India retains its number one position in gold consumption in 2009, recording a total demand of 405.8 tonnes.
The US, which witnessed one of the worst economic crisis in recent times, is coming out of recession faster and stronger than many countries of the world, a top Obama Administration official has said.
Geithner said during their discussions this week, in Singapore and China, US President Barack Obama emphasised that the US and China must be at the centre of efforts to put the global economy on a more sustainable and balanced growth path.
The US slapped sanctions on four Pakistani militants linked to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Al-Qaeda, with one of them having links to Dawood Ibrahim, for their involvement in a series of terrorist activities including bombings in the Mumbai train and Samjhauta Express.
He praised the "very bold move" taken by China's central bank to stop financial transactions with North Korea.
The country's largest private sector lender ICICI Bank on Friday said it has raised $500 million through an issue of bonds in the international market.
The country's largest private sector lender ICICI Bank on Friday said it has raised $500 million through an issue of bonds in the international market.
Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda is in its worst financial state in several years, while the Taliban's funding is flourishing as they rely on a range of criminal activities to fund attacks on US-led forces in Afghanistan, a senior US Treasury Department official has said.
Mukherjee is in Washington, DC to co-chair the US-India CEO's Forum with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
So, Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, is fighting chronic uncertainty with transparency. The results of the "stress tests", an exercise to identify undercapitalised banks so the government can make sure they have enough capital to recover, will be announced on Thursday.
After sixty years of Congress misrule, India has most of the world's poor people, and some of the worst health and nutrition indicators, even worse than much poorer sub-Saharan Africa. This is truly a crime and a national shame.
In an interview to the Financial Times, AIG Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche said it would take at least two years for AIG to sell businesses and earn enough profits to repay the government and persuade it to sell its 80 per cent stake.
Technology giant Microsoft is in talks with TikTok's parent company ByteDance to buy its US operation.
Interestingly, in his entire remarks, Modi never once mentioned regional security, Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar points out.
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The US economy has been growing comfortably for several quarters.
The bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008 brings back the most vivid memories of the crisis.
United States President-elect Barack Obama on Monday officially unveiled the economic team that will assist him in tackling what he termed 'an economic crisis of historic proportions'.Obama has named New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner as US Treasury Secretary and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers as chief of the National Economic Council.
Obama administration wants to force a wide range of large financial institutions to hold more capital as part of a sweeping regulatory overhaul
The US Treasury's new acronym in its long list of programmes - PPIP or the Public-Private Investment Programme - has lifted market hopes that the administration is moving closer to restoring stability in the US financial system.
Citigroup chief economist Lewis Alexander is leaving the troubled financial services entity to join the US Treasury department, says a media report.
The US government, under its $700-billion bailout plan, has purchased shares in 30 American banks for a total of over $150 billion, half of which have gone into Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said he would not rule out the option of forcing out chief executives of banks which have received taxpayers' money but are not performing well.
Even as US President Barack Obama urged his countrymen to buy American cars, the United States Treasury Secretary on Monday insisted that the country is not in favour of protectionism and has a great interest in a growing open world economy.
Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) are set to pump in more funds in debt securities, as the next government under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expected to be a stable one and is seen as growth-oriented by market participants.
For now, dollar can reign but BRIC nations have decided to address the issue at the 2010 Brazil summit.
SBI's overall gross NPA as on end-December 2013 was close to Rs 68,000 crore ( Rs 680 billion) or 5.73 per cent of its gross advances.
The Pakistan government has sealed offices of Al-Amin Trust in Karachi and Lahore and frozen several bank accounts as part of its ongoing crackdown on groups added to a UN Security Council list of terrorist organisations subject to sanctions.
After averaging at 8.8 per cent growth over the past four years, India's growth rate in 2009-10 is expected to slow down to 5.5 per cent mainly due to lower investment and declining external demand, the US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said.
The Pakistani PM believed New Delhi rebuffed his offer of talks because his country is an issue in the elections in the neighbouring country.
Former US Treasury Secretary Robert E Rubin has been appointed as the chairman of the Citigroup after the resignation of its embattled CEO Charles Prince, prompted by major write-offs by the world's biggest bank following turmoil in subprime loan and credit markets. Vikram S. Pandit, an Indian, who took over Citigroup's investment banking operation in early October, just six months after joining the bank, is one contender for the top post.
Enumerating a few steps that India could take to become even more competitive, US Treasury Secretary Henry M Paulson Jr said it could reduce needs for financial institutions to hold substantial amount of deposits in government debts which limits the scope of banks for taking greater exposure to certain priority sector.
The short-term recommendations include improvements to regulatory coordination and oversight that regulators can make quickly. The blueprint recommends creating a new federal commission for mortgage origination to protect consumers better. The report also recommends modernizing the President's Working Group on Financial Markets and clarifying the Federal Reserve's liquidity provisioning.
The United States has announced sanctions against 14 senior Myanmar officials, and called on India, China and other nations to support the people of Myanmar who were struggling for democracy.
Look for companies whose earnings growth may not be great, but they are relatively debt-free.
The steps taken by the G-20 have helped the recovery of the global economy, said US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
"If the Doha Round does not materialise that would not be on account of the US agricultural subsidies ... major emerging economies (India and Brazil) are not coming up with enough market access, especially in non-agricultural areas such as services including financial services," US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who will be visiting India shortly said.
Neel Kashkari, who was the Senior Advisor to US Treasury Secretary Henry M Paulson, was nominated by President Bush to the post of Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs and has been confirmed by the US Senate.
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