en-us Reuters UK) - Lloyds' army of small investors grilled executives for over three hours on Thursday over secret central bank loans and mistakes made during the crisis, but agreed to back a record-breaking rights issue.Britain's largest retail bank won the backing of virtually all its investors...]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:15:46 -0800 HBOS HBOS Reuters) - Facebook has established a dual-class stock structure to ensure voting control by existing owners, but has no plans to become a public company, it said on Tuesday."We did introduce a dual class stock structure because existing shareholders wanted to maintain control over voting on certain issues,...]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:00:28 -0800 Reuters UK) - Lloyds Banking Group Plc LLOY pushed ahead with the world's largest rights issue on Tuesday, setting a price of 37 pence per share as it taps shareholders for 13.5 billion pounds to avoid costly state support.The new shares were priced at a 60 percent...]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:15:35 -0800 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:06:51 -0800 GS GS Reuters UK) - City of London grandee David Walker risks opening a Pandora's box if he turns shareholder rights into duties and requires investors to explain why they have sold shares as part of a review of bank pay and practices.Some experts argue that...]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:45:49 -0800 Reuters UK) - Some big Goldman Sachs Group Inc GS shareholders have asked the U.S. bank to cut what could be the biggest bonuses in its history to pass more profit onto investors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.Although the investors are not pushing for a huge...]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:15:56 -0800 GS GS Reuters) - Some big Goldman Sachs Group Inc GS shareholders have asked the U.S. bank to cut what could be the biggest bonuses in its history to pass more profit onto investors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.Although the investors are not pushing for a huge cut,...]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:15:19 -0800 GS GS Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:55:04 -0800 Reuters) - Some of Goldman Sachs Group Inc's GS largest shareholders have asked the company to cut the size of its bonus pool and pass along more of its profits to investors, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the situation.Although the shareholders were not pushing for a...]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:45:18 -0800 GS GS Reuters UK) - Some of Goldman Sachs Group Inc's GS largest shareholders have asked the company to cut the size of its bonus pool and pass along more of its profits to investors, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the situation.Although the shareholders are not pushing for...]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:30:24 -0800 GS GS Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:27:03 -0800 CSCO UPS CSCO,UPS Reuters) - U.S. network equipment maker Cisco has raised its bid for Norwegian video conferencing equipment maker Tandberg, backed by holders of more than 40 percent of its shares, few of whom had warmed to its previous bid.Cisco's new offer of 170 crowns per Tandberg share, up...]]> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:30:25 -0800 CSCO HPQ IBM MSFT PLCM UPS CSCO,HPQ,IBM,MSFT,PLCM,UPS Reuters UK) - Maxim Barsky will become the new chief of Russian oil firm TNK-BP, sources close to the company told Reuters on Friday after co-owner BP agreed to the preferred candidate of its four Russian billionaire partners.The appointment follows a long-running dispute between...]]> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:45:32 -0800 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:10:00 -0800 Reuters UK) - Debt-laden Australian asset manager Babcock & Brown Infrastructure BBI urged investors to approve a $1.6 billion rescue plan backed by Canada's Brookfield group BAMa, saying no rival plan from Royal Bank of Scotland was on the table.RBS RBS was putting together an A$1.5 billion (846 million...]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:52 -0800 BBI BBI Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:25:00 -0800 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:08:00 -0800 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:12:22 -0800 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:47:07 -0800 NCT NCT Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:54:08 -0800 CTL EQ CTL,EQ