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19 Dec 2009 13:16:17 GMTPersonal Finance Daily: The week's 10 best Personal Finance stories (Market Watch)
In case you missed them, here are the top 10 Personal Finance stories from MarketWatch for the week of Dec. 14-18:
19 Dec 2009 18:51:21 GMTShort-term loans to housing finance cos not a priority sector lending: RBI (The Hindu)
NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank has said short-term loans granted by banks to housing finance companies (HFCs) for further lending to end borrowers will not be treated as priority sector lending. The apex bank said certain scheduled ...
18 Dec 2009 23:17:29 GMTFinal Glance: Finance companies ( via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK -- Shares of some top finance companies were up at the close of trading: Bank of America rose $.17 or percent, to $. Citigroup rose $.20 or percent, to $. JPMorgan Chase rose $.68 or percent, to $.
18 Dec 2009 20:17:24 GMTMidday Glance: Finance companies ( via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK -- Shares of some top finance companies are up at noon: Bank of America rose $.10 or .7 percent, to $. Citigroup rose $.06 or percent, to $. JPMorgan Chase rose $.26 or .6 percent, to $.
19 Dec 2009 16:05:00 GMTSun Life welcomes the outcome of the Finance Ministers' meeting in Whitehorse (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Sun Life Financial Inc. today issued the following statement with respect to the Finance Ministers' meeting in Whitehorse:
18 Dec 2009 16:15:40 GMTPersonal Finance Daily: Flying home for the holidays just got cheaper (Market Watch)
A roundup of personal finance stories on MarketWatch Friday.
18 Dec 2009 15:47:10 GMTEarly Glance: Finance companies ( via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK -- Shares of some top finance companies are mixed at 10 .: Bank of America rose $.12 or .8 percent, to $. Citigroup rose $.02 or .6 percent, to $. JPMorgan Chase fell $.08 or .2 percent, to $.
19 Dec 2009 03:55:28 GMTCanada’s finance ministers agree to drill deeper into pension reform
Canada’s finance ministers agreed Friday to a compromise on pension reform that commits them to more targeted research on how best to boost Canadians’ retirement savings before they settle on a national course of action.
19 Dec 2009 10:05:16 GMTBulgaria Finance Minister: 2009 Crisis Will Go Down in History
Bulgaria Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has stated that 2009 will go down in Bulgarian history as the worst in economic terms since the crash in 1997.
19 Dec 2009 05:21:12 GMTUS charges 3 Al Qaeda men with drug trafficking to finance global terror
New York, Dec 19 (IANS) US prosecutors have charged three alleged Al Qaeda associates with trying to set up a drug trafficking ring in Africa to help finance terror operations across the globe.

Economic History


19 Dec 2009 14:33:32 GMTMARKET SNSHOT: Better Economic Times Vie With Rate Hike Prospects (Nasdaq)
. stock investors in the week ahead will grapple with an increasingly familiar theme -- that better economic data may ring a death knell for the era of the ultralow rates that helped markets rebound this year.
18 Dec 2009 18:54:08 GMTFord in better shape after economic storm: CEO ( via Yahoo! News)
The economic storm that battered the US automotive industry has forced Ford Motor Company into a better position, chief executive Alan Mulally said Friday.
19 Dec 2009 16:05:01 GMTBetter economic times vie with rate hike prospects
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- . stock investors in the week ahead will grapple with an increasingly familiar theme -- that better economic data may ring a death knell for the era of the ultralow r...
19 Dec 2009 19:16:07 GMTRF, Belarus, Kazakhstan to draft documents on common economic (Itar-Tass)
AK-BULAK HOTEL, Almaty outskirts, December 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko and Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev instructed their negotiating teams to draft documents for a common economic system by July 1, 2011 to that they could enter into force from January 1, 2012.
19 Dec 2009 18:01:15 GMT7- percent GDP pretty achievable: Chief economic advisor (Calcutta News)
Kaushik Basu, the newly appointed chief economic advisor in the union finance ministry, Saturday said 7- percent GDP growth is 'pretty achievable' for the country in fiscal 2009-10.
19 Dec 2009 20:03:55 GMTPhilly Fed adds leading economic indicators for Delaware (The Delaware Business Ledger)
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has tweaked economic indices for Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. That would normally produce yawns, but with the economy possibly recovering from a deep recession, a more reliable index would be a big plus.
19 Dec 2009 21:12:47 GMTIran, Vietnam to hold joint economic commission
TEHRAN, Dec. 19 (MNA) – Iran and Vietnam will hold their sixth joint economic commission in Vietnam's capital city Hanoi on December 22.
18 Dec 2009 14:02:49 GMTEuropean Shares Gain on Upbeat Economic Report (New York Times)
Markets in Europe rose Friday after encouraging German economic data, and on Wall Street futures pointed higher.
19 Dec 2009 18:52:43 GMTWall Street hesitates in face of new economic realities ( via Yahoo! News)
Amid signs of a strengthening economy, stock investors have become more cautious in the face of a new landscape in which cheap credit may not be as abundant.
19 Dec 2009 18:06:40 GMTEconomic Plans Take Shape (Arkansas News Bureau)
SHADY POINT — Eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas business and community leaders plan to revitalize regional economic development efforts in January.
 
 

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