Need to know: Audi boost ... BP revolt ... M&S makeover The Times Economics Sterling: The pound tumbled to an 8½-month low against the dollar as investors fled to the safety of the greenback amid concern about the continuing fiscal difficulties of some eurozone countries. UK housing market: Activity slowed in January, as snow hit sales, instructions and...
Support Health Care Letter to Idaho Senator Crapo Newsvine Introduction : Below is my response to Senator Crapo (R- Idaho) after I had sent him a letter requesting his bi-partisan support to reform health care in the Senate. The date of the letter below is September 19, 2009. I also provide the email I received from Senator Crapo on September 18, 2009 that...
Himax Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Financial Results Stockhouse Highlights: , Feb 8, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX NewsNetwork) -- Market share expansion in small- and medium-sized display driver segment in 2009, with handset display drivers shipment increasing more than 50% year-over-year -- Fourth quarter 2009 gross margin in-line, while revenues and EPS...
Piracy: Veil of secrecy behind moves for crackdown Deccan Herald By Eric Pfanner, International Herald Tribune The deal targeted at internet use, could affect hundreds of millions of people around the world Behind a veil of secrecy, the United States, the European Union, Japan and other countries are forging ahead with plans to coordinate an international...
Page 1 of 3 Asia Times CREDIT BUBBLE BULLETIN The beginning of the end? Commentary and weekly watch by Doug Noland Today is a briefer-than usual discussion: a more regular commentary is planned for next week - and at this time I assume my topic will be "a global reflation update"....
JSE buoyed by firmer metal prices Business Report Submit your comment The JSE was firmer in midday trade on Monday, buoyed by stronger resource counters amid higher metal prices. At noon, the JSE all share index was 1.27 percent firmer, with resources gaining 2.41 percent, platinum miners up 3.30 percent and gold miners up 1.73 percent....
Littelfuse Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results Stockhouse CHICAGO, Feb 08, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ:LFUS) today reported sales and earnings for the fourth quarter and full year of 2009. Fourth Quarter Highlights -- Sales for the fourth quarter of 2009 were $127.9 million, a 21% increase compared to the fourth quarter of 2008 and a...
SMFG Q3 profit surges, keeps forecast Yahoo Daily News TOKYO (Reuters) – Sumitomo Mitsui FinancialGroup (8316.T), Japan's third-biggest bank by assets, outshone it larger rivals and posted its biggest profit in seven quarters on Monday, helped by an improvement in its stock portfolio and a decline in bad loans. While Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (8306.T) and Mizuho Financial Group (8411.T) have made a slow recovery from the global financial crisis, Sumitomo...
Asian Shares Mostly Down on Europe's Woes Wall Street Journal By SHRI NAVARATNAM SINGAPORE—Asian equitymarkets were mostly lower Monday, as concerns over Europe's debt continued to push stocks lower. "Investors will likely remain cautious until additional measures to solve fiscal problems in Greece and other European countries are realized. Also risk aversion looks still high," said Lee Jin-woo at Mirae AssetSecurities in Seoul. Investors continue to worry that Greece,...
Housing Rebound in Canada Spurs Talk of a New Bubble Wall Street Journal By PHRED DVORAK TORONTO—Dominic Carrasco first tried to sell his studio apartment here in January 2009. The only offers the 42-year-old massage therapist got were well below the 166,900 Canadian dollars he'd paid for it five years earlier. Last month, Mr. Carrasco tried again. The condominium was snapped up by the woman in charge of posting the information to the real-estate listing site, for C$209,900, or...
China and U.S. heading for a cold war? What impact on gold? Mineweb LONDON - Chinese and U.S relations are at a low ebb and continuing to deteriorate fast so it seems and an article in today's Sunday Times in London says many Chinese hawks are promoting a cold war. Indeed things appear to have got so bad that military leaders in China are preparing for the possibility of a limited armed conflict, possibly over Taiwan or Korea, although this seems very unlikely. China...
Nu Skin Enterprises Reports Record Third-Quarter 2009 Results PR Newswire PROVO, Utah, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: NUS) today announced record third-quarter revenue of $334.2 million, an 8 percent improvement over the prior-year period. Revenue in the period benefited 1 percent from foreign currency fluctuations. Earnings per share for the quarter were $0.40, a 54 percent improvement over the same quarter of 2008. Earnings per share, excluding...
