Dem. wins election to fill Hastert seat
Miami Herald - Former U.S. Home Speaker Dennis Hastert speaks to lawmakers on the Illinois Home of Representatives floor at the say Capitol in Springfield on Wednesday, March 5, 2008. Hastert was being honored by Illinois lawmakers for his many years of
Downturn Tests the Fed’s Capability to Avert a Crisis
New York Times - In the last seven months, policy makers have cut interest rates, injected money into the banking system and approved a fiscal stimulus package in an effort to keep the economy from slipping into a recession. Often, the moves seemed to work at first
Standard Chartered Bank eyes RBS Stake in Saudi Hollandi
Saudi Gazette - Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) stated Standard Chartered wanted to purchase into Hollandi because its application for a full banking license in the Kingdom was rejected.SR
India’s Benchmark Index Falls 5 Percent
Forbes - Funds were selling across banking and power sectors with power utility Reliance Energy Ltd. and leading banks ICICI Bank Ltd. and HDFC Bank Ltd. among the massive losers.
Biofuels: Fields of dreams
Times Online - John Anderson is motoring with chip fat. Sir Rob Margetts swears by fizzy drinks and chicken feed. George Bush is banking on corn. Everyone, from pub to parliament, knows we’re going to have to do something about transport fuel. Oil prices have
Our worrying loss of love for the antique
Guardian Unlimited - They were just another means of banking cash. Ordinary pieces were harder to shift. As TV dinners and restaurant eating grew, the price of dining tables has collapsed.
ING Taiwan official states unaware of reported plans for Fubon Financial
Forbes - The stake is being eyed in view of Fubon’s marketing network for banking and insurance products, as well as the Taiwan firm’s prospective presence in China, the report stated.
CBI and ABI warn Alistair Darling over tax crackdown
Times On the web - In separate warnings, the CBI and the ABI stated that if the Government made hasty changes to banking regulation and pushed ahead with changes to rules on capital gains tax and nondomiciled workers, the financial services sector and the country’s
Islamic bonds could give London leg up in growing sphere of Shariah
International Herald Tribune - LONDON : London is looking to its burgeoning market in Islamic finance — already the largest in the Western world — to boost its reputation as a financial center, banking on growth in an industry with the bonus of being partly shielded from the
Gov’t repairs can’t force banks to lend
BusinessWeek - Even a relatively modest legislative proposal to tighten the government’s reins on mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac won’t be coming together soon in the Senate Banking Committee, its chairman Sen.
Job ads hit hard by interest rates
West Online - The Financial Services and Banking sector continues to flounder, dropping 5.12 per cent in February, bringing its growth to just 13.7 per cent in 12 months and making it the weakest sector of the economy, according to the Index.
Democrats criticize Bush’s CIA-bill veto
Miami Herald - Protestors demonstrate the use of waterboarding on a volunteer in front of the Justice Department in Washington in this Nov. 5, 2007, file photo. President Bush said Saturday, March 8, 2008, he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using
ANZ Bank sells 180 mln swiss francs of 2010 notes
Reuters - (For the latest Australia and New Zealand bond news, double click on [AU/CRD] and then double click on the ID number) SYDNEY, March 7 (Reuters) - Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ.AX: Quote , Profile , Research ) sold 180 million swiss
Sen. Nelson sees vote-by-mail as option to solve delegate mess
Miami Herald - Sen. Bill Nelson believes that the only practical way to settle the state’s delegate mess is to hold a second Democratic presidential primary by mail, his chief of staff stated Saturday. The state has three options to try to seat its delegates at the
Questions over ‘free’ ID cards plan
Guardian Unlimited - A question mark hung over the Government’s budget for ID cards after their own expert recommended that no-one should have to pay for a card. A report commissioned by Gordon Brown from a former banking chief said the enrolment process and the cards
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