Tokyo Stock Exchange Chief Works to Fend Off Rivals, Attract Investors
Wall Street Journal (USA) - 6-9-2010
Having seen declines in sales and losses on the bottom line for the past two years, the bourse is poised to again delay its plan to go public. The exchange is facing falling trade volume as well. Public listings on the TSE have lagged behind its rivals in Hong Kong and China for the year to date ...
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Equitable Life compensation demanded
BBC (UK) - 6-9-2010
The company's board is also writing to the Treasury with its own submission. Losses have been put at nearly £5bn, but the Equitable's investors fear they may be offered just a tenth of that. After a decade of argument about how much compensation should be offered to about 1.5 million ... |
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Colleges buy land they don't know how they'll use
Houston Chronicle (USA) - 20 ore fa
They are leasing the properties out or just letting them sit until they need them. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger says he doesn't know what all the space will be used for, yet. He says he is letting future generations decide what to do with the space. Columbia has amassed more than 17 ... |
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Toyota Prius top-selling car in Japan for August
Houston Chronicle (USA) - 6-9-2010
But it was the lowest monthly total so far this year for the hybrid, sales of which may fade once government-backed tax breaks and incentives run out at the end of this month in Japan. The Prius went on sale for the first time in 1997, beating rivals as the first mass-produced commercially ... |
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Businessman hid in shed from bailiffs for a year
Telegraph.co.uk (UK) - 6-9-2010
A businessman hid in his shed from bailiffs for a year after his company collapsed. . Related Articles David Gold plots £40m West Ham takeover British businessman released on record bail of ?100 million Millionaire businessman Christopher Foster 'killed wife and daughter to avoid degrading ... |
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BA strike: Unite warns of fresh industrial action
BBC (UK) - 20 ore fa
He made the comments after one thousand cabin crew attended a rally at Kempton Park racecourse on Monday. BA cabin crew have already staged 22 days of strike action this year. 'The general secretaries have made it clear they see it as the next step, at the right time, to ballot for industrial ... |
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Steel producer Severstal back to quarterly profit
BBC (UK) - 6-9-2010
It made a loss of $290m in the same period in 2009. The profit was hit by a loss from Severstal's discontinued Italian operations, which are up for sale. Severstal also said that restructuring its loss-making US assets was 'the highest priority' for the company. No dividend The ... |
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World markets rise as double-dip fears ease
Houston Chronicle (USA) - 6-9-2010
With Wall Street closed for a holiday, however, trading was expected to remain light. Markets took heart after official data last week showed private employers in the U.S. added 67,000 jobs in August, more than analysts expected. The figure bolstered optimism that the U.S. will maintain a slow but ... |
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Water could be issue with western Kan. coal plant
Houston Chronicle (USA) - 22 ore fa
Sunflower Electric Power Corp., based in Hays, estimates its new plant in Finney County in southwest Kansas will consume 3.9 billion gallons of water a year. Most of the electricity generated by Sunflower's new plant initially would flow to a partner utility in Colorado, leading critics to suggest ... |
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Chinese pilots lied about flying records
BBC (UK) - 6-9-2010
Half the pilots worked for the parent company of an airline involved in a recent fatal plane crash. Shenzhen Airlines is the parent company of Henan Airlines, whose aircraft crashed last month killing 42 people. Fifty-four passengers and crew survived the crash, in which the plane missed the ... |
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