UAE economy expected to expand 3.2 percent in 2010 Daily Star Lebanon | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | DUBAI: The UAE economy is expected to expand by 3.2 percent in 2010, in sharp contrast to an International Monetary Fund forecast of 0.6-percent growth, a minister said Tuesday. | “The coming period will witness gradual growth, initially, picking up...
Greek PM not looking for aid in meeting with Obama The Times Of India WASHINGTON: Ahead of a meeting with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is stressing that his country's financial woes are a problem the United States cannot afford to ignore. | Papandreou also says he is not looking for a handout from Washington. Instead, Greek...
Economic insecurity is troubling Obama Deccan Chronicle Economic insecurity is troubling Obama | The Obama administration and Democrats in general are in trouble because they are not urgently and effectively addressing the issue that most Americans want them to: the frightening economic insecurity that has put a chokehold on millions of American families...
Budget in a fortnight as Britain heads for May 6 election The Times | Gordon Brown will settle today on March 24 as the day for the pre-election Budget as the campaign accelerates towards a May 6 showdown. | The Prime Minister will also place his stewardship of the economy at the heart of his election drive. Despite ...
Plenty of suitors but few proposals: Resolution falls out of FTSE 100 The Times | Clive Cowdery's Resolution, which promised to deliver private equity-like returns for investors by buying and merging inefficient insurers, was relegated from the FTSE 100 index of leading shares last night. | Mr Cowdery, who made a £145 million pe...
UAE economy expected to expand 3.2 percent in 2010 Daily Star Lebanon | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | DUBAI: The UAE economy is expected to expand by 3.2 percent in 2010, in sharp contrast to an International Monetary Fund forecast of 0.6-percent growth, a minister said Tuesday. | “The coming period ...
Hassan: Lebanon closes 10-year $1.2 billion Eurobond Daily Star Lebanon | Finance Ministry undecided on proposing higher taxes | By The Daily Star | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: Lebanon successfully closed a $1.2 billion Eurobond issue with a 10-year maturity and a yield of 6.375 percent, Finance Mi...
Lebanon has 11th widest spread in emerging markets on Credit Default Swaps Daily Star Lebanon | By The Daily Star | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: The spread on five-year Credit Default Swaps (CDS) for Lebanon reached 257 basis points at the end of February, compared to spreads of 270 bps for emerging markets and to 234 bp...
Airport Built, It's Time to See if the Traffic Comes The New York Times | The first new international airport in the United States in more than decade is set to open in May near Panama City, Fla., a community of 37,000 people on the state’s panhandle. That is no small feat given the environmental, regulatory and fi...
Rob rich bankers and give money to the poor The Times | Banking occupies a unique niche in the economy. Both vital and prone to crisis, Wall Street and the City of London are the beating hearts of the economy, pumping liquidity through the arteries of industry nationally and globally. When they suffer a...
US ponders China's Southeast Asian rise Asia Times | By Peter J Brown | The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) last month held a lengthy hearing on China's activities in Southeast Asia and the implications for US interests in the strategic region. The USCC was addressed by five members of the US Congress, a pair of senior US government officials and 10 experts and ca...
EU faces court challenge over biofuels reports Daily Star Lebanon | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | Pete Harrison | Reuters | BRUSSELS: Four environmental groups have sued the EU’s executive for withholding documents they say will add to a growing dossier of evidence that biofuels harm the environment and push up food prices. | The lawsuit, lodged with the European Union’s General Court, th...
Barak: Israel will hold all of Lebanon responsible for any Hizbullah attack Daily Star Lebanon | By Patrick Galey | Daily Star staff | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: Israel will not launch an assault on southern Lebanon but will retaliate indiscriminately should it be provoked, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday. | Addressing high school students in northern Israel, Barak dampened previous bellicose rheto...
