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PASO ROBLES, Calif., Jan. 7, 2009 -- Heritage Oaks Bancorp , parent company of Heritage Oaks Bank, today announced that it received preliminary approval to participate in the U.S. Department of the Treasury's voluntary Capital Purchase Program.
LONDON (Dow Jones)--The U.K.'s median annual wage increase was steady at 3.5% in the three months to the end of November from the three months to the end of October, but fast-falling inflation is likely to weaken pay increases in the months to come, labor research and analysis firm Incomes Data Services said Thursday.
While more than $36 million in questionable government investments will be tied up for another five years, interest payments on the principal should start trickling back into Yukon coffers later this month.
The Finance Ministry yesterday named investors and key state enterprises that benefited from taxpayers’ funds in excess of Shs620.8 billion in unsecured loans, which have now been written off as a bad debt.
Forecasts based on the projections from 10 economists as of Monday, Jan 2. NA = not available. E = estimate. R = revised. **** = tentative.
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has invited finance ministers from the Group of 20 industrial and developing countries to a meeting here on March 14.
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has written to finance ministers from the Group of 20 industrial and developing countries, inviting them to a ministerial meeting in London March 14.
LONDON (Dow Jones) - The New Year hasn't been kind to British icons. Popular discount retailer Woolworths shuttered the last of its 807 shops Tuesday after falling into insolvency last year and failing to find a buyer.
This year, this column would occasionally undertake the clearly hazardous but enlightening task of character study on some political personages whose actions and inactions have significantly influenced the tenor and character of the kind of unedifying politics we proudly play in these parts.
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