Finance News Archive

17-Oct-2005

• 'GE Consumer Finance moving, (BizJournals)
General Electric Consumer Finance, on Oct. 6, announced its plans to vacate its Deerfield Township call center and relocate those jobs to a similar center in Kettering.
• 'Surplus emerges as issue for finance board candidates (The Stamford Advocate)
STAMFORD -- Board of Finance candidates have argued whether a surplus is good or bad for the city but, either way, those who are elected must decide what to do with it.
• 'Finance ministry wants crisis talks on Thai Airways' future (AFP Business News via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance)
BANGKOK, (AFP) - Thailand's finance minister, whose ministry is the single largest shareholder of troubled national airline Thai Airways, is seeking urgent talks with its executives in the face of its rising fuel bill, a report said.
• 'Business finance, city and markets news (Interactive Investor)
Business Finance and city news online from Interactive Investor (www.iii.co.uk). Plus financial and currency market news and information 24/7. Stock prices, share prices, currency markets news and business finance headlines. Also news from AFX and Reuters.
• 'Greenspan, Koizumi discuss economy, finance -- MOF (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
TOKYO, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi discussed macroeconomic and financial issues on Monday, a senior finance ministry official said.
• 'MALAYSIA PRESS: Commerce To Cut Finance Company Staff (Dow Jones via Yahoo! Asia News)
KUALA LUMPUR (Dow Jones)--Malaysia's second-biggest financial services-provider Commerce Asset-Holding Bhd. (1023.KU) has received central bank approval to lay off at least half the staff at its Bumiputra-Commerce Finance arm, the Singapore Business Times reports.