The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Vienna - Central European shares rose Monday, paced by financial companies, after the US government seized control of two troubled lenders that underpin the country's home loan market. The Warsaw stock exchange's WIG20 blue-chip index was up 2.65 per...
FT.com - Europe homepage (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Eni emerged as the buyer of First Calgary Petroleums in a move that will boost its North Africa operations and to extend its access to future gas production that can be sold to tight European markets
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
London - Banking shares led a strong rally on European markets Monday, following the announcement that the United States government would bail out the embattled mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In London, Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) w...
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
I feel like a party pooper, posting this on a day that Asian and European markets are roaring and the DJIA looks set to open up 200+. From Money (Australia): The U.S. financial crisis has cut so deep - and the government has taken on so much debt in misguided attempts to bail out such companies as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - that even larger financial shocks are still to come, global investing guru...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Shares got a boost from the NSG waiver to the nuke deal and rally in Asian and European markets on take over of US mortgage giants Fannie May and Freddie Mac by US government.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), the largest distributor of healthcare products and services in the combined North American and European markets, today
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Biopharmaceuticals in the US and European Markets" report to their offering.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
STOCK MARKETS tumbled yesterday as fears of a global recession saw Wall Street record its biggest losses since the start of the year, European markets hit five-year lows and the London FTSE experience its worst week in six years in the UK.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
A warning from Nokia that the mobile phone group's share of the handset market will fall in the third quarter piled pressure on European markets yesterday,...
Information Week (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Available in "key European markets," the built-in mobile broadband offers wider access, as opposed to having to find a Wi-Fi hotspot in order to get on the Web.
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Excellent speech from the Taxpayer’s Alliance….readers here will know the contents… Now it’s Tim Congdon talking about Northern Rock. Essentially the problem was that the usual head bashing and a banking takeover was not possible because of the European Markets Abuse Directive. Yes, there’s still a lot of arguing about this…..but it’s the uncertainty that did the damage. [...]
Business Week (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The news was applauded by Unilever shareholders who promptly added nearly $2 billion to the company’s market capitalization. And for good reason: Polman’s long track record at Nestlé—and crucially P&G—is likely to shake up a company often viewed as bound by tradition. The 52-year-old Dutchman, who currently heads Nestlé’s operations in the Americas, previously spent 27 years at P&G and was recently...
Business Week (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
'New' Europeans Work the Longest HoursA study finds that in the newest members of the EU employees work longer hours and get less vacation time than in 'Old' Europe Related Items Story Tools Europe is still divided when it comes to working hours. According to a recent study, the newest members of the European Union put in the most time on the job, while many of the Union's long-time members give their...
Business Week (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
As well as bosses' reluctance, the survey also found lack of access to the right technology is as a block to home working. Almost a fifth (17 per cent) of survey respondents said they feel poorly equipped at home and unsupported by bosses who are reluctant to provide the right technology to facilitate home working.
SlashPhone (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Vodafone and Dell today announced that Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9 ultra-mobile device will be sold with built-in mobile broadband, exclusively through Vodafone stores and online, and directly from Dell, in key European markets. Available from late September, the Inspiron Mini 9 is only 1.035 kg in a slim, sleek, piano black design. Its features, including sealed keyboard [...]
