Kenya's Treasury Secretary Henry Rotich confirms the sale of as much as USD2 billion worth of Eurobonds for the country's debt payments and energy projects.
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Reuters: Iran's Setad controls properties worth more than Iran's oil exports
The Setad, an entity created by the first Ayatollah, now had expanded its business interests to real estate and nearly twelve other Iranian companies both locally and worldwide.
Chinese central bank tightens money supply
The People's Bank of China had undertaken a program of lowering money supply to avoid further inflation, but this may lead to lack of financial support
China's SASAC open to allowing private sector interests in state firms
In a recent statement, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission or SASAC had welcomed the move to allow the private sector to purchase interests in state owned or controlled corporations.
China's free trade zone an experiment for its future
Many analysts say the lack of transparency may put the free trade zone experiment in China in jeopardy, unless it is confirmed as one of the economic priorities of the Third Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Typhoon Haiyan's devastation would also lower the growth of the Philippine economy. The Philippine benchmark index had its largest decline in the last six weeks amidst concerns from the consequent devastation from Super Typhoon Haiyan would affect the economic growth of the country.
President Xi Jinping and other Communist leaders to meet up for the third plenum of China. As the final quarter of 2013 comes around, China's economy has undergone an acceleration in manufacturing and exports creating momentum for the Beijing leadership to be confident on possible policy shifts to be implemented for the next decade.
Healthcare company Johnson & Johnson stopped selling some of its products to Amazon.com because of complaints about the site's third party sellers.
Dubai would be host to Eman Mansour's latest investment banking endeavor. Veteran Gulf Arab banker Emad Mansour had laid out plans to establish a new investment bank located in the tax free financial zone of Dubai.
A Wall Street Journal report said big banks were thinking of blocking traders from chat rooms as regulators intensify probes on market manipulation and collusion
Monier Group Services was able to get an extension for its debt even without the backing of all its creditors after London's High Court decided on the matter.
US Department of Transportation found that US Airways Group was guilty of not providing standard disability services to its passengers.
US Justice Department's condition to AMR Corp and US Airways to lift the former's lawsuit could further delay merger plans.
The Central Bank of Ireland assured the public that it had been pursuing an alternate solution to bail out Newbridge Credit Union after talks of a merger with Naas Credit Union had failed.
