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21 Sep 2010 12:08:41 GMTFinance: Post-Crisis, Still a Hot Major
Finance is not dead yet. With a slew of jobs lost on Wall Street and bad publicity surrounding bankers, the finance major has lost a bit of its sparkle with undergraduate students. Still, there are people betting that crisis will birth opportunity and finance majors will again be in demand.
21 Sep 2010 15:13:25 GMTCzech Finance Ministry Says It Plans Early Bond Buybacks in 2011, 2012
The Czech Finance Ministry is considering buying back state bonds worth as much as 60 billion koruna ($ billion) before maturity in the next two years, according to a draft law.
21 Sep 2010 09:05:15 GMTFinance Committee OKs increase for sheriffs budget
The Sheboygan County Boards Finance Committee on Monday recommended that the amount of property taxes used to support the Sheriffs Department be increased in 2011 by $ million, or percent, over this year.
21 Sep 2010 06:16:28 GMTFinance: Lexi Metherell
The latest finance news here and abroad with Lexi Metherell.
20 Sep 2010 06:20:02 GMTFinance House, UAE bank sign Dh157m facility
Finance House, UAE bank sign Dh157m facility
21 Sep 2010 10:08:54 GMTIrish Finance Minister Denies Need For Aid
Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said Ireland would not need to tap an international emergency fund to bail out the country's banks.
21 Sep 2010 13:22:46 GMTYork finance director gone; reason for departure unclear
YORK ? York's finance director is no longer working for the county, but reasons behind her departure remain unclear.
20 Sep 2010 08:27:06 GMTKenya Finance Minister Says Nation Able to Exceed Growth Targets This Year
Kenyan Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta said the East African nation may exceed growth targets for 2010.
20 Sep 2010 05:42:00 GMTHousing Finance of Kenya Says Began $62 Million Sale of Seven-Year Bonds
Housing Finance Co., Kenya?s only publicly traded mortgage company, began the sale of 5 billion Kenyan shillings of bonds that mature in seven years today, the company said.
21 Sep 2010 11:05:31 GMTFinance minister: Russia's credit rating to go up within 2 years
RBC, , Moscow 14:59:16. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin expects Russia's credit rating to climb up within the next two years.

Economic History

21 Sep 2010 09:27:21 GMTEconomic pain continues for Ireland
As economic pain continues for Ireland, the Irish government will test the markets today with a euro bond sale.
21 Sep 2010 00:01:08 GMTEconomic recovery looking less rosy
The economic recovery is looking less rosy than earlier in the year, though the outlook remains positive with no double-dip recession according to NZIER?s survey of forecasts.
20 Sep 2010 22:14:53 GMTEconomic Pain Lingers Despite Recession's End
The National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday that the recession, which began in December 2007, ended more than a year ago. But leading economists -- and the president -- said it doesn't mean the economy is now back on track.
21 Sep 2010 06:24:31 GMTEconomic Transformation Programme: Private sector to lead
92 per cent of funding for economic transformation to come from private investment Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 13:56:00 PETALING JAYA: Malaysia's road towards economic transformation will not be dependent on public funding, but instead the private sector.
20 Sep 2010 19:44:05 GMTEconomic freedom on the decline for first time in quarter century: Fraser Institute
Economic freedom dropped around the world for the first time in decades as a result of the recession, according to...
20 Sep 2010 20:19:05 GMTEconomic panel says recession ended in June 2009
The National Bureau of Economic Research, a panel of academic economists based in Cambridge, Mass., said the recession lasted 18 months. It started in December 2007 and ended in June 2009. Previously the longest postwar downturns were those in 1973-1975 and in 1981-1982. Both of those lasted 16 months.
21 Sep 2010 12:54:44 GMTGerman economic recovery expected to slow significantly in 2H
German economic recovery was expected to continue into the second half of the year, albeit at a significantly slower pace partly due to gloom in some of its trade partners, the German Finance Ministry said in its monthly report on Monday.
21 Sep 2010 17:12:27 GMT'Unprecedented opportunity': Economic boost will be paired with social impact
The economic benefits of the buildup could start kicking in a few months from now when construction work begins, retired Maj. Gen. David Bice, executive director of the Joint Guam Program Office, said yesterday.
20 Sep 2010 16:08:02 GMTEconomic panel: Recession ended in June '09
The Great Recession ended in June 2009, according to the body charged with dating when economic downturns begin and end. But the news comes amid rising fears of a double-dip recession.
21 Sep 2010 02:25:57 GMTEconomic downturn a boon for IKEA's sales
NEW DELHI: IKEA grew sales during its 2009/10 financial year as the global economic downturn sent cost-conscious shoppers to the world's biggest furniture retailer, its chief executive said yesterday. Mikael Ohlsson said in New Delhi that IKEA, the Swedish group with 280 stores in 26 countries, was actively looking at entering the fast-growing South Korean market and also focusing on China and ...
 
 

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