The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
By James Quinn, US Business EditorPublished: 9:17PM GMT 24 Nov 2009PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which is handling the administration of Lehman Brothers International, the defunct bank's European arm, is proposing to allow investors to reclaim assets that were locked up in custody accounts. PwC has proposed that the hundreds of hedge funds involved now take vote on the plan, which has...
The Irish Diaspora (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... the earliest times to 2002. Compiled under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy and edited by James McGuire and James Quinn, the entries vary from short summaries to detailed assessments, depending on the significance of a particular subject. J.J. Lee, Director, Glucksman Ireland House and Glucksman Professor of Irish Studies, New York University: “Imaginatively conceived,...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
By James Quinn, US Business EditorPublished: 8:51PM GMT 19 Nov 2009Bryan Marsal, Lehman's chief executive and co-chief executive at turnaround specialists Alvarez & Marsal, has so far received more than 64,000 claims from creditors against Lehman worth $824bn. However, the likelihood of any of these claims ever being paid in full looks remote, given Lehman has cash holdings of just $16bn,...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Taoiseach Brian Cowen with James McGuire and James Quinn, editors of The Dictionary of Irish Biography. The book is made up of 9,700 biographies spanning 2,000 years of Irish history and took 12 years to compile.Photograph: Alan Betson
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
By James Quinn, US Business EditorPublished: 7:32PM GMT 18 Nov 2009Hard line: software group Microsoft has been banned from selling some of its products, such as Windows XP, by the Chinese authoritiesPhoto: PAThe US software giant must not sell versions of Windows XP, 2003, 2000 or 98 software in the Asian super-economy after a Beijing court ruled the products include Chinese fonts designed...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
By James Quinn in New York and Ben HarringtonPublished: 8:15AM GMT 18 Nov 2009Ferrero, the maker of Ferrero Rocher chocolates, is looking to team up with Hershey in a bid for Cadbury.America confectioner Hershey and Ferrero, the Italian chocolatier, are considering a joint bid for Cadbury in a move that looks set to rekindle one of the year’s biggest takeover battles. Shares in Cadbury...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
By James Quinn in New York and Ben HarringtonPublished: 12:19AM GMT 18 Nov 2009 Ferrero, the maker of Ferrero Rocher chocolates, is looking to team up with Hershey in a bid for Cadbury. AMERICAN confectioner Hershey and Ferrero, the Italian chocolatier, are considering a joint bid for Cadbury in a move that looks set to rekindle one of the year’s biggest takeover battles. Hershey, the...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
By James Quinn, US Business EditorPublished: 4:40PM GMT 17 Nov 2009The lawsuit, which follows earlier similar claims by Lehman's liquidators Weil, Gotshal & Manges, accuses Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm of the UK bank, of receiving excess security assets of as much as $7bn and a further $5bn of assets added to the deal during and after the sale. BarCap paid $1.75bn to buy...
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
"Telling the Truth Is A Revolutionary Act" By James Quinn "An interesting development in the last year is the almost panic buying of guns and ammunition. The "Washington Post" detailed this development in a recent article: “In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition....
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Barack Obama pledges to tackle Beijing on yuan Barack Obama, the US President, will confront Chinese officials on the divisive subject of the yuan next week in a bold move which could anger America's largest creditor. By James Quinn, US Business Editor Published: 12:09AM GMT 10 Nov 2009 President Obama, who, since taking office in January, has resisted branding the Chinese government...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
By James Quinn, US Business Editor Published: 7:31PM GMT 13 Nov 2009The world's second-richest man argued that the "financial panic is behind us", urging investors not to pass on companies that seem attractive as "the bottom has come in stocks". Sitting alongside the planet's richest man, Bill Gates, during a CNBC debate, Mr Buffett admitted that while last Autumn's stock market fall...
Forbes (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
... have people dying all over the place," says Stanford University emergency medicine specialist James Quinn, who has developed a set of rules to pluck out patients at high risk.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
By James Quinn, US Business EditorPublished: 9:42PM GMT 10 Nov 2009 A powerful US senator is proposing the Federal Reserve, pictured, is stripped of the majority of its regulatory powers Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the influential Senate Banking Committee, believes that both the Fed and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation should have the majority of their involvement with bank...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... of the White House. They just don't like one or two of our commentators, which I understand. James Quinn (Daily Telegraph): Rupert, last time, at the end of the last quarter you talked about charging news and paper websites by the end of the current financial year, by the end of June. Could you give us an update on how that work is going? Murdoch: No. We are working all very, very...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
By James Quinn, US Business EditorPublished: 12:09AM GMT 10 Nov 2009President Obama, who, since taking office in January, has resisted branding the Chinese government as currency manipulators, promised to discuss the thorny issue of the yuan, and whether it is undervalued, as part of a visit to Shanghai and Beijing. "Currency, along with a host of other issues, will come up, and I'm confident...
