ADRs in Focus: European airlines
Boston Globe - NEW YORK— Shares of Europe-based airlines trading on U.S. exchanges rose Thursday, with Ryanair Holdings PLC climbing after a Citi Investment Research analyst said the company is poised to beat out its competitors in a recession. Andrew Light said
Countrywide and BofA Could Team-Up
Forbes - of Countrywide by Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ) would solve the company’s funding and liquidity problems with a stroke of a pen, and make the bankruptcy concerns…moot,” stated Kathleen Shanley, senior investment
American Lung Association: Florida good on curbing tobacco use
Miami Herald - it’s likely that Florida this year is “going to have the worst budget in modern times,” but that Democratic leadership is looking to recommend plugging holes with increased gambling taxes, closing tax loopholes, and possibly a tax on large investment
WallSt.net Updates Investment Community Through All-New Interview With
MSN MoneyCentral - On January 10, Paul Burgess, Chief Executive Officer of Lattice Incorporated (OTC Bulletin Board: LTTC) will update the investment community in an all-new interview with www.wallst.net. Topics to be covered in the interview include an overview of the
Stocks rise on Countrywide
CNN Money - The blended reaction may have reflected the fact that although Bernanke’s words were reassuring, they weren’t that specific in terms of what the central bank will do at the late January policy meeting, stated Douglas Roberts, chief investment strategist
European stocks flat ahead of BoE, ECB decisions
Reuters - The persistently weak U.S. economic numbers recently confirm our picture of a strong growth slowdown, which should continue in the next 2 quarters,” Gerhard Schwarz, head of global equity strategy at UniCredit Markets & Investment Banking, wrote
TPG eyes Morgan Stanley CICC holding
MSN MoneyCentral - TPG and a vehicle controlled by Hank Greenberg, former chairman of AIG, are among the celebrations expressing interest in acquiring Morgan Stanley’s passive 34 per cent stake in China International Capital Corporation, one of China’s leading investment
GATX Corporation Announces New Rail Investment
Forbes - GATX Corporation (NYSE:GMT) this day announced that it has entered into a series of agreements with the Providence and Worcester Railroad Company (”P&W”)(AMEX:PWX), through which it has become the exclusive supplier of substantially all of P&W’s railcar
UPDATE 4-Bank of America in speaks to purchase Countrywide-sources
Forbes - Analysts have said that investment made the bank — whose own profitability is suffering from rising credit losses — an obvious candidate to buy Countrywide, eventually. LEWIS STRIKES AGAIN A buy would constitute another major acquisition for
Nicaragua buys Esso Standard oil tanks
CNBC - Since his return to office last year, he has promised to protect private property and foreign investment, even while cozying up to the socialist Chavez. He last month hinted he was considering nationalizing the country’s oil industry. Copyright 2007
Microsoft: Technology’s Warren Buffett (at least when it comes to
ZDNet Blogs - Microsoft Corp. , Warren Buffett , Mergers & Acquisitions , Corporate Law , Investment , Finance , Business Operations , Larry Dignan Take an industry that’s worried about future demand (technology). Add in a bunch of geeks drunk in Las Vegas (CES
H&R Block kicks off tax season
Boston Globe - Breeden, who replaced Ernst as chairman, had criticized the company’s strategy of branching out into mortgage lending, investment advice and banking, saying it took away from the core tax business. Bennett, who is serving until the company finds a
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