Today's headlines include reports about the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that people who get their health insurance through high-risk insurance pools will have an extra two months before this program ends. ...
Tags: high-risk insurance, White House, Obamacare, Health Law
Beam has been acquired by Suntory Holdings Japanese beverage company Suntory Holdings is set to acquire all outstanding shares of premium alcoholic spirits company Beam Inc for US$83.50 per share in cash or total consideration of ...
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Bauer Performance Sports Ltd. reported revenues in its second quarter ended Nov. 30 rose 7 percent to $117.1 million while advancing 9 percent in constant currencies. Adjusted n Net Income increased 3 percent to a record $7.5 million or 20 ...
Tags: Bauer Performance Sports, revenues, rise, Net Income, Financial Results
Telecommunications provider, Telstra, is set to make $454 million from a new strategic partnership with Platinum Equity as it prepares to sell 70 per cent of its stake in its directories business, Sensis, to the US-based private equity ...
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Among the main trading partners of the Philippines, China posted the fastest growth in importing Philippine merchandise in November last year, although it remained as the country's third largest export market, after Japan and the United ...
Tags: Philippine Exports, export market
Hybrid Technology, led by Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li, has bid $55 million for Fisker Automotive's assets, just days after a bankruptcy judge in Delaware rejected Hybrid's plan to take over the failed electric-vehicle maker in a ...
Tags: Hybrid, Bankrupt Fisker, Bid War
The global long steel products market has resumed business after the holiday period, as activity had stopped in many countries from the middle of December up to the first week of January, according to the short-range outlook report issued ...
Tags: Long Steel Market, Mineral
Australia-based miner Fortescue Metals Group Limited has announced that it has purchased two iron ore processing plants at Christmas Creek in the Pilbara region of Western Australia from Mineral Resources Limited's subsidiary Crushing ...
China will make more efforts to consolidate the rare earth industry and promote mergers led by 6 major producers, an official told Xinhua on Thursday. Following restructuring efforts in recent years, the rare earth industry now has six ...
Tags: Rare Earth Industry, Iron, Steel
YRC Worldwide's truck drivers and other employees, represented by Teamsters Union, have rejected a proposal to extend the current labour contract to 2019. Members voted over the past several weeks and ballots were counted Thursday. The ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. Two years ago, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote a much-discussed piece on the ...
Tags: Robotics Industry, Robot
YRC Freight Teamsters at YRC Worldwide Inc. rejected a contract extension that the company said was crucial to refinancing its debt and ensuring long-term stability. The union announced the results of the vote late Jan. 9. A total of ...
Tags: YRC, contract extension, refinancing, teamsters, vote
Gulf Keystone, a leading independent E&P operator in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, today provides an operational and corporate update. Significant progress has been made since the Field Development Plan ("FDP") for the Shaikan field was ...
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UK-based rigid plastic packaging supplier RPC Group has acquired injection moulded rigid plastic packaging specialist Helioplast in a deal worth £8.4m. UK-based rigid plastic packaging supplier RPC Group has acquired injection ...
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RPM International Inc. today reported record sales, net income and diluted earnings per share for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended November 30, 2013, driven by volume increases in both its industrial and consumer segments and improved ...
Tags: RPM Reports, Construction