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2007-10-03 Business Wire
Sodexho Announces New Acceleration in Organic Revenue Growth for Fiscal 2007 across All Segments: + 8.4%
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: SODEXHO ALLIANCE (PARIS:SW) (OTCBB:SDXAY), the global leader in most of its activities, today announced consolidated revenue for Fiscal 2007, which ended August 31,...
2007-10-03 CMD First Source
Outlook for local stocks still favoured, caution on retailers
Old Mutual Investment Group South Africa (OMIGSA), the country's biggest asset manager, is betting on local stocks that stand to benefit from a heavy government infrastructure spending...
2007-10-03 Miningmag
Polymetal posts loss on output drop, errs on silver
OAO Polymetal, the precious metals miner owned by Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, posted a loss in the second quarter as output fell and the company made a wrong-way bet on silver...
2007-10-03 Turkish Press
Bank of England seen freezing rates after Northern Rock chaos
The Bank of England is widely forecast to hold interest rates at 5.75 percent Thursday after recent financial markets turmoil forced the central bank to rescue troubled lender Northern...
2007-10-03 Unison.ie
Subprime market is set for ownership shake-up
Ireland's fledgling subprime mortgage market is set for a major overhaul, with two players -- Start Mortgages and Nua Homeloans -- facing ownership changes as the sector grapples with a tougher operating...
2007-10-03 Business Day
Small dip in credit keeps heat on rates
Trade and Industry Correspondent GROWTH in private sector credit demand dipped in August but was stronger than anticipated, while money supply accelerated, adding to pressure for another interest rate hike at the Reserve Banks policy meeting next...
2007-10-03 Reuters UK
RPT-UPDATE 1-Gold bounces after fall, awaits U.S. data
SINGAPORE, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Gold bounced and gained more than $2 on Wednesday after falling to a one-week low the previous day, suggesting that fundamentals still favoured the metal used as an alternative investment to bonds and...
2007-10-03 Life Style Extra
Metals - Gold down as traders lock in profits after record highs yesterday
2-OCT-2007 17:10 LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Gold continued lower into the afternoon, falling by nearly 3 pct at one point, as the profit-taking bout extended itself amid a sustained rebound in the...
2007-10-03 Financial Times
CQS to exploit demand for assets
CQS, the London hedge fund group, is to exploit demand from investors for energy assets with plans to double the size of an investment company specialising in offshore oil and gas...
2007-10-03 Reuters UK
Gold bounces after fall, awaits U.S. data
- Gold bounced and gained more than $2 on Wednesday after falling to a one-week low the previous day, suggesting that fundamentals still favored the metal used as an alternative investment to bonds and...
2007-10-03 Reuters UK
UPDATE 1-Gold bounces after fall, investors await U.S. data
SINGAPORE, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Gold bounced and gained more than $2 on Wednesday after falling to a one-week low the previous day, suggesting that fundamentals still favoured the metal used as an alternative investment to bonds and...
2007-10-03 Moneyweb
Shake up for home loans' market
New Investec-backed entrant set to take on SA's 'big four' with fast switches to cheaper mortgages. Simon Stockley is anything but a financial sissy. After paving the way in the mortgage securitisation market with SA Home Loans in the late 1990s, and later starting a mortgage company in Saudi Arabia,..
2007-10-03 What Investment
And the nominations are...
Keiron Root introduces the funds and management houses shortlisted for the 2007 What Investment Fund Management Awards. 3 October 2007 Once again we are gearing up for our annual Fund Management Awards, where What Investment highlights the top-performing retail funds and management houses across both open...
2007-10-03 MWeb
Investors push JSE even higher
The JSE rallied to a fresh peak for the second straight day on Tuesday, led by banks and financials, but further gains were capped by profit taking in heavyweight...
2007-10-03 Sunday World
PSL Donor Cup - rival too standard for war
- (SA) Louis Mazibuko and Ntuthuko Maphumulo Like a thief in the night, South Africa's biggest retail bank, Absa snatched a late victory over rivals Standard Bank to become the title sponsors of the...
2007-10-03 Yahoo Finance
Singapore shares outlook - Lower on profit-taking, mixed Wall St performance
SINGAPORE (Thomson Financial) - Singapore shares are expected to open lower Wednesday on profit-taking, following tthe record-breaking run over the last few...
2007-10-03 Calibre Macro World
First on the right track as revenues take off
PMBus and trains operator FirstGroup yesterday said strong rail revenues had helped the firm make a 'good start' to its financial year.The Aberdeen-based group, which holds the First Great Western, First ScotRail, First Capital Connect, First TransPennine Express and Hull Trains franchises, said like-for...
