million in senior debt to Platinum Health Care LLC. | |
| Industry expected to double in size on shift in preferences toward sharia-compliant banking | |
| SINGORE: Islamic finance may have grown at a 15 per cent rate per year in the last decade, but the industry still faces a shortage of skilled and experienced professionals. The shortage is rather critical which needs to be addressed, Securities Commission chairman Tan Sri Zarinah Anwar said in a conference here yesterday. Although she did not elaborate on the human capital issue, she noted in ... | |
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| Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda emerged on Thursday as a frontrunner to replace the increasingly unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan, possibly this month. |
Economic History|
| A candidate’s economic plan usually inspires discussion and selective disagreement. But as Michael Tomasky argues, Tim Pawlenty’s plan is pure nonsense. | |
| The stock market's rebound has been more robust than the economic recovery since the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009. Below are key data illustrating how the market and the economy have fared the past 24 months. There's also historical data to compare their current performance with gains following previous recessions dating to 1949: | |
| Recent signs that the economic recovery is flagging have introduced a new tension into the bipartisan budget negotiations. | |
| At the end of this month, President Obama's economic recovery will be two years old. Let's look at what we can expect in terms of results. The consensus forecasts have been overly optimistic of late, but let's assume that the economists get it right for 2Q 2011, and we get real | |
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Thursday: ------ FRANKFURT, Germany -- The head of the European Central Bank signaled another likely interest rate hike in July, warning that higher oil and commodity prices must not be allowed to fuel an inflationary spiral as Europe's economy grows. | |
| The economy has slowed in several . regions for the first time this year, according to a Federal Reserve survey released Wednesday. The Fed's report finds that economic activity grew in all 12 regions of the country, but growth slowed in four districts. It was the weakest survey since last fall. | |
| President Obama's top economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, is leaving the administration to return to the University of Chicago, the White House announced Monday. | |
| China and North Korea have broken ground on the initial stages of a pair of joint economic development zones that appear to reflect minor progress in Beijing's push to persuade Pyongyang to reform its moribund economy. | |
| THE fears of an “economic apocalypse” that became widespread late last year are slowly fading, according to the latest consumer figures. | |
| Most of the 12 districts in the Federal Reserve’s report showed expansion in April and May, but New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Chicago slowed. |
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