Archive for  December 2012
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China's entrepreneurial hub of Wenzhou has launched its own index to track private lending, with China seeking to provide greater transparency in a city known for its shadow-banking practices, the Shanghai Securities News said on
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A US regulatory probe of Netflix Inc over disclosures made on its chief executive's Facebook page could prove an important test of whether a rule designed to prevent leaks to analysts can translate to the
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Ecuador believes it has the support of Iran and Qatar for its proposal for Opec members to pay a small levy on their oil sales to help poor countries fight global warming, the chief climate
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Canada approved China's biggest ever foreign takeover, the $15.1 billion bid by CNOOC Ltd for energy company Nexen Inc, after the Chinese giant agreed to various conditions, but drew a line in the sand against
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Meat imports to Russia from producers using ractopamine must be tested and certified free of the feed additive, the country's veterinary regulator said, denying on Saturday the requirement is a political retaliation. The move, imposed
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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble repeated his assertion that the new debt deal for Greece will cost Berlin billions of euros in the long-term, but added the euro's advantages for Germany outweigh the cost of
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Saudi Arabia's second-biggest telecom operator Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has resumed pre-paid SIM card sales after a two-week suspension by the regulator over provisioning requirements, the firm said in a bourse statement on Saturday. "Mobily announces
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Standard Chartered, a British bank, is expected to announce on Monday a $330 million settlement with US law-enforcement agencies, a deal that would conclude an investigation that examined whether the bank violated sanctions with Iran,
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Standard Chartered, a British bank, is expected to announce on Monday a $330 million settlement with US law-enforcement agencies, a deal that would conclude an investigation that examined whether the bank violated sanctions with Iran,
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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co and the UK government are close to a settlement in which the bank and its employees could pay about 500 million pounds ($801.03 million) in back taxes, the Financial Times
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