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• Justice Department Requires Thomson to Sell Financial Data and Related Assets in Order to Acquire Reuters

  - 2008-02-19

  To: NATIONAL EDITORS To: NATIONAL EDITORS

  Tags: asset, financial, Thomson Corp., Thomson Reuters Corp., U.S. Department of Justice

• PNC's profit beats analysts' forecasts

  - 2006-07-20

  PNC Financial Services Group Inc. said yesterday that income in the latest quarter rose and earnings topped analysts' expectations. The Pittsburgh-based financial services company, which has operations in the Philadelphia area, said it earned $381 million, or $1.28 a share, on assets of $94.9 billion in the second quarter....

  Tags: analyst, asset, earnings, FINANCE, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., PNC, PNC Financial Services Group Inc., revenue, Thomson Corp.

• How to Keep Retirees' Savings in the Bank

  BNET - 2005-01-28

  America's boomers are heading into the longest retirement in history. One trend that should give bankers sleepless nights: When people have a chance to roll over their 401k plans, more than 70% do so to someone new in a transfer of assets that is approaching $200 billion a year. And...

  Tags: Asset, Bank, Thomson Corp., Asset Management, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations

• Blind Investment: If People Are a Company's Biggest Asset, Why Don't Wall Street Analysts Pay More Attention to Them?

  BNET - 2005-01-01

  Successful companies manage their human capital well. They hire the right people and train them in the skills they need to help the company perform spectacularly. They develop compensation systems that incent the right behavior and performance so that the best workers stay and move up - and the worst...

  Tags: Asset, Compensation, Investment, Thomson Corp., Human Capital, Benefits, Human Resources, Workforce Management

• Rescuing Pension Rescue Plans: Dealing With the IRD Problem Is More Difficult, But Still Workable

  BNET - 2004-08-01

  The December 2003 California CPA article on the hidden tax traps of Income in Respect of Decedent IRD noted that the IRS clobbers certain types of assets, such as qualified retirement plans and IRAs at death. For clients in the maximum income tax and estate tax brackets, the asset erosion...

  Tags: Asset, Thomson Corp., Pension, Taxes, Free Trade, Asset Management, Payroll Solutions, Financial Planning, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations

• Thomson and DIRECTV Sign Long-Term Supply and Development Agreement; Thomson to Purchase Hughes Network Systems Set-Top Box Manufacturing Assets

  - 2004-05-12

  Entertainment Editors/Business Editors

  Tags: agreement, asset, DirecTV, Thomson Corp.

• Thomson sells Sheshunoff publishing assets to Alex Information.

  - 2004-04-30

  Thomson Media (Stamford, CT) has sold the publishing section of Sheshunoff Information Services (SIS; Austin, TX) to Alex Information (Austin, TX), a company headed by SIS founders Alex and Gabrielle Sheshunoff. No terms of the deal were given. Alex Thomson Media (Stamford, CT) has sold...

  Tags: asset, Thomson Corp.

• Thomson Acquires BIOSIS Publishing Assets.

  - 2004-01-12

  PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA and LONDON, ENGLAND, Jan 12, 2004 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Today, The Thomson Corporation (NYSE:TOC: TSX: TOC) announced that it has acquired the publishing assets of Biological Abstracts, Inc. and BIOSISR -- including PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA and LONDON, ENGLAND, Jan 12, 2004 (CCNMatthews via...

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• Thomson Corp. (Toronto, ON) unit Thomson Tax & Accounting (Fort Worth, TX) has acquired the assets of Quickfinder Inc.(Related News in Brief ...)

  - 2003-12-31

  Thomson Corp. (Toronto, ON) unit Thomson Tax & Accounting (Fort Worth, TX) has acquired the assets of Quickfinder Inc. (Minnetonka, MN), a provider of income tax reference handbooks for ... Thomson Corp. (Toronto, ON) unit Thomson Tax & Accounting (Fort Worth, TX) has acquired the assets...

  Tags: accounting, asset, tax, Thomson Corp.

• An RX For Renewed Health And Asset Recovery

  BNET - 2003-08-11

  Investing in under performing companies can be profitable if one knows what to look for and how to execute. The fundamental premise is to get a company that is turnable, know how to fix the problems, be able to not spend money on past sins, and sell at an increased...

  Tags: Asset, Recovery, Health Care, Thomson Corp., Value, Operational Accounting, Investment, Asset Management, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations