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  • UK prime minister wants BA strikes to stop

    UK prime minister wants BA strikes to stop

    Brunei News.Net

    The UK Prime Minister has put pressure on British Airways cabin crew to call off a series of strikes.

  • Electric vehicle sales surge in US

    Electric vehicle sales surge in US

    Brunei News.Net

    The biggest rollout of charging stations is about to occur in eleven major US cities for the purpose of charging the new generation of electric cars from Nissan and General Motors, which are mooted to go on sale at the end of this year.

  • Alleged money concealment leads to questioning for banker FitzPatrick

    Alleged money concealment leads to questioning for banker FitzPatrick

    Brunei News.Net

    The former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank was taken in for questioning by Irish police on Thursday about alleged financial irregularities.

  • UK hopes to cut deficit earlier than expected

    UK hopes to cut deficit earlier than expected

    Brunei News.Net

    In the UK, Chancellor Alistair Darling has pledged to cut the budget deficit by half.

  • EU wants Greece to survive without IMF funds

    EU wants Greece to survive without IMF funds

    Brunei News.Net

    Greece's financial prospects have taken another bad turn with suggestions that Athens might ask the International Monetary Fund for aid early next month if it cannot get a formal aid plan from the EU.

  • BA provided Scotland with poor strike services

    BA provided Scotland with poor strike services

    Brunei News.Net

    Scotland is expecting to be hit hard by the British Airways strike with flights to and from Scotland among the routes that will suffer from a three-day strike by British Airways cabin crew.

  • Toyota fixes not working in some cases

    Toyota fixes not working in some cases

    Brunei News.Net

    Some cars which have been repaired under the Toyota recall system have had questions raised about the effectiveness of the repairs.

  • Dow Joens extends gains

    Dow Joens extends gains

    Brunei News.Net

    While the Dow continues to work its way higher, the broader market was flat Thursday.

  • Jerry York of Apple dies

    Brunei News.Net

    Apple Inc has announced the death of one of its directors, Jerry York.

  • Owners given keys to luxury Dubai apartments

    Owners given keys to luxury Dubai apartments

    Brunei News.Net

    A set of new luxury residences have been handed over to owners in Dubai.

  • New Zealand man jailed for Ponzi scam

    New Zealand man jailed for Ponzi scam

    Brunei News.Net

    A New Zealand investment banker has been jailed after spending millions of dollars of clients money on prostitutes.

  • US stocks mixed on hopes of economic recovery, low inflation

    Brunei News.Net

    Major US stock indices were mixed Thursday as government figures showed consumer prices were flat in February and a private research group's gauge of the economy signalled a slow but continuing recovery.

  • China Sends Trade Envoy To Washington, Calls On Us To Cool 'emotionalization' On Currency

    Star Tribune

    BEIJING - China is sending a Cabinet official to Washington in a bid to defuse trade tensions, the government said Friday, as it called on U.S. leaders to cool the "politicization and emotionali...

  • Nuts And Popcorn Maker Diamond Foods Says Kettle Deal To Close By The End Of March

    Star Tribune

    SAN FRANCISCO - Diamond Foods expects its buyout of the maker of Kettle potato chips to close by the end of the month and boosted its guidance for the second half of the year. Previously the deal wa...

  • Wall Street News Alert: Breaking News: Uymg - March 19, 2010

    Market Wire

    UYMG ) issued a press release announcing that it will retire and eliminate 260,000,000 shares from its treasury of authorized shares which was originally 500,000,000. The new amount of authorized sh...

  • Lloyds Banking Group Profits To Return This Year

    MENAFN

    (MENAFN - Khaleej Times) Turkey has embarked on a major campaign to attract more tourists and investors from the Gulf countries this year, a senior Turkish tourism official said on Thursday. ...

  • Wall Street News Alert: Stock To Watch: Uymg - March 19, 2010

    Market Wire

    UYMG ) issued a press release announcing that it will retire and eliminate 260,000,000 shares from its treasury of authorized shares which was originally 500,000,000. The new amount of authorized sh...

  • Earnings Watch: Updates, Advisories And Surprises

    MarketWatch

    -10.38% ) shares fell 10% to $19.85 in after-hours trading late Thursday after the solar panel maker said it expects adjusted 2010 earnings of $1.25 a share to $1.65 a share. Wall Street analysts ex...

