German Finance Minister Suggests Lisbon Bailout Flexibility - Spiegel Online


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German Finance Minister Suggests Lisbon Bailout Flexibility
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AP Many economic experts agree that Portugal may be the next Greece. On Thursday evening, a senior European official seemed to confirm such fears. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble was caught on camera offering Portugal "adjustments" to its ...
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Japan finance minister makes rare remark on intervention level - Reuters


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Japan finance minister makes rare remark on intervention level
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The minister said he had instructed his staff in October to intervene when the dollar hit 75.63 yen as the level was judged "perilous" to the Japanese economy and stopped the intervention at 78.20 yen early in November. "I think the interventions had a ...
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Egypt needs $11 billion to fund economic reforms: Finance minister - Ahram Online


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Egypt needs $11 billion to fund economic reforms: Finance minister
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Egypt needs an infusion of $11 billion over the next two years to fund an ambitious economic reform programme that will restructure tax and energy subsidies, the country's finance minister said on Thursday. In a statement issued by his ministry, ...

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Chile Minister Says Peso Gains Warrant Look at Dollar Buying - BusinessWeek

Chile Minister Says Peso Gains Warrant Look at Dollar Buying
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10 (Bloomberg) -- Chile's central bank should consider renewing a dollar-buying program to curb appreciation of the peso, South America's best performing currency in the past month, acting Finance Minister Julio Dittborn said. “Obviously it's a concern ...

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Advisers seek wider role for IES in economic policy-making - Indian Express

Advisers seek wider role for IES in economic policy-making
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The finance ministry's economic advisers, past and present, on Friday called for a wider role for officers of the Indian Economic Service in the country's administration. Bimal Jalan, also a former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, said: “The role ...

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Ex South Sudan finance minister denies corruption allegations - Sudan Tribune


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Ex South Sudan finance minister denies corruption allegations
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By Julius N. Uma February 6, 2012 (JUBA) - A former minister for Finance and Economic Planning in the South Sudanese government has denied allegations linking him to embezzlement of public funds in the wake of the auditor general's report for 2005 and ...
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Beating Germany Makes Poland Haven in Europe: Riskless Return - Bloomberg


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Beating Germany Makes Poland Haven in Europe: Riskless Return
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Enlarge image Poland's Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski Poland's Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski Jock Fistick/Bloomberg Jacek Rostowski, Poland's finance minister, said Poland plans to meet the fiscal criteria to adopt the euro by 2015.

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