Chinese solar cell and module maker Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP) saw 37 solar power stations invested by a subsidiary namely Global Solar Fund S.C.A. SICAR (GSF) in Italy be sealed up recently. The New York-listed firm ...
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Payments giant Visa Europe has had its communications network upgraded by telecoms giant BT, in a move that BT claims has enabled the firm to process about €2m of payments every minute. The network provides connectivity for Visa ...
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Dutch insurer Delta Lloyd Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Belgium-based insurer, ZA Verzekeringen, from Amodo Group, to boost its presence in the country by providing a comprehensive assortment of products. Delta Lloyd ...
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First house loans accounted for 98.11% of total personal house loans in Chongqing Municipality in the first seven months of this year, a new high since 2011. Seven banks in Guangzhou City have suspended house loans since this July. In ...
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China is said to be weighing a plan to allow local governments to issue local treasury bonds. Sources said recently that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) planned to allow local governments to issue local treasury bonds, an effort to ease ...
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The takeover of Klenk by the US investment company The Carlyle Group was completed on 30 August 2013; this marks the conclusion of the M&A process involving Klenk that had been underway since autumn 2012. According to a report from ...
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Nothing gets reads like a shadow banking story. Articles on China's local government debt pull page views too, conjuring images of small-town officials erecting enormous stadiums or skyscrapers on the edges of corn fields. Often left out of ...
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Data centres can help change the world for the better, by allowing organisations across all sectors access to cheap intelligence and data modelling. That's according to Neela Jacques, senior cloud strategist for VMware speaking as part of ...
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The National Retail Federation asked a federal judge to “right or reject” a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit over credit card swipe fees, saying the measure needs to be rewritten to do more to bring the soaring fees ...
BEIJING-Signs of more appetite in China for steel and other materials and equipment used in construction add to evidence of an economic rebound, but one driven by a return to ramped-up spending on infrastructure and heavy industry the ...
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Goodyear is one of the world's largest tyre companies. It employs approximately 69,000 people and manufactures its products in more than 57 facilities in 23 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centres in Akron, Ohio and ...
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Rains along Colorado's Front Range — from Fort Collins to Denver — eased up a bit Friday morning, but were expected to resume later, adding to already historic flooding in one of the U.S.'s most popular cycling destinations and ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, a maker of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules, which it integrates into its EnerPlex series of consumer products, has introduced two new additions to ...
Global media and information firm Thomson Reuters has rolled out cloud software provider Workday's Human Capital Management (HCM) and Payroll solution to enable staff to speed up their workforce management decision making. Thomson Reuters ...
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Chinese stock market posted this year's widest daily gains on Monday as newly released data concerning consumer inflation, producer price and foreign trade pointed to a strengthening economy. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose ...
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