US catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has forecasted that insured losses from Hurricane Sandy to onshore properties in the US will be in the range of $7bn to $15bn. The estimation has been made based on the damage to ashore ...
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The policy of the Financial Supervisory Commission(FSC)encouraging domestic enterprises to float renminbi-denominated bonds at the offshore banking units(OBU)of domestic banks may come to a halt,due to disagreement of the Ministry of ...
The survey respondents included major institutional and private investors representing a broad cross section of property investors globally,who were asked for their outlook at the global and regional level for the coming 12 months and ...
Tags: survey, Colliers'2013 Sentiment survey, property investor, office sector
Orenburg hosted the fifth meeting of the Joint Coordinating Committee between Gazprom and Petrovietnam State Oil and Gas Corporation as part of the execution of the Strategic Partnership Agreement signed by the companies. The meeting was ...
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Mr Rostam Qasemi oil minister of Iran as saying that the ministry plans to set up a special fund for the purpose of supporting oil producers and contractors. A plan has been drafted by the ministry and it will be submitted to the parliament ...
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Saudi Arabia is pushing ahead with a major project to develop the world's fifth largest oilfield which will pump nearly 900,000 barrels per day of heavy crude and 90 million cubic feet per day of sour gas. State owned Saudi Aramco said ...
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Global and China Power Device Industry Report, 2011-2012underlines: 1. power device; 2. global and China power device market; 3. power device industry; 4. IGBT, SiC and GaN market and industry outlook; 5. 18 power device players. ...
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Global and China Marine (Offshore) Engineering Industry Report, 2011-2012 highlights the followings: 1. Overview of offshore engineering 2. Market of offshore production facilities 3. Market and industrial pattern of offshore drilling ...
This two-part entry is actually the second half of my previous post about why there weren’t nearly enough bikes in model year 2012 and why we don’t seem to be able to do anything about the chronic under- or over-supply of ...
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Taipei, Nov. 5, 2012 (CENS)--Pretax profits of Taiwan's 38 domestic banks totaled NT$196.1 billion (US$6.54 billion) in the first nine months for a sharp annual growth of 17.5% and are expected to exceed last year's NT$200 billion (US$6.67 ...
The UAE's Dana Gas has signed agreements with the Sharjah and Ajman governments to develop a gas field located about 40 km offshore in shared territorial waters, the company said in a statement Thursday. The agreements include a ...
BP has appointed the current head of its US operations, Lamar McKay, to oversee the company's existing upstream oil and gas divisions, which were created in the wake of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the company said Friday. McKay, ...
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Tony Prestedge is COO at Nationwide.He joined the building society halfway through a GBP1bn IT transformation which he then took charge of.He talks to Computer Weekly about the progress being made,the benefits already being seen and what ...
Tags: ageing IT systems, up to date, virtualise desktops, data warehouses
The offshore banking units (OBU) and overseas branches have become an increasingly important source of profits for Taiwanese banks, due to expanded loans and higher interest spread. Thanks to spike in U.S.-dollar loans for mainland Chinese ...
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Taiwan may be able to establish RQFII (renminbi qualified foreign institutional investor) mechanism, similar to Hong Kong, thereby facilitating the flowing back of renminbi to mainland China, which is critical for Taiwan to develop into a ...
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