MN News Scrapbook - Wednesday 28th May

Davy Stockbrokers forecasts pressure for irish economy

Quote :

Irish Economy: Davy cuts 2008 growth to 1% and 2009 to 2% because of tighter credit availability, exchange rate appreciation and no interest rate relief

Finfacts
http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1013727.shtml


Gordon Brown or Green - the UK indo on Fuel protests (is this the sh*t starting to turn up in the same room as the fan?)
Environmentalists urge the Prime Minister to stand firm on fuel taxes despite protests of lorry drivers


Hamish McRae


Kylie 40 today! And she's still a cutie!


Link to Max (blog)

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/05/28/indonesia.oil/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Indonesia leaves OPEC - out of oil.

Happy Birthday, Kylie!

Britain bans cluster bombs from their armed forces:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/28/europe/cluster.php

That makes signing a treaty here much easier, there should be an agreement based on today's decision.