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<title>AIM Resource Stock Massacre Dissected</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177686739</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 03:31 GMT</pubDate>
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... Foremost, AIM is actually a very shallow market. A decent enough number of institutions will  ...  does a fine job of scaring off retail and institutional investors alike with its lack  ...  since a December 2007 IPO and South African ferrochrome producer International Ferro Metals (LSE: )  ...
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<title>Malawi: Enhancing Smallholder Food Security</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177685032</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 03:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  that organization of agricultural markets in Southern Africa and The study revealed that the liberalization  ...  to sell their commodities to these private firms mainly due to their flexibility of operation,  ...  ADMARC still has an effective monopoly over retailing of fertilizer, hybrid and Composite seed an  ...
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<title>Ethanol: Good worth the bad?: Greener additive may not be good for engines</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177676892</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 01:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  processing, packaging, labor and transportation. Chakib Khelil, Algerian energy minister and current president of the  ...  said &quot;the intrusion of bioethanol on the market&quot; was alone responsible for the other 40  ...  other 40 percent. As of July 1, retailers in Oklahoma selling blended fuel are required  ...
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<title>Emerson &amp; Farrar a local gem</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177675221</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 01:13 GMT</pubDate>
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...  business. &quot;Three months later, we were in Africa buying diamonds,&quot; Emerson said. Over the course  ...  one of the top 50 designer jewelry retailers in the country in June by designers  ...  drives the Redlands community. &quot;I believe that business members in this town have an obligation  ...
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<title>Ethical designer Hamnett back in fashion</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177669761</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 00:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  niche labels, today mainstream brands and large retailers have all hopped on the &quot;organically made&quot;  ...  by consumers -- a voice the fashion industry can&apos;t afford to ignore during an economic  ...  saving cotton farmers dying of hunger in Africa and India? Hamnett says she has reinvested  ...
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<title>Stalled dreams</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177666666</link>
<pubDate>8 Jul 2008 23:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  UK By Paul Moss BBC World Tonight, Zambia David Nama has the kind of enthusiasm  ...  be told across Zambia, and indeed, across Africa. Commodity prices are at record levels, driven  ...  as are Indian companies, and the growing retail sector is dominated by South African firms.  ...
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<title>Hunt for higher yields leaves the yen behind</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177664393</link>
<pubDate>8 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  at the Royal Bank of Scotland. &quot;Japanese retail investors are not necessarily worried about economic  ...  pointing to the popularity of the South African rand, which is backed by a 12-percent  ...  the fund tracker Lipper, a Thomson Reuters company, shows that in each of the first  ...
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<title>JSE lowers its fees</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177662619</link>
<pubDate>8 Jul 2008 23:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  ourselves that the JSE is also a company listed on the JSE and essentially you  ...  international experience will come down to South Africa as well David Williams: Fees of course  ...  particularly for individual investors and the smaller retail investors too? Leanne Parsons: Ultimately we always  ...
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<title>Traders&apos; Tools: Imtiaz Ahmed &apos; Macquarie First South</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177653683</link>
<pubDate>8 Jul 2008 21:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  take that and extrapolate it to other retailers, perhaps? IMTIAZ AHMED: I think you can,  ...  every trader&apos;s dream - to find a business that&apos;s going to be bought out? IMTIAZ  ...  impacted tourism to some degree in South Africa, Tourvest has been a very poor performer.  ...
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<title>Costly Gas Crimps Surfers&apos; Style</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177646296</link>
<pubDate>8 Jul 2008 20:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the world, including far-flung places like South Africa and Tahiti. &quot;We all think about oil  ...  industries in the nation. In 2006, independent retailers of surf gear brought in $2.65 billion  ...  $2.46 billion two years before. Meanwhile, U.S. retail sales of surfboards jumped from $106 million  ...
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<title>Zimbabwe bank, like people, can&apos;t cope with inflation</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177643374</link>
<pubDate>8 Jul 2008 20:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  elections the economic woes of the southern African country continued to deepen. The state-controlled Herald  ...  of beer, if you can find it. Retailers say that Natbrew, the country&apos;s monopoly brewer,  ...  of cash following a decision by German company Giesecke &amp; Devriant to stop supplying banknotes  ...
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<title>Nakheel and Auchan sign agreement for the creation of a joint venture in the Gulf...</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177640434</link>
<pubDate>8 Jul 2008 20:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Auchan group, the world&apos;s 13th largest food retailing group, have announced the signature of an  ...  joint venture. The joint venture between Nakheel Retail and Auchan will give birth to a  ...  more of the Middle East and North Africa Business Report or to subscribe to the  ...
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<title>Bahrain: AlBaraka Islamic Bank &amp; First Investment Bank sign a US$30m Murabaha Facility for Al Khaleej...</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177640430</link>
<pubDate>8 Jul 2008 20:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Bahrain; AlBaraka Islamic Bank, Pakistan; Banque AlBaraka D&apos;Algerie, Algeria; AlBaraka Bank Sudan, Sudan; AlBaraka Bank,  ...  AlBaraka Bank Sudan, Sudan; AlBaraka Bank, South Africa; AlBaraka Bank Lebanon, Lebanon; Bank Et-tamweel Al-Tunisi  ...  Lebanon; Bank Et-tamweel Al-Tunisi Al-Saudi, Tunisia; the Egyptian Saudi Finance Bank, Egypt; AlBaraka Turk Participation  ...
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<title>Cherokee Co-Founders Reunite</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177638741</link>
<pubDate>8 Jul 2008 19:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  we own and represent. Jay is an industry veteran with long-standing retail and brand relationships across many industries. This  ...  countries), Zellers (Canada), Pick &apos;n Pay (South Africa), Fawaz Al Hokair (Middle East), Grupo Pao  ...
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<title>Scents and sensibility</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=177638375</link>
<pubDate>8 Jul 2008 19:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of the tomb of Petosiris by ancient Egyptians, who used different scents for everything from  ...  but also to changes in the regions retail sector. Once sold mainly in traditional souks,  ...  and has agreements pending with several North African carriers. We are somewhere in between local  ...
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