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Financial IT contractor rates squeezed by crunch

Pay for IT contractors in the UK financial services sector has plummeted 12% in the last six months to £44 per hour - the lowest level in five years. A poll of 4500 IT contractors has found the median hourly rate for IT...

Japan Firms Hit with Double Whammy of Weak Stocks, Strong Yen

Tokyo, Oct 7, 2008 (Jiji Press) - Earnings outlooks for fiscal 2008 at Japanese companies are worsening by the day as the ongoing global financial crisis steadily works to erode the value of their equ...

BIFM Awards - next week

The finalists for the BIFM International Investors in FM Excellence Awards 2008 will be gathering together on Monday 13th October 2008 at London’s prestigious Grosvenor House Hotel, with 1200 of the industry’s key decision...

Japan Is Bahrains Major Trade Partner

Manama, Oct. 7 (bna) Bahraini Japanese Ties Are To Embark On A New Phase Of Close Cooperation And Coordination As Crown Prince And Chairman Of The Economic Development Board (edb) Shaikh Salman Bin Ha...

Japan's Nikkei Index Drops 4%

1:46am UK, Tuesday October 07, 2008 Japan's Nikkei stock average has tumbled to a FIVE-year low shortly after the start of trade. Global financial crisis has sent major markets plummeting It slid below 10,000 for the first time...

Instinet Appoints Jonathan Keller President of U.S. Brokerage Firm in Management Change

Mike Plunkett Leaves to Pursue Other Personal and Business Interests By Ivy Schmerken Instinet named Jonathan Kellner, its head of U.S. sales trading, to become president of Instinet, LLC, the U.S. brokerage subsidiary known...

Congress grills Lehman boss over 500-million dollar wages

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers Monday grilled the head of Lehman Brothers demanding he justify some 500 million dollars he had earned since 2000, as well as huge bonuses sought for top executives even as the bank failed.

U.S. financial panic goes global

Slower trade, investment drought will weigh on battered U.S. economy Traders work on the floor at Brazil's Mercantile and Futures Exchange in Sao Paulo, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. Monday’s global stock market sell-off reinforced...

Nomura to lose 60% of Lehman Japan equity employees

Nomura Holdings Inc., Japan's largest investment bank, will lose roughly 60 percent of the Japanese equity employees acquired when it purchased the Asia-Pacific business of bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., three sources...

Bank of Japan may signal ready to join G7 action

TOKYO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan may signal on Tuesday whether it sees a need for further major central bank action on the global financial crisis, and there is speculation it could even cut a secondary interest rate...