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Executive excess need not be etched in stone. Just look at the Nordic region, where an egalitarian tradition and a high quality of life leave top managers content with lower paychecks.
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STOCKHOLM, March 27- Greenland's incoming government believes that the country has a sufficient number of oil licenses and it will be cautious about awarding new permits, the next mining and oil minister said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON, March 27- Developing and industrialized countries should rein in energy subsidies that totaled $1.9 trillion in 2011 to ease budgetary pressures and free up resources for public spending in areas such as education and health care, International Monetary Fund economists said in a research paper published on Wednesday.
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COMPANIES REPORTING: Q2 2013 Accenture Q4 2012 Gamestop Corp. Q3 2013 The Mosaic Company MAJOR MACROECONOMIC DATA/EVENTS: 0001 GB GfK Consumer Mar 0700 DE Retail sales-re Feb 0855 DE Unemployment Mar 0900 IT Business Confidence Mar 0900 EZ Money-M3 Ann Feb 0900 EZ Money-private Feb 1230 US Corporate Profit Q4 1230 US GDP Final Q4 1230 US Core PCE Pr Fin Q4 1230 US Initial claims w/e 1345 US Chicago PMI Mar NATIONAL MARKETS CLOSED FOR PUBLIC HOLIDAYS: 28- Mar Denmark 28- Mar Norway Reuters Messaging: blaise.robinson.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net.
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*Depreciation helped Iceland recover, not open to Cyprus. STOCKHOLM/ REYKJAVIK, March 27- For Iceland, there was a sense of deja vu when Cyprus's finance minister said capital controls would probably last "a matter of weeks".
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*Depreciation helped Iceland recover, not open to Cyprus. STOCKHOLM/ REYKJAVIK, March 27- For Iceland, there was a sense of deja vu when Cyprus's finance minister said capital controls would probably last "a matter of weeks".
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COPENHAGEN, March 27- The near-term outlook for Denmark's manufacturing industry improved in March from the previous month, the national statistics office said on Wednesday. The seasonally-adjusted outlook indicator rose to 4 points from 2 in February, Statistics Denmark said.
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The Danish oil and shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk's terminals unit lost its bid operate the Virginia Port Authority, according to Daily Press. For more on the company, click on TELIASONERA. Several thousand Finnish employees of telecom operator TeliaSonera strike on Wednesday and Thursday to protest job cuts, labour union Pro said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON, March 26- The retiring chief of the trouble-plagued F-35 Joint Strike Fighter says he remains bullish about the hi-tech war plane, with costs soon to be further reduced as production takes off, and believes the program will transform the aerospace industry.
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COPENHAGEN, March 26- Danish authorities said on Tuesday they discovered traces of pork in some meat sold as beef for kebabs during an inspection triggered by the recent horsemeat scandal, prompting demands by the country's Muslim community for stricter inspection.
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COPENHAGEN, March 26- AP Moller-Maersk announces placing of 300 mln sterling bonds with a 4.0 pct coupon.
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COPENHAGEN, March 26- Denmark's defence ministry said it planned to buy new fighter jets to replace a fleet of 30 operational F-16s. The ministry said it was considering Saab's Gripen fighter, Boeing's F-18 Super Hornet, Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the Eurofighter Typhoon developed by BAE, Finmeccanica and EADS.
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*Car sales in Germany, Netherlands and Nordics weakening. The chill in cars sales has spread from southern Europe, where the worst of the euro zone debt crisis is crippling economies, to the north, including the region's biggest car market, Germany.
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*Car sales in Germany, Netherlands and Nordics weakening. The chill in cars sales has spread from southern Europe, where the worst of the euro zone debt crisis is crippling economies, to the north, including the region's biggest car market, Germany.
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LONDON, March 26- If the bailout of Cyprus is a template for European rescue deals it marks a "game-changer" for banks that could raise funding costs, see deposits shift more quickly and delay the prospect of higher dividends.
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COPENHAGEN, March 26- Danish hearing aid and headset maker GN Store Nord said it was appealing the Court of Cologne's rejection of its 1.1 billion euros claim against the German cartel office for blocing a sale of its GN ReSound unit to Sonova.
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KANGERLUSSUAQ, Greenland, March 26- On the Arctic Circle, a chef is growing the kind of vegetables and herbs- potatoes, thyme, tomatoes, green peppers- more fitting for a suburban garden in a temperate zone than a land of Northern Lights, glaciers and musk oxen.
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LONDON, March 26- At the height of an investigation into a group of Islamists plotting al Qaeda- inspired bomb attacks across Britain in 2004, British spies analysed more than 4,000 telephone contacts to build up a picture of what they were planning and with whom.
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LONDON, March 26- At the height of an investigation into a group of Islamists plotting al Qaeda- inspired bomb attacks across Britain in 2004, British spies analysed more than 4,000 telephone contacts to build up a picture of what they were planning and with whom.
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COPENHAGEN, March 26- Carlsberg confirmed on Tuesday that it was under investigation by the German Federal Cartel Office after a magazine said the Danish brewer was suspected of price fixing. German weekly magazine Focus reported that Carlsberg, rival Anheuser Bush Inbev SA and some local competitors could face fines totalling hundreds of millions of euros.
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COPENHAGEN, March 26- Danish pharmaceutical group Lundbeck said on Tuesday it had agreed to work with Japan's Otsuka to develop and commercialize an Alzheimer's drug. The agreement covers its Lu AE58054 treatment for the United States, Canada, East Asia including Japan, major European countries and Nordic countries, Lundbeck said in a statement.