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Sunday and a key topic of discussion was on broadening access to economic opportunities so that everyone can benefit from growth. Leaders Meeting next weekend to finalise the outcome documents for their Ministers and Leaders to endorse. Leaders' meeting...
Tags: China-Singapore, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, sustainable growth, financial crisis, cooperation forum
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold talks with the Swedish premier on a range of bilateral and global issues, including the global financial crisis, climate change, economic ties and ways to deepen cooperation between the two countries in the field...
Tags: climate change, Indian, Union-India, energy security, global financial, financial crisis, Sweden
The bank reported September-year cash earnings of $236 million, down 40 per cent on a year ago. The six months to September were particularly painful with cash earnings of just $34 million against $240 million for the same period a year earlier. Westpac...
Tags: Westpac New Zealand, Westpac NZ, bad debts, St George Bank, chief executive, impairment charges, executive gail, Gail Kelly, cash earnings, financial crisis
NEW YORK -- "As you might have realized by now, we're in a difficult situation," said billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros to a sold-out crowd at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 30, 2009. Though Soros earned over $1 billion last...
Tags: PEN, George Soros, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Financial Crisis
EBRD eyes flaws in East Europe model [ fr ][ de ]� Published: Monday 2 November 2009� � The flaws in Eastern Europe's model of growth have been exposed by the financial crisis and commodity-reliant countries like Russia must expand their industrial base...
Tags: East Europe, Eastern Europe, EBRD, financial crisis, european banking
US stocks surged on Thursday after government data showed that the economy had exited recession in the third quarter to post its strongest growth in two years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average chalked up 199.89 points (2.05 percent) to 9,962.58, marking...
Tags: exited recession, strongest growth, economy grew, government data, Commerce Department, global financial, financial crisis, data showed, mortgage crisis, crisis triggered
Krishna, Yang Jiechi and Sergey Lavrov are expected to discuss the role of Pakistan in stabilising the region. The threat of rising Taliban violence in Afghanistan and ways to rebuild the war-torn country are expected to be major topics at the meet. The...
Tags: Russia-India-China, foreign ministers, Afghanistan-Pakistan, 14th Dalai Lama, Yang Jiechi, climate change, Arunachal Pradesh, S.M. Krishna, financial crisis
The Big Mac, long a symbol of globalization, has become the latest victim of this tiny island nation's overexposure to the world financial crisis...Costs had doubled over the past year because of the fall in the krona and high import tariffs on imported...
Tags: currency, Iceland, McDonald's Corp., McDonald’s, financial crisis, Jon Ogmundsson, doing business
The Federal Reserve announced a proposal Thursday to set guidelines on the pay policies of U.S. banks. The central bank said it will examine 28 major banks and smaller, regional banks to make sure their compensation polices "do not undermine their safety...
Tags: Federal Reserve, Kenneth Feinberg, Ken Feinberg, Treasury Department, financial crisis
A man who cannot, without inordinate delay, decide which type of biscuit he favours most does not sound like the right person to make swift judgments on critical matters of national moment. This was the picture painted by David Cameron, the Tory leader,...
Tags: Bank of England Governor, Gordon Brown, Mr Brown, Mervyn King, Its Central Bank Disagree, big banks, financial crisis, House of Commons committee