November 26, 2011
A woman pulls shopping carts through the aisle of a Target store on the shopping day dubbed “Black Friday” in Torrington, Connecticut November 25, 2011. Retailers were hoping for more shoppers like Shawn Elzia as the annual Black Friday bargain stampede marked the unofficial start of what is widely expected to be a middling [...]
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November 25, 2011
A man loads a flat screen television into his car on the shopping day dubbed “Black Friday” in Torrington, Connecticut November 25, 2011. Bargain hunters flocked to stores late Thursday and overnight Friday, searching for deals on big screen televisions, video games and toys while fretting about their own shaky economic well-being. Some stores, [...]
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November 24, 2011
Former Olympus president Michael Woodford, who exposed the company’s loss coverup scandal, met with Japanese investigators on Thursday over a cover-up of the company’s massive investment losses dating back to the 1990s The ousted chief of scandal-hit Olympus, Michael Woodford, on Thursday began meeting Japanese investigators over a cover-up of huge investment losses dating back [...]
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November 4, 2011
Vietnam’s bonds on Thursday rose the most since August on speculation banks will seek the safety of government securities as rising interest rates boost the risk of bad loans. The dong was little changed. Non-performing debt may more than double to 5 percent of total bank credit in the country by year-end from 2.16 [...]
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October 28, 2011
Saif Al-Islam, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, gestures as he talks to reporters in Tripoli August 23, 2011. International war crimes prosecutors are in touch with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, urging him to give himself up and warning him Friday he risks a mid-air interception if he tries to flee by plane to an African [...]
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October 25, 2011
The body of Libyan ex-leader Moamer Kadhafi was buried overnight in a secret location after days of being put on display in a market freezer, a Misrata military council member said Tuesday. The body of slain despot Moamer Kadhafi was buried overnight in a secret location after being displayed in public for days, marking an [...]
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October 21, 2011
Vietnam’s dong had its worst week in two months as the central bank set the currency’s fixing lower in an attempt to narrow the gap between the official and unofficial exchange rates. Government bonds fell. The State Bank of Vietnam lowered the reference rate four times this week, setting it at the weakest level [...]
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October 15, 2011
Vietnam Communist Party's General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (L) meets with Guangdong Province's Communist Party chief Wang Yang Thursday in the Chinese province Vietnam Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong Thursday visited Guangdong Province on Thursday as part of his ongoing trip to China, Vietnam News Agency reported. Meting with leaders of the province, Trong [...]
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October 8, 2011
Vietnam’s central bank increased its refinancing rate for the first time since May, as the nation tries to steady its currency and tame Asia’s fastest inflation. The State Bank of Vietnam raised the refinancing rate to 15 percent from 14 percent, effective Oct. 10, it said in a statement on its website Thursday. The [...]
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September 15, 2011
EU commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn has said eurozone economy was set to come to a “virtual standstill” in the second half of the year, but he assured that Europe would avoid another recession. The eurozone’s runaway debt crisis is dragging down growth, the EU warned on Thursday as finance ministers headed [...]
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