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Finance History 2010-11-17 (17 November 2010 ) |
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| Following are comments by European Union finance ministers and officials ahead of a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday. | |
| Ghanaian Finance Minister Kwabena Duffuor may announce plans to cut the fiscal deficit in the budget tomorrow as the West African nation starts to reap revenue from oil exports. | |
| LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou on Tuesday said Athens would meet its budget goals after Austria said it may withhold aid unless Greece shows it can meet its revenue targets. Speaking to reporters ahead of a meeting of euro-zone finance ministers in Brussels, Papaconstantinou repeated that Greece plans to take additional steps to meet its 2011 budget target ... | |
| European finance ministers voiced confidence that Ireland will ride out its fiscal crisis, ducking investors’ pleas for a bailout package and risking a renewed convulsion on bond markets. | |
| Ireland's economic problems were expected to dominate Wednesday's regular meeting of European Union economic and finance ministers in Brussels, Belgium. | |
| The incoming senior bureaucrat in the Department of Finance says "significant changes" are needed to end the province's spending shortfall. | |
| FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti should find ways of unlocking internal resources to finance the 2011 budget instead of relying on finances he does not have control of, the chairman of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on the Budget, Finance and Investment Promotion has said. | |
| Euro zone ministers have agreed to send a joint European-IMF mission to Ireland that could prepare the way for a bailout to prevent its debt crisis destabilizing the euro zone. | |
| Santa Fe's finance director says the city could save money by funding capital-improvement projects directly from gross-receipts taxes rather than borrowing against future tax revenues. | |
| AN extra ?3m levy could be put on the finance industry to fund reduced income tax bills for Islanders. |
Economic History|
| Economic reports have been heavy during the past couple of sessions, but the data has done little to help stock prices. Inflation has been a topic of conversation of late after the Fed decided to add more money to the economy in the form of Treasury buying. However, the most recent reports on pricing pressures show few signs of concern. Housing data has also been on the calendar, but this sector ... | |
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Wednesday: ------ BRUSSELS -- European officials are heading to Ireland in an attempt to determine how bad the country's banking woes are. | |
| An economic outlook from Scotiabank says Ontario will see considerably slower economic growth in 2011, underperforming resource-rich areas of the country. | |
| Bulgaria’s economic recovery should halt the rise in bad loans as it picks up pace in the next six months, helping commercial banks recover losses incurred during the global crisis, the head of UniCredit’s Bulgarian unit said. | |
| The country's slowing economic growth will be most evident in Central Canada next year as opposed to areas in the West, East and North that are supported by resource industries, says a report released Wednesday. | |
| Two northern Louisiana economic development groups that have been acting as partners for more than a year will officially become one on Jan. 1 after the leaders of both organizations voted to finalize a merger. | |
| Record pices of hairy crab give China's economy a leg up. | |
| President Barack Obama on Tuesday interviewed investment banker Roger Altman, a former Treasury official, as a candidate to replace departing economic adviser Larry Summers, a White House official said. | |
| Scott names economic advisors By Tanya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel Gov.-elect Rick Scott announced today a cast of six “economic experts” — including his campaign’s chief economic adviser, Donna Arduin — who will advise him as he moves to further his campaign pledge to create 700,000 jobs in seven years. The group will advise Scott “throughout the budget process as [...] | |
| China hopes Kashgar, the crossroads of Europe and Asia, will become the launch pad for goods into South and Central Asia. But Uighur residents worry that the real goal is to weaken their identity. At the Sunday market in Kashgar, it isn't a wild stretch to imagine commerce as it might have been in the 13th century when Marco Polo passed through this Silk Road oasis: Smooth-faced boys wrangle ... |
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