News Corporation, the media dispose headed by Rupert Murdoch, confirmed this morning that it had made some offer to take full control of BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster in that it has a 39 per cent stake.
News Corp, parent troop of The Times, has offered 700p a share for the remaining 61 through cent that values [...]
(last updated on Aug 15 with June trade data)
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KEY INTEREST RATES REPO REVERSE REPO
estimate 2.00 pct 0.25 pct
last change Jan 19, 2009 June 16, 2009
anterior rate 2.50 pct 0.50 pct
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SAUDI GDP 2009 2008 2007
(unshaken 1999 prices, pct) (Y/Y) 0.6 4.3 2.0
Oil -6.7 4.2 -3.6
Non-oil 3.8 4.3 4.7
- peculiar 3.5 4.6 5.5
- government 4.4 3.7 3.0
(stated [...]
MINISTERS be in actual possession of asked train companies for ideas to cut the cost of running the railways — and be in actual possession of told them they can keep half the savings. The idea is to accord. the firms an incentive to agree to changes in their contracts.
“Rail right agreements are extremely detailed, [...]
China is allowing for a wealth tax on homeowners as it grasps at new weapons to halt a frantic rise in property prices that many be afraid of poses the biggest threat to the Chinese economy.
The Mayor of Chongqing, the universe’s biggest metropolis, wants to tax the properties of its richest homeowners in arrange to [...]
By Javier Mozzo
BOGOTA, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Colombia’s central bank put ~ Friday kept its key interest rate unchanged at 3 percent at the same time that widely expected, but the bank’s board did not adopt ~ one measures to curb the sharp rise of the local peso.
The limited currency has appreciated more than 11 [...]