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Kaieda, Noda playing off for Japan ruling party leader
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Kaieda, Noda playing off for Japan ruling party leader
TOKYO, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- A runoff has been kicked off between Japan's industry minister Banri Kaieda and finance minister Yoshihiko Noda in the presidential election of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) on Monday.Read Full Article ...
 
Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg Files Bond Shelf At Japan MOF
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg Files Bond Shelf At Japan MOF
Dow Jones )- Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg filed shelf registrations at Japan's Ministry of Finance last week to issue samurai and uridashi bonds over the next...
 
NPP Abstention on $3 billion Loan
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Monday, 29 August 2011
NPP Abstention on $3 billion Loan
, A Political Opportunism or a Miscalculation? I hope NPP and NDC readers and fundamentalists will not judge a book by its cover and begin to attack me as an N...
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Banks unlikely to hit lending targets as loan demand falls
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Banks unlikely to hit lending targets as loan demand falls
€3bn Lending-approval target to be met by both AIB and BoI A lack of demand for loans means AIB and Bank of Ireland are unlikely to meet their lending targets ...
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S. Korea could cut 2011 growth outlook on external uncertainties: FM
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Monday, 29 August 2011
S. Korea could cut 2011 growth outlook on external uncertainties: FM
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- South Korean Finance Minister said on Monday that it could cut economic growth outlook for this year, citing heightened external unc...
 
Corporate Nepal has high hopes of Bhattarai
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Corporate Nepal has high hopes of Bhattarai
As someone who handled the Finance Ministry with aplomb, the country’s private sector has high hopes from new Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai.Read Full Articl...
 
Sime to acquire 30% of E
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Sime to acquire 30% of E
Sime Darby will acquire 273 million E&O shares as well as 60 million irredeemable convertible secured loan stocks or 30% of the company on a fully diluted basi...
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Finance Ministry mulls imposing higher taxes on Israel's super-rich
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Finance Ministry mulls imposing higher taxes on Israel's super-rich
This is one plan the treasury is examining as it searches for ways to increase the state's tax revenues. The extra money would be used to fund measures demande...
 
Rwanda: KCB Mortgage Loans Grow to Rwf4 Billion This Year
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Rwanda: KCB Mortgage Loans Grow to Rwf4 Billion This Year
KCB Rwanda's mortgage loan book has grown to Rwf 4 billion since its launch in March this year....
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Nigeria: World Bank Approves $82 Million for Kainji Dam
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Nigeria: World Bank Approves $82 Million for Kainji Dam
The Chief Executive Officer of Kainji Hydro Electricity Plc, Mr Reuben Akinwumi, said, weekend, the World Bank has approved $82 million loan for the rehabilita...
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China's July lottery sales jump 37.1 pct year-on-year
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Monday, 29 August 2011
China's July lottery sales jump 37.1 pct year-on-year
BEIJING, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- China's July lottery sales rose 37.1 percent year-on-year to 18.2 billion yuan (2.85 billion U.S. dollars), the Ministry of Financ...
 
Irene Adds to a Bad Year for Insurance Industry
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Irene Adds to a Bad Year for Insurance Industry
Most of the loss will very likely come from property in New York and New Jersey, according to industry experts. Although Irene had diminished to a tropical sto...
 
National Finance trial delayed
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Monday, 29 August 2011
National Finance trial delayed
The High Court trial against three former directors of National Finance has been delayed while one of the defendants launches an appeal to overturn a decision ...
 
New critical audit for Greece
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Monday, 29 August 2011
New critical audit for Greece
GREECE heads into a key EU-IMF evaluation of its ailing finances this week amid growing uncertainty over a crucial debt rollover, bickering among its European ...
 
Wells Fargo, JPMorgan, Loan Star win Anglo Irish loans: sources (Reuters)
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Wells Fargo, JPMorgan, Loan Star win Anglo Irish loans: sources (Reuters)
Reuters - Wells Fargo & Co, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Lone Star Funds were the winners of the $9.5 billion pool of U.S. commercial real estate loan sold by faile...
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Passenger rights when flights are canceled
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Passenger rights when flights are canceled
By CANDICE CHOI AP Personal Finance Writer More>> NEW YORK (AP) - What rights do you have when your flight is canceled or delayed? After airlines scrapped more...
 
