Soccer star Beckham will promote casinos in China
Monday, 23 December 2013, 07:28
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Retired soccer star and sometime underwear model David Beckham has signed on to help promote Las Vegas Sands' properties in Singapore and the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau. Sands...
Obama: 2014 could be economic 'breakthrough year'
Saturday, 21 December 2013, 06:27
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
President Barack Obama singles out recent improvements in the economy and says 2014 could be a 'breakthrough year' for the United States. Obama highlighted reports Friday that the...
KPMG Launches Online CPE Training
Friday, 20 December 2013, 10:24
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The KPMG online CPE training platform allows one to access KPMG prepared and delivered modules that cater to a professional Accountant’s CPE requirements. Through the training platform one can...
S&P takes away European Union's AAA credit rating
Friday, 20 December 2013, 09:20
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The Standard & Poor's rating agency says it has downgraded the European Union's credit rating, stripping it of the highest grade of AAA. The agency said Friday that a bitter...
EU praises new bank body, but analysts skeptical
Friday, 20 December 2013, 06:39
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
European Union leaders gave an enthusiastic thumbs-up Thursday to a new mechanism agreed on to handle ailing banks, but analysts likened it to a band aid that falls short of what is needed to...
Maltese enterprises near EU top in use of social media
Thursday, 19 December 2013, 12:02
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
In 2013, almost three quarters of enterprises employing 10 persons or more in the EU28 had a website, an increase of six percentage points compared with 2010 (73% compared with 67%). For...
Hourly labour costs in Q3 down to 2.1% increase
Thursday, 19 December 2013, 09:58
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The total nominal hourly labour costs in Malta increased by 2.1% in Q3, after having increased by 3.5% in Q2, by 5.3% in Q1 and 3.7% in Q4 2012, Eurostat said this week. Even so, however,...
Leader: Can they do more?
Thursday, 19 December 2013, 09:57
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Roughly two weeks ago, or less, this paper sent questions to all the banks in Malta asking them whether they were going to follow the plea made by the Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Josef...
EU officials reach deal on handling failed banks
Thursday, 19 December 2013, 06:04
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
After more than a year of hard bargaining, European finance ministers on Wednesday reached a political agreement on a final piece of the bloc's planned banking union, which is the most ambitious...