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Finance History 2010-10-19 (19 October 2010 ) |
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| Gulf Finance House EC said it will seek shareholders? approval for an asset-swap transaction between the Bahrain-based investment bank and its Chairman Esam Janahi at a meeting on Oct. 31. | |
| Hedge-fund and private-equity regulations were approved by European Union finance ministers after they ended a dispute over requirements for fund managers from outside the EU. | |
| An apparent compromise reached Monday would give countries that spend beyond their means a last chance to adjust their budgets before sanctions are imposed. | |
| South Korea?s won fell the most in a week after Finance Minister Yoon Jeung Hyun said ?measures? are being prepared to stem capital inflows and action will be taken to curb exchange-rate voltility. | |
| The list of recommended spending for the Oct. 25 special Town Meeting also includes cash for painting at Town Hall, a new street sweeper and dump truck for the Highway Department, two police cars, a lawnmower for the Parks Department, technology equipment for town departments and capital equipment for the schools. | |
| The Serious Fraud Office is investigating five related party loans involving South Canterbury Finance made between 2005 and chief executive Adam Feeley said that he wasn't prepared to name the specific transactions under... | |
| Duke?s top finance man is trading Devils for Demons. Hof Milam, vice president for finance and treasurer, will step down in December to become senior vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer at Wake Forest University. read more | |
| Luxembourg - European Union finance ministers on Monday struck a deal to toughen the bloc's budget discipline rules but left many details of the new regime to be defined later. | |
| Former Finance Secretary Margarito Teves denied Monday that the sale of old Iloilo airport property in 2007 was riddled with anomalies and tax evasion. | |
| LITTLE ROCK ? A state finance official says he disagrees with Attorney General Dustin McDaniel on whether companies that maintain medical records are required to collect a sales tax when releasing those records to Arkansas patients. |
Economic History|
| Economic news will remain a focus this week, although the bulk of traders attentions will be on earnings announcements. The fact that the Fed is expected to enter into a second round of quantitative easing will keep traders aware of economic data, although it is unlikely that any data announced between now and the FOMC meeting the first week of November will change the Feds decision to ease. Fed ... | |
| Japan downgraded its monthly economic assessment on Tuesday for the first time in 20 months, citing the rapid rise of the yen and a slowdown of exports and production. | |
| The Economic and Organised Crime Office is seeking to collate information from members of the public and other organised groups in carrying out its new mandate. | |
| The ZEW economic expectations gauge, a measure of German investor sentiment, falls toward a two-year low in October, while the assessment of current conditions sees further improvement. | |
| Amy Lane - LANSING-Michigan economic developers are calling for strategic change, and they're looking for the next governor to help make it happen. With an eye toward turnover in the Legislature and a new administration, the Michigan Economic Developers Association has laid out a blueprint to remake state economic-development strategy, focusing on business climate, structure and incentives. It ... | |
| Japan lowered its monthly economic assessment Tuesday for the first time in 20 months, citing a rapid rise in the yen and a slowdown of exports and production. | |
| The Conference Board of Canada has cut its growth forecast for the economy next year. | |
| It took the European Union eight long years and an Olympic steeplechase of legal hurdles to revamp the treaty that governs relations across the world's biggest trading bloc. | |
| . Markets closed in positive territory amid better than expected earnings and economic data. Citigroup?s third quarter earnings topped analysts? estimates as the amount it set aside for credit losses fell. | |
| Japan's government cut its view on the economy for the first time since February 2009, saying it was at a standstill, as the rising yen and slowing exports threaten to derail a fragile economic recovery. |
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