Miffed with falling apparel exports, businessmen demand slashing lending rates

Miffed with falling apparel exports, businessmen demand slashing lending rates … apparel or readymade garments (RMG) exports, the garment exporters of the city are now demanding that the Centre should lower the lending rates for them and roll out new incentive schemes else the fall will continue.
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New legislation introduced in Congress is proposing to increase oversight of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage services in an effort to help prevent foreclosures. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), ranking member of the House Committee on Financial Services, introduced The FHA
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In 1936, Wheeler-Nicholson tried to launch a third comic book title, but his company was in trouble. His distributor worked out a deal. They thought that his company had promise, so they cut themselves in as partners in National Allied and also created a new company, Detective Comics, just to publish
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We speak to the team behind the weekend's most intriguing property sale. The property: A three-bedroom house at 4 Hodgson Street, Templestowe Lower, VIC. Sold a month after auction for a price 'closer to $1.25 million' than $1.3 million. Who was the agent/agency? Greg Bowring, Noel Jones
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A deluge of earnings is expected stateside this week, with around one third of S&P 500 companies, including Facebook and Boeing, slated to report first-quarter results in the days ahead. Most companies that have already reported have topped expectations: As of Friday, about 16.5 percent of S&P 500
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Think of a global industry that generated revenues of $9.2bn last year and that plays a critical role in ensuring the efficiency of financial markets but rarely merits a mention in the mainstream press. Welcome to securities lending — the practice among institutional investors of swapping equities, bonds
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(Reuters) – Afghanistan's central bank has granted a license to the Islamic Bank of Afghanistan (IBA), the first lender in the country to apply the interest-free principles of Islamic finance in all its operations, a senior bank official told Reuters. The IBA was previously known as Bakhtar Bank and operated
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Hao Hong, Bocom International Holdings Co chief strategist and head of research, discusses PBOC monetary policy. He speaks to Rishaad Salamat on “Bloomberg Markets.” (Source: Bloomberg). RELATED ARTICLES. China Is Bolstering Lenders Before New Assault on Shadow Banking · Terms of
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Tony Abbott believes the nation's banking regulators should be sacked in the wake of appalling stories out of the financial services royal commission. The former prime minister has questioned what the regulators were doing while misconduct, as revealed in hearings, was allowed to happen. “My fear is
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A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of the stock. Leucadia National Corp acquired a new position in VASCO Data Security International during the fourth quarter worth $225,000. Archon Capital Management LLC increased its holdings in
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NEW DELHI: Non performing assets (NPAs) or bad loans in the banking sector are set to shoot up by at least Rs 8,000 crore as advances to the … Gitanjali is promoted by Mehul Choksi, uncle of billionaire diamantaire Nirav Modi, who defrauded Punjab National Bank (PNB) of over Rs 13,000 crore by
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OXFORD — A company that was started in a garage eight years ago – and has built up a customer base for its high-precision machines that includes NASA – has two reasons to celebrate this spring. Arcast Inc. has won the Maine Small Business Exporter of the Year Award from the U.S. Small Business
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This portfolio is mainly composed of high-quality MBS, issued or guaranteed by Freddie Mac (OTCQB:FMCC), Fannie Mae (OTCQB:FNMA) and Ginnie Mae, backed by single-family residential mortgages. At the end of 2017, Annaly's assets amounted to $113 billion, of which around 95% were agency
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During its first meeting under newly selected Mayor Tina Hansen, the Signal Hill City Council approved two staff recommendations that would help the City's finances: agreeing to receive $340,000 in settlement funds from the Water Replenishment District (WRD) and changing the City's
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1st United Bank has been serving the community since 1920. They are successful because of their slogan “what comes first is you”. Their website states they are dedicated to providing you with a wide range of products and services to meet your changing financial needs. 1st United Bank's goal is to
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A section of highway in the eastern Chinese city of Jinan is undergoing a transformation unlike any seen in the world, which may offer a window into the future of transportation itself. Equipment such as solar panels, mapping sensors and electric-battery rechargers are being embedded in the 1,080
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This is the conclusion of a major new review of the evidence by the International Monetary Fund. It's not just citizens who find control slipping through our fingers. Governments do too. Global investors and foreign central banks are now a big part of what drives house prices. What happens in New York
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Failing to lodge the appropriate paperwork and meet health standards has proved highly costly for one Bayswater business – which has been fined $50,000 for breaches of the WA Food Act. City of Bayswater officers visited Good Fortune Roast on November 22 of last year and found a series of issues,
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The San Jose housing market is so hot—pause for a “Match Game”-style response of “How hot is it?”—that a residential property destroyed by a fire two years ago is now on the market for $800,000. The San Jose housing market is so hot—pause for a “Match Game”. According to a USA Today report, the
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“Some people are waking up to find out that 10 homes on their street have been bought out by rental companies in the last five years,” Chilton said. “This is no longer our parents' or grandparents' housing market, where a Realtor puts a sign in the yard. Now we're fighting against the Airbnb people who
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