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Winnipeg, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - CanWest Global Communications Corp. today announced that following completion of an auction conducted earlier today by the Turkish Savings and Deposit Insurance Fund (the Fund), CGS Televizyon Ve Radyo Yayinciligi Ticaret Anonim Sirketi (CGS) has been awarded the right to acquire the assets of Super FM, a radio station with ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - Winners of the First Embrace Journalism Award for Reporting on Urinary Incontinence and Launch of the Second Embrace Award Announced Three journalists from South Africa, Poland and the United States today received the Embrace Award, a global initiative that recognizes accurate, responsible and sensitive reporting on urinary ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) and Bloomberg announced today that JPMorgan has joined Bloomberg SwapTrader, the live multi-dealer trading platform for euro denominated Interest Rate Swaps. This platform offers end-user clients the ability to trade interest rate swaps on-line through a multi-dealer trading system featuring the 'Request-For-Quote' (RFQ) ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - London 2012 Olympic Bid News Alert - Due to high demand, a selection of key news-feature stories and highlights of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Bid is now available for media to download from the London 2012 website. ...
Washington (ots/PRNewswire) - In a one-on-one interview with Bloomberg News(R) today, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that the U.S. is committed to ensuring that prisoners at Guantanamo Bay "are able to practice their religious faith," and the U.S. has "gone to extraordinary lengths" to protect these rights. The Secretary of State also told Bloomberg ...
Los Angeles (ots/PRNewswire) - Infotrieve, Inc. announced today the immediate availability of the company's Life Science Research Center(TM) (LSRC), a web-based information research tool that provides scientists with one-stop search access to critical information that impacts scientific workflow. The LSRC was designed to simplify research by eliminating the need for logins to multiple information sources including ...
Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - In this press release, the board of Directors of Brunel International briefly comments on the (financial) development of the company following the release of the performance figures for the first quarter of 2005. In the first 3 months of this year Brunel International booked a higher turnover than in the same period in 2004. All core activities contributed to this improvement. The ...
Worldwide Communications & Television
Petra, Jordan (ots/PRNewswire) - - World's best minds gather in ancient city of Petra to solve pressing global problems Today is the opening of the inaugural Petra Conference in Jordan hosted by King Abdullah II and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. The world's greatest thinkers -- the Nobel Laureates of Peace, Economics, Literature, Physics, Chemistry, ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - The board of directors of Moody's Corporation (MCO) elected Raymond W. McDaniel, Jr. as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Moody's Corporation at a meeting today. Mr. McDaniel, age 47, succeeds John Rutherfurd, Jr., age 65, who, as planned, retired as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Moody's Corporation following the company's ...
Kauai, Hawaii (ots/PRNewswire) - Mark Reinfeld & Bo Rinaldi, authors of Vegan World Fusion Cuisine and partners in the award winning "Blossoming Lotus" Restaurant in Kauai, have just received three prestigious finalist awards in the leading book industry competition. Vegan World Fusion Cuisine has been named: Finalist: Nautilus 2005 Book Award: "Health and Healing" Finalist: Nautilus 2005 Book Award: ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - Bloomberg Eurozone Retail Survey Shows Sales and Profits Continue to Slide The March Bloomberg Eurozone Retail Purchasing Managers' Index ("PMI(R)"), a monthly survey indicating economic conditions in the Eurozone retail sector one month ahead of government figures, indicates that month-on-month sales at Eurozone retailers ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - Investors ranked J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup first, second and third, respectively, in Institutional Investor magazine's 2005 All-Europe Fixed-Income Research Team. The annual survey of investors, published in April by II, identifies the best European fixed-income research ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - Institutional Investor magazine today announced Europe's top chief executives, as ranked by research analysts and portfolio managers. The winning CEOs appear in the magazine's April issue. Thirteen of the 33 European companies whose CEOs received the highest scores are British, five are French, four are German, three are Swiss, and two are Dutch; an Anglo-Dutch and a ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - Alternative Investment News, a publication of Institutional Investor News, has announced the nominees for its 3rd Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards. Winners of the awards will be honored at a gala dinner on June 29th at Capitale Restaurant in New York City. The recipient of the ...
Berne (ots) - Germany's Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (dpa) and London-based AFX News Ltd (AFX) have purchased stakes in leading Swiss financial news agency AWP (AG für Wirtschaftspublikationen, Berne). dpa has bought 35% and AFX 30%, while AWP's previous sole owner - sda (Schweizerische Depeschenagentur AG) - retains the remaining 35%. Price details were not specified. The new partners' financial commitments emphasise the determination of all three agencies to ...
