Viacom Profit Rises 16% On Strong Ad Revenue
The chief executive said that the company benefited from a shift of ad dollars to cable from broadcast during the writers? strike....
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Payday Loans Are A Scourge, But Should Wrath Be Aimed At The Lenders?
Outrage directed at payday lenders cannot prevent the hardships it has created. A more deserving target would be legislators who have steadfastly resisted campaign finance reform....
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A Sprawling Novels Turn As An Epic Opera: 52 Soloists And 1 Horse
The Metropolitan Operas production of ?War and Peace,? Prokofievs epic masterpiece, returned to the Mets stage on Monday night, and this time nobody fell off. The stage, that is....
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Soldiers Remains Are Returned Home
The remains of an Ohio soldier missing since he was captured in Iraq nearly four years ago were returned to his home state....
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A New Director Aligns The Demons In Salzburg
This week the theater director Jürgen Flimm begins his first summer season as director of the Salzburg Festival, five of the most buzzed-about weeks of opera, concerts and straight theater in the...
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Billion News



US telecoms firm, Global Crossing, considering plans to sell UK arm

Global Crossing, the US telecoms carrier that went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after running up debts of £6 billion on an acquisition spree, is considering plans to sell off or merge its European arm with a competitor.
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Europe’s biggest financial institutions in £8 billion rush for debt

Some of Europe’s biggest financial institutions, including Lloyds TSB and HBOS, have raised €10 billion (£7.9 billion) in the debt markets in the past few days. It is the biggest rush to issue bonds since the credit crisis took hold last summer.
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Orders for Aerions Concorde executive jet are more than $3 billion$

The makers of a “son of Concorde” business jet have won more than $3 billion ($1.5 billion) of orders before the first plane has even left the drawing board.$
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Carlsberg launches £3bn rights issue for S&N

Carlsberg, the Danish brewer, has launched a 30.5 billion crowns (£3.26 billion) rights issue on the Copenhagen stock market to pay for its share of Scottish & Newcastle (S&N), the UK brewing group it split with Heineken this year.
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Carlyle to buy part of Booz Allen Hamilton

After months in the doldrums, the buyout market is staging a modest recovery with Carlyle, the private equity group, agreeing to buy part of Booz Allen Hamilton for $2.9 billion.$
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MetroPCS Should Buy Leap to 'Unlock' $2 Billion Value - Bloomberg

MetroPCS Should Buy Leap to 'Unlock' $2 Billion ValueBloombergA combined company “would unlock $2 billion of value from the increased strategic positioning of its combined spectrum position” and achieve “more than $200 ...and more »

MetroPCS Should Buy Leap to 'Unlock' $2 Billion Value - Bloomberg

MetroPCS Should Buy Leap to 'Unlock' $2 Billion ValueBloombergA combined company “would unlock $2 billion of value from the increased strategic positioning of its combined spectrum position” and achieve “more than $200 ...and more »

Compounding our pain - Stockton Record

Los Angeles TimesCompounding our painStockton RecordArnold Schwarzenegger predicted a state budget deficit in the coming fiscal year between $12.2 billion and $14.4 billion. It turns out he was off by at ...Analyst's report: $20.7 billion budget deficit for CaliforniaSan Jose Mercury NewsTo balance its next budget, California needs $20.7 billionMiamiHerald.comCalifornia faces a projected deficit of $21 billionLos Angeles TimesSan Diego News Room -San Francisco Chronicle -SDNN: San Diego News Networkall 636 news articles »

MetroPCS Should Buy Leap to 'Unlock' $2 Billion Value - Bloomberg

MetroPCS Should Buy Leap to 'Unlock' $2 Billion ValueBloombergA combined company “would unlock $2 billion of value from the increased strategic positioning of its combined spectrum position” and achieve “more than $200 ...and more »

Compounding our pain - Stockton Record

Los Angeles TimesCompounding our painStockton RecordArnold Schwarzenegger predicted a state budget deficit in the coming fiscal year between $12.2 billion and $14.4 billion. It turns out he was off by at ...Analyst's report: $20.7 billion budget deficit for CaliforniaSan Jose Mercury NewsTo balance its next budget, California needs $20.7 billionMiamiHerald.comCalifornia faces a projected deficit of $21 billionLos Angeles TimesSan Diego News Room -San Francisco Chronicle -SDNN: San Diego News Networkall 636 news articles »

TD Ameritrade offers $1.25 billion in notes - Reuters

TD Ameritrade offers $1.25 billion in notesReutersO) offered and priced $1.25 billion of senior notes in a three-part sale on Friday, and the online brokerage said it would use the proceeds to retire ...CDP Financial Inc sells $5 bln of debt in 3 partsReutersall 9 news articles »

 
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