49296 results returned for search: "" category ("Other" AND "Business")
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — Ireland faces a challenge to remain economically competitive, the prime minister warned yesterday after the release of inflation figures showing a slight drop to 5.0 percent — still more than double the European average.The dro...
DATE: Jun 08, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
LONDON (Reuters) — British interest rates stayed at a six-year high of 5.5 percent yesterday but the Bank of England is expected to raise them again in the next few months.Most experts had guessed the central bank would refrain from hiking borrowing ...
DATE: Jun 08, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
LONDON (Reuters) — BAE Systems denied any wrongdoing in response to media reports that it paid $1 billion ($2 billion) over a decade to a Saudi prince in connection with Britain's biggest-ever arms export contract.The Guardian newspaper and British b...
DATE: Jun 08, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
LONDON - Britain's index of 100 leading shares fell to it lowest close in a month in choppy trade as the prospect of higher interest rates spooked investors, with insurers, banks and real estate stocks weighing most.
The FTSE ended 0.27 percent or 17...
DATE: Jun 08, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (Reuters) — US retail chains reported sales gains in May as warmer weather helped them rebound from a dismal April, but the results were weaker than a year ago, signalling to some that rising gas prices and a slowing housing market are takin...
DATE: Jun 08, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
HEILIGENDAMM, Germany (Reuters) — Russia yesterday dismissed as unfounded an "emotional" warning by British Prime Minister Tony Blair that the Kremlin's frosty relations with Europe could scare off foreign investors."I doubt that business will react ...
DATE: Jun 08, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks fell, sending the country's main stock index to its biggest two-day drop in a year, on concern that rising global interest rates will crimp profits, reduce demand for loans and reduce the appeal of dividends.Inte...
DATE: Jun 08, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Wachovia Corp., the fourth-biggest US bank, plans to more than double its private-banking staff in the next three years as part of a strategy to sell more products to wealthy customers.The bank will target fast-growing markets ...
DATE: Jun 08, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (Reuters) — A "Wall Street group" and an internet entrepreneur have expressed interest in mounting a counterbid to News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion offer for Dow Jones & Co. Inc. an adviser to the Dow Jones employee union said ye...
DATE: Jun 08, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Argus Group has reported record earnings with a full year profit of $36.9 million, up 36.8 percent from last year.
Those earnings represent a 24.8 percent return on opening shareholders' equity.
As with other insurance companies the benign 2006 hurri...
DATE: Jun 08, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
