Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
DJIA	15,303.10	+8.60	0.06%
S&P 500	1,649.60	-0.91	-0.06%
Nasdaq	3,459.14	-0.27	-0.01%

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Volume

Price

Price Delta

DJIA

15,303.10

+8.60

0.06%

S&P 500

1,649.60

-0.91

-0.06%

Nasdaq

3,459.14

-0.27

-0.01%

Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
STOXX 50	2,764.29	-12.49	-0.45%
FTSE 100	6,654.34	-42.45	-0.63%
DAX	8,305.32	-46.66	-0.56%

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Price

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2,764.29

-12.49

-0.45%

FTSE 100

6,654.34

-42.45

-0.63%

DAX

8,305.32

-46.66

-0.56%

Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
Nikkei	14,612.50	+128.47	0.89%
Hang Seng	22,618.70	-51.01	-0.23%
S&P/ASX 200	4,983.50	-78.95	-1.56%

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Price

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14,612.50

+128.47

0.89%

Hang Seng

22,618.70

-51.01

-0.23%

S&P/ASX 200

4,983.50

-78.95

-1.56%

Qatar Giving Tunisia $1 Billion Loan, May Provide Jobs

By Jihen Laghmari - 2012-04-26T11:59:11Z

Qatar is giving Tunisia a $1 billion loan, half of which will be allocated to support the central bank, the official Tunisian news agency reported.

Qatar also expressed a willingness to provide 20,000 jobs to Tunisians in Qatar, Agence Tunis Afrique Presse said, citing the presidential spokesman, Adnen Mnasser. The announcements follow a visit by Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki to Qatar this month.

The economy of Tunisia, the North African birthplace of last year’s uprisings across the Arab world, contracted by 1.8 percent in 2011, according to official figures.

Tunisia has already received a $500 million Qatari loan, according to a central bank statement last week. The five-year loan carries an annual interest rate of 2.5 percent, it said. The bank’s spokesman, Zied Mouhli, said by telephone today that he couldn’t immediately give any details of the loan.

To contact the reporter on this story: Jihen Laghmari in Cairo at jlaghmari@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net

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