Significant Risks in Passive Chinese ETFs
Source: The Motley Fool
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-15 07:38:50 -0700 | business-news
Passive, index-tracking exchange-traded funds are in huge demand -- but are they always wise investments?...The year-to-date return is -5.08% and a dividend has yet to be established or paid (see the price chart below). Some of the risks I see...
Egypt's Orascom Telecom says it rejects Altimo's buyout offer (Reuters)
Source: Xtra News
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-14 10:08:50 -0700 | business-news
Egyptian group Orascom Telecom Holding's management has recommended shareholders reject an offer by a subsidiary of Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman's Altimo to buy the company for $0.70 (46 pence) a share. A Cyprus-based subsidiary of Altimo made the offer in...
Algeria banks to finance 12-bn-euro housing build
Source: Daily Nation
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-12 18:44:01 -0700 | business-news
Public banks in Algeria are to finance the building of more than 250,000 new homes by the end of 2014 to the tune of 12 billion euros, the head of the CPA bank said Sunday. APS news agency quoted CPA...
Cement-maker Lafarge doubles loss, but shares jump
Source: The Economic Times
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-07 08:39:12 -0700 | business-news
French cement-maker Lafarge said on Tuesday that its net loss doubled in the first quarter because of bad weather and production mishaps, but maintained its outlook for 2013. In the January to March period, Lafarge said losses rose to 117...
Is OPEC coming apart at the seams?
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-06 12:06:11 -0700 | business-news
But with seven of the 12 members of the cartel experiencing at least some form of upheaval, the cost of doing business suggests members may need more than a little bit of luck to return to glory...Graeber , Guest blogger...
ConocoPhillips: Traveling Lighter and Faster
Source: The Motley Fool
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-04-28 13:37:39 -0700 | business-news
In the latter, you're bound to encounter a house that's seen better days and is being torn asunder, en route to new eye-popping splendor. Similarly, the company continues to undergo a makeover, and while the final results may also be...
Industry laments loss
Source: Fiji Times
Sūġar :: Algeria | updated 2013-04-26 14:01:09 -0700 | business-news
Lieutenant Colonel Manasa Vaniqi said the sugar industry would miss the commitment and support of the late Tui Macuata Ratu Aisea Katonivere. Speaking to this newspaper, Lt-Col Vaniqi said Ratu Aisea was influential in persuading landowners to give their land...
Eni Feels Pinch From Algerian Investigation
Source: International Herald Tribune
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-04-24 17:02:31 -0700 | business-news
The Algerian investigation into alleged corruption by the Italian oil services firm Saipem is beginning to have an effect on the company's business, it emerged from financial results reported this week. Saipem has long been a main contributor to the...
Algeria seeks Saudi education expertise
Source: Zawya Regional
Constantine :: Algeria | updated 2013-04-20 21:59:11 -0700 | business-news
Algeria wants advice from the Kingdom on how to develop its higher education sector, particularly science and technology institutions and its scholarship program...He arrived here last week with a large contingent from the ministry to participate in the International Higher...
PTTEP, joint venture partners announce successful test oil-gas drilling in Algeria
Source: The Nation
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-04-19 11:43:01 -0700 | business-news
The last three exploration wells were drilled and yielded petroleum discoveries...Meanwhile the seventh exploration well (Rhourde Rhorfat-1) showed crude-oil flow at the approximate rate of 478bpd and the eighth exploration well (Rhourde Abadje-1) at about 484bpd.
Colonel assures growers
Source: Fiji Times
Sūġar :: Algeria | updated 2013-04-18 13:45:00 -0700 | business-news
Lieutenant Colonel Manasa Vaniqi reassured cane growers in the country that the government and industry stakeholders were doing everything possible to ensure that their livelihoods would be protected. He said support for the industry remained steadfast despite price fluctuations brought...
China invested $1.5 bn in Algeria in a decade: Envoy
Source: The Economic Times
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-04-14 05:03:17 -0700 | business-news
Beijing has invested more than $1.5 billion (1.1 billion euros) over the past decade in Algeria, where 50 top Chinese companies and 30,000 workers are based, media reported on Sunday...Algeria has granted 50 Chinese companies building contracts worth a total...
How much PETROL costs around the world
Source: India Abroad
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-04-10 22:22:01 -0700 | business-news
A general view of the In Amenas gas facility about 100 km (60 miles) from the Algerian and Libyan border...Image: A general view of an oil dock is seen from a ship at the port of Kalantari in Chabahar, 300km...
Algerian envoy calls for more deal-making
Source: Chinadaily
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-04-07 21:15:38 -0700 | business-news
Abdelkader Bensalah, president of the Council of the Nation of Algeria, told China Daily on Sunday. Algeria would like to encourage cooperation among enterprises from both countries and make "strategic investments", he said. Bensalah is in China as the representative...
The US Army's April Fools Joke Includes A Photoshopped Hybrid Cat Soldier
Source: BusinessInsider
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-04-01 10:34:54 -0700 | business-news
Army is joining in the fun with an update to their already successful military working dog program...Megan Garcia writes about the 'Military working cat' program being unveiled at the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment: Officials hope to capitalize on cats' olfactory...
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