Archive for April 6th, 2008

Ahli United, Legal to set up insurer in Bahrain

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Bahrain's Ahli United Bank AUBH.BH (AUBK.KW: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Sunday it signed a memorandum of understanding with Britain's Legal and General Group (LGEN.L: Quote, Profile, Research) to set up an Islamic insurance company in Bahrain. Ahli United and ...

UPDATE 1-Top Asia refiner Sinopec Q4 net dives two-thirds

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

(Recasts, adds details) By Judy Hua HONG KONG, April 6 (Reuters) - Top Asian oil refiner SinopecCorp (0386.HK: Quote, Profile, Research) posted a sharper-than-expected two-thirds fall inquarterly earnings after high oil prices squeezed its refiningbusiness into the ...

Alitalia talks with Air France to take time

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

ROME (Reuters) - Alitalia (AZPIa.MI: Quote, Profile, Research) union leaders said they were willing to resume collapsed takeover talks with Air France-KLM (AIRF.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) to avert the Italian airline's bankruptcy, but warned that any possible deal would take time. Air France-KLM ...

UPDATE 1-Egypt’s Orascom Hotels 2007 net profit surges

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

(adds details) CAIRO, April 6 (Reuters) - Egypt's Orascom Hotels andDevelopment ORHD.CA posted a 124 percent rise in 2007 netprofit before minority interest to 478.5 million Egyptian pounds($87.8 million) on Sunday, the stock exchange said. Consolidated net ...

Alitalia talks with Air France to take time-unions

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

ROME, April 6 (Reuters) - Alitalia (AZPIa.MI: Quote, Profile, Research) union leaderssaid they were willing to resume collapsed takeover talks withAir France-KLM (AIRF.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) to avert the Italian airline'sbankruptcy, but warned that any possible deal would take time. Air ...

Top Asia oil refiner Sinopec Q4 dives two-thirds

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

HONG KONG, April 6 (Reuters) - Top Asian oil refiner SinopecCorp (0386.HK: Quote, Profile, Research) posted a nearly two-thirds fall in quarterly netprofit, as high oil prices squeezed its refining business intothe red, and it faces an even tougher 2008. Sinopec ...

Eureko makes $1.9 bln bid for Ireland’s FBD-report

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

DUBLIN, April 6 (Reuters) - Dutch insurer Eureko has made atakeover approach for Ireland's FBD Holdings Plc (FBD.I: Quote, Profile, Research) valuedat around 1.2 billion euros ($1.89 billion), Ireland's SundayIndependent newspaper reported. A spokesman for Irish insurer FBD FBD.L said the ...

Forklift truck maker Kion seeks acquisitions-paper

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

FRANKFURT, April 6 (Reuters) - Kion, the world'ssecond-biggest maker of fork lift trucks, is looking for peersto acquire to strengthen its business in the mid- to low-endmarket, chief executive-designate Gordon Riske said. He told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung thatKion, which KKR ...

Shareholder lawyers say D.Telekom shifts strategy

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

FRANKFURT, April 6 (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research)plans to argue in a mammoth court case starting on Monday thatshares it sold in a third IPO tranche in 2000 were not "people'sshares" but "new economy shares", shareholders' lawyers said. ...

RTL says can’t afford to bid for Bundesliga soccer

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European broadcast group RTL will not bid for the next round of TV rights for the Bundesliga, Germany's premier-league soccer, because it will be too expensive, the head of its German operations told Der Spiegel magazine. "Of course, ...