Archives for November, 2009
30 Nov
NEW YORK — Shares of some top finance companies are up at 10 a.m.: Bank of America rose $.27 or 1.7 percent, to $15.74. Citigroup rose $.07 or 1.6 percent, to $4.13. JPMorgan Chase rose $.60 or 1.5 percent, to $41.93.
30 Nov
BRUSSELS – The European Union takes an important step in its quest for more global influence when its Lisbon reform treaty goes into force on Tuesday, but any hopes the bloc will become a world superpower are a distant dream.
30 Nov
LONDON – European non-life insurers have begun to return a little excess capital to shareholders, but acquisition opportunities and tight margins mean the trickle is unlikely to turn to flood.
30 Nov
Dubai finance official says Dubai World creditors shoulder some responsibility for debt crisis
30 Nov
Dubai finance official says Dubai World creditors shoulder some responsibility for debt crisis
30 Nov
SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Finance is seeking public views on the initiatives that next year’s government budget can include to enable sustained and inclusive growth for Singapore.
30 Nov
Finance now threatens to become the main obstacle to securing a global climate deal at Copenhagen, writes the Guardian. The Guardian has read confidential papers from the EU negotiating team indicating that the EU will not guarantee new …
30 Nov
LONDON – Consumers repaid the highest amount of unsecured credit on record in October, reducing their debt at twice the rate economists had expected, Bank of England data showed on Monday.
30 Nov
Financial services firm Wall Street Finance today said its board has appointed Sudip Bandyopadhyay as an additional director of the company with effect from November 24.
30 Nov
LONDON – The housing market in England and Wales strengthened modestly in November, with the smallest year-on-year drop in house prices since May 2008, a survey by property data company Hometrack showed on Monday.
