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/ 4 November 2008
Global miner Rio Tinto sees no reason to cut its exploration portfolio or budget in Africa on the back of the global economic crisis.
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/ 3 November 2008
World stock markets turned mixed on Monday as already nervous investors waited for Tuesday’s United States presidential vote.
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/ 2 November 2008
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday called for billions of dollars in extra funding for the IMF to prop up struggling economies.
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/ 1 November 2008
Like local companies, executives are feeling the pinch of the recent drop in share values, writes Lynley Donnelly.
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/ 1 November 2008
Sharp falls in consumer spending in the US and Germany deepened fears of a global recession as markets ended one of their most traumatic months.
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/ 31 October 2008
World stock markets had mixed fortunes on Friday, with fearful investors groping for direction at the end of a mad month of wild volatility.
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/ 30 October 2008
The IMF has approved a short-term financing facility for emerging-market economies that have a good economic track record.
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/ 30 October 2008
Less demand for exports is hurting GDP growth, Graeme Wearden and David Stanway report.
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/ 30 October 2008
Developed countries are planning to cut aid to Africa due to the global financial crisis, a senior African Union (AU) commissioner said on Wednesday.
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/ 30 October 2008
Banking Crisis: Maya Fisher-French looks at how the global meltdown affects your pocket.
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/ 30 October 2008
Lynley Donnelly finds that the South African home market does not have the same risk
profile as the US and UK.
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/ 30 October 2008
Trevor Manuel’s medium-term budget policy statement could have taken a more aggressive approach.
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/ 30 October 2008
For the Moscow pensioners gathered next to Karl Marx’s statue on Sunday there was, at last, something to be cheerful about.
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/ 30 October 2008
The governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King admitted on Tuesday that Britain was entering its first recession since the early 1990s.
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/ 29 October 2008
The White House prodded banks and other financial companies on Tuesday to quit hoarding billions of government dollars flowing into their vaults.
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/ 29 October 2008
The threat of a global recession looms large and more needs to be done to safeguard emerging economies, an International Monetary Fund official said.
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/ 29 October 2008
Pakistan has sought an emergency bail-out from the International Monetary Fund.
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/ 28 October 2008
Trevor Manuel has warned against adopting leftist policies after next year’s elections and said the global turmoil had introduced vulnerabilities,
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/ 28 October 2008
FirstRand is adequately capitalised and has liquidity buffers in place to see out the credit crisis, its chief executive said on Tuesday.
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/ 28 October 2008
White House frontrunner Barack Obama on Monday traded blows with John McCain over how to repair the stricken United States economy.
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/ 28 October 2008
Smaller US banks have objected that they could be vulnerable to government-funded predatory takeovers as their larger rivals enjoy cash injections.
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/ 28 October 2008
Foppish businessmen flirt with models as women crowd around jewellery displays — Russia’s party scene is showing little sign of a financial crisis.
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/ 27 October 2008
The price of petrol should drop about 35 cents per litre (c/l) when the central energy fund releases the latest petrol and diesel prices on Friday.
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/ 27 October 2008
Growing fears of recession sent share and oil prices plummeting on Monday as markets shrugged off new moves to protect shell-shocked economies.
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/ 27 October 2008
Iceland said on Monday that IMF cash would not be enough to stabilise its ailing economy as it prepared for talks on the financial crisis.
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/ 27 October 2008
Oil prices sank beneath $60 a barrel in London on Monday, hitting a 17-month low point on worries that a global recession would sap energy demand.
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/ 27 October 2008
South Africa’s automotive market is not insulated from the global economic churn and credit squeeze, PricewaterhouseCoopers said on Monday.
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/ 26 October 2008
Investors unnerved by a sell-off in shares are looking ahead to a week that may see a round of coordinated central bank action to calm markets.
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/ 26 October 2008
One important consequence is that the crisis has exposed the serious deficiencies in global financial governance and the problems this creates.
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/ 25 October 2008
Fida president Sepp Blatter said on Friday his organization’s finances are not at risk in the world financial crisis.
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/ 25 October 2008
Leaders closed ranks on Saturday to try to bolster the confidence of investors fearful that the credit crunch is mutating into a worldwide recession.
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/ 24 October 2008
World stock markets plunged deep into negative territory on Friday as gloom gathered over the global economy.