The FINANCIAL -- Citi announced it has been ranked the Best Overall Internet Bank and Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Bank Globally by Global Finance at its World's Best Internet Bank Awards Dinner held in New York.
The FINANCIAL -- On 30 December 2008 OAO Gazprom issued its unaudited consolidated interim condensed financial information prepared in accordance with International Accounting Standard 34 “Interim Financial Reporting” (IAS 34) for the six months ended 30 June 2008.
The FINANCIAL -- According to NewYorkPost, John Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, died on January 2while the family was vacationing in the Bahamas, police said.
The FINANCIAL -- According to EU business, Slovakia adopted the euro as of January 2 to become the 16th member of the eurozone, exactly ten years after the single European currency was introduced.
The FINANCIAL -- GAZA/TEL AVIV, At least 13 Palestinians were killed and 40 wounded overnight as Israel continued to carry out airstrikes on Gaza overnight bringing the death toll to 363, a Palestinian emergencies official said on December 30.
The FINANCIAL -- TEL AVIV, Israeli naval ships have reportedly rammed a boat, carrying 16 international human rights activists and humanitarian aid, the regional media and international organizations said on December 30.
The FINANCIAL -- Iago Khachvani, Service Director of Caucasus Online , talked about the Corporate Social Responsibility of the company and underlined the priorities which could encourage the development of the company.
The FINANCIAL -- Credit Suisse announced it had signed an agreement to sell part of its Global Investors ("GI") traditional asset management business in return for up to 24.9% of the enlarged share capital of Aberdeen Asset Management.
The FINANCIAL -- The NASDAQ OMX Group (Nasdaq:NDAQ) the world's largest exchange company, announced on January 2 that Ener1 has switched from NYSE Alternext to NASDAQ effective January 2, 2009. Ener1 will trade under ticker symbol HEV.
The FINANCIAL -- According to Gulfnews, the spreading gloom about the global economy in the last quarter of 2008 affected Dubai's tourism sector, otherwise it would have been a remarkable year for the city's holiday trade.
The FINANCIAL -- The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced results for November showing a 4.6% drop in international passenger traffic and a 13.5% drop in international cargo.
The FINANCIAL -- A deepening recessionary trend in the economy, coupled with continuing credit squeeze and high interest rates, has further depressed customer sentiments. As a result, automobile purchases are being severely impacted. Tata Motors’ domestic sales for the month of December 2008 were 23,894 nos., a decline of 44% compared to 42,977 nos. in December last year.
The FINANCIAL -- LAPD detectives were hunting December 19 for a thief who made off with an estimated $2 million worth of jewelry after ransacking the Mulholland Estates mansion of socialite Paris Hilton in a brazen overnight burglary.
The FINANCIAL -- According to Civil Georgia, signing of the U.S.-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership, originally planned for January 4 in Washington, has been postponed because of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s planned visit to the Middle East, the Georgian Foreign Ministry said on January 2.
The FINANCIAL -- A large number of tropical cyclones and the earthquake in Sichuan made 2008 one of the most devastating years on record. Although there was a drop in the number of loss-producing events compared with the previous year (from 960 to 750), individual catastrophes pushed up the numbers of victims and the losses appreciably.
Press-Release (Via finchannel.com) -- Mail and messaging technology specialist Pitney Bowes is at the vanguard of the wider industry’s calls to ensure fairness and clarity in new EU-wide postal VAT principles that are likely to emerge from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in 2009.
The FINANCIAL -- Citi announced it has been ranked the Best Overall Internet Bank and Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Bank Globally by Global Finance at its World's Best Internet Bank Awards Dinner held in New York.
