Posted on 04 April 2012. Tags: Andri Guðmundsson, bloomberg, H.F. Securities, H.F. Verdbref, Investment Programme, Securities Firm
Andri Guðmundsson, CEO of H.F. Verðbréf (
H.F. Securities), an Icelandic securities firm, recently gave an interview with the American financial news corporation Bloomberg regarding capital controls in Iceland and how they are affecting investors.
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Posted in Business, Iceland, International, MBL, Politics
Posted on 31 March 2012. Tags: bullying, discrimination, Finland, law, transport, work
In a victory for workers, the boss of Finland’s Transport Union (AKT) has been suspended while a police investigation into allegations of bullying and assault is carried out.
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Posted in Business, Culture, Finland, General, MBL, Travel
Posted on 30 March 2012. Tags: Flight Iceland, Flights from US, Flights from US to Iceland, Flights from Washington DC, flights to Iceland, Iceland Airline, Icelandair Flights
Iceland’s leading airline,
Icelandair, has now resumed its seasonal flight service from Washington, D.C. to Iceland.
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Posted in Business, Iceland, Leisure, Travel, United States
Posted on 30 March 2012. Tags: Golden Circle Iceland. Reykjavik Tours, Golden Circle Tours, Iceland tour provider, iceland tours, Tours in Iceland, Tours in Reykjavik
Reykjavík Taxi Travel, a popular
Iceland tour provider, is offering exciting tours to the Golden Circle, Iceland’s most sought after tourist route, for the upcoming summer months.
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Posted in Business, General, Iceland, Leisure, Travel
Posted on 30 March 2012. Tags: business, Cairn Energy, drilling, Energy, Greenland, Oil, profits, scotland, UK
Cairn Energy has vowed to continue drilling for oil off Greenland, but says it will try to rebalance the risk by acquiring new, safer assets elsewhere.
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Posted in Business, Education, Energy, Environment, Greenland, International, MBL, Technology, United Kingdom
Posted on 29 March 2012. Tags: fisheries, Iceland, legislation, Politics
The first Alþingi debate of the new bill on fisheries management ran on and on yesterday evening; not finishing until 03.30. The matter was referred to committee, which will be followed by another parliamentary debate.
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Posted in Business, Environment, Iceland, MBL, Politics, Society
Posted on 27 March 2012. Tags: beauty, botox, Finland, parties, treatments, women
‘Botox parties’, where groups of women gather to inject themselves with the muscle paralysing agent, are becoming more popular in Finland, according to reports.
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Posted in Business, Culture, Finland, Lifestyle, MBL
Posted on 27 March 2012. Tags: bill, fisheries, fishing, Iceland, Politics
Both of Iceland's ruling coalition parties voted to pass the government's new fisheries bill at their meetings yesterday. The bill will therefore be put to Alþingi for debate later this week.
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Posted in Business, Environment, Iceland, MBL, Politics
Posted on 26 March 2012. Tags: earnings, economy, households, Iceland, wages
Icelanders' earnings were spread more evenly in 2011 than any year since 2004 - when Statistics Iceland began its standard-of-living research.
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Posted in Business, European Union, Iceland, Lifestyle, MBL, Society
Posted on 26 March 2012. Tags: facebook, Iceland, internet, security, snartphones
It is still not clear what sort of tech glitch led to an Icelandic man's smart phone logging him in to the Facebook page of another Icelander, who he does not even know.
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Posted in Business, General, Iceland, MBL, Society, Technology, United States