On March 05, 2013, BKMEA President along with BGMEA & BTMA leaders met with honorable finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith at his secretariat office. During the meeting, BKMEA President Mr. Salim underscored the urgency for addressing ...
Tags: BKMEA, FM, Cash Incentives
The Commonwealth Bank has launched its smartphone banking app Kaching as a social app that can be accessed from within Facebook. Customers can make payments to Facebook Events, and gift payments to friends and family from within the ...
Tags: app Kaching, Facebook, social network
The sharemarket has shot up by more than 1.5 per cent at noon, with investors using yesterday's falls to lap up cheaper stocks. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner describes it as a relief rally following Monday's decline. The ...
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The Australian sharemarket roared back yesterday, recovering most of its 75-point loss on Monday, after a US Federal Reserve official reiterated the central bank's commitment to quantitative easing, local retail sales exceeded expectations ...
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ANZ is pitching to service the corporate bond market in Vietnam, which is reopening after several slow years. "The market has been very quiet over the last 2 1/2 years but ANZ has been one of the first banks to reactivate the market ...
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Skeptical consumers, take heed: If you receive a notice that your personal data has been breached, pay attention and take free self-help steps to protect yourself from identity fraud. Data-breach notifications have become an increasingly ...
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Driving off a dealer's lot in a shiny new car can be exhilarating, but the hours you might spend haggling to get to that point can be about as pleasant as a tax audit. Buyers tell us they often feel manipulated by sales staff. Or they worry ...
Tags: new car, car buying, car industry
CeBIT is the world's largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. The key target groups are users from industry, the wholesale/retail sector, skilled trades, banks, the services ...
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The local sharemarket retreated from a 4 1/2-year high yesterday before last-minute budget talks at the White House aimed at avoiding $US85 billion ($83bn) of automatic US spending cuts, the so-called sequester, which were due to take ...
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The Australian sharemarket retreated from a four-and-a-half year high before last-minute budget talks at the White House aimed at avoiding $US85 billion of automatic spending cuts, the so-called sequester, due to start taking effect today ...
Australian stocks were lower early today after below-view Chinese manufacturing data, while Japanese shares took pause at the end of a violent week of trading. Chinese manufacturing data was the main data point today, with the official ...
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The Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles Shri Anand Sharma has welcomed the announcements made by the Finance Minister on textiles sector in his Budget Speech. Shri Sharma, while delivering the keynote address during the one-day ...
Tags: Textiles, Shri Anand Sharma, textiles sector
The Australian sharemarket has reached a fresh four-and-a-half-year high, buoyed by improved investor sentiment towards the Italian election outcome. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 67.5 points, or 1.34 per cent, ...
Tags: Buoyant, Australian sharemarket, 2008 levels
Microsoft has joined the Open Data Center Alliance, a user-led organization that aims to simplify the purchasing of data center and cloud services by promoting interoperability and common standards. The alliance has gathered over 300 ...
7,337 stores closed in 2012, according to figures from PwC and the Local Data Centre. An average of 20 shops closed every day in the UK last year. Figures from PwC and the Local Data Centre also found that 7,337 UK stores closed over ...