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Finance History 2010-05-22 (22 May 2010 ) |
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| In case you missed them, here are the top 10 Personal Finance stories from MarketWatch for the week of May 17-21: | |
| European Union finance ministers have agreed there should be tougher sanctions against countries that break budget rules. They were meeting to discuss changes to the way the 27 nations coordinate economic policy. | |
| European Union finance ministers backed tougher sanctions to prevent them running up too much debt in the hopes of winning back market confidence and getting a handle on the debt crisis that is threatening the euro. | |
| NEW YORK -- Shares of some top finance companies were up at the close of trading: Bank of America rose $.69 or percent, to $. Citigroup rose $.12 or percent, to $. JPMorgan Chase rose $ or percent, to $. | |
| KUALA LUMPUR (May 22, 2010): The government has agreed to partially finance the maintenance cost of public housing infrastructures in the Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory. | |
| Thailand, battered by the worst political violence in its modern history, may hold fresh elections, possibly as early as November, the country's finance minister said on Friday. | |
| European Union finance ministers met in Brussels Friday in an attempt to find common ground on how to coordinate fiscal policy and strengthen budget discipline across the 27-nation bloc in the midst of a sovereign debt crisis in the euro zone. | |
| NEW YORK -- Shares of some top finance companies are up at noon: Bank of America rose $.57 or percent, to $. Citigroup rose $.14 or percent, to $. JPMorgan Chase rose $ or percent, to $. | |
| Thailand's finance minister said Friday that early elections are a possibility, but the government isn't bound by its offer to hold them by November because antigovernment protesters never accepted th... | |
| -Finance Minister Colin Hansen made another attempt to change the political storyline this week, when he dropped by the legislative press gallery to announce the recession was over. |
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| A key UN report on biodiversity will recommend massive economic changes like company fines to help save species and protect the natural world, The Guardian reported here on Saturday. | |
| . stocks fell this week, sending the Standard & Poors 500 Index to a three-month low, on growing uncertainty over European leaders plans to halt the debt crisis and economic data that raised doubts about the strength of the economic recovery. | |
| Evidence is mounting that the pace of economic recovery is moderating. Regional manufacturing surveys point to slower order growth. Improvement in jobless claims numbers has stalled. | |
| AMMAN (Kyodo) Jordan is in talks with Japan to send a major economic mission around early June to explore the possibility of cooperating in nuclear power generation, railway system improvement and renewable energy development, Jordanian sources said Friday. Participants in the mission, planned for June 6 to 9, will include seven Cabinet ministers, making it the country's largest-ever economic ... | |
| In just five months, a new economic development initiative funded last year by the Florida Legislature and administered locally by the Economic Development Council (EDC) of Collier County is already reaping benefits by helping established Florida companies get the tools they need to succeed and grow new jobs. | |
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: | |
| The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the overall economic conditions of Sri Lanka are improving as expected and the economy is likely to show strong growth this year. There is no uncertainty as the conflict and elections are over. | |
| The economic case for global action to stop the destruction of the natural world is even more powerful than the argument for tackling climate change, a major report for the United Nations will declare this summer. | |
| The stock market had another tumultuous ride this week as disarray in Europe heightened fears of a global economic slowdown. Despite a late-day comeback Friday, major stock indexes are down about 10 percent from the peak they reached in late April. | |
| Jordan is in talks with Japan to send a major economic mission around early June to explore the possibility of cooperating in nuclear power generation, |
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