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Finance History 2010-10-13 (13 October 2010 ) |
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| Romania's finance minister was temporarily trapped in his office when civil servants staged a rowdy demonstration inside the Finance Ministry on Wednesday that sparked a wave of protests across the country against government wage cuts. | |
| American Finance House Lariba and Guidance Residential LLC have become the biggest providers of Islamic financial services to the 7 million Muslims in the ., a market Citigroup Inc. and HSBC Holdings Plc aren?t developing. | |
| Romanian civil servants staged a rowdy spontaneous demonstration at the Finance Ministry on Wednesday, sparking a wave of protests across the country against government wage cuts. | |
| Housing Finance Ltd. , Kenya?s only publicly traded mortgage lender, was rated ?buy? with a price target of shillings in new coverage at Genghis Capital Ltd. | |
| UniCredit SpA ?s margins for project finance in central and eastern Europe have narrowed by about one-third because of increasing competition, according to Massimo Pecorari, co-head of project and commodity finance at the Italian bank?s Financing and Advisory unit. | |
| China?s finance ministry sold 28 billion yuan ($ billion) in seven-year bonds at an average yield of percent, according to traders at BOC International (China) Ltd. and Industrial Bank Co. | |
| WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- The theory of transparent campaign finance is being doused by the reality of huge amounts of untraceable cash flowing into the midterm election, observers said. | |
| Petroleos de Venezuela SA, the state oil company, plans to sell $3 billion of bonds in the local market to help finance the company?s investment plan and government housing projects. | |
| Finance Minister Blaine Higgs is promising to erase New Brunswick's staggering budget deficit in four years, but warns that citizens will face some tough choices. | |
| There's plenty of drama in Thailand's markets with a surging currency and rising stocks. But Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij took part in an entirely different sort of drama this week -- a role on a soap opera. |
Economic History|
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Wednesday: ------ BEIJING -- China's September trade surplus stayed high at $ billion amid pressure from Washington and others to ease currency controls they blame for job losses amid a slowing global recovery. | |
| Earnings season could steal some of the attention away from the economy, but a busy week of data will still be very closely watched. A growing number of economists feel that the FOMC will indeed enter a second round of quantitative easing at their November meeting. This was further substantiated when the September employment report was worse than expected. The fact that easing is on the way has ... | |
| Consumer confidence hit a five-month high in early October and the six-month outlook shot up ahead of next month's midterm elections, according to the IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index on Tuesday. | |
| Economic woes have shifted the focus of governmental interest in economic development to a more regional approach. | |
| British economic activity slowed sharply in the third quarter, the British Chambers of Commerce said today, reiterating its call for the Bank of England to inject more stimulus to protect the recovery from budget spending cuts. | |
| I don?t really think the CALED economic development report toldus anything we didn?t already know. It reminded me of when we werekids and our parents told us not to play with matches and we neverlistened, until an unrelated adult told us the same thing and thenwe paid attention. | |
| By ANTHONY HALL United Press International Headlines were sharply disconcerting in the New York Times Wednesday morning 16 month after the . recession officially ended. | |
| WASHINGTON -- Top forecasters say the economy will grow this year and next at a slower pace than previously thought, weakened by governments and consumers spending less so they can pay down debt. That's the finding of a new survey the National Association of Business Economics released Monday. | |
| By ANTHONY HALL United Press International Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. tried very hard not to eat crow Monday, explaining that the Nobel Prize is not a gimme for Federal Reserve Board candidates. | |
| Two in three independents currently say the economy is "getting worse," matching their highest pessimism of the year. Gallup's Economic Confidence Index, at -33 in September, remains at its lowest level of 2010. But early October ratings may provide a ray of hope. |
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