World economy
Japan’s Aeon records consolidated net loss of $27.6 million, forecast profit for 2009-10
15 Apr 2009
Message to media: ad scenario remains bleak
15 Apr 2009
The slump in global advertising is accelerating faster than first thought and will lead to double digit declines in ad spend across the battered newspaper and radio sectors.
Brown may push green budget to spur recovery
15 Apr 2009
Germany bans cultivation of Monsanto GMO maize
15 Apr 2009
Poland seeks $20.5 billion credit from IMF
15 Apr 2009
Opinion polls support Obama
15 Apr 2009
Obama warns of more job losses, foreclosures
15 Apr 2009
US President Obama yesterday said that though recent stimulus measures were starting to generate signs of economic progress, but more job loss, foreclosures lie ahead
China, Kazakhstan to seal $10 billion loan-for-oil deal
15 Apr 2009
China is likely to seal a deal with Kazakhstan under which it will loan the central Asian republic $10 billion in exchange for a larger access to the country’s oil assets.
Goldman sells $5 billion stock to repay bailout loan
14 Apr 2009
Goldman Sachs Group Inc has sold stocks worth $5 billion to repay $10 billion of a US government bailout loan.
Singapore economic outlook worse than forecast
14 Apr 2009
US lifts Cuba travel sanctions, curbs on telecom links
14 Apr 2009
US President Barack Obama is lifting some of restrictions on place on Cuba since the early 1960s
Harvard enrollments rise despite economic slump
13 Apr 2009
Santa Claus also hit by recession
13 Apr 2009
China eyes fresh stimulus to jumpstart economy
13 Apr 2009
Zimbabwe withdraws useless Rand, makes US dollar legal tender
13 Apr 2009
Zimbabwe has finally withdrawn its useless currency from circulation for the period of a year, switching it with the South African Rand and the US dollar.
Iraq war to cost more than Vietnam war
11 Apr 2009
The Iraq War will surpass the cost of the Vietnam War by the end of the year making it the second-most-expensive military conflict in the history of the United States, after World War II, according to Pentagon figures.
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
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