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India
Competition Commission of India suspects Monsanto abused dominant position
Competition Commission of India, the country's antitrust regulator, said it suspected that a Monsanto joint venture had abused its No. 1 position as a supplier Bt cotton. Farmers and some groups have complained that Monsanto overprices its products using its position in the GM seeds sector.
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India
US companies to invest $27 billion in India, US-India Business Council chief says
Over 50 American businesses are expected to invest $27 billion in India by 2017 as against $15 billion invested since May 2014, US-India Business Council president Mukesh Aghi said on Wednesday. He also he commended the country's rise in the ease of doing business index.
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India
India to auction at least three gold mines this year
India plans to auction at least three gold mines in 2016 with billions of dollars worth of estimated reserves, including Kolar in Karnataka that was shut 15 years ago on high costs, mines secretary Balvinder Kumar said. He said several local and foreign companies had shown interest in the mines.
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India
Hyundai inks wage deal with workers, hike of Rs 19k per month
Hyundai Motor India on Wedesday said it has signed a wage settlement pact with workers of its Chennai plant, under which technicians will get an average salary hike of up to Rs 19,000 per month spread over three years.
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Italia
Imprese più tassate a Roma, meno Trento. In 20 anni tasse locali +248%
Presentato lo studio "Finanza pubblica e Tasse locali" di Confcommercio
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Regno Unito
A hedge against ignorance
Fuelled by economic uncertainty THE Valentine Day’s special at Sharps Pixley, London’s first high-street bullion showroom, is a £115 ($166) rose dipped in gold. But what that special someone would really want is the £27,000 “kilobar”, smaller than a slab of chocolate but reassuringly weighty in this time of turmoil in ...
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Regno Unito
Slaves of the markets
CENTRAL banks are supposed to target inflation and in some cases, economic growth or full employment. As the “lender of last resort”, they also have responsibility for safeguarding the financial system. But do they in fact target asset prices as well? That has been the suspicion from the late 1980s onwards, ...
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Colombia El Salvador Costa Rica
Si no le interesa la reforma, olvídese de su pensión
El 1 de junio de 2006, el presidente Elías Antonio Saca dijo en la Asamblea Legislativa, durante su segundo informe de rendición de cuentas a la nación, que implementaría “medidas creativas” para salvar la viabilidad del sistema de pensiones sin aumentar las cotizaciones ni la edad de retiro. Poco después, ...
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Brasile Portogallo Guatemala Nicaragua El Salvador Costa Rica
Expresidente Saca ocultó $2.9 millones en cuentas bancarias cuyo origen cuestiona Probidad
De los 6.5 millones de dólares sin justificación que ha detectado la Sección de Probidad en las cuentas del expresidente Antonio Saca y en las de algunas de sus empresas, 2.9 millones de dólares corresponden a ahorros que el exmandatario no reportó a Hacienda entre 2004 y 2014. Saca tenía ...
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Brasile Germania Portogallo Bulgaria El Salvador Nigeria
El Salvador's Police Kill and Lie Again
The official story of El Salvador's police department fell apart again in the face of testimony from direct witnesses. The police say they killed four pandilleros (gang members) in a shootout in a house in Villas de Zaragoza. Two witnesses say that when they left the house, the four were ...