News tagged with investments
Time to reopen PFI contracts
It is time to reopen private finance initiative (PFI) contracts say leading public health physician, Professor Allyson Pollock, and colleagues in the British Medical Journal today.
Feb 09, 2011 |
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AXA firms to pay $242 mn over program glitch
The US computer-based investment branch of the French AXA group will pay $242 million in compensation and fines after hiding a program glitch that cost investors millions, the SEC said Thursday.
Feb 03, 2011 |
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NEC sees losses triple
Japan's NEC said Thursday its net loss in the October-December quarter almost tripled from a year earlier, blaming a delay in the recovery of IT-related capital investment in the country.
Jan 27, 2011 |
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UNH research recommends new regulatory structure to mitigate financial risk in China
New research from the University of New Hampshire suggests that China should establish a unified supervisory agency, similar to what is used in Singapore, to oversee its complex financial sector.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Citing rights failings, firm divests Cisco holdings
A US investment management firm has divested of its holdings in Cisco, accusing the networking giant of failing to respond to human rights concerns, particularly in China, and lacking transparency.
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Probe may push Facebook to early stock offering
A US probe into Goldman Sachs's massive investment in Facebook could drive the hugely popular social-networking website to go public earlier than it hoped for, analysts said.
Jan 06, 2011 |
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US probe after Goldman investment in Facebook
A Goldman Sachs investment of nearly half a billion dollars into Facebook has spawned a probe by US regulators eager to safeguard the dividing line between public and private companies, The Wall Street Journal r ...
Jan 05, 2011 |
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CEOs rewarded for wrong kind of growth, study finds
Growth is good, right? Not always.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Tech 2011 outlook: Cloudy, chance of takeovers
From Apple's iPad to cloud computing, hot investment themes abounded in tech in 2010.
Dec 23, 2010 |
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You only live once: Our flawed understanding of risk helps drive financial market instability
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our flawed understanding of how decisions in the present restrict our options in the future means that we may underestimate the risk associated with investment decisions, according to new ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Taiwan approves huge hi-tech investment in China
Taiwan's government on Friday gave the green light for a plan by the island's leading flat panel maker AU Optronics Corp. to invest three billion US dollars in China.
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Taiwan to approve three billion dollar China plant: report
Taiwan's Premier Wu Den-yih has confirmed that a landmark China-bound investment project worth three billion US dollars has passed much of the government screening procedure, local media reported Sunday.
Dec 12, 2010 |
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S.Korea's OCI announces solar panel expansion plan
OCI, South Korea's leading manufacturer of polysilicon used in solar panel cells, Wednesday announced plans to spend 1.88 trillion won (1.65 billion dollars) over the next two years to expand output.
Dec 08, 2010 |
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Google's outlandish ventures go beyond Web
With mountains of cash and some of the world's smartest engineers, Google Inc. has always set aside research and development dollars for futuristic ventures that appear to have little in common with its core business of Internet ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 04, 2010 |
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Internet accounts for 7.2% of British economy: study
The Internet contributed 100 billion pounds (155 billion dollars, 115 billion euros) to the British economy last year, about 7.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), a report showed Thursday.
Oct 28, 2010 |
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