Romney, Clinton win in Nevada

20 01 2008

Romney, Clinton win in Nevada

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Romney, Clinton win in Nevada
Miami Herald - Personal Finance BY DAVID ESPO Associated Press Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the Nevada caucuses Saturday, powering past Sen

Hedge-fund managers, lords of lucre
Times On the web - Hedge funds are the adult magazines of finance: perfectly legal, but top shelf. American regulators have just backed down from a plan to cease you investing in one unless you’ve £1.3m in savings, which supposedly means you’re savvy enough to take

Bangladesh reduces submarine cable tariffs to boost internet usage
Xinhua News Bureau - DHAKA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh government has reduced the rentals and tariffs of submarine cable by an average 20 percent to boost usage of the multi-million dollar cable and raise internet connectivity across the country. The Finance Ministry

Chavez threatens to seize Venezuelan banks that don’t finance
International Herald Tribune - CARACAS, Venezuela : President Hugo Chavez threatened on Saturday to take control of banks that fail to meet state-imposed lending stipulations designed to benefit Venezuela’s farmers. Chavez, who states he is leading Venezuela toward “21st century

Is this the end of cheap food?
Observer - Tesco’s finance director, Andrew Higginson, states that tales of rampant inflation, based on one or two products, are complete nonsense. When I asked Sainsbury’s about the reported 26 per cent rise in the cost of a basket of its food, it stated that its

Personal Finance questions: Investors weather ups and downs
St. Petersburg Times - Not at all, because I’m heavy in high-dividend-paying preferred stocks. My portfolio has dropped in total value, but the dividends keep coming in. Bob Lartz, St. Petersburg As a financial planner, uncertain times create more activity for me, so my

Health news report sets off media frenzy, angers gay men
Minneapolis Star Tribune - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which helped finance the study, affirmed last week that the disease wasn’t sexually transmitted or limited to a certain type of person. It is transmitted through skin-to-skin contact, the

FSA in the firing line over orphan assets
Guardian Unlimited - Separately, a full-scale Lords revolt has erupted over plans by Children and Schools minister Ed Balls to appropriate the £500m gathering dust in so-called ‘dormant’ bank account funds to finance youth centres across the country. Balls’s youth centre

This Time, McCain Defused Conservative Attacks
Washington Post - DeLay resurfaced on Fox News Friday to excoriate McCain for working with “the most liberal Democrats in the Senate,” for passing an overhaul of campaign finance laws that “completely neutered the Republican Party,” and single-handedly thwarted oil

Pinellas Park pulls cold cash from fund
St. Petersburg Times - Caddell, the Pinellas Park spokesman, said there was no intention of keeping the city’s money in the troubled fund. Referring to Ron Miller, city Finance Department head, Caddell said, “I think he stated to me, ‘We’re not team players.’” Now Pinellas