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Malta
Major banks’ interim results
It is the season of mid-year announcements when listed companies publish their interim results. Malta’s two major banks, BOV and HSBC, recently announced their interim results. Shareholders of these banks are eagerly drawing their conclusions on the published figures. BOV registered a pre-tax profit of €68.1 million for the period January ...
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Spagna
Absurd logic
Edward Caruana Galizia’s ‘Please choose wisely’ (Talking Point, August 8) is very good advice to the Nationalist Party members who shall be voting to elect their new leader. His mistake or, rather, error in this article is that religion has nothing to do with politics. In his opinion, politicians who are ...
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USA
US economic expansion to last another two years or more
The US economic expansion will last at least another two years, according to a majority of economists polled by Reuters who also forecast growth will not accelerate the way the Trump administration has predicted. The recovery from the devastating 2007-2009 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy. The latest growth stretch has ...
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Malta
Unlike physical abuse, ‘you cannot quantify emotional, verbal or sexual abuse’ – Dar Merħba Bik head
While the result of domestic abuse is often expected to be visible in a physical form, Dar Merħba Bik's head of the house Elaine Pavia notes that, for many victims who come to the emergency domestic violence shelter, the harm cannot be seen and, moreover, cannot be measured.The Malta Independent ...
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Nigeria
Lagos vs. inland waterways
•Mines and Steel ministry must obey appeal court’s judgment THE spat orchestrated by the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development (FMMSD) against the Lagos State government over the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, is tantamount to an abuse of rule of law. The Court of Appeal ...
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Nigeria
Blood in God’s temple
Shock and awe! It was a dehumanizing spectacle to behold as worshippers were mowed down in droves by some demented gun men over suspected business deals that went sour. Elderly village men, women and children who were at St Patrick’s Catholic Church, Ozubulu in Anambra State for an early Sunday ...
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Nigeria
Power quagmire
•Nigerian manufacturing has stayed afloat in a difficult business environment. But it’s time the government sorted out the power question DREARY news, indeed: by Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) figures, factories in Nigeria spent N129.95 billion on petrol, diesel, gas, low-pour fuel, coal and inverters (what MAN dubbed as “alternative ...
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USA Nigeria
Naira Firms On I&E Window As US, North Korea Tension Heightens
By Bukola Idowu, Lagos The value of the naira went in different directions at the Investors and Exporters window of the official and parallel market last week as tension between North Korea and the United States impacted the value of the dollar at the international foreign exchange market. Tension between ...
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Spagna
Asetra denuncia retraso inexplicable del Gobierno en tomar medidas en El Prat
Madrid, 13 ago (EFE).- La Asociación Española de Usuarios, Empresarios y Profesionales del Transporte Aéreo (Asetra), considera "inexplicable" el retraso del Gobierno en adoptar medidas para evitar el "caos" en el Aeropuerto de El Prat de Barcelona ocasionado con la huelga de vigilantes de la empresa Eulen.
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Nuova Zelanda
New community scheme to save people from loan sharks
Low and no interest loan schemes are now available in Tauranga with the Community Finance partnership.The initiative run by Good Shepherd New Zealand and BNZ was established in 2014, and received additional government funding in...