had told international investors last week worried about a Greek exit from the euro that the country was very far from Ireland and had few economic links with us."If you go into the shops here, apart from feta cheese, how many Greek items do you put in your basket?" he said.But Mr Noonan's comments at Bloomberg's Ireland Economic Summit were branded as "flippant" and "simplistic" by former Greek prime minister George Papandreou.Mr Noonan said yesterday that he was trying to prevent the financial crisis from affecting Ireland by pointing out to international investors that Ireland did not have
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Last year that talk seemed to derail confidence, and that's coming up as a topic again."Mr Coffin and the UBS team,...
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Published: 2012/05/21 Tomypak Holdings Bhd, a plastic packaging company, climbed 2.8 per cent to 92.5 sen, the most since Feb 3. The company declared a tax-exempt dividend of 1.5 sen per share after its first-quarter profit grew 17 per cent from a year... Full Article at Business Times Malaysia
Remember that Bloomberg story from last November, in which JP Morgan and Goldman disclosed to shareholders they have sold credit protection on $5 trillion of global debt? They wouldn’t disclose many details, but that’s a fairly large amount of credit... Full Article at Naked Capitalism
Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn (C) and his wife Anne Sinclair arrive for a hearing at New York State Supreme Court July 1, 2011 in New York. Strauss-Kahn is awaiting trial on sex-assault charges. Prosecutors have agreed to free former IMF chief... View Photo »
There should be some experimentation ... Foreclosure is not the answer.
A basis point is 0.01 percentage point. The leu has lost 2.6 percent against the euro since January, making it the worst performer among eastern European and African currencies tracked by Bloomberg. Romania won’t be forced to sell bonds abroad as it... Full Article at Bloomberg.com
While we are still up in arms over the naming convention, as many were thrown off the trail with the new iPad’s name instead what many expected to see – the iPad 3. Well, word has it that Apple has just registered the iPhone5.com domain name, with... Full Article at Ubergizmo
May 21: Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs played a major role in the development of the tech giant’s fifth generation iPhone, according to a report. In 2010, Jobs said no one would buy a smartphone so big that one couldn’t get his/her hand around. But,... Full Article at India Talkies
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 23: David Carr (C) and guests attend the Bloomberg Panel & Reception during the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival at the Bloomberg - 713 Lexington on April 23, 2012 in New York City. View Photo »
motorists pay $67 billion annually for increased fuel consumption, body dents, worn tires and premature wear wrought by pitted roads.
Jewelry makes up about half of Geneva-based Richemont’s sales and 80 percent of operating income, with watch-making comprising the bulk of the rest. While jewelry can be considered a store of value, auction prices can fall below those in retail stores... Full Article at Bloomberg.com
The Bloomberg Russia-US Equity Index (RUS14BN) of the most-traded Russian companies in the U.S. declined to a seven-month low, losing 11 percent to 83.71 in the week. Futures expiring in June on Moscow’s dollar-denominated RTS Index slid 2.9 percent to... Full Article at Bloomberg.com
Hankir (Bloomberg) / 21 May 2012 DUBAI - DubaiÂs stocks declined for the second time in three days after oil slumped to a six-month low on concern Greece will have to exit the euro system. EgyptÂs measure lost the most in more than a month. Arabtec... Full Article at Khaleej Times
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There should be some experimentation ... Foreclosure is not the answer.
motorists pay $67 billion annually for increased fuel consumption, body dents, worn tires and premature wear wrought by pitted roads.
A lot of people in the inner city feel he does treat us like the people who built the pyramids -- he wants us to build the pyramids and then die in poverty. But as a citizen I have freedom of speech. If she was really behind us she wouldn't have left. She put on a show for us today.
This year the committee did not award a Pulitzer Prize for fiction ... Now we have one ... for next year.
Incidentally, once this building tops out, there’s still a lot of work before people can move in, a couple of years
And the reason is all in education
For decades, the goal of bringing better taxi service to residents and visitors outside of Manhattan eluded the city ... At long last New Yorkers in all five boroughs will have safe, comfortable, less costly and legal street hail service.
Outcomes are so much better if patients believe and if they have hope ... And, that's what art gives you. It brightens your spirits.
With Mitt Romney raising private funds for the fall campaign, this year's presidential election will be the first since the Watergate scandal in which neither major party's nominee accepts federal funding
What strikes you when you look down there is everything is close to the court. It reminds me of the Cyclones stadium at Coney Island where you feel like you’re right on the field
I would suggest that you address that question to the speaker
All I know is I'm going to her wedding, and we're gonna have a good time, and I don't think that living wage is going to come up as a subject at the wedding
a throwback to the era when government viewed the private sector as a cash cow to be milked rather than a garden to be cultivated. In those days, government took the private sector for granted. We cannot afford to go back to those days. We cannot take our economy for granted, and I will not sign legisla...
Of course, I understand why some union leaders support the legislation. Their job is to increase the salaries and benefits of their members, whether by negotiation, arbitration, or legislation ... But it's the government's job to stand up for taxpayers and for job-seekers, and that leaves me no choice b...
Pretty much every other PAC out there, whoever starts the PAC starts it with an idea—'This is what we're going to stand for,' ... And we did just the opposite.
Ray [Kelly]’s never said to me he wanted to be mayor
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Mitt Romney is accusing President Barack Obama of failing to fulfill the campaign promises he made four years ago, as Obama warns Republicans would ‘gut’ support for federal programs such as education to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy ... In dueling swing-state speeches yesterday -- Obama’s in Elyria,...
The World Bank plans to strengthen its social safety net to help the 60 percent of people in the developing world who lack adequate protection from the impact of global financial volatility and rising food and fuel prices
First lady Michelle Obama’s campaign to support military families wins bipartisan praise. It may be good politics, too ... The face of the U.S. military is changing to become more diverse in gender and race, meaning the armed forces vote is less reliably Republican.
First lady Michelle Obama’s campaign to support military families wins bipartisan praise. It may be good politics, too ... The face of the U.S. military is changing to become more diverse in gender and race, meaning the armed forces vote is less reliably Republican.
If we want our region's maritime terminals to stay competitive, then it is important that we be able to accommodate those new megaships and their full loads
The laws are not the kind of laws that a civilized society should have ... This is just giving people a license to murder.
Unfortunately, even when you do the right thing policing, as we all know, is a very dangerous job
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