  • Market Snapshot: U.s. Stocks Open Higher, Led By Boeing

    MarketWatch

    NEW YORK (Dow Jones) -- U.S. stocks opened slightly higher Friday, led by the industrial sector after Boeing said it would boost aircraft production on an expected increase in demand. The Dow Jon...

  • Metals Stocks: Gold Futures Slump As Dollar Rises

    MarketWatch

    NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Gold and other metals futures sank further on Friday as uncertainty about what entity will help Greece with its debts gave another boost to the dollar. Gold for April de...

  • Futures Movers: Crude Drops As Greek Doubts Lift Dollar

    MarketWatch

    NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Crude oil futures were lower on Friday, but held onto a small weekly gain, as uncertainty about aid to Greece kept the euro under pressure, lifting the dollar and weighing on...

  • Bond Report: Treasurys On Weak Footing As Auctions Approach

    MarketWatch

    NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices fell Friday, pushing short-term yields slightly higher, as bond traders' attention turns to the $118 billion in short-term debt the government will sell next ...

  • Before The Bell: Palm, Best Buy, Lehman Brothers In The Spotlight

    MarketWatch

    U.S. stock futures on Friday pointed to a re-run of the prior aimless session, with the market focusing on individual companies like Palm Inc. following the handset maker's light sales outlook.

  • Lloyds Banking Group Expects Profit This Year

    Examiner

    Britain's Lloyds Banking Group PLC said Friday it expects to report a profit this year as trading has so far been strong and provisions for bad assets are not as large as previously forecast.In a brie...

  • Icahn Offers To Buy All Outstanding Lions Gate Shares

    Business Week

    March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Carl Icahn offered to buy all outstanding shares of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. after the film studio rejected his proposal to purchase 13.2 million shares. The stock jumped...

  • Fargo, North Dakota, Faces Near-record Flood Crest This Weekend

    Business Week

    March 19 (Bloomberg) -- The Red River of the North is expected to start cresting the day after tomorrow in Fargo, North Dakota, about 3 feet below last year’s record of 40.8 feet (12.4 meters), ...

  • Traders Push Market Rally Into Ninth Day

    MSNBC

    Palm Inc. reported late Thursday a wider than expected quarterly loss, and warned about its current quarter sales. The company said its having a difficult time getting consumers to pay attention to it...

  • China Tells Washington To Cool Yuan Pressure

    MSNBC

    In this March 5, 2010 file photo, a tractor truck transports one of shipping containers at Yangshan deep-water port in Shanghai, China. China has called on Washington to cool its "politicization and ...

  • Want A Bigger Tax Refund? Don’t Itemize

    MSNBC

    Then they're told by their tax professionals, (or discover while using software such as Intuit's TurboTax or H&R Block's At Home) that all their conscientious record keeping is for naught. Those i...

  • Rmt Signal Staff Vote For Strikes

    BBC

    Railway signal workers have voted in favour of strikes in a row over jobs and safety, the RMT union has said.The strikes are over Network Rail plans to cut jobs and for more maintenance work to take p...

  • Black Horse Leaps As Lloyds Predicts Profit

    Sky News

    part-nationalised bank said bad debts were falling faster than it had anticipated, leaving it confident of bouncing back from 2009's £6.3bn loss. Shares in the group, which is 41% taxpayer-owned aft...

  • Earnings Watch: Updates, Advisories And Surprises

    Market Watch

    0.00% ) shares fell 10% to $19.85 in after-hours trading late Thursday after the solar panel maker said it expects adjusted 2010 earnings of $1.25 a share to $1.65 a share. Wall Street analysts expe...

  • Directv Cut To Hold By Citi

    Fox Business

    LONDON -- DirecTV was cut to hold from buy at Citi, citing the group's premium valuation compared to Dish . There's only modest upside assuming stable churn and large buybacks.Copyright © 2010 M...

  • Fdic's Bair: We Should Limit Small Bank Burdens

    Fox Business

    WASHINGTON - A key regulator on Friday told small bankers that officials at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. worked very hard to persuade House and Senate lawmakers to exempt banks with less than ...

