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SINGAPORE, August 10, 2011 (AFP) – Crude futures soared in Asian trade Wednesday, mirroring Asian equities markets encouraged by the US Federal Reserve’s two-year commitment to keep interest rates low, analysts said. Growth was also expected to be at a “somewhat slower pace” over the coming quarters, the Fed’s Open Market Committee added, as “downside […]

Aug 10, 2011 (LBO) – The World Bank has called Sri Lankans between the ages of 18 to 25 to apply to attend the lender’s annual sessions in Washington in September as ‘youth delegates’ and also interact with counterparts in the region. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are having their annual sessions […]

Aug 09, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state revenues rose 19. 7 percent to 358.3 billion rupees in the five months to May 2011 in line with an annual targeted rate of 17. 8 percent and expenses rose 5.4 percent to 417.1 billion rupees, official data showed. But there was still a gap between current […]

HONG KONG , August 9, 2011 (AFP) – Asian stock markets plunged further Tuesday, deepening sharp losses brought on by the historic credit downgrade of the United States and the debt crisis in Europe. As gold soared to record levels and crude oil prices fell, Asian stocks tumbled despite G7 and G20 pledges to bolster […]

PARIS, August 7, 2011 (AFP) – The week on financial markets began with high tension over the eurozone debt crisis and culminated in a downgrading of the US credit rating. Attention focused on the outlook for the US and EU economies, and the eurozone lurched deeper into crisis which now affects even core countries. The […]

WASHINGTON, August 7, 2011 (AFP) – Standard & Poor’s decision to strip the United States of its triple-A credit rating is a tough but logical sanction of the country’s inability to contain its spiraling debt, experts say. S&P slashed the US rating for the first time in history Friday from its sterling AAA to AA+, […]

Aug 06, 2011 (LBO) – The long term credit rating of the United States of America has been downgraded by one notch to AA + with a negative outlook by Standard & Poors, a rating agency. Unless rulers cut spending as agreed with the congress, the rating agency said it may further downgrade US government […]

Aug 06, 2011 (LBO) – The long term credit rating of the United States of America has been downgraded by one notch to AA + with a negative outlook by Standard & Poors, a rating agency, which said policy making has become less ‘stable’. At higher levels in the rating scale, policy takes on a […]