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IMF Sticks By $1 Trillion U.S. Subprime Fallout
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund is sticking to its estimate that losses on U.S. assets from the subprime crisis and its wider fallout would be about $1 trillion despite fresh U.S. banking problems recently, a senior IMF official said...
Tags: IMF, Brussels, fallout, financial system, Thomson Reuters Corp., financial
News items 2008-07-16
BHP Says Gets Partial U.S. Antitrust OK For Rio Bid
SYDNEY/BRUSSELS (Reuters UK) - BHP Billiton BHPBLT said on Thursday that United States antitrust authorities have cleared its unsolicited $170 billion (85 billion pound) bid for rival miner Rio Tinto RIORIO. The company's announcement said the clearance satisfied part of U.S. antitrust law requirements. U.S....
Tags: Antitrust, BHP, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Blount International Inc., Oukbs, US
News items 2008-07-03
Food Safety Update
This article is on food safety in the European Union. With EU enlargement almost upon, food safety is a hot topic in Brussels again. As the new member states grapple to comply with the strict regulatory regime, this year has already seen an influx of new legislation. The obesity debate...
Tags: Food & Beverage, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, food, European Union, bird flu, member state, action plan, commission
White papers 2004-04-01
Conglomerate Mergers And Range Effects: It’s A Long Way From Chicago To Brussels
In the 1960s, the United States experienced a wave of conglomerate mergers, driven in part by overly restrictive antitrust policies toward horizontal and vertical mergers. In response, the U.S. antitrust agencies and courts developed a number of theories of competitive harm with colorful names like deep pockets, reciprocal dealing, and...
Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, U.S. Department of Justice, merger, adjustment, antitrust, theory, bank, agency
White papers 2001-11-09
Earnings Management in Belgium: A Review of the Empirical Evidence
This paper first discusses the empirical evidence on earnings management practices by Belgian companies. This review indicates that Belgian companies manage earnings to avoid declines in earnings or losses, to influence relations with external financiers and to reduce taxes. Belgian companies quoted on the Brussels Stock Exchange also report significantly...
Tags: Financial accounting, earnings, income, tax, stock, board
White papers 2006-01-04
IIB Bank Qualifies for Basel II: SAS Risk Management for Banking Releases Huge Capital Assets
IIB Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brussels-based KBC NV has been active in the Irish market since 1973. The challenge put forth by the company was to implement Basel II in home loans. SAS' experience in risk management was vital in establishing the appropriate business definitions and translation...
Tags: Financial Planning, Basel II, risk management, SAS Institute, banking, asset
Case studies
Redesign and Implementation of Order Management and Provisioning System
The client mentioned in this study is one of the largest telecom service providers in a European Union member country, with approximately 5.2 million access channels, and is listed on Euronext Brussels in March 2004. The company used legacy systems for Order Management OM and Provisioning, which do not cater...
Tags: Hardware upgrade, Telecom & Utilities, Infosys Technologies Ltd., order management, provisioning, telecommunications service provider, legacy system, order management system, telecommunications, service provider
Case studies
EU Clears Avnet to Buy Peer Horizon Technology
BRUSSELS (Reuters UK) - U.S. group Avnet AVT won permission from the European Commission on Friday to buy Horizon Technology Group HOR, an Irish distributor of information technology products. "A number of other wholesale distributors will exercise competitive constraints on the merged entity," the Commission,...
Tags: AvNet Inc., Information Technology, Horizon Technology Group, Strategy, Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Intel Corp.
News items 2008-06-27
Fund Manager Ackman Shorting Financial Security Assurance
Though Financial Security Assurance FSF  is currently rated AAA, Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman thinks the company may be headed for trouble.  Bloomberg's Christine Richard points out in an article on Bloomberg.com that Ackman, who made similar (and, it turned out, largely accurate) predictions regarding monoline insurers MBIA MBI and...
Tags: Financial, Ambac Financial Group Inc., MBIA Inc.
External links 2008-06-19
You Tell Us: What Will Become of the Microsoft-Yahoo Merger?
You Tell Us: What Will Become of the Microsoft-Yahoo Merger?RE: You Tell Us: What Will Become of the Microsoft-Yahoo Merger?MS's previous reputation concerning freemaket enterprise will give the feds reason to wip out the magnifying glass on this deal, and Google doesn't even have to yell very loud.Microsoft is poisonI...
Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo merger, Yahoo! Inc., merger
Discussion threads 2008-02-04
Airline Group Says EU CO2 Deal "unaffordable"
BRUSSELS (Reuters UK) - A provisional EU deal on making airlines pay for their CO2 emissions is unaffordable for an industry already hurting from high fuel prices, the International Air Carrier Association IACA said on Thursday. A European Union source earlier said member states had ...
Tags: Airline, European Union, International Air Carrier Association, Emission Trading Scheme, Strategy, Management, Oukbs
News items 2008-06-26
InBev Sets in Motion Bid to Oust Anheuser Board
BRUSSELS (Reuters UK) - InBev INTB set in motion its plan to oust the board of reluctant bid target Anheuser-Busch BUD on Tuesday by sending a letter to the U.S. rival it has offered to buy for $46.3 billion (23.5 billion pounds). Belgium-based InBev said on...
Tags: Shareholder, Board, Brewer, InBev, Anheuser Board, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Anheuser-Busch
News items 2008-07-08
U.S. Facing Tough Q2, Europe to Suffer: Paulson
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is facing a tough second quarter and Europe will not be immune to the impact, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was quoted as saying on Wednesday. "There's no doubt that the second quarter will be a tough ...
Tags: Treasury Secretary, Europe, Brussels, Washington, U.S., inflation, interest rate, Thomson Reuters Corp., theory
News items 2008-07-02
Arcelor Raises Stake in Macarthur Coal
BRUSSELS (Reuters UK) - ArcelorMittal ISPA said on Sunday it has increased its stake in Australian miner Macarthur Coal Ltd MCC to 19.9 percent by buying shares from another stakeholder as part of a strategy to safeguard its raw materials supply. In May, Arcelor paid...
Tags: Arcelor, Stake, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Business Operations
News items 2008-06-29
InBev Close to Deal on Bud Brewer: Report
(Reuters) - U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc BUD is in active talks to sell itself to Belgian brewer InBev NV INTB in a friendly deal, the New York Times said on its website, citing people briefed on the matter. One source told the...
Tags: Web site development, Web technology, brewer, Anheuser-Busch, New York Times Co., trader, beverage, Thomson Reuters Corp., Web site, shareholder, U.S., board
News items 2008-07-11
Weak Dollar is Global Concern: EU's Barroso
By William Schomberg BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The dollar's fall is a source of global concern and the European Union wants a better balance between the U.S. unit and other major currencies, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Friday. Speaking to a...
Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Financial services, European Union, European Commission, inflation, Brussels, president, food price, Japan, global warming, Thomson Reuters Corp., interest rate, food, bank
News items 2008-07-04
Promotion? No Thanks
Marcus Buckingham asks a key question about managing talent: "What would happen if men and women spent more than 75 per cent of each day on the job using their strongest skills and engaged on their favourite tasks, basically doing exactly what they wanted to do?" They'd...
Tags: Job, Marcus Buckingham, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Robin Stuart-Kotze
Blog posts 2008-07-16
InBev and Anheuser Seen Holding Deal Talks
By Martinne Geller and Jessica Hall NEW YORK/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters UK) - Anheuser-Busch BUD has finally begun negotiations for a friendly merger with InBev INTB, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday, sending shares of both brewers up more than 7 percent. Anheuser, the maker...
Tags: Shareholder, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Brewer, InBev, Anheuser, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Anheuser-Busch
News items 2008-07-11
Apple's New IPhone Snapped Up in Asia and Europe
By Matt Cowan and Adrian Bathgate LONDON/WELLINGTON (Reuters UK) - Apple's AAPL new iPhone made its hotly awaited debut on Friday, with buyers storming stores in Asia and queues forming in European cities. Sales of the device, which combines a music and video player, cellphone and...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Smart Phones, Keyboards, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Monitors & Displays, Digital Music
News items 2008-07-11
Intel Faces New Antitrust Charges in Europe: Report
(Reuters) - European regulators are preparing to file new antitrust charges against Intel Corp INTC, expanding a probe into the chipmaker's marketing and sales practices, The Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The new charges, which could...
Tags: Corporate law, Semiconductors, Sales force management, Intel Corp., antitrust, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., commission, chip company, spokesman, chip, Thomson Reuters Corp., marketing, microprocessor, sales, PC, computer
News items 2008-07-15
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