2007-10-03 Life Style Extra
Anite Group appoints new financial advisers, stockbrokers to replace UBS
2-OCT-2007 16:46 LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Anite Group PLC said it has appointed JP Morgan Cazenove and Landsbanki Securities as joint financial advisers and stockbrokers, to replace UBS Investment...
2007-10-03 Bobsguide
VTB wants a piece of Russian Standard
Russia's number two bank, state-controlled VTB, is looking into a deal that would see it purchase a stake in Russian Standard Bank, the country's leading consumer lender, according to Vedomosti, reported by...
2007-10-03 Carlisle Sentinel
Business Booming in SAfrica's Soweto
SOWETO, South Africa - The towering construction cranes and the cacophony of churning concrete trucks and rumbling cherry pickers are the sights and sounds of a business boom in South Africa's most famous...
2007-10-03 IC North London Online
Banks spurn loan facility
Banks spurned a 10 billion loan facility from the Bank of England for the second week.No bank took up the offer of a three-month loan at a minimum penalty interest rate of...
2007-10-03 Les Echos
Les courtiers développent les activités de gestion
Des anciens de Gilbert Dupont lancent Ampleo Gestion. Fondé par des ex-patrons de courtiers, 2020 Patrimoine Finance souhaite mettre en place un fonds maison. Kepler veut faire grossir son activité de...
2007-10-03 Irish Times
Finance Ireland sells stake in Nua Homeloans
Finance Ireland has sold its 40 per cent stake in subprime mortgage provider Nua Homeloans to its partner in the business, Investec Bank, because of the uncertainty in the credit...
2007-10-03 Les Echos
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plus que 1,53 % du capital et 1,18 % des droits de vote pour les fonds communs gérés par les filiales de FMR Corp. et Fidelity International Limited-FIL (suite à une cession d'actions).
2007-10-03 Yahoo News USA
Hotlines: Unilever to Brief Contenders On Global Ice Cream Business
NEW YORK Unilever within the next two weeks is expected to brief the three roster shops competing to handle global creative duties on its core ice cream brands, sources...
2007-10-03 Telegraph Business
Competition Commission finds BSkyB restricts competition
BSkyB may be forced to sell its ITV stake as Competition Commission decides it was anti-competitive Satellite broadcaster BSkyB could be forced to sell its...
2007-10-03 RedOrbit
Stocks Rise on Hopes That Crisis Has Passed EUROPE MARKETPLACE By Bloomberg
By Sarah Jones European stocks advanced Monday, paced by mining companies and banks, on speculation that the worst of the credit crisis could be over and that the...
2007-10-03 ShareCast
Small cap round-up: Blinkx, Ocean Power, Abacus
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Blinkx, Autonomy's demerged video search business, expects interim results ahead of the top end of analysts' forecasts after a strong first...
2007-10-02 Hindu Business Line
Its flat Sept for asset management firms
Larger players such as Franklin Templeton and Reliance have struggled to sustain growth Mumbai, Oct. 2 Assets under management by mutual funds have remained flat for September, despite the BSE Sensex rising by over 13 per cent during the...
2007-10-02 Investment Executive
Regulators discuss passport model, point of sale disclosure at IFIC conference
Canada's financial services regulators say that the only way that any off their efforts would benefit the industry is through co-operation. In a panel discussion today at the Investment Funds Institute of Canada conference in Toronto, senior regulators said their collective priority remains to preserve the...
2007-10-02 IC Cheshire
Holiday firm in 47m school trips swoop
CHESHIRE group Holidaybreak says it is on the look-out for further acquisitions after snapping up a family-owned school and college trip specialist in a...
2007-10-02 Moneyweb
Car sales leave the road
Export figures shock. Vehicle sales crashed in September thanks to the motor strike, higher interest rates and the National Credit Act. According to the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers (Naamsa), total domestic sales of 55 837 cars, buses and trucks were down 11,7% on the 63 253 of last...
2007-10-02 Moneyweb
PMI at 20-month low
Vehicle sales have declined year-on-year for five months in a row and retail sales growth has eased. JOHANNESBURG - Growth in South Africa's manufacturing sector slowed to its weakest in 20 months in September, data showed on Monday, pointing to higher interest rates easing demand in Africa's biggest...
2007-10-02 Recorder News Papers
JOHN JOSEPH ELIA, Police sergeant, loved family
4:54 PM EDT John Joseph Elia, 47, of the Long Valley section of Washington Township died on Sunday, Sept. 30, 2007, at the Hackettstown Regional Medical...
2007-10-02 Moneyweb
JSE going nowhere slowly in medium-term
02 Oct 2007 13:16 It sounds bold, but I think it will prove an accurate observation - we are either at the point or within sight of the JSE going nowhere...
