Archive for February, 2010

G7 NATIONS PLEDGE DEBT RELIEF FOR QUAKE-HIT HAITI

Posted on February 7, 2010

OTTAWA: The world”s leading industrialised nations have pledged to write off the debts that Haiti owes them, following a devastating earthquake last month. Canada”s finance minister announced at a summit in Iqaluit, northern Canada that Group of Seven countries planned to cancel Haiti”s bilateral debts. Jim Flaherty said he would encourage international lenders to do [...]

OIL PRICES WEAKEN AT END OF WEEK

Posted on February 7, 2010

SINGAPORE: World oil prices fell in the wake of weaker-than-expected US jobs data and at the end of a volatile week for global financial markets. New York”s main futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in March, lost 34 cents to 72.80 dollars a barrel. London”s Brent North Sea crude for March dropped 69 cents [...]

PAKISTANI CEMENT MAY GAIN MARKET IN INDIA

Posted on February 7, 2010

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GLOBAL MARKETS ROUT HITS ASIA

Posted on February 7, 2010

HONG KONG: Mounting fears about parlous government finances in Europe hammered stock markets across Asia on Friday following New York”s worst finish since November. A global flight to safety lifted the dollar and depressed the euro, despite concern that US jobs data out later in the day would flag enduring weakness in the world”s largest [...]

US SEEKS ACCESS TO NUCLEAR PROGRAM OF PAKISTAN: JI

Posted on February 7, 2010

LAHORE: Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Syed Munawwar Hassan has said US agenda tops creation of uncertainty in Pakistan so that it should have access to Pakistan’s nuclear program. He said she also looks all set to get our nuclear program declared unsafe in order to let international community have control over it. Addressing the gathering of the [...]

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