Amid the noise, the global recovery should remain the overriding investment theme of 2010 Fears, not fundamentals, are ruling the market Amid the noise, the global recovery should remain the overriding investment theme of 2010 BY COSTA VAYENAS The strong correction in bonds and equities in the last two weeks has put a dampener on
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The Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency (CIPA) took part in a discussion on “Securing the Success of Cyprus as a Financial Centre” that was organised by the British High Commission in Cyprus, the Cyprus-UK Business Association and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. The aim of event was to promote the exchange of
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PricewaterhouseCoopers honoured their trainee accountants who achieved three out of the six worldwide first prizes in the exams of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) in a special ceremony at the Hilton Hotel last Thursday. The prize-winning trainee accountants were Vasso Kakota (first place and the Watts Prize in the Audit
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. Unemployment has risen to a record 24,000 and scaremongering union leaders have resorted to tactics that fall just shy of racist as they also choose to avoid the issue of overly paid and benefit-laden civil servants. This is a dangerous game that some politicians have been duped into believing, usually stoked by vote-yielding trade
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The government has signed a contract for the construction of the building facilities for the Cyprus EU Presidency that will take place in the second half of 2012. The building facilities at the Conference Centre hill in Nicosia should be ready in January 2012, six months ahead of the initiation of the Cyprus Presidency of
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About 100 new and highly qualified managers of the public and private sector will graduate from CIIM Business School on Friday, at a ceremony to be held at the Hilton Hotel in Nicosia at 6.30 pm which will be addressed by European Union Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Androulla Vassiliou. The annual graduation
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. Morgan Dalacloche’s business card states he is Area Export Manager for the Burgundian wine houses of Bouchard Père et Fils and William Fevre, whose exceptional wines we have noted are now available here at Oenoforos Wine Warehouse, Limassol. He gave it to me as we sat eating some of the fresh fish and seafood
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A tug of war between evidence of a strong U.S. economic recovery and the prospect for higher interest rates is making investors slightly hesitant in allocating their cash significantly more into stocks. The move away from safe-haven money market funds that started last year was gathering pace in the latest week as investors pulled another
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U.S. consumer prices rose less than expected in January, while prices excluding food and energy fell for the first time since 1982, supporting the Federal Reserve's contention it would keep its benchmark interest rate low for an "extended period." The Labor Department said on Friday its seasonally adjusted Consumer Price Index rose 0.2 percent last
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The plenary of the Cypriot House of Representatives has approved a capital increase plan of 35 mln euros, to save the state-owned chartered flight carrier. The plan was approved on Thursday after a long debate with a 26-13 majority and namely with the votes of ruling AKEL party, DIKO, EDEK, while opposition DISY and EVROKO
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