2007-10-02 International Investment
Britannia International widens its scope
Britannia International is planning to launch a US Dollar Optimum Growth Bond early next...
2007-10-02 Business Day
Integer takes aim at SAs home-loans status quo
WHEN Simon Stockley quit as CEO of home loans provider South African Home Loans three years ago and sold his stake in the company, he entered into a non-compete agreement with the company he helped form eight years...
2007-10-02 Money Web
Chris Buchanan: Moneyweb
MONEYWEB: Hello, good evening, welcome to the Moneyweb Power Hour - and a power-packed programme we do have for you this evening! Don't go anywhere. Well, on that fateful day in early August we gave Bernard Swanepoel a real hard time for not coming to the studio to explain why he'd resigned - a resignation..
2007-10-02 Money Web
David Shapiro: Market watcher, Sasfin
MONEYWEB: Well, we used to call him David "Raging Bull" Shapiro. That was before the JSE all-share index got through 30 000. I don't know what we call you now,...
2007-10-02 Calibre Macro World
BOOKER GROUP PLC EPS Estimated At 1.54: Current Recommendation is Buy
Company: BOOKER GROUP PLC Report Headline: 'Booker Group - Booker at IGD (Buy)' Report Date: September 28, 2007 Current FY EPS Estimate [FY2008]:...
2007-10-02 Bi-monthly Insurance Times and Investments
New home loan provider launched
Looking for South Africans tired of poor service, high interest rate charges and fees A new home loan provider was launched today with the stated aim of introducing further competition into the South African home loans market which is currently dominated by the big four...
2007-10-02 Money Web
Craig Chambers: Deputy MD, Umbono Fund Managers
MONEYWEB: The Savi, incidentally, today was down 22% - a long way from the recent peak of 30%. Craig Chambers from Umbono is with us in the studio. Doing interesting stuff,...
2007-10-02 Guardian Unlimited - Business
Vernalis may shed jobs after drug rejected
Vernalis, the biopharmaceuticals company, may cut jobs after US regulators rejected its treatment for menstrual migraine, creating a significant cash problem for the...
2007-10-02 Volksblad
Corrie genader, Allan beskikbaar
Druk artikel E-pos storie aan 'n vriend CORRIE VAN ZYL is genader om die Protea-krieketspan weer as boulafrigter by te staan. Die huidige afrigter, Vincent Barnes, kan volgens berigte nog voor die einde van die Suid-Afrikaanse span se toer in Pakistan vervang word as sy bedanking intussen aanvaar...
2007-10-02 All Africa
allAfrica.com: South Africa: Small Dip in Credit Keeps Heat on Rates (Page 1 of 1)
Thabang Mokopanele Johannesburg GROWTH in private sector credit demand dipped in August but was stronger than anticipated, while money supply accelerated, adding to pressure for another interest rate hike at the Reserve Bank's policy meeting next...
2007-10-02 Senior Market Advisor
Readers' Choice Awards 2007
Boomer Market Advisor The results are in and the readers have spoken. Boomer Market Advisor undertook its 2007 Readers Choice Awards survey to call attention to the products advisors are using to address boomer retirement...
2007-10-02 Optical Keyhole
CORRECTING and REPLACING Confluence Announces Expense Management Solutions That Automate Manual Processes for Fund Administrators
Unity Budgeting, Unity Expense Payments, and Unity Expense Management Provide Data Integrity, Elevated Service Levels, and Scalability CORRECTION..
2007-10-02 All Africa
Namibia: Food Drives Inflation Numbers
Windhoek The outlook for inflation remains extremely bleak, with upward pressure expected in both food and utility prices in the immediate future. Director of Research at Investec Asset Management Namibia, Alfred Kamupingene, says month-on-month inflation in Namibia has decreased from...
2007-10-02 Yahoo! Italia - Finanza
Le Borse tornano euforiche: ma quanto c'è da fidarsi? I titoli di Piazza Affari da inserire in portafoglio - Yahoo! Finanza
Martedì 2 Ottobre 2007, 21:19 Le Borse tornano euforiche: ma quanto c'è da fidarsi? I titoli di Piazza Affari da inserire in portafoglio Di Alberto Susic Quotazioni Alleanza...
2007-10-02 Evergreen Investments
Tano China Capital Management and Darby Overseas Investments Sign Landmark Joint Venture with Tianjin Port Tariff-Free Zone Investment Co.
PMSAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2007--Charles E. Johnson, Managing Director of Tano Capital LLC announced today the signing of a three way joint venture between its subsidiary Tano China Capital Management...
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