Article: Profitability tumbles to 17-year low, NS reveals.

Article: Political threat to growth ; Growing at over 6 per cent in ...
India Today;  December 21, 2009 ;     595 words ... ... purveyors of fringe ideologies. Growing at over 6 per cent in the year of the meltdown, India has the opportunity to own a huge ... response. The political managers seem content with 6 per cent growth when the need to alleviate poverty is 9-plus ...

Article: IT morphs yet again ; When fiscal 2000 ended, the Indian software ...
Business Today;  December 27, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... exports expanded 57 per cent to Rs 24,350 crore from the previous year, part of the surge ... slowdown lasted three years). An estimated 7 ... about 20-25 per cent in the higherend ... be peanuts in the years to come. Of the ... small sliver (12 per cent) of the addressable ...

Article: A WORLD OF TRAVEL FOR 2010 ; It's been a mixed 2009 for travel, ...
Evening Standard - London;  December 23, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... folly in Bedfordshire. Next year Coworth Park Country House Hotel ... to open on Dubai Creek next year with Arabian-fusion architecture ... increasing steadily in the past few years, with new hotels including ... neighbouring Costa Rica next year. Peru is also set to increase ...

Article: Welcome to the financial hypermart ; Retail lending took off in ...
Business Today;  December 27, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... another loan. Only last year, the alumnus of the ... income is over 150 per cent in the UK and the ... up from 10-15 per cent in 2009-10. That ... loans at 5-6 per cent aren t quite burning ... Such a scenario 10 years down the line may ... institution and the seven-year-old bank). The ...

Article: One left at New Year development
Kent and Sussex Courier, The;  December 25, 2009 ;     399 words ... ... to move in at the New Year. The homes are ideal ... that reflects a 10 per cent equity share. The actual ... interest to pay for 10 years and you can pay back the loan at 10 per cent of the open market value ... anytime during and up to 10 years. Other properties at ...

Article: UNITED NATIONS DECLARES 2012 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 23, 2009 ;     658 words ... ... account for 80 to 99 per cent of milk production in ... United States; 71 per cent of fishery production ... of Korea; and 40 per cent of agriculture in Brazil ... country. International Years are declared by the United ... action. To commemorate the Year, regional conferences ...

Article: Property sector seen rebounding next year
New Straits Times;  December 23, 2009 ;     506 words ... ... initial drop of 10-15 per cent (in demand) at the end ... Indonesia's 25-30 per cent. As a result, Singapore ... Although the projected 5 per cent drop in potential capital ... into the country next year. "When RPGT was introduced ... held for more than five years as an investment and not ...