NY Post:
ALBANY -- Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno secured a $2.5 million legislative grant used to create office space for a tech firm tied to one of his business partners, prosecutors revealed yesterday.
Senate finance officials told jurors at t... (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government has not yet chalked out a roadmap to withdraw stimulus in the first half of 2010, the junior finance Minister said on Friday in a written reply to a question in parliament.
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Reuters:
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Vodafone has sought an extension until Jan. 29 to reply to a tax claim notice issued last month by the Indian tax department, Minister of State for Finance S.S. Palanimanickam said on Friday in a written reply to question in parliament.
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ReadWriteWeb:
The social media data company Rapleaf has just released the final parts of their 3-part study involving the demographics and online behavior of webmail users. In the first part of the study, gender and age data was examined and revealed some interesting findings...like the fact that Gmail has more female users than male, fo (Read More)
Financial Times:
The hurdles to a Hershey-Cadbury tie-up are by now well aired.Hershey has a smaller market cap than Cadbury, would need to take on crippling amounts of debt to finance a deal, and the Hershey Charitable Trust would be loath to relinquish control in any new company.Yet the industrial logic of a Cadbury-Hershey merger is comp (Read More)
Reuters: Private Equity:
BARCELONA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Kabel Deutschland (KDG),
[KABLD.UL] Germany's biggest cable operator, may seek an initial
public offering next year if market conditions are right, its
finance chief said on Thursday.
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Times Money was named as Personal Finance Section of the Year at the prestigious Santander personal finance media awards in London last night. (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India Infrastructure Finance Co Ltd (IIFCL) is likely to get a credit facility of 80 million euros from Germany's KFW, said a top official at IIFCL.
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Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - CIT Group Inc on Thursday said it has won overwhelming support from bondholders for its reorganization plan, as the big finance company tries to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of the year.
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Reuters:
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A bill to reform the insurance sector is unlikely to be cleared by the parliament's winter session, a finance ministry official said on Thursday.
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Reuters:
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Power Finance Corp Ltd said on Thursday it has signed a pact with NTPC Ltd, Power Grid Corp of India and Rural Electrification Corp Ltd to set up a joint venture company.
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Reuters:
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government is not looking at putting a quota on external commercial borrowings (ECBs) by corporates, Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla said on Thursday.
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NY Post:
State Senate Finance Chair Carl Kruger knows how to get some much-needed wampum for New York State — tax the cigarettes being sold on American Indian soil.On Monday, Nov. 16, the Brooklyn pol personally handed Governor David Paterson a request urging... (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Executives at the Reuters Global Finance Summit rallied to the defense of the industry's resurgent bonus practices, arguing that there was no clear link between generous compensation and last year's market meltdown.
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Reuters:
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Top finance officials from the G7 countries will meet in the remote Arctic town of Iqaluit on Feb 5-6 but may not issue a communique, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Wednesday.
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