The stockmarket has fallen by almost 1.5 per cent due to concerns about a bailout of Cyprus and falls on Wall Street. A European Union bailout of Cyprus had scared investors and led to a negative opening on the Australian market, IG ...
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Celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, Pennsylvania retailer Sickler's Bike & Sport has now opened a third location, this time in a historic mill building. The Hawley Silk Mill LLC, a group of local investors, is in the midst of a ...
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Investors took a record high for US stocks - the bellwether Dow Jones Industrial Index eclipsing its pre-global financial crisis peak - as confirmation that the US economic recovery is gathering strength and sent the local market to its ...
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I’ve often thought there should be a Nobel prize for corporate finance. It would go to the broker or investment bank that managed to place the largest IPO under the most unpromising circumstances. If there were such an award, I think ...
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By Omar al-Shaher, for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Privately held Iraqi banks have almost entirely relinquished their traditional functions ...
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The sharemarket moved the dial a click further to boom conditions by closing at a 19-month high thanks to growing interest in blue chips and miners, and a strong tailwind from the US market's fiscal resolution-driven 2.35 per cent, ...
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Mawtani reports that the Iraqi government has approved the construction of a private free-trade zone south of Baghdad. Sabah al-Qaisi(pictured),the chairman of the Ministry of Finance's General Commission for Free Zones,told Mawtani: ...
Proview known as Apple's Chinese IPAD trademark foe,has intended to attract over 100 million yuan(£10m)in funding to launch an LED lighting and bio-energy firm. Proview invested a whopping$155m(£99m)in its LED manufacturing ...
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Perng Fai-nan, governor of the Central Bank of China (CBC), confirmed for the first time yesterday (Dec. 12) that due to the need of deployment, a certain sovereign wealth fund from the Middle East has invested in Taiwan’s stock ...
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Another roller coaster year for the ISX is drawing to a close. By the middle of May, the Rabee Securities RSISX index had fallen 24% from its early October 2011 peak. Since then, the market has staged a dramatic rebound. As of December 8, ...
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Takamul Investment Company, the downstream investment subsidiary of Oman Oil Company, is actively weighing the feasibility of establishing a ferrochrome smelter project in the Sultanate. An official of Takamul said that "Weaare still in ...
Taipei,Nov.12,2012(CENS)--Due to the effect of the levy of securities transaction gains tax,many major local investors have switched their investments to the Hong Kong bourse,leading to reduction of their share in the trading of Taiwanese ...
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The output of Taiwan's light emitting diode (LED) streetlight manufacturing sector is expected to reach as much as NT$34 billion (US$1.15 billion) by 2018, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said Tuesday. Based on the government's ...
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The output of Taiwan's light emitting diode (LED) streetlight manufacturing sector is expected to reach as much as NT$34 billion (US$1.15 billion) by 2018, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said Tuesday. Based on the government's ...
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Taiwan LED Company Speed Tech Corp. is considering the possibility of setting up a Paraguay based LED lighting manufacturing. Lucas Chiu, president of Speed Tech's unit Speed Tech Energy, is presently leading a delegation to survey the ...
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