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IMF chief sparks Facebook war by Greeks

AFP - Sun May 27, 4:34 pm ET

Greek web users waged Facebook war against IMF head Christine Lagarde on Sunday after she accused their countrymen of dodging taxes.

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Inmates, corruption rule Honduras' deadly prisons
Associated Press via Yahoo! News - 45 minutes ago
Inside one of Honduras' most dangerous and overcrowded prisons, inmates operate a free-market bazaar, selling everything from iPhones to prostitutes.
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
New York Times - 2 hours 16 minutes ago
The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.
In Euro Zone, a Debate Over Bonds
New York Times - Sun May 27, 5:44 pm ET
Europeans are deeply divided over the question of whether euro zone countries should create common bonds to reduce borrowing costs for members that have trouble getting affordable credit.
Fresh from defeat, Serbia's Tadic poised for PM
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun May 27, 5:35 pm ET
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's Boris Tadic, fresh from defeat in a presidential election a week ago, put himself forward on Sunday as his party's candidate for the more powerful post of prime minister at the helm of a renewed centre-left coalition. After eight years as president, Tadic lost his bid for re-election to rightist opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic, a former leader of the ...
IMF chief riles Greeks as crisis election looms
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun May 27, 10:44 am ET
Political leaders in Athens rounded on IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Sunday for branding Greeks tax-dodgers as parties went on the campaign trail for next month's elections.
France criticises IMF chief's view on Greeks
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun May 27, 11:41 am ET
The French government spoke out on Sunday against comments by International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde suggesting that Greeks were dodging taxes.
Premier appeals to Ireland: Vote yes to EU treaty
Associated Press via Yahoo! News - Sun May 27, 1:37 pm ET
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny made a nationally televised appeal Sunday to voters to support the European Union's fiscal treaty in a referendum this week, warning that rejection would send the signal that Ireland was not serious about tackling its deficits and was no longer a secure member of the euro currency.
Malaysia-Market factors to watch May 28
Reuters via Yahoo! Finance - 15 minutes ago
Following is a list of events in Malaysia as well as news stories and press reports which mayinfluence financial markets. Reuters News welcomes your feedback and for any queries, pleasecontact the Kuala ...
Polls: Greek's pro-austerity parties gaining
Associated Press via Yahoo! Finance - 22 minutes ago
Three weeks before Greece goes to the polls for the second time in just over a month, opinion polls published Sunday indicated the June 17 election will result in no single party gaining a majority in ...
IMF chief Lagarde: Little sympathy for Greece
seattlepi.com - 52 minutes ago
IMF chief Lagarde: Little sympathy for Greece Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 04:40 a.m., Saturday, May 26, 2012 LONDON (AP) — International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde says she has more sympathy for poor African children than Greeks suffering under the country's ...
Investors focus on jobs, growth and Europe
CBS News - 2 hours 26 minutes ago
MoneyWatch Week Ahead: The May jobs report will be front and center, amid concerns about global growth and anxiety over Europe
GLOBAL ECONOMY WEEKAHEAD-U.S. tiptoes around the euro crisis
The Edge - 34 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (May 28): The U.S. employment report for May will measure America's economic resilience to the political turmoil in Europe that is weakening the global growth outlook.
Tales of India’s Economy Twistier than Kama Sutra
Bloomberg - 2 hours 25 minutes ago
In 2006, Foreign Affairs, among many other periodicals, proclaimed India to be “a roaring capitalist success story.” This story, we are now increasingly told, is over. The rate of growth in India’s gross domestic product has slowed to slightly more than 6 percent from the peak of about 10 percent that once excited fantasies of India overtaking China. The rupee is plunging. Standard & Poor’s ...
IMF pushes for higher interest rate
UPI - Sun May 27, 11:00 am ET
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 27 (UPI) -- The International Monetary Fund is set to push the Ethiopian government to raise bank interest rates in view of high inflation, officials said.
Ukraine corporate raids stifle foreign investment
Associated Press via Yahoo! News - Sun May 27, 6:21 am ET
Yuri Leshchinsky spent more than a decade transforming an ailing Soviet-era factory into a leading candy maker. When a board meeting drew him to the plant from his New York home, he was in for a shock: Black-clad security guards armed with rubber batons were there to meet him, blocking his way.