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Spain's Colonial posts 2.38 billion euro loss
MADRID AFP — Spanish property group Colonial, struggling under huge debts, announced losses of 2.38 billion euros for the first half of 2008 which it blamed on asset depreciation. Colonial said in an announcement late Sunday that it had reached an agreement in principle to reschedule its debt of...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, agreement, asset, FCC, FINANCE, Government, Spain
Research articles 2008-09-01
Betis in talks with Zaragoza over Garcia
MADRID AFP — Spanish first division side Real Betis are in talks with second-division side Real Zaragoza over striker Sergio Garcia, the club's official radio station reported Saturday. Betis offered Zaragoza eight million euros (11.8 million dollars) plus another 2.5 million euros depending on his performance. "The transfer...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, MARKETING, Spain
Research articles 2008-08-30
Hundreds march in Spain's Basque region for independence
MADRID AFP — Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Bilbao, the financial capital of Spain's northern Basque Country, on Friday to demand independence for the wealthy region. Police offered no estimate for the number of participants but the Basque news agency Vasco Press said just over 1,000...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Spain
Research articles 2008-08-22
Van der Vaart seals Real move
BERLIN AFP — Dutch international midfielder Rafael van der Vaart confirmed Monday he has sealed a move to Spanish giants Real Madrid. "Last night everything came together, and I am now moving to Real Madrid," the 25-year-old Hamburg captain announced on his website. According to reports the playmaker...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Berlin, champion, FINANCE, INTERNET, Investment, Spain
Research articles 2008-08-04
Spain's economy 'worse' than predicted: minister
MADRID AFP — Spain's economy is in a worse state than the government had predicted but is still unlikely to slip into a recession, Economy Minister Pedro Solbes said in an interview published Sunday. "For the past two months there have been radically different data, such as the rise...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Government, inflation, recession, SOFTWARE, Spain
Research articles 2008-08-03
European and U.S. Adults Are Not Worried about Banking/Financial Systems Collapse
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A new Harris Interactive/France 24/International Herald Tribune survey conducted online by Harris Interactive([R]) among a total of 6,735 adults aged 16 to 64 within France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, the United States, and adults aged 18 to 64 in Italy, between April 30 and May 14, 2008...
Tags: bank, Banking, FINANCE, financial, Government, Harris Interactive, Italy, Spain, U.S.
Research articles 2008-07-07
Top-selling Spanish cookbook author Simone Ortega dead at 89
MADRID AFP — Top-selling Spanish cookbook author and chef Simone Ortega, who won top culinary awards in both France and Spain, has died, her publisher said Wednesday. She was 89. Publishing company Alianza Editorial said Ortega died overnight at a nursing home in Madrid. It did not know the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, France, SALES, SOFTWARE, Spain
Research articles 2008-07-02
Torres steps out from under Villa's shadow
VIENNA AFP — Fernando Torres showed that anything his fellow striker David Villa can do he can do too with the precious goal that gave Spain victory over Germany in Sunday's Euro 2008 final. Villa had stolen most of the limelight away from the Liverpool forward at Euro 2008...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Russia, Spain
Research articles 2008-06-29
Iberdrola drops any plan to bid for British Energy
MADRID AFP — Spanish electricity generator Iberdrola said on Thursday that it was abandoning any thought of bidding for British energy and nuclear group British Energy. A spokesman for Iberdrola said that the chairman of the company, the second-biggest electricity group in Spain, Ignacio Galan, had made a statement...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Entrepreneurship, FINANCE, Spain, spokesman
Research articles 2008-06-12
European fishermen take protest to Brussels
BRUSSELS AFP — Angry fishermen take their protest over soaring fuel costs to Brussels on Wednesday where several thousand are set to picket the European Parliament, fisheries representatives in four countries said. Several thousand fishermen from Portugal, Italy, Spain and France were on their way to the Belgian capital...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Brussels, FINANCE, France, Government, Italy, Litigation, Portugal, protest, SOFTWARE, Spain, strike, Taxes
Research articles 2008-06-03
FOODSTUFFS : GBI-ASSOCIATED BRITISH FOODS MERGER UNDER INVESTIGATION.
