Archive for June 2nd, 2008
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
The Zambian government has said improving customs, immigration process, administration over lapping membership among southern African countries were major challenges to attaining the free trade area (FTA) of the Common Market for Eastern an ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Banking shares pulled the London stock market lower Monday morning after Bradford & Bingley announced a revamped rights issue.
B & B fell 20 percent after the bank said it had agreed to sell a 23 percent stake to private equity firm ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Wichford, the UK landlord that leases offices to the British and German governments, reported a loss for the first half on a revaluation of its investment properties following a slump in housing markets.
The net loss for the six mon ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
A United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) official has said the harmonization of 215-million-people market in southern Africa through the Free Trade Area (FTA) is a panacea to galloping poverty levels in the region.
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Africa's economic growth is expected to continue at 5.9 percent over the next two years, according to African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2008 which will be presented to the public in Paris on June 27.
Africa's economic growth is estimat ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Toyota Motor is considering lowering its U.S. sales forecast as record gasoline prices damp the demand for pick-up trucks and other big vehicles, media reports said on Monday.
Katsuaki Watanabe, Toyota's president, told the Financia ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economy Cooperation (APEC) forum Sunday ended their 14th meeting in Peru's southern city of Arequipaon with a draft Declaration on Doha Agenda for Development.
The two-day meeting discussed how ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
South Korea plans to sell state-owned Korea Development Bank (KDB) by 2012 through share sales and private sales, said the South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) on Monday.
According to the FSC, the South Korean governmen ...
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