Dow Jones Plans Layoffs at Newswires and Factiva
Date: 10 January 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dow Jones Plans Layoffs at Newswires and Factiva.
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Borrowing Rose in November
Date: 09 January 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The increase was the most in three months as Americans loaded up on credit card debt to purchase holiday gifts.
Australian Utility Giant Gets Buyout Offer From Managers
Date: 09 January 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Alinta Ltd. has received a management buyout proposal backed by Macquarie Bank Ltd. in what would be the country’s largest utility buyout.
Kraft Takes a Charge for a Poor-Selling Coffee Machine
Date: 09 January 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Weaker-than-projected sales of its Tassimo coffee-brewing machines led to a noncash charge of $245 million in the fourth quarter.
Citigroup Cutback in Japan
Date: 09 January 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Citigroup will shut about 270 consumer finance branches after a new local law capped the interest rate nonbank lenders can charge.
Britain: Terrorism Warnings by E-Mail
Date: 10 January 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The British security service known as MI5 is using e-mail to alert the public to changes in the security threat level. Internet users may register on MI5’s Web site to receive the electronic updates. On Nov. 9, the agency’s director general, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, said that Britain was facing as many as 30 terrorist plots and that terrorists might soon be using nuclear or biological weapons. Dame Eliza, who is retiring in April, has been more public than her predecessors in warning of suspected threats. In August, MI5 began posting details of the threat level, which is set by the government’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Center, on its Web site. The threat level has five tiers and is now at “severe,” the second highest, which means an attack is considered highly likely.
Germany: Manufacturing Orders Rise
Date: 09 January 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Manufacturing orders rose for the first time in three months in November, led by an increase in demand for trucks and cars. Orders, adjusted for seasonal swings and inflation, rose 1.5 percent from October, when they declined 0.7 percent, the Economy and Technology Ministry said. The figure for October factory orders was revised up from an initially reported decline of 1.1 percent. Domestic orders gained 0.6 percent in November, and foreign orders rose 2.3 percent. Demand for consumer goods advanced 2.7 percent.
Britain: An Increase in Profit at the London Stock Exchange
Date: 10 January 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The London Stock Exchange, seeking to fend off a hostile takeover by the Nasdaq Stock Market, reported a 9.9 percent increase in third-quarter profit and forecast a “strong performance” in fiscal 2008. Net income rose to £31 million ($59.8 million) in the three months ended Dec. 31, up from £28.2 million a year earlier, the exchange said. Revenue increased 11 percent, to £89.9 million ($173.5 million). The third-quarter results “support the board’s rejection of Nasdaq’s offer, which significantly undervalues the business and the exchange’s unique strategic position,” the exchange’s chief executive, Clara Furse, said. “Our strong growth prospects will continue to enhance the quality of our markets.” The exchange, Europe’s biggest equity market, released its earnings about three weeks ahead of schedule and two days before Nasdaq’s offer to pay £12.43 a share expires.
Romania: a Bid for Dracula’s Castle
Date: 09 January 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dracula’s castle may sell for 60 million euros ($78 million) after the local government offered to buy the Transylvanian fortress to increase tourism revenue. The Brasov County Council in central Romania is in talks with a foreign bank on a 10-year loan for that amount to get back the castle from its current owners living abroad, Aristotel Cancescu, president of the municipality, said in a telephone interview. Built in 1212 by Teutonic knights, the castle was briefly used two centuries later by the Romanian ruler Vlad the Impaler, who inspired Bram Stoker’s legend of Count Dracula. The castle’s current owners are Dominic von Habsburg, an industrial designer who lives in New York, and his sisters, Elisabeth Sandhofer and Maria-Magdalena Holzhausen, who both live in Austria.
South Korea: Samsung Forecast
Date: 09 January 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Samsung Electronics Company forecast record profit from consumer electronics this year, helped by television sales. Profit this year from the digital media division, including earnings from overseas affiliates, will probably exceed 1 trillion won ($1.1 billion) for the first time, Choi Gee Sung, president of the division, said in a statement. Samsung plans to sell 11 million L.C.D. televisions in 2007, up from 6.2 million units last year, the company said. Samsung, which is based in Suwon, South Korea, also forecast its shipments of plasma TVs to rise to 2.5 million units this year, compared with 1.3 million sets in 2006.