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MasterCard, Visa Hit by Data Breach 2012 - This is the end of a peaceful coexistence with inequality Rolling disruption to revolution: expect turbulence in 2012 Welcome to another year of protest and instability Can Annual Reports Save Lives? Iceland Says No To Chinese Billionaire Tottenham Hotspur to delist shares How mathematical modelling seduced Wall Street The Vatican Proposes new Global Financial Body Revealed - the capitalist network that runs the world The 147 Companies That Control Everything Transcript of the World Economic Outlook (WEO) Press Briefing Global Financial Stability Report - Sept 2011 EU debt crisis: Italy downgraded as IMF cuts forecasts - as it happened World economy: statistics and damned lies China's Banks: Light on Capital, Heavy on Risk Who are IMF potential successors to Dominique Strauss-Khan? SEC Searches for Conflicts of Interest in Market for Pieces of Firms Like Facebook NYSE Euronext, Deutsche Borse Announce Deal NYSE, Deutsche Börse in Deal Talks Buffett's Preferred Treatment From Goldman Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computers China poised to pour $10bn into Zimbabwe's ailing economy Growth versus Austerity Indian Investors were second worst after Egypt in Jan 2011 Egypt's Potential for Contagion US SEC rules creates chance to Veto a CEO's bonus John Paulson, Hedge fund manager made $5bn Profit last year
Britain's accountancy regulator will today launch an investigation into Ernst & Young's role as auditor of the European arm of Lehman Brothers. In its 100-year history, BP has been dogged by appalling accidents and an absence of diplomacy. Can it ever reinvent itself? Andrew Simms reports Business sees red on India's minimum float rule CBN’s directive on off-site ATMs dips banks’ fortunes The World Bank has expressed dissatisfaction over Federal Government’s failure to capture import tariffs in the 2010 budget even after it had recommended that current import bans be replaced with tariffs to boost local production and consequently c The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reviewed upwards its growth estimate for Africa to 4.2 per cent. Standard Chartered Private Equity Limited, a subsidiary of Standard Chartered has invested $47.5million to acquire a minority stake in Seven Energy, a leading Nigerian gas exploration and development company South Africa's FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index rose for a third day, adding 103.68, or 0.4 per cent, to 27,998.87 in Johannesburg It repeated its claim that Kraft's "derisory" bid was an attempt to "buy Cadbury on the cheap".
US President Barack Obama has told bankers to increase loans to small and medium-size businesses. Citigroup has said it will repay $20bn of US bail-out funding, marking the bank's exit from the US government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (Tarp). The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says growth and recovery are expected in 2010 in just about all world regions.