Kabul, Afghanistan - Disneyland officials, in a financial press release revealed earlier today, reported the continuing decline in revenues at their Kabul Family Resort location. The financial brief cited reduced visitor counts, lack of available ho...
Madrid - The Starbucks Corporation has injected a shot of caffeine into the world's financial system, taking over Spain's devastated banking system so it can replace bank branches with Starbucks outlets.
"Banks are not cool," said Dylan Prather, E...
Baltimore, MD - Despite six days of careful planning, Janet McNary learned Wednesday that she will not be receiving a lottery jackpot of over two-hundred million dollars. The 34-year-old McNary, a financially concerned housewife from the suburbs of...
Controversial 'Payday Loans' - short term loans offering cash at exhorbitant interest rates, which borrowers are supposed to pay back on the day their wages are paid - came under scrutiny today as a Dorking woman revealed that after borrowing £20, sh...
Bank of America spokesman Bill M. Tweed released a statement to the financial media this morning outlining the reversal of the recent bank policy of instituting a monthly fee of $5.00 to customers using debit cards.
"Our customers have shared thei...
In a week when the government has announced a £1bn upgrade of the Army's fleet of Warrior armoured vehicles, it has also revealed that the Army is to spend a similar amount upgrading its senior officers.
Defence Secretary, Phillip Hammond explaine...
President of the International Monetary Fund Patsy Laggard has admitted that the Global Financial Crisis is a banking error.
Speaking from her Washington DC office Ms Laggard explained:
"Mai oui, but yes, we are vereee soreee, we made a beeg...
The new National Flag of the United States was unveiled to a packed audience of international journalists during a press conference at the White House in Washington today.
The new flag is the result of a 24 million dollar, five year study by an al...
In the face of global panic, stock market analysts today warned of further problems to come.
"This is no doubt a serious situation," warned fiscal analyst Hernst Sprank, of Deutsch Bank Der Bolloks "for sure, there has been a 62.3% rise in the mea...
Warner Brothers U.K. have announced to the world that the biggest ever disaster movie is due to hit the big screens later this year.
The publicity material released by Warner Brothers makes exciting reading :
You screamed at 'Last Day' in 1999
You thrilled at 'The Day After Tomorrow' in 2004
You were terrified by 'Meltdown: Days of Destruction' in 2006
But you ain't seen...
The Dubai stock market plummeted yet again to a record low yesterday amidst fears it's majority investor and financial advisor, Hollywood actor Nicholas Cage has unwittingly outspent both China and America combined.
Dubai, once considered the econ...
Japan's finance minister is facing calls for him to resign amid claims he was drunk at a recent G7 meeting.
Shoichi Nakagawa has apologized for his behavior but blamed cold remedies for a slurred performance at a news conference in Rome at the wee...
The Bank of England has again cut interest rates to a new record figure. At minus 1.5%, it means that money will, for the first time in banking history, be deducted from savings and investment accounts. Although savers will be adversely affected, t...
San Jose, CA - eBay Inc admitted today that it had put itself on the market following a unanimous decision by the board to step down to pursue philanthropic enterprises.
Ebay's share price rallied by over 18% with the news, but dropped and steadie...
Rumours circulating in parliament this morning suggested that the British Government has contacted the board of Barclays Bank demanding an immediate explanation on recent bonus payments. It follows revelations in today's papers that Barclays had pa...
Former Countdown presenter Carol Vorderman has been hired by the Conservatives to front their new fiscal policy team, we can exclusively reveal.
A spokesman for David Cameron said that the brunette brainbox was taking time out of her hectic schedu...
The financial sector has hailed the first green shoots of recovery, following the surprise announcement that mortgage approvals had unexpectedly risen for December 2008.
The rise, announced by the Bank of England today, shows that mortgage lending...
Zimbabwe, the funny little African country where inflation triples every five minutes, has abandoned its currency, and will, from tomorrow - or maybe even tonight - trade in buttons.
President of Zimbabwe, the Dr Robert Mugabe, announced the chang...