Berkeley, California (ots/PRNewswire) - Trinity Learning Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: TTYL) announced today that it has completed an asset purchase agreement with PRIMEDIA Inc. (NYSE: PRM), the leading targeted media company. Trinity Learning, a publicly-held learning company specializing in workplace learning and certification, has acquired certain assets ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - The May issue of Bloomberg Markets Magazine offers a comprehensive look inside the insurance giant AIG, and the scandals that forced its 79-year-old CEO, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, to step down. Bloomberg Markets senior writer Richard Teitelbaum gives readers the whole story, from New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's probe to ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - As Wall Street follows the money trail and focuses its sights on hedge funds, two of the world's largest investment banks are facing fierce competition from behind, according to the May issue of Bloomberg Markets Magazine. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are leading the battle to dominate the prime brokerage business, ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - Merrill Lynch, which ranked third in Institutional Investor's 2005 All-Europe research team rankings, jumps to the top spot in hedge fund managers' esteem, the March/April issue of Alpha magazine reports. To obtain its rankings, Alpha retabulated the results of II's 2005 All-Europe and Emerging EMEA research teams to count only votes cast ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - Traders at hedge funds surveyed about the quality of European equity transactions rate Morgan Stanley best at executing orders for pan-European equity trades, Alpha magazine's March/April issue reports. The ranking is based on a retabulation of Institutional Investor's survey of head traders at money management firms investing in European ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - Exclusive Interview to Air on BLOOMBERG TV Tomorrow, Saturday, March 19 In a U.S. exclusive interview on BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R), James Owens, Chief Executive Officer of Caterpillar Inc., stated that he expects a strong year in 2005 with profits likely rising about 25 percent. Mr. Owens also told BLOOMBERG TELEVISION that higher energy prices will help to spur new investment for ...
Japan Association for the 2005 World Exposition
Nagoya, Japan (ots/PRNewswire) - From next week EXPO 2005 Aichi, Japan will start. As the first world exposition to be held in the 21st century, the aim of EXPO 2005 is to raise the various global issues that are shared by humankind, gather the wisdom of the world and play a part in the creation of a sustainable future for the Earth in which there is harmony between ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - Bloomberg, the leading global provider of business and financial news and data, today announced that it has been chosen as the fixing agent for Malaysian Cross Currency Basis Swaps. The Central Bank of Malaysia, Bank Negara Malaysia, along with the Financial Market Association of Malaysia, have mandated Bloomberg to provide the fixing ...
Institutional Investor Magazine
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - For the second consecutive year, UBS is the top-ranked provider of EMEA research, according to the annual Institutional Investor magazine survey of investors to determine the best sell-side equity research coverage for the Emerging European, Middle Eastern and African markets. UBS, ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - The Bloomberg 20 Issue Ranks the Banks and Bankers Who Generate Top Results Bloomberg Markets, the leading magazine for financial experts, today unveiled the Bloomberg 20, which ranks investment banks by deal fees instead of volume. The April issue of Bloomberg Markets, on newsstands mid-March, also identifies the people who make it happen -- five key individual M&A advisers, bond ...
Oslo, Norway (ots/PRNewswire) - - FAST ProPublish Enables Publishers to Gather and Process Content More Effectively, While Delivering Superior Search Results to Researchers Fast Search & Transfer(TM) (FAST(TM)), the leading developer of enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies, ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - Moody's Corporation has named Jennifer Elliott Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Ms. Elliott will be responsible for all aspects of Moody's global human resource activities, including recruiting, employee relations, compensation and benefits, organizational development, and human resources information systems. Ms. ...
Institutional Investor Magazine
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - UBS takes first place for the fourth consecutive year in Institutional Investor's annual All-Europe Research Team, the results of which were released today in the magazine's February 2005 issue. Every year, Institutional Investor magazine surveys investors in European equities to ...
Davos, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - In an exclusive interview on Bloomberg Television this afternoon, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi stated that Iran rejects any "discriminatory" proposals to restrict its nuclear work. "No discriminatory proposal can be accepted," Kharazzi told Bloomberg Television. During the ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - New Online Tools Enable Aerospace Professionals To Better Use News, Data and Analytics Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) has launched a series of enhancements that creates an integrated business tool for managers, business developers, buyers and technical professionals across the entire aviation and aerospace field. ...