Archive for April 3rd, 2008
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
(Adds detail, background) BUDAPEST, April 3 (Reuters) - Hungarian oil and gas firm MOLMOLB.BU said it has proposed paying a total dividend of 85billion forints ($516.8 million) on 2007 earnings after payingout 50 billion forints a year earlier. ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
NEW YORK, April 3 (Reuters) - Florida Gas Transmission onThursday issued its third straight warning to natural gasshippers on its pipeline system, as low linepack and warmweather forecast for the state for the next few days wasexpected to boost demand. The ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
PARIS, April 3 (Reuters) - French power group EDF (EDF.PA: Quote, Profile, Research)said on Thursday its board appointed Daniel Camus, DominiqueLagarde and Jean-Louis Mathias as Chief Operating Officers. From May 20, Dominique Lagarde will succeed Yann Laroche,taking over responsibility for human ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
(Adds Boeing, Airbus data; background) NEW YORK, April 3 (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said onThursday that first-quarter commercial plane deliveries rose8.5 percent as it ramps up production on the back of recordorders in recent years. ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - China Investment Corp (CIC), the country's $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, has signed a deal with J.C. Flowers & Co, to launch a $4 billion private equity fund to focus on investments in U.S. financial assets despite increasing worries over the snowballing ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
(Adds analyst quotes, details) By Antonio de la Jara and Lisa Yulkowski SANTIAGO, April 3 (Reuters) - Chile's consumer inflationhit a 12-year high in March due to soaring food and educationcosts, data showed on Thursday, but prices ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
NEW YORK, April 3 (Reuters) - China Investment Corp (CIC),the country's $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, has signed adeal with J.C. Flowers & Co, to launch a $4 billion privateequity fund to focus on investments in U.S. financial assetsdespite increasing worries over the snowballing credit ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
FRANKFURT, April 3 (Reuters) - European stocks fell onThursday, reversing a two-day winning streak, as worries offurther writedowns weighed on banks such as UBS (UBSN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research) anddata showed a slowdown in euro zone economic growth. The FTSEurofirst 300 ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
NEW YORK, April 3 (Reuters) - A senior Cisco Systems Inc(CSCO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) executive said on Thursday that he did not expect anychange in pricing of its network equipment, regardless of arecent market downturn. "We do not expect to see ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
LONDON, April 3 (Reuters) - Britain's Co-operative Bank,which is committed to ethical investments, said profits felllast year as it took a 31.8 million pound ($63 million) hit oninvesting in complex financial products. The Co-Op Bank said on Thursday its operating profit ...
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