Reuters:
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - British finance minister Alistair Darling urged his G20 counterparts on Saturday to work toward a $100 billion deal on tackling climate change as developing nations held firm they did not want to talk about it.
. (Read More)
Reuters:
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - British finance minister Alistair Darling urged his G20 counterparts on Saturday to work toward a $100 billion deal to tackle climate change but developing nations insisted they did not want to talk about it.
. (Read More)
Reuters Video: Top News:
Nov. 7 - British finance minister Alistair Darling urges his G20 counterparts work towards a $100 billion deal to tackle climate change at a summit in Scotland.
. (Read More)
Times Online:
For the kingpins of global finance, it doesn’t get better: stock markets are thundering, interest rates are close to nil, banks are coining profits. A world of cheapening money and rising asset values is a corporate financier’s daydream, but something is missing. (Read More)
Reuters: Environment:
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - British finance minister Alistair Darling urged his G20 counterparts on Saturday to work toward a $100 billion deal to tackle climate change but developing nations insisted they did not want to talk about it.
. (Read More)
Financial Times:
Gordon Brown raised the possibility of a global tax on financial transactions in a move that threatened to reignite international tensions over the regulation of the banking industry and upstage the Group of 20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors. (Read More)
Reuters:
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Global economic conditions have improved but are still uneven and dependent on policy support, according to a draft of the G20 finance ministers' and central bankers' end-of-meeting communique.
. (Read More)
Reuters:
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers pledged on Saturday to prepare strategies to end emergency support for their economies, but to keep the aid flowing until recovery was assured.
. (Read More)
Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Saturday to tighten a ban against using federal funds to finance abortions under the proposed Democratic healthcare reform legislation.
. (Read More)
Reuters:
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - A meeting of Group of 20 finance leaders should not be fixated on exchange rate levels, as they are a symptom of underlying economic problems rather than a cause, the head of the International Monetary Fund's policy-steering committee told Reuters on Saturday.
. (Read More)
Reuters:
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Following are comments on Saturday from Group of 20 finance ministers, central bank policymakers and officials meeting in Scotland.
. (Read More)
FT Alphaville:
It's being billed as an outrageous piece of behind the scenes lobbying by Big Finance. Moves are afoot to overlay the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which sits inside the SEC, with a new "oversight board"Â - a regulator's regulator, if you like.
The subtext here is all about mark-to-mark accounting:... (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Harvard Business School is sending 28 percent of its 2009 graduating class onto careers in finance, a mildly bullish sign for the economy, said Ray Soifer, an independent bank consultant.
. (Read More)