Archive for June 21st, 2008

NYSE closing bond transactions – June 20

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

NYSE CLOSING BOND TRANSACTIONS: $113,000

FACTBOX: Canada Supreme Court lets BCE buyout proceed

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

BCE Inc, Canada's largest telecom company, won the backing of the country's Supreme Court on Friday to proceed with the world's biggest leveraged buyout, but financing could still trip up the $35 billion deal. Here are some key facts about the case and ...

No U.S. subprime impact in Italy- Intesa CEO

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

LEVICO TERME, Italy, June 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. subprimecrisis is not yet finished but there it will not have an impactin Italy, the chief executive of Italy's biggest retail bank,Intesa Sanpaolo (ISP.MI: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), said on Saturday. ...

Banco Santander expects rise in profits in 2008

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

SANTANDER, Spain, June 21 (Reuters) - Spain's biggest bank,Banco Santander (SAN.MC: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), should run up an attributable netprofit of over 10 billion euros in 2008, Chairman Emilio Botinsaid on Saturday. "It will be practically all recurrent profit," ...

SEC nominees support more i-bank regs if needed

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

By Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic nominees to the Securities and Exchange Commission said they support adding regulations and staff to oversee investment banks if needed, according to testimony received by Reuters on Friday. Elisse Walter and Luis Aguilar, ...

Nissan to slow production at Spain plant-El Pais

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

MADRID, June 21 (Reuters) - Nissan (7201.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) is planning toshut down its light truck plant at Avila in Spain for up to 51days over the next two years in response to weak European sales,newspaper El Pais reported on Saturday. ...

HK’s Fushan in $253m sharesale to fund China buys

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

HONG KONG, June 21 (Reuters) - Coking and coal productsmaker Fushan International Energy Group Ltd (0639.HK: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) plans tosell HK$1.97 billion ($252.6 million) worth of new shares,raising capital to fund acquisitions, the firm said late onFriday. Fushan ...

Japan’s Teikoku, Nippon Oil eye gas project-Nikkei

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

TOKYO, June 21 (Reuters) - Japan's Teikoku Oil and NipponOil Corp (5001.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) are considering exploration projects in theEast China Sea after a pact between China and Japan ondeveloping oil and gas resources in the disputed waters, theNikkei daily reported on ...

Shell delays Alaska drilling plan due to legal dispute

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shell Oil said on Friday it would delay its 2008 drilling plan in Alaska's Beaufort Sea for a year because of an ongoing legal challenge filed by groups concerned about the potential impact on whales, walruses and other marine mammals. ...

OHL sees highway listing in 3 yrs-Economista

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

MADRID, June 21 (Reuters) - Spanish builder OHL (OHL.MC: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz)hopes to lists its highway concessions subsidiary on the stockmarket in about three years, the company's chairman Juan MiguelVillar Mir said in a newspaper interview on Saturday. OHL ...