  • Goldman Cuts Estimates For Capital-markets Firms

    Fox Business

    BOSTON -- Goldman Sachs analysts on Friday lowered their profit forecasts for J.P. Morgan & Co. , Bank of America Corp. , Morgan Stanley , Jefferies Group Inc. and Piper Jaffray Cos. by an average of...

  • Boeing To Speed Up 777, 747 Production

    Fox Business

    NEW YORK -- Boeing said Friday it will accelerate production of both the 777 and 747 jet programs. "Market improvement and our conservatively managed approach to production have put us in a position ...

  • Press Release: Fitch: French Regions Face Pressure On Public Finances

    Fox Business

    Fitch Ratings-London/Paris-19 March 2010: Fitch Ratings says in a special report that French regions' finances are likely to be challenged, in the coming years, by stagnating revenue and continued hi...

  • J.p. Morgan Sees Better Profits For Railroads

    Fox Business

    NEW YORK -- J.P. Morgan analysts on Friday raised their 2010 and 2011 profit outlooks for the major railroads in the U.S. and Canada, including Canadian National Railway Co. , Canadian Pacific Railwa...

  • Press Release: Fitch Affirms Berica Series Italian Rmbs Transactions

    Fox Business

    Fitch Ratings-London-19 March 2010: Fitch Ratings has today affirmed all tranches of the Italian Berica RMBS transactions, reflecting current adequate credit enhancement levels, stabilising collatera...

  • J.p. Morgan Raises Profit Estimate For Kohl's

    Fox Business

    NEW YORK -- J.P. Morgan raised its first-quarter profit estimate on mid-priced department store operator Kohl's Corp. to 55 cents from 50 cents a share and kept its overweight rating and a $60 price ...

  • Treasurys Head Towards Weekly Gain

    Fox Business

    NEW YORK -- Treasury prices rose on Friday, pushing long-term yields down and towards a weekly decline, in quiet trading with no U.S. economic data scheduled. "There is still tremendous demand for lo...

  • German Finance Minister: No Tax Cut Plans Before May Elections

    Fox Business

    BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- The German government won't announce its plans for tax cuts that have divided the center-right coalition before crucial state elections in May, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeubl...

  • Lloyds Says To Return To Profit This Year

    Reuters

    LLOY.L ) said on Friday it would return to profit this year thanks to a bigger than expected drop in bad debts, wrong-footing forecasts for another loss and sending its shares sharply higher.

  • Palm Revenue Forecast Lower Than Analyst Estimates

    Reuters

    Jon Rubinstein, chairman and chief executive of Palm, speaks in front of images of the new palm Pre Plus (L) and Palm Pixi Plus during a news conference at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics ...

  • Google May Announce China Plans Next Monday: Report

    Financial Post

    A man walks past the Google logo in front of its China headquarters building in Beijing. The search engine giant is set to make an announcement on its plans in China next week.

  • Barrick Gold Ipo To Raise Us$834-million

    Financial Post

    Barrick Gold Corp. announced it will raise about US$834-million from the initial public offering of its African subsidiary. The new company, called African Barrick Gold PLC, will start trading on the...

  • Cn Reaches Contract Agreement With Engineers

    Financial Post

    Canadian National Railway Co. announced the terms of a new three-year collective agreement with 1,700 of its engineers Friday that was reached under federal arbitration. The engineers, who are repres...

  • Stock Futures Signal Mixed Open; Palm Eyed

    Financial Post

    Stock index futures pointed to a mixed opening on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.02 percent, Dow Jones up 0.1 percent and Nasdaq 100 down 0.01 percent at 1008 GMT (6:08 a.m. ET). ...

  • Agnico-eagle Mines To Receive Financing To Pay Down Debt

    Financial Post

    Canadian gold producer Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. said Friday it will make a private placement worth $600-million in unsecured notes, used to pay down existing debt. The company said in a release it...

  • Banks Lift Stocks; Greece Woes Dent Euro

    Financial Post

    LONDON -- European shares rose modestly on Friday, lifted by gains in banking stocks, but concerns over Greece's large debt burden remained, keeping the euro on the back foot against the dollar. ...