Moody's downgrades credit ratings of 16 Spanish banks
IANS/EFE | 19 May, 2012
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| Ratings agency Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the credit ratings of 16 Spanish banks - including the country's largest financial institutions, Banco Santander and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria - by between one and three notches.. |
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Unemployed Italians become shepherds
IANS/AKI | 03 May, 2012
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| Thousands of young Italians are becoming shepherds as a way to make a living after facing the worst employment opportunities in more than a decade, according to a new report.. |
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Russia to raise liquor, cigarette tax
IANS/RIA Novosti | 30 Apr, 2012
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| Russia, a country of vodka drinkers, may raise tariffs on hard liquor to about 20 percent a litre by 2015, according to a draft tax document issued by the finance ministry. Tax on cigarettes will also increase.. |
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