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Mexico has 190 mn tourists in 2011
IANS/EFE | 14 Feb, 2012
Mexico registered "nearly 190 million tourists", of whom 22.67 million were foreigners, in 2011, eclipsing 185.7 million tourists registered in 2008, the Tourism Secretariat said.
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Japanese firm to invest $70 mn in new plant in Mexico
IANS/EFE | 14 Feb, 2012
Japanese auto parts manufacturer Yorozu said Monday it planned to invest about $70 million to build a new plant in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato.
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Fitch downgrades Spain's four largest banks
IANS/EFE | 14 Feb, 2012
Fitch Ratings, which downgraded Spanish sovereign debt a month ago, said Monday it lowered its credit rating of Spain's four largest lenders.
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Obama presents budget plan
IANS/EFE | 14 Feb, 2012
President Barack Obama presented Monday his budget plan for 2013, which calls for nearly USD 4 trillion in spending and aims to reduce the deficit from 8.5 percent of US gross domestic product to 5.5 percent.
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Brazilian govt sees economy expanding through 2014
IANS | 14 Feb, 2012
Latin America's largest economy will grow 4.5 percent this year, 5.5 percent next year and 6 percent in 2014, the Brazilian finance ministry said Monday.
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Japan's economy contracts 2.3 pc in 3 months
IANS | 13 Feb, 2012
Japan's economy contracted an annualized 2.3 percent in the three months starting in October, marking the first fall in two quarters, the government said Monday.
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US-UAE trade record high of $18 bn in 2011
IANS/WAM | 13 Feb, 2012
Trade between the US and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reached a record high of $18.34 billion in 2011, according to latest data.
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Myanmar foreign trade to grow by 30 pc
IANS | 13 Feb, 2012
Myanmar's foreign trade will grow by more than 30 percent to $16.1 billion in the 2011-12 fiscal year, the commerce ministry said. It was $12 billion in the previous fiscal.
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Kodak to stop making digital cameras
IANS | 13 Feb, 2012
Photography giant Kodak has said it will stop making digital cameras in the next six months, a media report said Sunday.
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S&P downgrades 34 Italian banks
IANS | 11 Feb, 2012
Standard & Poor's rating agency has downgraded 34 Italian banks.
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Currency Import Export
US Dollar
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49.40
UK Pound
78.90
77.15
Euro
66.00
64.40
Japanese Yen 65.40 63.65
As on 14 Feb, 2012
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