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Neil McCormick explains why Hallelujah is the perfect theme for our godless times.
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The global financial crisis may force the Reserve Bank to delay the roadmap for further liberalising the banking sector by six to eight months from the scheduled date of April, 2009, a finance ministry official said.
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The measures taken by the National Bank of Ukraine could stabilize the situation in the banking sector within a month, NBU Deputy Chairman Volodymyr Krotiuk has said. "This could stabilize the situation within a month... Probably earlier," he said at a press conference on Monday. Krotiuk said that the central bank would monitor changes in the banking sector and would cancel earlier imposed restrictions on the advance issuing of deposits after the improvement of the situation.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday announced guarantees on interbank loans of up to 320 billion euros to shore up the financial sector. Additionally, 40 billion euros would be set aside to recapitalise French banks, he said.
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Amid the global financial crisis, Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid al-Maktoum ordered a further 19 billion dollars to be pumped into the national banking sector to boost liquidity, the Emirates news agency WAM reported on Tuesday. The decision raised
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China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) chairman Liu Mingkang has urged the banking sector to closely watch the impact of the turbulent international financial environment against the domestic financial market and improve capabilities of risk management. Speaking at a recent CBRC
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Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is set to announce measures this week to help domestic banks keep up with their foreign competitors, which are benefiting from government bailouts and guarantees.
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The development of China's banking sector can be seen as a case study of how competition from international companies can enhance an industry. After years of coexistence with their international counterparts, domestic banks have proved that they can stand on
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The first shipment of $125 billion is headed for the nation's 9 largest banks this week.
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THE miserly Scrooge mentality will be hanging over this year's festive season, with four out of five bosses giving the annual party the chop.
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Verkhovna Rada Chairman Arseniy Yatseniuk announced this, following his visit to Washington, where he met the WB Managing Director.
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Early indications are emerging of UK government pressure to create a two-tier banking system in banks' differing responses to the cut in base rates
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TAOISEACH Brian Cowen will not be hosting an official party for his 200 staff this year -- proving that not even Christmas can escape cutbacks.
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Former waitress Victoria Hart joins the battle for Christmas Number One.
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You’d have to be in a desperately, even pathologically nostalgic mood to derive much joy from the stage retread of “White Christmas.”
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LONDON (Reuters) - Christmas cheer for London's bankers is disappearing as fast as City jobs this year.
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Wham's Last Christmas tops a list of the 10 most popular seasonal tracks, according to the company that collects royalties.
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Fairyhouse caters for the jumping fraternity for a third time in five days today when it plans to stage a fixture which has been extended to eight races, but which must first survive a 7.30am inspection due to the threat of frost.
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The third part of our guide includes christmas gifts for car lovers from 35 to 115.
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The most dreaded event in my social year is the office Christmas party. I loathe the fake camaraderie, the excessive alcohol consumption and the hideous vulgarity of it all. Far from making me bond with my colleagues, it makes me dislike my boss and feel alienated by the drunken behaviour of my underlings. Last year I [...]
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Central bank's emergency meeting to revive paralysed lenders with a package of stimulus measures coincides with news that Seoul's foreign reserves have slipped to their lowest level in four years
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Tottenham's players enjoying themselves again under Harry Redknapp let their hair down in a wild party at a London night spot.
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Tymoshenko said this in her televised address to Ukrainians.
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One man is dead after an ex-employee opened fire at his company's Christmas party at a Vancouver, B.C. business Friday night. At least a dozen workers were at the party at the time of the shooting.
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Vancouver police have identified the victim of Friday night's shooting at a company Christmas party as Benjamin Banky, 40, the CEO of TallGrass Distributors Ltd.
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The 61-year-old man charged with killing his former boss at a Christmas party in Vancouver on Friday is on a suicide watch at the North Fraser Pretrial Centre, his lawyer says.
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A festive day out doesn’t have to mean another trail round the shops. What about a trip on the Polar Express, a walk in the air or a train ride with Santa? Our guide has seasonal fun for everyone.
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“Beasley’s Christmas Party,” a charming adaptation of a Booth Tarkington story, is told with such a light touch that you might overlook its contrivances.
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Ottawa musicians who play Christmas parties for their winter bread and butter say this year's festive season has been a lean one.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kathy Hilton's Christmas tree is overflowing with gifts, but none are for her famous daughters Paris and Nicky. They're actually for you....
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Kathy Hilton is bringing the public into her home, through TV and the Web, for "Christmas with the Stars," a charity auction to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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The Irish government is said to be negotiating a rescue of its banks worth up to €7bn and may take an 80pc stake in Anglo Irish.
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The Irish government is pouring €5.5bn 5.13bn into the country's three main banks to recapitalise the giants of the sector.
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Leonard Cohen's 1986 song Hallelujah is No. 1, No. 2 and No. 36 on the U.K.'s Christmas Top 40 chart, which came out on Sunday.
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Some health department workers in southern Illinois think they may have discovered some contaminated food — at their own office Christmas gathering.
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Our sporting version of Hallelujah - can you do better?
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Environmentalists in the South East urge people to have a less wasteful Christmas this year.
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A man wearing a Santa suit fired shots at a Christmas party on Wednesday, killing at least three people, before the house caught on fire and he killed himself, Los Angeles police said.
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At least eight people are dead after a man dressed as Santa fired shots and ignited a blaze at a Christmas Eve party held at his former wife's house, then took his own life, Los Angeles police said.
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A gunman who killed nine people during a macabre attack on holiday revellers at his former wife's house outside of Los Angeles was planning to flee to Canada afterwards, law enforcement officials said Friday.
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A shooting at a New Jersey roller skating rink during a Christmas party for young people has left one boy dead, according to authorities and witnesses.
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The Angolan young musician Wilson Diogo do Amaral, best known by the artistic name of Bruno M, organised last Wednesday in Luanda a Christmas party for about 300 children, most of whom came from shelter homes.
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A gunman dressed as Santa Claus who killed nine people during an attack at his former in-laws' house outside of Los Angeles was also planning to kill his mother and his ex-wife's divorce attorney, authorities say.
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