Kurt Osterberg

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    Will it be Obama vs the economy in 2012?

    With a leading Republican candidate yet to emerge, the biggest risk to President Obama’s quest for a second term next year is a jobless rate that has hovered between 9 and 10 percent for months. Mar...
    On March 4, 2011 / By
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    Nedbank’s FY profit rises as bad debts decline

    South Africa’s Nedbank beat expectations with a nine percent increase in annual profit, helped by a fall in bad debts, and said it expected further growth in the coming year. South Africa’s fourth...
    On February 28, 2011 / By
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    Company of the decade

    While crafting the accolade of Company of the Decade, it has become the opinion of the World Finance editorial team that – more than any other time in the past hundred years – the preceding 10 yea...
    On February 24, 2011 / By
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    World Bank: Peru will record 9% growth in 2011

    Peruvians are very proud of one important fact: the country is growing and World Bank figures prove it. 2011 will be remembered as the year the Peruvian economy grew nine percent, an incredible rate r...
    On February 22, 2011 / By
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    Looking after your future

    Porvenir is a leading provider of pension and severance pay fund management services in Colombia, South America’s second most populous country after Brazil. The company has 33 offices and 10 service...
    On February 22, 2011 / By
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    IMF: Barbadian economy will grow 2.5% in 2011

    With the collapse of natural gas and oil prices, Trinidad and Tobago operated on a budgetary deficit to the tune of TTD3.8bn in the 2010 fiscal year. Net public sector debt is estimated at 49.4 percen...
    On February 22, 2011 / By
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    Energy investors back CESP

    In July 2006, Companhia Energética de São Paulo (CESP) joined BM&FBovespa´s Corporate Governance Level One, which consists of a set of rules governing the relationship between the controlling ...
    On February 22, 2011 / By
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    Pirelli returns to F1

    In 1872, a young Italian engineer called Giovanni Battista Pirelli established Pirelli & C. in Milan and opened a plant manufacturing rubber articles. A century and a half later, Pirelli is now t...
    On February 22, 2011 / By
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    Rethinking sustainability

    It is a pity that the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust, which is also one of the most useful to mankind, is so difficult to render into a useable form. The chemical properties of aluminium m...
    On February 22, 2011 / By
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    IPO for US broker

    Achieving this success has been no small feat. The company’s progress over the last few years is a direct result of FXCM’s dedication to offering the most innovative trading platforms combined wit...
    On February 22, 2011 / By