EU racing to draft second Greek bailout
BRUSSELS/ATHENS (Reuters) – The European Union is racing to draft a second bailout package for Greece to release vital loans next month and avert the risk of the euro zone country defaulting, EU officials said on Monday.
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Students get some financial education
The North Platte Telegraph Students may sometimes wonder if what they are learning will apply to their adult future, but a new financial educational tool puts students in a “real” world environment.
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Analysis – Spain privatisations may help if debt crisis deepens
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s plans to raise extra revenue from sales of state assets face substantial legal and political obstacles but their execution would cut the debt-laden country’s borrowing …
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‘Urgency’: 26 new IMB missionaries tell of need to take Gospel to the world
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)–The stench of dead bodies and human waste filled Mike Reid’s* nostrils as he stepped inside a filthy, rundown medical clinic in the South African bush.
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Zespri reports 72% profit drop, sees lower returns in 2012
May 24 (BusinessDesk) – Monopoly kiwifruit export marketer Zespri Group is warning growers that returns in 2012 are likely to be weaker than this year’s, though demand for the traditional green variety are holding up better than for the higher-value gold variety.
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Pacific Fibre’s subsea cable step closer with signing
Pacific Fibre’s hopes of building a US$400 million (NZ$505m) subsea communications cable to compete with the Southern Cross Cable took a step forward after it signed its first customer.
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ECB steps up rhetoric against Greek restructuring
European Central Bank insists Greece must pay debts on time, splits with other EU officials
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Greece Reality Check – Euro Crises Worsens As E.U. Leaders Play For Time
Europe’s leaders are still opposing a Greek debt restructuring, and they are exacerbating the euro crisis as a result. The Greek economy is at risk of collapse and resistance to further loans for the troubled nation is mounting. The continent urgently needs a [...]
Mamata: the single-woman army who crushed the mighty Left
Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) There was a time when poverty forced her to become a milk vendor. That was the only way she could help her widowed mother bring up her younger siblings. Those difficult years steeled Mamata Banerjee, whose decades old one-point agenda — of ousting [...]
Mamata: the single-woman army who crushed the mighty Left
Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) There was a time when poverty forced her to become a milk vendor. That was the only way she could help her widowed mother bring up her younger siblings. Those difficult years steeled Mamata Banerjee, whose decades old one-point agenda — of ousting [...]