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Home Base for Laughs? Comedy Central Thinks So

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:15:46 EDT | New York Times

In the midst of a ratings surge, Comedy Central will release a cellphone game based on ?South Park.?


[$$] SA's central banker hits out at Barclays (at FT.com)

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:16:02 GMT | Yahoo! Finance

John Varley's first major acquisition as chief executive of Barclays - the takeover of Absa in South Africa - has been publicly criticised by that country's central bank governor. Tito Mboweni said Barclays' stewardship of Absa was "discouraging" and talked of culture clashes between the two management teams.


About 150 people killed by avalanches, flooding in mountains of central Asia

Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:10:00 -0400 | canoe CNEWS

KABUL (AP) - Avalanches and floods triggered by heavy rains and spring snow melt have killed about 150 people in recent days in the mountains of central Asia, officials said Monday.


World Business Briefing | Australia: Central Bank Leaves Interest Rate Unchanged

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:52:10 EDT | New York Times

Australia?s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a six-year high, giving policy makers time to study an inflation report later this month that may prompt an increase. The governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia left the overnight cash rate target at 6.25 percent for a fourth consecutive meeting after raising it a quarter percentage point in November.


World Business Briefing | Asia: China: A Move to Cool the Economy

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:14:32 EDT | New York Times

China told banks to increase their reserves for the third time this year, cutting the amount of money available for lending in a new effort to cool an investment boom that Beijing worries could lead to a financial crisis. The order comes on top of repeated interest rate increases and investment curbs imposed in the last year on real estate, auto manufacturing and other industries. The effort has had limited success in slowing the growth of investment. The amount of reserves that lenders must keep with the central bank was raised 0.5 percentage point, to 10.5 percent of their deposits, the central bank said. The increase takes effect April 16.


[$$] McCreevy warns Dutch central bank over ABN (at FT.com)

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:15:14 GMT | Yahoo! Finance

The European Commission Thursday fired a shot across the Dutch central bank's bows, warning its governor against any protectionist move in the rapidly escalating battle for control of ABN Amro, the country's second-biggest bank.


Panama Has No Central Bank

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:36:00 +0000 | Newsvine

For a real-world example of how a system of market-chosen monetary policy would work in the absence of a central bank, one need not look to the past; the example exists in present-day Central America, in the Republic of Panama, a country that has lived without a central bank sinc …


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