BRUSSELS – Euro zone finance ministers will announce on Sunday a figure for emergency loans for Greece until 2012 and their decision is unlikely to need further endorsement by European leaders, a spokesman for the chairman of the meeting said. The rest is here: Eurogroup to give figure for Greek loans on Sunday

BRUSSELS, April 30 (Reuters) – Euro zone finance ministers will announce on Sunday a figure for emergency loans for Greece until 2012 and their decision is unlikely to need further endorsement by European leaders, a spokesman for the chairman of the meeting said. Meetings of euro zone finance ministers, the Eurogroup, are informal and are chaired by Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker...

The value of new forint-based consumer loans signed by Hungarian banks in March reached the highest level since before the crisis, the National Bank of Hungary’s fresh rates report shows. View post: Value of new consumer loans reaches highest level since before crisis

JAKARTA, April 30 Indonesias biggest phone company, PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, said on Friday it would borrow nearly US$400 million (RM1.27 billion) to buy out Singapore interests in its telephone tower business, which it then plans to list. With a market value of US$17.2 billion, Telkom said it had arranged standby loans for 3 trillion (RM1.06 billion)- 3.5 trillion rupiah from local banks … See...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) Facing a dire choice of additional pain or bankruptcy, Greece on Friday heralded drastic new cuts and tax increases to win rescue loans from its European partners and… Go here to read the rest: Greek PM: New austerity measures needed along with bailout loans for country’s survival

Halifax selectmen have approved Grille 58s request for an entertainment license. See the original post here: Grille 58 gets entertainment license