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CMS Forex announced the release of its Java based platform, VT Mobile Trader. This revolutionary application features comprehensive trading on cellular phones as well as other handheld devices. “VT Mobile gives our clients the same platform quality and advanced charting and technical analysis tools of VT Trader, but with the freedom to trade nearly anywhere at any time and with data updated in real time,” said Eugene Hawkin, COO of Capital Market Services, LLC. Read more

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An international early warning system should be established to ensure that future credit squeezes are identified and dealt with before the effects become widespread, says Gordon Brown.

In a foreign policy speech in Boston, the Prime Minister urged America to join him in pushing for reform of the major international institutions including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Read more

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ISLAMABAD, April 18: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is willing to invest $5 billion in the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) gas pipeline and wants to support energy sector projects in Pakistan.

Talking to reporters at the end of his two-day visit on Friday, ADB’s Director-General for Central and West Asia Department Jaun M. Miranda said that although the bank was willing to finance the Tapi project, it would not finance the $7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project on which the United States had reservations. Read more

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MANAMA: Bahrain Businesswomen’s Society, (BBS) in co-operation with the Businesswomen Committee of Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry is organising a finance course.

“Finance for Non-Finance Managers Level II” will be held from 9.30am to 1.30pm on Thursday at the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF). Read more

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Foreign exchange (forex) reserves rose $482 million to touch $314 billion during the week ended April 11. After a pile-up of almost $8 billion in the past two weeks, the growth in reserves has slowed down this week. The government, on the other hand, is withdrawing surplus cash parked with the central bank, which is adding to the liquidity in the system in the process. Read more

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LONDON (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) has laid off about 150 people in corporate finance since January in addition to the less than 300 worldwide cuts made earlier in global markets, a source close to the bank said on Friday.

Deutsche Bank declined to comment.

The corporate finance unit let go of 70 people in late January and roughly 80 within the past few weeks, the source said.

The latest cuts have affected mainly junior employees, such as analysts and associates, from the unit which includes advisory, commercial real estate, asset finance and leasing, debt finance and equity capital markets businesses.

A spokesman for the German bank said on Jan. 16 it would cut up to 300 jobs worldwide in investment banking, or 2 percent of its workforce in that business.

Investment banking at Deutsche consists of global markets and global banking divisions, where corporate finance is part of the latter.

Financial companies have slashed between 60,000 and 70,000 jobs in the United States and Britain since the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis hit in August and dealt a blow to deal-making.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L: Quote, Profile, Research) has shed up to 200 jobs this week in parts of its debt and investment banking units worst hit by the slowdown in financial markets, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

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The U.S. dollar has been struggling against the yen as risk appetite has fallen following a slide in US stocks, prompted by weak earnings at the world’s biggest industrial conglomerate General Electric Co. Read more

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Forex reserves rose USD 2,724 million to touch USD 311,885 million as on Apr. 11, 2008, mainly due to the increase in foreign currency and assets collections, on a weekly basis.

As per the weekly statistical supplement of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released on Apr. 11, 2008, foreign currency and assets moved up USD 2,247 million to USD 301,394 million.

During the same period, the reserve position in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reduced by USD 3 million to USD 434 million. While, gold reserves increased by USD 481 million to USD 10,039 million.

Foreign currency assets expressed in USD include the effect of appreciation or depreciation on non-US currencies (such as Euro, Sterling and Yen) held in reserves.

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NEW YORK, (Reuters) - The euro again targeted record highs against the dollar on Monday after higher-than-forecast euro-zone price data reinforced expectations that the inflation-focused European Central Bank will not start cutting rates soon. Read more

A $1.2 million tourism campaign will highlight the biggest events in Sydney’s calendar in a bid to attract more visitors to the city, the NSW government says.

State Tourism Minister Brown officially launched the campaign - dubbed Sydney, Designed to Inspire - at a breakfast at the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art on Tuesday. Read more