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Does world need more stimulus money?
Xinhua :: China | 2 days ago
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While officials at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it was too early for nations to exit their stimulus policies, opinions elsewhere are mixed on which way is the right course. IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said recently that...
Tags: stimulus packages, stimulus measures, central banks, IMF, United States, billion dollars, Japan, China, Xinhua
Bolivian revenues from gas exports fall over 1 billion dollars
La Paz :: Bolivia | 6 days ago
Credibility The main markets for landlocked Bolivia's natural gas are Brazil and to a lesser extent Argentina. Under the fossil-fuel nationalisation ordered by President Evo Morales in May 2006, state-owned Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos, which owns...
Tags: Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos, natural gas, billion dollars, CBH, gas export, Bolivia, La Paz, Repsol YPF, Petrobras, Evo Morales, YPFB, Yacimientos Petrolￃﾭferos Fiscales, Business Finance, Energy in Bolivia
BizNews bestows on PGMA The Business Icon Gold Award
Lopez :: Philippines | 6 days ago
Credibility President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is adjudged the best among the country’s chief executive officers. The country’s largest newsmagazine, BizNews Asia, conferred the Business Icon Gold (BIG) Award on the president, who it said despite the global financial...
Tags: Tony Lopez, Philippines, BizNews Asia, largest economies, icon gold, Pulse Asia, billion dollars, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., business icon, Lopez
Indonesia's richest double wealth in a year: Forbes
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 7 days ago
Credibility Indonesia's 40 richest people have doubled their wealth in the past year to 42 billion dollars, mainly on the back of commodities like coal and palm oil, Forbes magazine reported on Thursday. The elite club has surpassed its previous total-wealth record,...
Tags: billion dollars, palm oil, Grand Indonesia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Business Finance, Billionaire, Bumi Resources, Aburizal Bakrie
Unbridled imports crippling Nigeria (AFP)
Kano :: Nigeria | 9 days ago
Credibility Despite huge natural resources and vast tracts of arable land, Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa?s second largest economy and the continent's most populous nation, largely relies on imports...In 2007, Nigeria spent about 39 billion dollars (26 billion euros)...
Tags: Made-in-Nigeria, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Ibrahim Ayagi, Sani Marshall, billion dollars, Nigeria, Kano, Kano State, Economic Community of West African States, Economic history of Nigeria, Economy of Iraq, Economy of Nigeria, Business Finance
AIG completes deal to reduce debt to Federal Reserve
New York City :: NY :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility The transaction involves AIG shifting ownership of these two units into separate entities, which themselves remain owned by AIG. The New York Fed is being given preferred stakes in AIA worth $16 billion and in Alico worth $9 billion. AIG said that after...
Tags: AIG, New York Federal Reserve, life insurers, federal reserves, insurers giant, American International Group Inc, preferred shares, reserves bank, billion dollars, insurers companies, New York City, American International Group, Business Finance, Holdings of American International Group, Robert Benmosche, Alico, Insurance, AIG Financial Products, Edward M. Liddy, American International Assurance, Politics, AIA Central, ALICO Building, Subprime mortgage crisis, Labor, Troubled Asset Relief Program, economics, AIG American General, Chartis, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
Ecuador, China to create oil joint venture (AFP)
Quito :: Ecuador | 14 days ago
Credibility Ecuador and China will form a joint venture to develop an oil bloc in the South American country that has proven reserves of 120 million barrels of crude, an Ecuadoran official said Wednesday. Germanico Pinto, the minister of non-renewable natural resources,...
Tags: Ecuadoran, joint venture, China, million dollars, billion dollars, andes china, Ecuador, Quito, PetroChina, Business Finance, Hang Seng Index Constituent Stocks, Petroecuador, Sinopec, Rafael Correa, Lago Agrio oil field
Saudi Arabia, second in the world of Islamic banking
Saudi Arabia has assumed the second place globally in the Islamic banking assets amounted to 127.8 billion dollars, a growth of 38,9%, while Iran ranked first in the world. The survey Bunker said the GCC is the largest regions in the world that are...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, islamic banks, allnews, Magazine, Islamic banking, Business Finance, Investment banks, Islamic, HSBC, billion dollars, Iran, the GCC Foundation
CLIMATE CHANGE-MEXICO: A Policy of Pretence
Mexico :: Philippines | 20 days ago
Credibility Although it is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in Latin America and the Caribbean, after Brazil, and will be hosting next year's United Nations climate meeting, Mexico is heading to the Cophenhagen summit practically empty-handed...Denmark,...
Tags: Mexico, Copenhagen, ones climate, Kyoto Protocol, Sandra Guzm, Miguel Valencia, Klimaforum, civil society, billion dollars, Philippines, Global warming, Environmental economics, Clean Development Mechanism, Economics of global warming, Climate change, Carbon finance, Diplomatic conferences, Environment
Q&A: "Massive Transfer of Power to the Poor" Needed In Crisis
La Paz :: Bolivia | 20 days ago
Credibility Andean subregion, would suggest to Latin American governments. U.N. agency) programme manager for Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru urges the region's leaders to scrap the economic models responsible for widening the poverty gap, and do away with "tinpot...
Tags: Latin American, United States, massive transfers, Barack Obama, cell phones, IFAD, U.S, Bolivia, billion dollars, La Paz
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