The proposed acquisition of certain parts of Dutch company GBI by the UK-based company Associated British Foods ABF could pose competition problems. Both companies produce dry, compressed and liquid baker's yeast. The European Commission opened an investigation, on 17 April, under the EU Merger Regulation. ...
Tags: European Commission, FINANCE, Investment, Portugal, SALES, Spain, U.K.
Research articles 2008-04-25
Spain's Zapatero calls for cross-party anti-terrorist strategy
MADRID AFP — Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, in his first speech to parliament since winning re-election, Tuesday called for a cross-party strategy to fight the armed Basque separatist group ETA. ETA is "weaker than ever" and "we are closer than ever to the end of ETA...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Government, negotiation, Spain, Strategy
Research articles 2008-04-08
EON to pay 11.8 bln euros for European energy assets
BERLIN AFP — The German energy group EON is to pay 11.8 billion euros (18.6 billion dollars) for energy assets in France, Italy and Spain as part of a deal that ended its bid for the Spanish group Endesa, EON said on Friday. EON directors "approved the acquisition of...
Tags: acquisition, Agence France-Presse, asset, FINANCE, France, Investment, Italy, Spain
Research articles 2008-03-28
Aussie racer Power, Spain's Servia join Indy-car racing league
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana AFP — Australia's Will Power and Spain's Oriol Servia, both Champ-car veteran racers, were named drivers for a new Indy-car team Wednesday in the wake of the merger of US open-wheel rivals. The KV Racing Team will be co-owned by former Champ-car co-owner Kevin Kalkhoven and former...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, car, FINANCE, Investment, Spain, team
Research articles 2008-03-12
Mediterranean tuna at risk from 'bloated' fishing fleet: WWF
GENEVA AFP — The Mediterranean tuna fishing fleet is so large that its capacity is nearly twice the current quotas, and some 200 ships should be scrapped to conserve stocks, environmental group WWF said Wednesday. "The failure of international fisheries management has allowed a monster to thrive in the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Investment, Italy, Libya, quota, Spain
Research articles 2008-03-11
Iberdrola rises on report of possible EDF takeover bid
MADRID AFP — Shares in Iberdrola, Spain's second-biggest energy utility, closed higher Wednesday following a report that its core shareholder ACS and France's EDF are mulling a joint bid for the firm. The Financial Times reported earlier Wednesday that the two companies had held preliminary talks with a view...
Tags: ACS, Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Spain
Research articles 2008-01-30
Majorities in Four European Countries and the U.S. Believe Economy Will Be Worse in 2008
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Across the globe, financial markets are fluctuating wildly and both investors and non-investors alike are worried about what the year ahead will hold financially. A new Financial Times/Harris Poll finds that large majorities of the public in Great Britain (61%), Italy (57%), France (55%), the United States...
Tags: FINANCE, financial, France, Germany, Government, Harris Interactive, Italy, MARKETING, SOFTWARE, Spain, survey, U.S.
Research articles 2008-01-30
World Retail Congress set for April
NEW YORK -- The 2008 edition of World Retail Congress will be held in Barcelona, Spain, April 9 to April 11. Keynote speakers will include Jose Luis Duran, chief executive officer of Carrefour SA and Anders Dahlvig, president and CEO of Ikea Group. American executives addressing the group will...
Tags: Barcelona, FINANCE, Leadership, Retail, Spain, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-01-28
Bigger cast in play for Pa. Turnpike
The curtain is about to go up on Act 2 of  Lease the Turnpike , a long-running drama in which most of the action has been offstage. The players, in addition to the usual Harrisburg cast, include the two of the largest banks in the United States, a former controller...
Tags: Australia, Canada, CIA, FINANCE, leasing, officer, Pennsylvania, Spain, team, U.S.
Research articles 2008-01-20
Repsol unveils plans to spend 3.2 billion euros to update refinery
MADRID AFP — Repsol, Spain's biggest oil firm, said Tuesday it planned to invest 3.2 billion euros (4.7 billion dollars) to double capacity at its refinery in Cartagena in southwestern Spain. The project was approved Tuesday by the firm's board and it will bring production capacity of the refinery...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Investment, refinery, Spain
Research articles 2008-01-08
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