Archive for March 14th, 2008

Auckland Airport shareholders vote "yes" to Canadian bid

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Shareholders in New Zealand's Auckland International Airport have voted to allow the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to take a 40 percent stake, Radio New Zealand reported on Friday. The board had already received acceptances f ...

Dollar trades in upper 100 yen in Tokyo

Friday, March 14th, 2008

The U.S. dollar traded in the upper 100 yen range Friday morning in Tokyo. At noon, the dollar traded at 100.68-73 yen against 100.60-70 yen in New York and 100.17-20 yen in Tokyo at 5 p.m. Thursday. The euro was quoted at ...

Carlyle fund closer to brink

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Carlyle Group's mortgage bond fund moved a step closer to collapse after failing to reach an agreement with lenders who demanded more than $400 million to meet margin calls. Concern about the fate of Carlyle Capital Corp, which began to ...

EU vigilant about strong euro

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Europe is "more and more vigilant" about the continuous appreciation of the euro against the U.S. dollar, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said Thursday. Juncker, who also heads the 15-nation euro group, repeated his po ...

Credit crisis hits Netherlands

Friday, March 14th, 2008

The international credit crisis has struck the Dutch mortgage market with one of the country's biggest foreign mortgage lenders stopping providing loans, Dutch paper the Financieele Dagblad reported Thursday. U.S. mortgage company G ...

Wall Street rebounds from plunge

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Wall Street rebounded from an early plunge to finish higher Thursday after Standard & Poor's predicted financial companies are nearing the end of the massive asset write-downs. Wall Street opened sharply lower in the morning as the ...

Crude prices refresh records on weak dollar

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Crude oil futures refreshed record highs Thursday on the weakening U.S. dollar. Light, sweet crude for April delivery was up 41 cents to 110.33 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after hitting111 dollars a barrel. ...

S California home prices drop at record rate

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Southern California home prices continued to fall at a record pace in February, with the median price for a home at 408,000 dollars, down 17.6 percent from a year ago, a real estate information service reported on Thursday. Area hom ...