By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the country's financial institutions have sufficient buffers against losses they may incur from rises in bond yields, as long as the market moves are driven by prospects of an economic recovery. The central bank will also be vigilant to any signs …

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will refund taxes collected from Qatar National Bank's acquisition of National Societe Generale Bank to shareholders on Sunday, an official from a clearing company told Reuters on Saturday. The clearing company will return 10.2 million Egyptian pounds total in taxes it collected from NSGB shareholders, …

By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Brazil signed cooperative agreements with Ethiopia on Friday and Brazilian companies are looking to expand investments in the fast-growing Horn of Africa country, an Ethiopian minister said. Ethiopia's State Minister of Foreign Affairs Berhane Gebrekristos said a visiting Brazilian …

For a small business needing an immediate source of traffic and potential customers and leads, PPC is an essential tool. But like any tool, PPC is much more useful when you learn to use it correctly. Here are 8 basics we use with our small business PPC management clients that all small businesses should consider...

By Alastair Sharp and Euan Rocha TORONTO (Reuters) - Manitoba Telecom Services Inc will sell its Allstream fiber optic network to a company controlled by telecom tycoon Naguib Sawiris for C$520 million (US$503 million), a deal that signals the Egyptian magnate is still keen on Canada. Under an agreement announced on Friday, …

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) is to launch a 12.5 billion shillings bond on the Ugandan market, the second such issue from its 125 billion shilling issuance programme launched last year. The second tranche, which is to be sold as a tap sale on the original medium-term note issued in July last year, …

Valeant deal sparks share jump, helps TSX ends week higher TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index reversed earlier losses on Friday after several stocks jumped on takeover moves, helping the TSX shrug off uncertainty over U.S. central bank monetary policy that hurt U.S. indices. Shares in Valeant Pharmaceutical International …

As the risks in the stock market increase, investors most often run towards defensive stocks. The main reason behind this phenomenon is that companies that are considered defensive provide investors with a stream of dividends, even when the markets, as a whole, crumble. They are generally strong players in their industry, …

QuickBooks by Intuit is now available in an online version to allow you to keep track of your accounting and bookkeeping tasks all in one place. We will see in this QuickBooks Online review how you can get immediate access to secure online accounting software and the ability to keep everything organized in one place... …

Google’s mobile operating system continues to expand into new areas, as was first seen in the marriage of Android and LG appliances at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. This expansion, of course, comes as no surprise — the OS was built to push past the confines of personal computing and the desktop PC....

Email still remains the oldest and most important means of communication on the web for businessmen. Particularly, businesses prefer to communicate via email as it automatically documents business interactions and also creates room for attaching relevant materials as well as redirecting to other important websites. In spite …

Content marketing could be the nexus of sales and marketing. I often hear sales reps complain that what marcom creates doesn’t quite fit the need. Then along comes content marketing with a specific goal—to provide content that nurtures and helps convert prospects in the sales funnel. Without input from sales, isn’t marcom …

Did you ever watch the Road Runner cartoon as a kid? Man, I loved that show. I loved watching Wile E. Coyote come up with his “fail-proof” plans for catching the Road Runner. Here’s one of my favorites. Did the Coyote’s plans ever work? Not really. Did the Coyote get frustrated? Totally. And I bet...