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AUD/USD Forecast - December 20 2013

Friday, 20 December 2013, 08:41 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

AUD/USD was comparatively stable on Thursday. Overnight we saw some upside activity towards 0.8890, but no follow through buying....

EUR/USD Forecast - December 20 2013

Friday, 20 December 2013, 08:26 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

EUR/USD consolidated at the lows of the post-taper move on Thursdya. We did not see any major buying interest emerge, every recovery was quickly sold. During the Asian session this morning the pair...

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...

Yellow Pages (Malta) Ltd - Outcome of the Recycling Programme

Thursday, 19 December 2013, 10:27 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Following the Distribution and Recovery Programme carried out last September, the weight of books that Yellow Pages (Malta) Ltd recycled this year amounted to 107 tons which is equivalent to five, 20...

GOLD Forecast - December 19 2013

Thursday, 19 December 2013, 10:11 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Following yesterday’s Fed decision to cut its bonds purchase program by $10 billion per month, Gold price decreases and is currently breaking the 1211.3$/ounce level....

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...

Fed reduces its stimulus by $10 billion per month

Thursday, 19 December 2013, 09:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Yesterday all eyes were turned to the FOMC meeting with one big question: will the Federal Reserve start tapering its quantitative easing program and if yes, by how much?The answer was “yes”; the Fed...

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