With Romney filing, 2012 election spending tops $2 bn
Republican Mitt Romney raised $85.9 million in the final weeks of the White House race, his campaign said Thursday, bringing the total spent on the presidential election to a record $2 billion.
US court gives Argentina new break on debt payment
A New York appeals court on Tuesday rejected a motion by hedge funds to force Argentina to make a security deposit as Buenos Aires seeks to overturn an order that it repay $1.3 billion to holders of defaulted bonds.
Greece launches bond buyback programme
Greece's PDMA national debt agency said on Monday it had begun a voluntary buyback of the country's bonds at heavily discounted prices, a condition for receiving its latest instalment of EU-IMF bailout funds.
Standard & Poor’s retains Kazakhstan's credit ratings
Standard & Poor’s has retained Kazakhstan’s long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings at 'BBB+/A-2'.
Asian shares mixed as US worries trump China data
Asian markets were mixed on Monday, after optimism over data showing Chinese manufacturing activity had picked up pace in November was tempered by concerns over US talks to avert the fiscal cliff.
S&P upgraded Samruk-Kazyna's credit rating
Standard & Poor’s has upgraded its long- and short-term local and foreign currency credit ratings of Kazakhstan's Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund.
Kazakhstan leads Central Asia by number of multi-millionaires
Kazakhstan is rankedf irst among Central Asian countries by the number of people with fortunes exceeding $30 million.
IIF says Greek debt buyback must be 'voluntary'
A powerful international bank lobby warned Thursday that the outcome of Greece's looming debt buyback program remains uncertain and warned that it must be "purely voluntary."
Republicans reject 'ridiculous' Obama fiscal cliff proposal
Republicans rejected as "ridiculous" Thursday a White House plan to raise $1.6 trillion in new taxes over the next decade, as crunch talks on the US deficit took a turn for the worse.