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Coming Week: Don't Count on Fed - Street.Com
Stocks will limp into the next week at levels not seen since the Bear Stearns debacle, with no hope of a boost from the Federal Reserve . Oil and other commodity prices rallied again last week while credit conditions worsened on Wall Street and the ...
2008-06-21 05:40:00 -
IMF says economy is set to ‘stagnate’ - Financial Times
The US economy is likely to “stagnate” in the second half of this year, the International Monetary Fund warned on Friday, as stock markets in the US and Europe fell to their lowest levels since March and US bank shares hit a five-year low. The ...
2008-06-20 04:26:00 -
Global woes send Wall St. into tailspin - San Diego Union-Tribune
Concerns about skyrocketing oil prices, the deteriorating state of banking balance sheets and the growingly fragility of the global economy shook Wall Street yesterday, pushing the stock market to one of its lowest points this year. The market's ...
2008-06-21 10:41:00 -
Thomson Reuters falls to lowest level since merger - Daily Telegraph
Media giant Thomson Reuters slipped to the lowest level since the merger that created it after Collins Stewart advised investors to "sell now whilst there's a buyer in town" before the company finishes its buy-back programme. Thomson Reuters, which ...
2008-06-18 05:54:00 -
Repo rate hike of 0.25% likely - Times of India
NEW DELHI: Reserve Bank of India may soon raise the interest rate for short-term lending to banks once again as a measure to control the unabated rise in inflation that shot to 13-year high at 11.05 per cent, economists said. The short-term lending ...
2008-06-20 08:40:00 -
Mervyn tightens his grip on power as deputy bows out - Guardian Unlimited
The end, when it came, was swift and humiliating. As Sir John Gieve tucked into his first course of gravadlax in the opulent splendour of the annual Mansion House dinner last Wednesday evening, he learned that a statement confirming he was to step ...
2008-06-21 10:01:00 -
Indian gov't working on rising inflation - Xinhua News Agency
NEW DELHI, June 21 (Xinhua) -- The Indian government and top Congress Party leaders held an urgent meeting Saturday to discuss strategy to manage inflation which has hit 13-year high at 11.05 percent, NDTV reported. The meeting, attended by Prime ...
2008-06-21 07:06:00 -
Hellman & Friedman joins bid gang for media firm Informa - Times Online
THE American private-equity firm Hellman & Friedman has emerged as part of the consortium in talks to buy media firm Informa, publisher of Lloyd’s List. The Sunday Times has learnt that Hellman is part of a private-equity trio that includes Carlyle ...
2008-06-21 03:27:00 -
RLPC-BAA's 7.15 bln pound refi loan to launch soon-sources - International Herald Tribune
LONDON : A 7.15 billion pound loan to partly refinance the debt used by Spanish conglomerate Ferrovial to acquire UK airport operator BAA, will launch to syndication imminently, banking sources said on Friday. Ferrovial has been attempting to ...
2008-06-20 07:50:00 -
Balkanalysis.com (Balkanalysis.com)
While 2003 was not the banner year hoped for by the government, it still offered some signs for cautious optimism, especially in terms of foreign investment and a burnished international image owing to the general lack of violence.
2008-06-21 04:59:00 -
Balkanalysis.com (Balkanalysis.com)
Buoyed by optimistic predictions for future growth and increased research investments, Microsoft is wooing European clients, both private and public.
2008-06-21 05:17:23 -
We're paying the price for Gordon Brown's fairweather policies (Daily Telegraph)
One of the Bank of England's main jobs is to maintain "financial stability" by helping to supervise the banking system. On top of that, of course, the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee sets interest rates.
2008-06-21 05:22:59 -
Federal Reserve's political masters will damage America (Daily Telegraph)
At the start of last week, I thought that the US Federal Reserve was starting to get to grips with the gravity of the current situation. I allowed myself to believe that the world's most important central bank had decided to bite the bullet and address the serious inflationary dangers we face. But I was wrong.
2008-06-21 05:23:10 -
Balkanalysis.com (Balkanalysis.com)
Rising from the subtropical shores of the Black Sea to the majestic Caucasus mountains, Georgia is a rich and varied nation only now removing itself from the shadow of the Soviet Union.
2008-06-21 05:29:29 -
Small businesses in big trouble (The Star)
Issues of rising costs of raw materials, labour and the recent price hike in utilities have posed a major blow to small and medium enterprises.
2008-06-21 07:56:10