 Traders smile at the Philippine Stock Exchange in Manila as the Philippine share prices closed 7.31 per cent higher in line with the global rebound in stock prices  The G7 finance ministers and Central Bank governors at the US Treasury in Washington, DC on 10 October (First row, finance ministers, l-r) James Flaherty of Canada, Christine Legard of France, Peer Steinbrueck of Germany, Henry Paulson of the US, Giulio Tremonti of Italy, Shoichi Nakagawa of Japan, Alistair Darling of the UK, Jean-Claude Junker of the European Central Bank (Second row, Central Bank governors, l-r) Mark J Carney of Canada, Christian Noyer of France, Axel A Weber of Germany, Ben Bernanke of the US, Mario Draghi of Italy, Masaaki Shirakawa of Japan, Mervyn King of the UK, Jean-Claude Trichet of Europe, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, International Monetary Bank managing director, and Robert Zoellick, World Bank president (photos: AFP) parent page (16 - 22 October 2008, issue #918) |