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- Curbing Emergency-Room "Frequent Fliers"
- Emergency-room crowding is one of the most visible problems hospital administrators face, and it's also a fairly expensive one. Yet most hospitals have been hesitant to address it, in part because federal law requires doctors to treat anyone who turns up at the ER. As is true...
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- Facebook Goes After Twitter With Revamped Search Service
- After nearly two months of testing, Facebook is beginning to roll out a search service that will make the social network a true competitor in the real-time search market. Users who enter a query will now be able to find status updates, photos, links, and videos. Previously, they could...
- External links 2009-08-11
- Thomson Reuters profits beat expectation
- Thomson Reuters held to its forecast of full-year revenue growth and stable profit margins as cost savings from the 2007 merger that created the markets data and professional information group continued to offset challenges in its makets.Like-for-like revenue growth of 2 per cent and an 11 per cent underlying...
- External links 2009-08-06
- BMW eyes Peugeot tie-up for Mini
- BMW is examining whether to share platforms with French rival PSA Peugeot Citroën for its Mini small car, it emerged yesterday, as the German premium carmaker returned to profit in the second quarter on the back of cost-cutting.Norbert Reithofer, BMW's chief executive, said BMW was talking to Peugeot about...
- External links 2009-08-04
- Xstrata appeals to Anglo as profits plunge
- Mick Davis, chief executive of Xstrata, called again on rival miner Anglo American to engage in merger talks for the sake of both companies' shareholders, as the Swiss-based mining company's profits fell 68 per cent but still beat expectations.Xstrata's message on Tuesday at its interim results was very similar...
- External links 2009-08-04
- Toyota raises outlook for the year
- Toyota Motor, the world's biggest carmaker by sales, suffered a Y77.8bn ($818m) net loss in its fiscal first quarter as it struggled to adjust to the worst car industry downturn in decades.However, the Japanese manufacturer was more optimistic about its prospects for the year to next March, updating its...
- External links 2009-08-03
- Implementing Mass Customisation Strategy To Enhance Customer Value
- Nowadays business environment is characterized with extremely tight competition. Companies are forced to constantly reduce costs and outperform when pursuing efficiency. At the same time, companies are struggling to reach effectiveness to retain customer loyalty. Combining these two aspects is difficult at best and requires reasonable trade-off between variety, functionality,...
- White papers 2004-04-08
- The Impact on Leverage on Hedge Fund Risk and Return
- As in the case of traditional investments, hedge funds are often compared on a risk adjusted basis. Risk adjustment is of particular importance for hedge fund analysis since two funds may differ solely by leverage, such that they may differ on an absolute return basis, but be similar on a...
- White papers 2005-07-07
- The Risks Underlying Hedge Funds Strategies
- This paper establishes a theoretical risk matrix based on 23 different hedge funds strategies and their underlying risk factors. It studies in parallel the impact of some of the major market crises of the last decade on ten of the largest hedge funds strategies. Dominant risks are identified for each...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- The Impact of Macroeconomic Announcements on Emerging Market Bonds
- This paper examines how emerging bond markets react to macroeconomic announcements. Global bond spreads respond to rating actions and changes in global interest rates rather than domestic data and policy announcements. All announcements affect market volatility. Data and policy announcements reduce uncertainty and stabilize the trading environment, while rating actions...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Results Of Survey Of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Project Leaders At Major Companies
- In January 2004, PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC surveyed the 120 Sarbanes-Oxley project leaders from major companies attending the Sarbanes-Oxley Conference on Section 404 Compliance held in Jersey City, N.J. January 20- 22. Results are based on 54 responses, nearly half of which were from companies with more that $5 billion in revenue....
- White papers 2004-02-03
- BT moves ahead after broker raises dividend hopes
- BT Groupwas in demand yesterday after its joint house broker turned positive for the first time.JPMorgan upgraded BT to "overweight" based on hopes that a turnround will allow the telecoms group to lift its dividend."Broadband and cost cutting are taking centrestage from global IT growth, in our view adding...
- External links 2009-08-10
- Nestlé increases profit margins
- Nestlé increased its profit margins in the first half, as lower input prices and higher productivity counteracted tough trading conditions in many markets.The operating profit margin climbed by 0.3 percentage points to 14.1 per cent, while the margin for Nestlé's key foods and beverages business, excluding the highly profitable...
- External links 2009-08-12
- Special offers help Domino's regain sales momentum
- A focus on special offers and an aggressive advertising campaign targeted at television shows such as Britain's Got Talent boosted third-quarter, like-for-like sales at Domino's Pizza by 10.8 per cent.The improvement in sales, compared with growth of 8.8 per cent a year ago, helped the UK's largest pizza delivery...
- External links 2009-10-01
- Game keeps eye on second-hand sales
- Game Group is looking at the second-hand games market to drive revenue and profits as like-for-like sales fell 16.3 per cent and pre-tax profit dropped by two-thirds in the six months to the end of July.The specialist retailer, which sells games consoles, DVDs and software, saw turnover from second-hand...
- External links 2009-09-23
- Phorm leaves UK market
- Phorm, the advertising technology group, has put its plans for the UK on hold as it explores new markets, particularly in Asia.The company's technology allows clients to analyse online customer behaviour and target advertising accordingly, but it has struggled to make progress in the UK. It revealed in first-half...
- External links 2009-09-21
- Video game sales boost Vivendi
- Vivendi, the French telecoms and entertainment group, on Tuesday reported a 10.4 per cent increase in profit in the second quarter, driven by strength in its video games division.The company also produced better than expected profits in its French mobile phone and pay-TV business, underlining the attractions of its...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Chinese electric car group speeds up US plans
- BYD, the upstart Chinese car company backed by US investment guru Warren Buffett, said yesterday that it would start selling its e6 all-electric sedans in the US next year, a year ahead of schedule.Announcing in Hong Kong that the company had nearly doubled first-half net profits from a year...
- External links 2009-08-31
- More acquisitions light up Premier's radar
- Premier Oil, the exploration and production company active in the North Sea and south-east Asia, is looking for acquisitions and has $500m (£308m) available for deals, the company's chief executive said.He was speaking as Premier reported a 40 per cent drop in profits to $118m for the six months...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Bloomsbury pins hopes on Blumenthal
- Bloomsbury Publishing, publisher of the Harry Potter series, is pinning its hopes on the Canadian author Margaret Atwood and celebrity chefs such as Heston Blumenthal to boost sales in the second half of the year, after reporting a steep decline in first-half profits.Pre-tax profit dropped from £5.37m ($8.69m) to...
- External links 2009-08-27
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