on 05/13/2011, 12:06 am / in Business - Economy, Investments & joint-ventures
CNBC May 08, 2011 “I think if you step back and look at the Chinese macro picture now in the context of what’s going on around the world – Middle East, other places – the last thing the Chinese government will afford to do now is to have a slowdown in the macroeconomic development,” Chris Rynning, CEO of Origo told [...]
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on 05/06/2011, 11:39 pm / in Business - Economy
CNBC May 05, 2011 “Regarding the retail outside France, we had an impact of the turmoil in Ivory Coast, in Egypt and in Tunisia. Some of our banks had to close for a certain period of time, they have all reopened, but we were not able to post revenues,” Frédéric Oudéa, CEO of Société Générale told CNBC Thursday after SocGen [...]
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on 05/06/2011, 11:28 pm / in Business - Economy
CNBC May 04, 2011 ?If you take our exposure in terms of sovereign bonds on Greece, Portugal and Ireland altogether, it amounts to 6.7 billion euros,? Baudouin Prot, CEO of BNP Paribas, told CNBC on Wednesday as the bank opened the French bank earnings season. In case of a peripheral debt haircut scenario, ?there would be an impact, but it [...]
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on 05/06/2011, 11:11 pm / in Business - Economy, Raw materials
CNBC – May 03,-2011 “I think the two markets where prices have actually risen significantly over the past twelve months, they’ve been sugar and cotton,” Sudakshina Unnikrishnan, vice president of Commodities Research at Barclays Capital, told CNBC, “I think both are markets are poised for a pullback – and especially cotton.”
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on 03/19/2011, 2:58 am / in Business - Economy, Caucasus
BAKU – Manganese Bronze (MNG), maker of London’s traditional black cabs, said it had agreed an order for 1,000 taxis with a company in Azerbaijan, sending its shares up nearly 50 percent on Thursday, Reuters reported. The company, which has struggled with falling sales and market share, said the deal was the single largest contract it had received for its [...]
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