London exhibitions to showcase health tourism The benefits of health tourism in Cyprus and the low cost of treatment for UK consumers will be promoted in two separate events in London, titled “Health Destination Cyprus 2010”, on November 21 and 22, aimed at the general public and the business community respectively. The first event sees
More
Cypriots invest €250 mln in India Commerce, Industry and Tourism Minister Antonis Paschalides invited Indian businesspeople to expand their interest in the Cypriot market, “where they can find appropriate partners and engage in new business activities”. Speaking at the Cyprus Business Forum in New Delhi, he expressed the readiness of the Cyprus government to provide
More
The U.S. futures regulator laid out plans on Tuesday for how it could use new and beefed-up legal tools to foil traders who seek to manipulate prices or defraud investors. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it also wants to ask for comments on whether to crack down on certain practices used by high-frequency traders
More
Britain's economy grew twice as fast as expected in the third quarter and ratings agency Standard and Poor's lifted the threat of a credit downgrade, a boost for a government under fire over steep spending cuts. But the risk of a sharp slowdown in the first half of 2011 remains, with strong headwinds likely to
More
Britain's finance minister George Osborne is unnecessarily risking the economic recovery with his deep spending cuts, the country's new Nobel Prize winning economist was quoted as saying on Saturday. Cyprus-born Christopher Pissarides said Osborne had exaggerated the risk of a Greek-style debt crisis ahead of introducing the most severe cuts in a generation in Wednesday's
More
The dollar edged higher against the yen and euro on Wednesday after the Wall Street Journal said the Federal Reserve was likely to unveil plans for gradual Treasury purchases at its policy meeting next week. The newspaper said the Fed is likely to reveal a programme of U.S. Treasury bond purchases worth several hundred billion
More
. By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS — Reforms to European Union budget rules are being criticised for giving politicians too much leeway in enforcing the rules. But a German proposal means bond markets may ultimately become the main enforcer, imposing the toughest discipline that countries have seen so far. Under draft reforms agreed by EU finance
More
. Russia might take a step towards securing a long sought-after stake in Ukraine's gas pipeline system in exchange for offering cheaper gas when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits Kiev on Wednesday, analysts say. The system is a conduit for 80% of Russian gas supplies to the European Union, and disputes between Kiev and
More
No bank should ever receive taxpayer money and strong banks are in favour of strong regulation, the incoming head of British bank Barclays Plc said on Monday. "No bank should ever, ever receive taxpayer money," said Bob Diamond, who is head of the Barclays Capital investment bank arm and due to take over as group
More
Glamorous Russian spy Anna Chapman has told a popular men's magazine she likes hopeless romantics, in her first interview since she was deported from the United States in July. The redhead said her favourite category of men are "those who need love to be the biggest and most wonderful feeling in their life," she told
More