Official figures sent the pound sliding yesterday as it was revealed the government had borrowed £4.3 billion in January. Normally in January, annual tax revenues push the Exchequer into the black. It is the first time there has been a deficit in January since...
The current financial meltdown is going to affect employment market deeply and the crisis could lead to 225,000 job cuts. The slowdown has led to massive writedowns and credit losses, consolidation, and...
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"Atlantic City Casinos Preparing for Full Smoking Ban Next Month by KYW's John Ostapkovich Billboards have gone along the highway heading toward Atlantic City, NJ, advertising the smoking ban...
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Study shows correlation between movie release date and gap between release of sequels as to how movies do in the box office."Although movie sequels don’t always do as well at the box office as the original, they tend to do much better than non-sequels, according to a new...
Singapore has paved a path for its filmmkaers that's even smoother than Orchard Road. With matching funds, a promotion allowance, and even a guaranteed distribution deal (the holy grail for indie filmmakers), Singapore is driving to build on its newly-high profile following...
"Celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, the Branham300 continues to highlight the Canada’s top IT companies. This definitive listing represents a truly insightful piece of intelligence on the Canadian...
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If there was any doubt about what's really driving the internet's economic engine, here's a hint: it's not online gambling. It's porn. " The pornographic industry (world) is larger than the revenues of the...
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Frank Smith is always worth reading. Today he picked up an interesting tidbit on the state of the music business."In the U.S. shipments of CDs were down 17.5 percent in 2007, while digital formats (such as...
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Even the venerable NYTimes is not immune to the dramatic downturn in newspaper revenues."With ad spending overall down just under double digits at 9% for the first quarter, the New York Times' results -- most...
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In a recent interview with Computerworld, Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist.org, discusses the success of the site and refutes that claim that it is having any significant impact on the classified revenues...
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""We see it (subsidy hike) as being quite secure at the end of this year because there is still balance between the increase in revenues and that in spending. The deficit in the state budget will remain unchanged," he said.
He said oil output until the end of 2007 would stand...
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""If I am not mistaken this year`s income tax receipts from oil and gas will increase by Rp4-5 trillion from the target set in the revised 2007 state budget," Director General of Taxation Darmin Nasution said here Friday.
But this would not be as high as an increase in...
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"The Board of Directors of PepsiCo today declared a quarterly dividend of $0.375 per share on PepsiCo common stock. The dividend is payable Jan. 2, 2008, to shareholders of record on Dec. 7, 2007.PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) is one of the world's largest food and beverage companies,...
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"This summer's wet weather has cost Severn Trent millions of pounds, despite giving its reservoirs a welcome boost.
The water company said this morning that the unusually high rainfall through July and August significantly cut demand for water. It now believes full-year...
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