NEWS
June 2009
30 Jun 2009
U.S. private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co [KKR.UL] has made a significant investment in East Resources Inc, the privately held natural gas company…
30 Jun 2009
U.S. securities regulators are considering changing how companies are required to disclose stock options awarded to executives, people familiar with the Securities and Exchange Commission's thinking told…
30 Jun 2009
A U.S. federal jury returned a $1.67 billion verdict against Abbott Laboratories in a patent suit brought by Johnson & Johnson related to arthritis treatments…
29 Jun 2009
Qatar Airways expects to receive its first four Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliners by the
end of 2011 and its entire order of 30 planes by 2015…
25 Jun 2009
Many of Canada's public companies have been slow to implement new international accounting standards that could have big financial implications…
25 Jun 2009
Banking rules that spared Canada's big banks from the woes that hit global rivals would not work in the United States because of cultural differences…
23 Jun 2009
They are far from household names but, as domestic stock markets wither and credit tightens, more of China's smaller, fast-growth firms such as Puda Coal Inc are looking overseas for investors…
18 Jun 2009
A global shift toward nuclear power is prompting countries to rush to lock in long-term access to tight supplies of uranium, and China and India look to be the next players to get in on the action…
16 Jun 2009
More U.S. companies are splitting the roles of chairman and chief executive among different people, with corporations in the telecommunications and media industries the most likely to divide the two jobs…
16 Jun 2009
Extended Stay Hotels in its bankruptcy filing is seeking the breakup of one of the largest commercial mortgage-backed securities' portfolios that was a hard sell at the peak of the…
16 Jun 2009
An engine deal from Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways worth more than $5 billion could be the biggest news to come from this week's Paris Air Show, where the global recession has frozen sales of planes from Airbus and Boeing Co…
15 Jun 2009
Mubadala Development Co, an investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government, said on Sunday it will start an aerostructures plant later this month…
12 Jun 2009
South Korea-based MagnaChip Semiconductor Inc and five of its affiliates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States, court documents showed…
8 Jun 2009
Bahrain investment bank Arcapita has agreed to sell restaurant operator Church's Chicken to private equity firm Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, according to…
8 Jun 2009
Alternative trading venue Match Now is set to experience a "big increase" in volumes, boosted in part by cautious investors returning to the market and the rise of…