Blogs Posts in Money category; 96 blog posts

China stocks may fall 10% on money supply curbs

China's stocks may drop as much as 10 percent over the next six months as the government curbs money supply growth to reduce liquidity and rein in property speculation, according to China International Capital Corp. “Stocks could fall [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

Asian Currencies Fall, Paced by Won, as Banks May Stem Gains

Asian currencies fell, led by South Korea’s won, on speculation regional central banks will intervene to stem rallies this year that risk hurting a recovery in exports. The won, Philippine peso and Indonesian rupiah all strengthened t [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Copenhagen Summit - Show Me the Money

Copenhagen is a numbers game: temperatures, emissions, and allowances. But the most important numbers are probably the ones preceded by dollar signs. “Money is even more important now the parties are coming up with only a politi [...]

Posted On : Dec, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

Money talks in Afghanistan, says army counter-insurgency man...

Money can be more important than force. This is one of the messages from the British army in its first counter-insurgency warfare manual to be published for eight years. Taking in lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, it says money mus [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Dollar is a national security issue

Recently China, Russia, Brazil and other nations with large U.S. dollar investments have called for eliminating the dollar's pre-eminent position as the world's reserve currency. This sentiment was supported by a United Nations' panel, [...]

Posted On : Oct, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

MONEY MARKETS-Bank loan rates near lows as ECB, BOE hold

U.S. commercial paper issuance rose for an eighth straight week while bank borrowing costs held near record lows on Thursday, further evidence of improvement for struggling credit markets. However, plenty of concern remained on the ec [...]

Posted On : Oct, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

Fair trade big money

Have the words that hold so much sway over the consumer dollar been usurped? Nick Churchouse reports. Child-trafficking, cocoa, the volatile coffee market and cotton-picking poverty. These things do not typically pop to mind when shopping [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Money fund assets fell to $3.559T in latest week

Total money market mutual fund assets fell by $21.35 billion to $3.559 trillion for the week, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds fell $4.97 billion in the latest week to $1 [...]

Posted On : Sep, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

More praise, less money

FOREIGN Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has returned from Istanbul emptyhanded. The Malakand Pilot Project that he took with him to the meeting of the FoDP, containing the required technical details and how the money needed was to be spent, w [...]

Posted On : Aug, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Mandatory IRAs---money in, money out

Among the issues for our legislative branch to ponder is the topic of financial regulatory reform. This is the touchy area of how and why the economic meltdown happened in the past year and preventing the next banking crisis from ever hap [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Money budgeted for Peotone airport changes equation

They don't agree on much, but proponents and opponents of the controversial proposal for an airport in Peotone say the $100 million set aside for the project in the state's just-signed capital bill is "huge." For airport supporte [...]

Posted On : Jul, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Money fund assets rose to $3.656T in latest week

Total money market mutual fund assets rose by $9 billion to $3.656 trillion for the week, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday. Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds fell by $5.06 billion in the latest week to $1 [...]

Posted On : Jul, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Tempting teens with plastic: O2's new Load & Go pre-pay Visa...

Last year Lloyds TSB sparked outrage after Guardian Money revealed it had issued Visa debit cards to children as young as 11, without first contacting parents. One father discovered his 15-year-old son was buying Viagra, fake ID and cigaret [...]

Posted On : Jul, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

China money supply growth, FX reserves surge

Annual growth in China's broad M2 measure of money supply surged in June on the back of breakneck bank lending ordered by Beijing to pump up the world's third-largest economy. And in a sign that money is flowing back into China in ant [...]