International

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  London is Europe's top city for business and investors

  

  For the second year running London is Europe's top city in terms of prospects for economic growth in an overall outlook for European property which is described as good despite the credit crisis, according to the ninth European regional Economic Growth Index released Tuesday by LaSalle Investment Management.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  EU “blue card” job program visa to attract skilled labor

  

  The European Union's top immigration official on Tuesday launched EU's biggest global job advertising blitz, presenting plans to set up a US-style green card job program to lure highly skilled workers to fill ever-increasing gaps across the 27-country bloc.

• Monday, October 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Prepare for Genesis cruise vessels with 5.400 pax

  

  The cruise industry is booming and two huge new generation vessels with capacity for 5.400 passengers each are scheduled to be delivered in 2009 and 2010, ordered by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd, RCCL, reports Finland's Aker Yards.

• Monday, October 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Slowdown for Ireland and Spain forecasts risk agency

  

  Ireland and Spain face a prolonged slowdown in economic growth because of a drop in construction activity and consumer sentiment which have begun to have an impact on labor markets and weakens public finances according to the US risk ratings agency Standard & Poor's.

• Monday, October 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  China, seen as second largest consumer market by 2015

  

  China is en route to become the world's second largest consumer market by 2015 following unprecedented growth several times faster than in developed countries during the last four decades, according to a report released by Boston Consulting Group.

• Sunday, October 21st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Stock market blues: twenty years ago

  October 19, two decades ago Alan Greenspan was fresh in the job, only two months before he had been named chairman of the Federal Reserve and that Monday was flying for a bankers conference to Dallas, Texas.

• Saturday, October 20th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  G24 demand IMF surveillance of advanced economies

  The International Monetary Fund should step up its surveillance of the United States and other advanced economies in light of the global credit crisis shaking world markets, the Group of 24 developing countries said Friday in Washington.

• Saturday, October 20th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  G7 Finance ministers press China for a stronger Yuan

  Finance ministers from the G7 group of leading industrial countries meeting in Washington have called on China to allow its currency to rise in value more quickly. “Beijing must do more to let the Renminbi appreciate”, said G7 ministers.

• Friday, October 19th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  UK and Spain in diplomatic exchange over Odyssey wrangle

  

  Spain's detention of the treasure-hunting ship Odyssey Explorer on Tuesday has prompted a diplomatic exchange between London and Madrid over the status of waters around Gibraltar.

• Friday, October 19th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Scientists recommend 22.000 tons for North Sea cod quota

  

  Stocks of North Sea cod have slightly increased but quotas should remain in place for 2008, the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) said Friday. The independent scientific body monitors fish stocks in the North Atlantic, North Sea and Baltic Sea issued its latest projections of cod and other fish species on Friday.