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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.
Northern Lights Energy , initiator of Iceland's Project 2012 and provider of infrastructure and services for electric vehicles has signed an agreement with Reva Electric Car Company to develop the electric vehicle market in Iceland.
Reuters | DeCODE Genetics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US late on Monday. It has struck a deal to sell its Iceland-based subsidiary--including its personal genome scan business--to Saga Investments.
deCode , the genetics startup that genotyped the entire population of Iceland and reconstructed the Book of Icelanders is going down Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND--(Marketwire - November 13, 2009) - Icelandair, Iceland's flagship air company, has recently announced a Northern Lights package deal flying to and from North America this winter. Iceland's perfect location within the Arctic Circle provides the ideal destination to view the Northern Lights; otherwise known as the Aurora Borealis. The 'Aurora Adventure' is a six-day excursion ...
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Decode Genetics today announced that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and concurrently it filed to sell its Iceland-based subsidiary Islensk Erfdagreining (IE), and its drug discovery and development programs to Saga Investments.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 17, 2009) - (All amounts in US dollars unless otherwise stated and all production figures are approximate) Magma Energy Corp. (TSX:MXY) announces that it has closed an agreement to acquire from Geysir Green Energy an 8.6% stake in HS Orka, a large producing geothermal company in Iceland, for 2.5 billion Icelandic Kronur ("ISK") (approximately $20 ...
As if Bjork isn't enough, there's another reason to love Iceland -- now it's the land without McDonald's. The franchise shuttered last month not as...
Enex, the Iceland-based geothermal company announced that Shaanxi Green Energy (SGE), a joint venture enterprise between Enex and Sinopec Star, has signed an agreement with Xiong County, Hebei Province, China, launching a new geothermal district heating development project. The district heating system will provide heating for 250,000 square meters in Xiong County this year and up to 3 million ...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- NASDAQ OMX, the Danish Securities Dealers Association, the Federation of Finnish Financial Services and the Swedish Securities Dealers Association, have together agreed on an updated timetable for the migration to a new trading platform on the NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Iceland, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn and Vilnius.
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Iceland’s government said its credit rating will rise and avoid junk status as policy makers rebuild the financial industry and ease capital controls in an effort to normalize relations with international investors.
These are letters from readers of Dear Isafold, my advice column at eyjan.is (The Island), which is one of the most popular websites in Iceland....
President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson believes green tech will transform Iceland and could do the same for the U.S.
Iceland?s President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson says green tech will save his country's economy.
Summit Up 11-13-09 By Ronald McD Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that has proof for the old adage that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone, as Joni Mitchell sang. In this case, we're talking Big Macs, which are no longer available in Iceland, as of Oct. 31. MILLIONS OF SUMMIT UP READERS: "Noooooooo! We've been planning to visit Iceland and were looking ...
Thank you for writing to me about your concerns on behalf of the group that you represent. I couldn’t agree more that the current economic crisis is the most serious challenge that Iceland has had to face in recent memory.
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