Wells Fargo, JPMorgan, Loan Star win Anglo Irish loans: sources
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Wells Fargo, JPMorgan, Loan Star win Anglo Irish loans: sources
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Lone Star Funds were the winners of the $9.5 billion pool of U.S. commercial real estate loan so...
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01:39 on 29 August, 2011 UTC
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Monday, 29 August 2011
01:39 on 29 August, 2011 UTC
No gain in daylight saving says Samoa opposition Posted at 01:39 on 29 August, 2011 UTC The Samoa opposition says daylight saving brings no economic advantages...
 
Vanuatu tourism to receive massive boost
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Vanuatu tourism to receive massive boost
The tourism industry in Vanuatu has been given a much needed boost, with the country's Minister of Finance, Moana Kalosil Carcasses revealing that the governme...
 
LIC to take on market volatility
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Monday, 29 August 2011
LIC to take on market volatility
The country's largest capital market player Life Insurance Corporation, with over R12 lakh crore assets, is ready to provide support to reduce volatility in th...
 
Action urged over credit demand
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Action urged over credit demand
THE Small Firms Association wants the Department of Finance to commission a survey of companies’ lending needs to counter-act the banking sector’s understateme...
 
World Bank approves $82m for Kainji dam
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Monday, 29 August 2011
World Bank approves $82m for Kainji dam
The Chief Executive Officer of Kainji Hydro Electricity Plc, Mr Reuben Akinwumi, said, weekend, the World Bank has approved $82 million loan for the rehabilita...
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Audley Travel eyes stake sale
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Audley Travel eyes stake sale
The founders of Audley Travel, the upmarket holiday company, have appointed corporate finance advisers to sell a stake in the business that could value it at m...
 
European officials round on Lagarde
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Monday, 29 August 2011
European officials round on Lagarde
-- European officials rounded on Christine Lagarde on Sunday, accusing the managing director of the International Monetary Fund of making a "confused" and "mis...
 
No cut for the king from SA loan to Swaziland
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Monday, 29 August 2011
No cut for the king from SA loan to Swaziland
The Treasury has quashed any suggestions that Swaziland's King Mswati III would be entitled to commissions on the R2.4-billion loan guarantee granted to the ti...
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Flood insurance: How many victims of Irene were covered?
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Monday, 29 August 2011
Flood insurance: How many victims of Irene were covered?
Flood insurance for damages in New Jersey and New York is big question mark. Share of damaged homes covered by flooding insurance not yet known.Read Full Artic...
 
Three win Anglo Irish property loans
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Sunday, 28 August 2011
Three win Anglo Irish property loans
Bangalore: JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo & Co , and distressed debt and equity investor Lone Star Funds have won bids for Anglo Irish Bank’s US$9.5bil US commerc...
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Tekun loans to reach RM2bil
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Sunday, 28 August 2011
Tekun loans to reach RM2bil
KOTA KINABALU: Tekun Nasional expects disbursement of micro-credit soft loans for cottage industries to touch RM2bil by the end of the year, says chief executi...
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Banks give cautious guidance
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Sunday, 28 August 2011
Banks give cautious guidance
THE recent earnings results of Malaysian banks showed that while the momentum for leading loan indicators continues to accelerate, the bigger picture is not qu...
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Insurance companies gear up, offer tips
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Sunday, 28 August 2011
Insurance companies gear up, offer tips
Insurance companies had hundreds of claims adjusters ready to be deployed as well as agents responding to phone calls as residents Sunday began surveying the d...
 
Schaeuble predicts 'seven lean years' ahead
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Sunday, 28 August 2011
Schaeuble predicts 'seven lean years' ahead
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the global economy may see “seven lean years” as a result of needed fiscal consolidation programs, even as top ...
 
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