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probing Chinese multinationals, hightech, travel, outsourcing ... - Cleveland Indy Media


What the rates cut means for you
Courier Mail, Australia - 3 hours ago
"At the moment, we have a situation where offshore funding costs have increased dramatically -- about eight-fold in margin over the last nine or 10 months, ...

What the rates cut means for you - Courier Mail


Rich global Indians waking up to philanthropy
Economic Times, India - 5 hours ago
Standard Chartered has just set up its focused Global Indian private banking programme for both onshore and offshore HNIs, the second such global programme ...

Rich global Indians waking up to philanthropy - Economic Times


Road map to Election Day
Beep, il - 5 hours ago
Obama: End tax breaks for oil industry, tax oil-industry profits, expand offshore drilling, increase alternative energy programs, tighten gas mileage ...

Road map to Election Day - Beep


Gulf has highest concentration of millionaires
Frontline, India - 8 hours ago
In the Middle East and Africa, nearly 28 per cent of wealth were held offshore. The report found that personal wealth around the world grew five per cent to ...

Gulf has highest concentration of millionaires - Frontline


Gulf has highest concentration of millionaires
Hindu, India - 8 hours ago
In the Middle East and Africa, nearly 28 per cent of wealth were held offshore. The report found that personal wealth around the world grew five per cent to ...

Gulf has highest concentration of millionaires - Hindu


Gulf has highest concentration of millionaires
NDTV.com, India - 9 hours ago
In the Middle East and Africa, nearly 28 per cent of wealth were held offshore. The report found that personal wealth around the world grew five per cent to ...

Gulf has highest concentration of millionaires - NDTV.com


Gramm still ignoring the obvious
Denver Post, CO - 12 hours ago
... at Swiss banking giant UBS Securities LLC, which is under investigation for helping super-rich Americans avoid taxes via offshore bank accounts. ...

Gramm still ignoring the obvious - Denver Post


GCC has highest concentration of millionaires
Zawya, United Arab Emirates - 12 hours ago
In the Middle East and Africa, nearly 28 per cent of wealth was held offshore. The report found that personal wealth around the world grew five per cent to ...

GCC has highest concentration of millionaires - Zawya


Road map to Election Day
Chicago Daily Herald, IL - 13 hours ago
Obama: End tax breaks for oil industry, tax oil-industry profits, expand offshore drilling, increase alternative energy programs, tighten gas mileage ...

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WASHINGTON -- President Bush says if Congress doesn't permit offshore drilling to increase U.S. oil supplies and possibly ease gasoline prices, lawmakers should not expect voters to support them in November. In his Saturday radio address, Bush said ... >>


Bush: Congress should allow more offshore drilling - Miami Herald

WASHINGTON -- The House and Senate reconvene Monday after back-to-back political conventions, both parties eager to use the three-week session to show voters why their candidates are the ones to fix the economy and lower energy prices. The only ... >>


Returning lawmakers make Capitol a campaign stage - Miami Herald

WHAT does the Reserve Bank cut mean for you, and what are the repercussions for the economy? Nick Gardner investigates. THE first Reserve Bank (RBA) rate cut in seven years was greeted with relief by borrowers last week. All the big banks and non ... >>


What the rates cut means for you - News.com.au

I strongly endorse both the decision by FHFA Director Lockhart to place Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship and the actions taken by Treasury Secretary Paulson to ensure the financial soundness of those two companies. These necessary ... >>


Officials’ Statements on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - Wall Street Journal

With all the clamor to "drill, drill, drill," you'd think rig operators would be the darlings of investors. Not quite. Shares of drillers, particularly those operating offshore, such as Noble ( NE ), have been slammed along with Big Oil as crude ... >>


Inside Wall Street - BusinessWeek

LONDON : Oil prices fell to a fresh five-month low on Friday on flagging demand in the United States and other consumer nations, extending crude's losses to 8 percent this week. The market shrugged off continued production problems in the United ... >>


Oil falls $2 to 5-month low - International Herald Tribune

VICTORIAN house hunters have been given a new headache with last week's interest rate cut leaving them tossing up between fixed and variable loan deals. First-home buyers and those wishing to re-finance have been forced to look hard at the fine print ... >>


Don't be quick to fix loans as rates to keep dropping - News.com.au

LONDON: It's not usual for a wealth manager to tell his clients how to give away money their money, but that, says Peter Flavel, global head of Standard Chartered private banking "is what the clients want." Standard Chartered has just set up its ... >>


Rich global Indians waking up to philanthropy - Economic Times

Vol. XXII, No. 31 Monday, September 8, 2008 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES Banking & Finance P47:$1 expected this week THE PESO will likely breach the P47-to-the-dollar territory this week, as it continues to be held hostage by the ... >>


P47:$1 expected this week - Business World

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Qatar Islamic Bank plans to list its international units on their local exchanges as it looks to develop Islamic banking hubs across the world, its chief executive was quoted as saying yesterday. Qatar's second-largest lender ... >>