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Finance History 2010-09-25 (25 September 2010 ) |
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| Senate Republicans blocked a campaign finance bill that would require special interest groups running campaign ads to identify their donors. Republicans dismissed Democratic efforts as a midterm election ploy. | |
| Finance companies continue to have a place in the New Zealand market but they need to be structured differently than in the past, says corporate restructuring expert David Bridgman. | |
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| 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. | |
| Housing finance has been identified as a great challenge for many African countries as governments continue to give priority to other socio-economic needs pushing housing down the needs hierarchy. | |
| HSBC finance director Douglas Flint is emerging as the likely candidate to replace Stephen Green as chairman, a report said Thursday, citing people close to the bank's board. | |
| Arguing that Florida?s campaign finance laws need more ?teeth,? a state prosecutor proffered as ?Exhibit A? the case of former Port St. Lucie Mayor Patricia Christensen. | |
| In case you missed them, here are the top 10 Personal Finance stories from MarketWatch for the week of Sept. 20 to 24: | |
| Europe finally voted through landmark curbs Wednesday to clamp down on its finance industry just as fears returned that Ireland, like Greece, was staring down bankruptcy. | |
| DUBAI ? Sixty-six per cent of Middle East Islamic finance leaders believe that the industry is under regulated, a survey report released on Thursday by Deloitte reveals. |
Economic History|
| President Barack Obama hammered Republicans on Saturday over their newly unveiled campaign agenda, calling the opposition party's economic ideas "an echo of a disastrous decade we can't afford to relive." | |
| Both new home sales and durable goods orders fall short, but this hasnt stopped stocks from rallying Friday. Economic data has been mixed at best this past week, which until today, had led to some profit taking. Now it seems traders anticipate that either the economy will improve or the Fed will add more stimulus, both of which would likely lead to gains for equities. Housing has been a focus ... | |
| The economic recovery in the euro region stalled in September for a sixth month as fixed-income investors became more concerned about the outlook, a Eurocoin index showed. | |
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: ------ BERLIN -- German business confidence reached levels not seen in three years during September as the economy strengthened, but the coming months are likely to be more difficult, a closely watched survey showed. | |
| The shakeup of President Barack Obama's economic team continued as Lawrence Summers announced he would leave at the end of the year to return to teaching at Harvard University. | |
| British Pound Rally Could Falter As Economic Outlook Deteriorates \ Fundamental Forecast for British Pound: Neutral Mortgage Appro vals By Major . Banks Expand Less-Than-Expected Public Sector Borrowing Rises At Record Pace in August BoE Votes 8-1 to Maintain Current Policy, Andrew Sentance Dissents The British Pound advanced to a fresh monthly high of on Friday and the exchange rate ... | |
| Sentiment in stock markets took a hit Thursday as worries over the global economic recovery ratcheted up following a surprising rise in . jobless claims, a big drop in European business sentiment and renewed concerns about Ireland's ability to ride out its financial storm. | |
| PRINCETON BOROUGH -- Economic theory did not fail the . economy so much as fall short of enabling policymakers to understand the deepening crisis as it blossomed into a full-blown recession, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, said yesterday at Princeton University. | |
| At a time when the protection of economic, social and cultural rights has never been more important, we call on you to sign and ratify or accede to the new Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which was unanimously ... | |
| Republicans on Wednesday urged President Barack Obama to pick a more business-friendly successor to economic adviser Larry Summers, a move that would signal a shift to the center. |
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