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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...

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