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• Independence May Cost Banks Billions

  ReutersUK - 2009-11-22

  LONDON (Reuters UK) - Britain's biggest banks would have to raise billions of pounds to achieve complete independence from state support, according to research from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development.To become standalone institutions, the banks would have to raise their core capital ratios above 20 percent, the Paris...

  Tags: Bank, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Britain, Oecd, Oukbs

• Dollar firms as euro slumps to six-month low

  - 2008-09-02

  NEW YORK AFP — The dollar got a lift Tuesday from falling oil prices while the euro hit a six-month low amid expectations of lower interest rates in the eurozone and stronger growth in the United States. Sterling came under heavy pressure meanwhile after the Organization for Economic Cooperation...

  Tags: FINANCE, OECD

• Chile

  - 2008-08-01

  Chile. OECD 2007 218 pages $45.00 Paperback OECD reviews of innovation policy HC195 Carried out by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development), this report draws on a background report prepared by the Chilean Ministry of Economy as well as information...

  Tags: Chile, FINANCE, OECD, Strategy, Taxes

• Unemployment forecast to rise across OECD countries

  - 2008-07-02

  PARIS AFP — Industrialised countries should brace for a rise in unemployment this year and next, as financial market turmoil puts the brakes on growth and job creation, the OECD warned in a report on Wednesday. Unemployment fell in 2007 across all OECD states except Portugal, Ireland and Mexico,...

  Tags: FINANCE, OECD, unemployment

• To revive Mfg., bank proposes carbon tax on Chinese imports

  - 2008-06-30

  Imposing a carbon tax on Chinese imports would lead to a resurgence of the U.S. manufacturing industry, according to a report from Canada's largest banking firm, CIBC World Markets. A carbon tariff on imported goods, "may be the only way developed nations will be able to achieve real cuts in...

  Tags: bank, carbon, China, emission, FINANCE, import, OECD, Taxes, U.S.

• Ride high food prices to cut subsidies, boost production: OECD

  - 2008-06-28

  PARIS AFP — Industrialised countries should seize the opportunity of high world food prices to cut subsidies for farm production, the OECD advises in a review of agriculture policies. Published as the World Trade Organization gears up for an attempt to break through agriculture, subsidies and other issues blocking...

  Tags: FINANCE, food, Manufacturing, OECD, subsidy

• 2ND LD: OECD voices inflation concern amid food, energy price hikes

  - 2008-06-09

  PARIS, June 5 Kyodo (EDS: RECASTING WIH CHAIR'S SUMMARY) Economic ministers from the 30-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development wrapped up their two-day meeting Thursday with a chair's summary voicing concern over inflation stemming from food and energy price hikes. ''Ministers were concerned...

  Tags: chair, FINANCE, food, inflation, Manufacturing, minister, OECD, Taxes

• OECD slashes growth forecast, warns of slowdown

  - 2008-06-04

  PARIS AFP — The OECD slashed its growth forecast for the world's industrialised powers on Wednesday, warning of several lacklustre quarters ahead despite signs that financial market upheavals may have "passed their peak." The Organisation for Economic Growth and Development in a twice-yearly survey said its 30 member economies...

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• Eurozone set for record 3.4 percent inflation in 2008: OECD

  - 2008-06-04

  PARIS AFP — Inflation in the eurozone this year will surge to its highest level since the creation of the euro in 1999, with economic growth also set to drop amid high oil and food prices, the OECD said Wednesday. In its twice annual survey of its 30 member...

  Tags: FINANCE, inflation, OECD

• New Report Provides an Introduction to the Triple Play/Multiple Play Concept Including Definitions, Potential Revenue Opportunities for Different Market Segments

  - 2008-06-03

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c93491) has announced the addition of Global - Digital Media - Triple Play Overview & Analyses to their offering. Triple play was the first business model designed to deliver the newly integrated products that are the result of industry changes and convergence. Triple...

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