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(AP:REYKJAVIK, Iceland) Iceland's central bank on Thursday cut its key lending rate a full point to 10 percent. The seven-day collateral lending rate had peaked at 18 percent in October last year as Iceland's banking system collapsed under the strain of a global credit crisis.
Donna Rusciolelli of Detroit takes the D for a dip at the Blue Lagoon in Reykjavik, Iceland. She stopped there during a cruise in September.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Iceland has abandoned plans to start entry talks with the European Union next month after the bloc said a failure to resolve U.K. and Dutch depositor claims would prevent the island from moving forward on its membership bid.
What's Your Reaction? Call it the fractal geometry of fiscal crisis. If you fly across the Atlantic on a clear day, you can look down and see the same phenomenon but on four entirely different scales. At one extreme there is tiny Iceland.
(RTTNews) - Friday, the Statistics Iceland announced that the producer prices were flat in October, on a yearly basis, after rising 12.4% in the previous month. A year ago, in October, producer prices had surged 61.4%.
(RTTNews) - Iceland's current account balance logged a deficit of ISK 36 billion in the third quarter, nearly halving from the ISK 65.3 billion deficit in the previous quarter, the Sedlabanki reported on Thursday.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, November 21. FOUR more national records were set during the Iceland Short Course Championships held in Reykjavik today. Inga Elin Cryer clinched the national record in the women...
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, November 23. THE Iceland Short Course Championships came to a close with five more national marks falling to the wayside. Arni Mar Arnason took down the national record in the m...
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, November 20. THE women's side of the Icelandic short course record book met the match in the first two days of swimming at the Iceland Short Course National Championships. Sigru...
Flint — The Fenton varsity hockey team is off to a good starting chapter in what they hope becomes a storybook season. The Tigers are off to a 2-0 start overall on the season after a 4-1 victory against Swartz Creek, Wednesday in the Metro League opener at Iceland Arena.
(RTTNews) - Consumer prices in Iceland increased 8.6% year-on-year in November, slower than the 9.7% growth in the previous month, Statistics Iceland reported on Thursday.
Iceland agreed on Oct. 19 to borrow 2.35 billion pounds ($3.92 billion) from the U.K. and 1.2 billion euros ($1.81 billion) from the Netherlands to cover depositors in the online bank set up by failed lender Landsbanki Island hf . The agreement must be ratified by Iceland’s parliament.
Arnaldur Indriðason's Icelandic mysteries continue to be my favorites. As usual, Indridason delivers a simple mystery with a straightforward solution, but it's the accompanying journey through Iceland's modern social issues that makes his books so interesting.
(RTTNews) - Iceland's wage index rose 0.3% month-on-month in October, at the same pace as in the previous month, the Statistics Iceland said Monday. This is the second consecutive month of growth in the index after it remained flat in August.
Njal (pronounced “nee-ALL) Thorgeirsson was an influential farmer in Iceland who was born about A. D. 930 and died about 1011. Magnus Magnusson, who wrote the book “Vikings!,” on which public television based a series, has called Njal’s Saga “the mightiest of all the classical Iceland sagas.”
In June, Iceland-based CCP Games brought the hammer down on a group of resource hogs that were clogging its data center.
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