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Nigeria sends 2010 budget for parliament approval
Abuja :: Nigeria | about 6 hours ago
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An aide to Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua lodged his 2010 budget plan with parliament on Tuesday, easing concerns the budget might be delayed by the president's departure for a health check abroad. Umaru Yar'Adua left for a medical check-up to Saudi...
Tags: Nigerian, Umaru Yar'AdAdua, Nigeria, Abuja, Balanced budget, Umaru Yar'Adua, Nigerian naira, Deficit, Business Finance, Politics
Tax Burden Slips in OECD Countries
Stockholm :: Sweden | about 8 hours ago
Credibility Secretary-General Angel Gurría said. "But falling tax receipts underline the challenge they will face, once the recovery is secured, in maintaining sound public finances." GDP ratio was unchanged in 2006 to 2007 before it fell in 2008. It also showed...
Tags: OECD, tax burden, Sweden, Stockholm, International trade, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Deficit, Tax, Gross domestic product, Public finance, Finance, 16th arrondissement of Paris, Business Finance
Right on cue, another crisis
Melbourne :: Australia | about 8 hours ago
Credibility THE events of the global financial crisis have snookered the Rudd Government. T he RBA is now raising interest rates to suppress resurgent inflation, but most of the Government's $95 billion stimulus package is still in the pipeline and commitments cannot...
Tags: RBA, GFC, super contributions, stimulus package, Australia, saving rate, aggregate demand, prime minister, Melbourne, Rudd Government, Deficit, Monetary policy, Superannuation in Australia, Public finance, Fiscal policy, Inflation, Business Finance
Spanish budget deficit soars
Madrid :: Spain | about 8 hours ago
Credibility The deficit totalled €59.3 billion in the first 10 months of the year, compared to a deficit of €8.5 billion in the same period of 2008, the Economy Ministry said in a news release. The budget shortfall, equivalent to 5.6 pe rcent of gross domestic product...
Tags: Spain, budget deficit, Madrid, Economy of the United States, Deficit, Economic policy, Public finance, Business Finance, Politics
Bank of England keeps options open for recovery
London :: United Kingdom | about 10 hours ago
Credibility The Bank of England warned Tuesday that the British economy still faces "profound challenges," fueling speculation that the central bank may not yet be done with boosting the money supply via asset purchases. The comments from Bank Governor Mervyn King...
Tags: Bank of England, Mervyn King, governor mervyn, central banks, Treasury Select Committee, emergency loans, financial crisis, financial systemic, United Kingdom, London, ABN AMRO, Lloyds Bank, Lloyds TSB, United Kingdom bank rescue package, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Lloyds Banking Group, HBOS, Bank of Scotland, Business Finance, Quantitative easing, Money supply, Pound sterling, Central bank, Inflation, Monetary policy, Macroeconomics, Deficit, Economic policy, Public finance, Politics, Trustee Savings Bank, Financial Services Authority
Irish public workers strike, protest cuts
Dublin :: Ireland | about 13 hours ago
Credibility Much of Ireland's public sector was idled Tuesday as up to 250,000 civil and public servants staged a strike, union officials said. Union leaders representing nurses, teachers, firefighters and other employees walked off the job to protest the government's...
Tags: public sector, Irish Times, Julien Behal/PA Irish, picket lines, cut pay, sector workers, Northern Ireland, Much of Ireland, general strike, Ireland, Dublin, Members of the 30th Dￃﾡil, Teachtaￃﾭ Dￃﾡla, Brian Cowen, Fallout of the 2009 Irish government budget, Politics, Business Finance, Members of the 27th Dￃﾡil, Members of the 28th Dￃﾡil, Members of the 29th Dￃﾡil, Deficit, Social Issues, Newry, Strike action, Teacher, Teaching, Irish National Teachers' Organisation, Labor, Education, Trade union, Police, Industrial Workers of the World, Garda Sￃﾭochￃﾡna
And if California slides into the ocean... | Michael Tomasky
San Jose :: CA :: USA | about 20 hours ago
Credibility The terrible news from this state, which last week announced an obscene-bordering-on-pornographic 32% tuition increase at state universities and colleges, continues. Today's Sacramento Bee reports that the state's debt burden is way out of whack: But...
Tags: debt service, Legislative Analyst's Office, San Jose, Debt, Credit, Bill Lockyer, Fiscal conservatism, Deficit, Bond, Government debt, California Proposition 57, Public finance, Business Finance, Bonds
SBP likely to cut policy rate
Karāchi :: Pakistan | about 22 hours ago
Credibility The State Bank of Pakistan is likely to cut its key policy rate by 50 or 100 basis points on Tuesday to spur economic growth which fell to its slowest in eight years, analysts said on Monday. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which bailed out Pakistan...
Tags: State Bank of Pakistan, SBP, policy rate, Pakistan, Karāchi, Federal Reserve System, Central bank, Business Finance, Bank, Economy of Pakistan, Financial institutions, Microfinance, Monetary policy, International Monetary Fund, Deficit, Public finance, Inflation, Macroeconomics, Economic policy
Jordan budget cuts �essential� to curb soaring deficit
Amman :: Jordan | about 23 hours ago
Credibility Jordan’s 2010 budget will focus on curbing the country’s soaring deficit to deal with the fiscal challenges needed to spur the economy to recover from the impact of the global downturn, the finance minister said on Friday. Bassem al-Salem said the aid...
Tags: Jordan, domestic debt, The Ministry of Finance, Amman, Economy of the Arab League, Economy of Pakistan, Economic history of Turkey, Business Finance, United States public debt, Government debt, Public finance, Western Asia, Fertile Crescent, Levant, Economic policy, Government spending, Economy of the United States, Economy of Kuwait, Economy of Algeria, Deficit
6-month Treasury rates hit lowest point on record
Merced :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Interest rates on six-month Treasurys hit their lowest level on record and three-month bills their lowest point in 11 months in Monday's auction of T-bills...The Treasury auctioned $30 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 0.040 percent,...
Tags: Treasurys, Federal Reserve, debt ceiling, lowest point, discount rate, Merced, Bonds, United States Treasury security, economics, Federal Reserve System, Deficit, Public finance, Government debt, Debt, Business Finance
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