Bush Administration Sees Progress After G-20 Meeting

The Bush administration says Saturday's G-20 meeting in Washington laid the foundation for a coordinated international effort to tackle the global financial crisis. VOA's Michael Bowman reports.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez says the summit of leaders of industrialized and developing economies did not produce any immediate, concrete action to shore up the financial system. Rather, he said, the meeting promoted consensus on how to formulate Read the rest of this entry »

Insurance Providers Achieve Business Goals with UltiPro(R) for

A leading provider of end-to-end strategic human resources, payroll, and talent
management solutions, Ultimate Software markets its award-winning
UltiPro products as on-demand services through its software-as-a-service
(SaaS) offering, Intersourcing, and as licensed software. Based in
Weston, FL, the Company employs more than 900 professionals who are
focused on developing the highest quality products and services. Read the rest of this entry »

Snap Shot - 1/4

Snap Shot provides a look at NHL players with significant positive or negative earnings in that day's games. The list is determined from player earnings and prices as follows:
provides a look at NHL players with significant positive or negative earnings in that day's games. The list is determined from player earnings and prices as follows:
For skaters, projected earnings are computed using the average earning rate in games played, including this Read the rest of this entry »

Qiagen boosts full-year profit outlook

Associated Press
11.11.08,
11:20 AM ET
said late Monday it is raising full-year profit guidance following a swing to a third-quarter profit from a year-earlier loss.
The company now expects profit between 79 cents and 80 cents per share, up from prior guidance of 78 cents to 79 cents per share.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect profit of 78 cents per share.
The company makes a range of diagnostic products, including tests Read the rest of this entry »

MPI White Paper on Madoff Shows Advance Warning of Return

SUMMIT, N.J.--(
)--Markov Processes International, a leading research and investment
technology provider, today announced the release of a white paper that
illustrates how advanced returns-based analysis techniques could have
alerted investors to potential problems with Madoff. The paper, entitled
“Madoff: A Tale of Two Funds,” specifically finds a strong correlation
between the return pattern of the Read the rest of this entry »

Christmas Eve fire destroys home of ex-FEMA chief

AUSTIN — A Christmas Eve fire destroyed the home of Joe Allbaugh, the former Federal Emergency Management Agency director who led the agency during the Sept. 11 attacks.
No one was injured, and firefighters are unsure what started the blaze in the 8,100-square-foot rented house in an upscale enclave near Austin. Fire officials do not suspect arson.
Allbaugh said his family was enjoying a backyard fireplace Wednesday night but had turned Read the rest of this entry »

Colombia orders money scam arrests

Colombia has ordered the arrest of seven people accused of running a money laundering and pyramid scheme that was linked to riots and threatened to damage the economy by causing millions of dollars in lost investments.
Officials in Bogota said on Wednesday that they had asked Panama to arrest one of the alleged leaders of the scheme there.
Mario Iguaran, the Colombian attorney general, said evidence against the DMG company and its main shareholder, Read the rest of this entry »

UPDATE 1-Thornburg posts $140 mln profit in Q3

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thornburg Mortgage Inc (TMA.N:
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specialist in jumbo home loans, posted on Monday a net profit
in the third quarter, boosted by a decrease in the value of
some liabilities.
The Santa Fe, New Mexico-based company posted a
third-quarter profit of $140.0 million, or $1.23 per diluted
share, against a loss of $1.1 billion, or $89.41 a year
earlier, when it was hammered by the sale of jumbo mortgages.
It said earnings Read the rest of this entry »

Breakingviews.com. ‘Jobs Premium’ Is Worth Billions

into a technology powerhouse — twice. But how much is he worth to the company? If one compares the value of Apple’s revenue streams to the company’s market capitalization, nearly $20 billion.
That makes Mr. Jobs’s absence from a coming trade show where he’s historically the keynote speaker worrisome, especially given speculation surrounding his thin appearance this summer. The premium that Apple fetches above the fair Read the rest of this entry »

Canon USA Unveils the imagePRESS Essential Business Builder

With the new Web site, current imagePRESS C7000VP and imagePRESS C6000VP
customers will have access to a variety of program information and
resources, including an interactive questionnaire to help printers
assess weaknesses in their current business approach and provide
actionable suggestions for improvement; sales and marketing tools such
as print samples and PIA/GATF Marketing4Digital Reports to assist them Read the rest of this entry »