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Finance History 2010-12-11 (11 December 2010 ) |
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| Finding qualified candidates for financial services and accounting positions should prove easy with the . unemployment rate near 10 percent. However, firms have encountered a competitive marketplace as they search for the right employee, according to a new survey. | |
| In case you missed them, here are the top 10 Personal Finance stories from MarketWatch for the week of Dec. 6-10. | |
| FirstRand Ltd., South Africa?s second-largest financial-services group, has been contracted by the Central Bank of Zambia to run Finance Bank Zambia Ltd., central bank spokesman Kanguya Mayondi said today. | |
| Broadlands Finance, the auto-financier controlled by Tony Radisich, had its credit rating cut two notches to B by Standard & Poor's | |
| Labour unions on . said they're pleased their lobby for pension reform is getting support from the island's finance minister. | |
| An official of the Bureau of Customs has filed a complaint against an officer of the Department of Finance?s Revenue Integrity Protection Service (RIPS) for allegedly trying to force him to release P10 million worth of smuggled goods intercepted at the Manila harbor in November. | |
| By Keith Mullin, Editor at Large, International Financing Review; the views expressed are his own. | |
| James P. McKenna, former candidate for attorney general, has been cited by the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance for a campaign finance violation, but was not fined or penalized because he immediately corrected the error. | |
| DUBAI ? Gulf Finance, a UAE-based boutique finance company, believes that the 3rd Arabian Business Forum held recently at the Armani Hotel served as the perfect platform for the regional business community to discuss new market opportunities even as the economy steadily recovers from the consequences of the global financial crisis. | |
| The number of strong-wool farmers signing up to a proposed new co-operative aimed at dominating the wool industry has slowed, with growers unwilling to commit because they are cash-strapped. |
Economic History|
| A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: | |
| South Korea's economic growth is set to slow to a more normal level of percent next year, the central bank said Friday in a report that warns of significant uncertainties for the outlook including tensions with North Korea. | |
| . Markets closed higher at the end of the trading session as brighter economic data helped buoy the Dow. The markets have been relatively flat this week, as the Dow has experienced less than 20 point movements in either direction for five consecutive days. | |
| HAMILTON ? The city?s economic development administrator has resigned from her position effective Dec. Johnson-Gabbard resigned Wednesday, she said, after accepting the position of director of brownfield development at the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority. | |
| Bruce Traughber, longtime city economic development director, is taking a top job with the University of Louisville Foundation's life-sciences business development firm. | |
| Economic data suggest that a 1 percentage point increase in China?s growth rate sustained over five years means an extra percentage point of growth for the rest of the world, two experts at the International Monetary Fund said after studying figures for the past two decades. | |
| East Europe?s export-led economic recovery reached households in the third quarter, boosting growth in the Czech Republic, Estonia and Hungary as domestic spending rose following recessions last year. | |
| RENO, Nev. - Nevada's tough economic times seem to have helped unify disparate interests in the state's tourism industry as it tries to best position itself for the future, state and business leaders say. | |
| Prince William has highlighted how the economic downturn has had a "devastating effect" on the numbers of people sleeping rough on Britain's streets. | |
| The annual meeting to set economic policy for the coming year is getting under way in Beijing, with the decisions affecting the whole world. |
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