Word: tightenings
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...China, meanwhile, was sending a very different message. The New China News Agency, known as Xinhua, released details last week of new regulations tightening control over distribution of information by foreign wire services. By forcing news agencies such as Reuters, Bloomberg and the Associated Press to distribute content through?and share revenue with?Xinhua, China was effectively rigging the market to favor its domestic news operation, critics charged?a claim bolstered by the publication of a speech in which Xinhua head Tian Congming said financial news was a "new growth engine" for the agency. Xinhua's power grab was also...
...Still, it is evident that Europe needs a better strategy than relying on the good will of sunbathers. Italian officials responded to the deaths off Lampedusa by calling on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to live up to agreements to tighten patrols along his country's coastline. Many believe Gaddafi cynically uses the threat of "opening the spigot" on the droves of sub-Saharan Africans gathering on Libyan shorelines in order to gain concessions on outstanding diplomatic questions, including Italian reparations for past colonial injustices. Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo P?rez Rubalcaba is traveling today to Senegal and Mauritania to meet with...
...Israelis tighten the noose on Hizballah in Lebanon, these communication nodes become critical," said Fred Burton, a former U.S. counterterrorism official and now vice president of Stratfor, a security consulting and forecasting company in Austin, Tex. In today's asymmetrical warfare, the Internet is vital to groups like Hizballah who use it to recruit, raise money, communicate and propagandize, Burton said, including transmissions from Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah...
...strategies that have worked so well over the past several years. Why the sudden concern about risk? One factor is that central banks are finally coming to their senses. After more than five years of ultra-loose monetary policy, the world's major monetary authorities are all on the tightening side of the policy equation for the first time since the early 1990s. As a result, interest rates are going up, setting the stage for slower expansion of the money supply. This is occurring for two reasons. First, central banks are now satisfied that deflation has been avoided - an especially...
...chain, believes that the alcohol market may take at least six months to recover, with retail prices skyrocketing by over 30% as producers, suppliers and retailers make up for their losses. But the cost of drinking has always failed to get between the nation and its joy. Russians will tighten up on everything else to sit back and enjoy a stiff drink; few, however, are likely to raise their glass to toast the bureaucracy...