Archive for April 30th, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe's biggest oil company, said first-quarter profit climbed 25 percent, boosted by record crude prices and higher natural gas.
Net income advanced to $9.08 billion, or $1.46 a share, from $7.28 billion, or $1.1 ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Shareholders of Time Warner Inc, the world's largest media company, are urging Chief Executive Jeffrey Bewkes to get rid of the cable-television unit and buy back shares after the stock fell 30 percent from a 2007 high.
Splitting off the ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's biggest bank, reported its first quarterly loss in five years after writing down the value of loans for leveraged buyouts and asset-backed securities by 2.7 billion euros.
The Frankfurt-based company had a fir ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The European Union (EU) and Australia signed an aviation agreement Tuesday allowing European airlines to fly between any EU member state and Australia.
"This will pave the way for a comprehensive aviation agreement involving coopera ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
U.S. software giant Oracle won approval from the European Union (EU) to buy BEA Systems, an independent provider of middleware software, for 8.5 billion U.S. dollars.
The European Commission, the EU's antitrust watchdog, said in a s ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The dollar rose against most major currencies on Tuesday as the U.S. Federal Reserve is widely expected to cut interest rates moderately this week, then leave them unchanged for the rest of the year to help ward off inflation.
The U ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Crude-oil futures declined more than 3 dollars Tuesday, as strength in the U.S. dollar and news that BP's Forties pipeline will restart operation within days pulled down energy prices.
Forecasts that U.S. crude inventories have incr ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Wall Street moved lower in the early trading Tuesday, as investors expected another decline in consumer confidence this month.
The U.S. Conference Board, a private business research group, will releases its April survey of consumer ...
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