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F O C U S
UN ranks Malta fifth in global
foreign investment locations
The United Nations has positioned Malta in fifth place among international
recipients of foreign direct investment between 1998 and 2000.
In its 2002 World Investment Report released last week by the UN
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the UN produced a
new ranking that compared no less than 140 countries’ share
of global foreign investment with its share of gross domestic product
for the 1998-2000 period. READ
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MES positioned for short-term oil
price hike
With the prospect of an American and British-led war against Iraq
growing more likely, international oil prices are also widely expected
to surge to no small extent.
But as the spectre of rising oil prices and the ensuing implications
loom, the Economic Services Ministry remains confident that Malta
is as well positioned as possible for such a hike.
Speaking to The Malta Financial and Business Times yesterday, a
Ministry spokesman commented, "Over the last couple years Enemalta,
as well as Air Malta, have been purchasing their fuel requirements
on the basis of formulas that link the actual price paid to the
average price recorded over the preceding few weeks.
"This has been found to be an effective way to guard against
short term fluctuations in the price of fuel." READ
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INTERVIEW
Redefining the property
industry
Dhalia Group Operations Director Andrew Gatt speaks to David
Lindsay about the Group’s streamlining and efficiency-generating
restructuring process, trends in today’s property market
and the Group’s future |
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OPINION
The economic cost of
terrorism
By Brian S. Wesbury - Chief Economist, Griffin, Kubik, Stephens
& Thompson, Inc. and former member of the US Joint Economic
Congressional Committee |
INVESTORS’
CORNER
Money Market Report 16-20
September
NEWS
Unemployment at 5.1%
Fiscal
policy and banking sector reform urgent – MLP report on 1990’s
credit boom
Malta
tops list of EU candidates in money held outside credit institutions
BorzaMed
Project for Med. capital markets alliance launched
Baxter
inaugurates largest grid connected solar electric system in Malta
MAWB
announces Woman Entrepreneurs of the World Award
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