Pacific Buys Cinemas From Publishing & Broadcasting (Update4) (Bloomberg.com) Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Pacific Equity Partners bought the Hoyts Group chain of cinemas from James Packer's Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd. and West Australian Newspapers Holdings Ltd. in the biggest Australian buyout in more than three months....more...Reveling in Latvia's tempestuous past (Denver Post) Saturday evening was falling across Riga's cobbled Old Town, bacchanalia calling from every street corner....more... 09-24-07 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb) MIKE TYSON PLEADS GUILTY TO MULTIPLE CHARGES: Former champ cops to drug possession and DUI from Dec. traffic top. *Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson pleaded guilty Monday to charges of drug possession and driving under the influence stemming from a traffic stop last year in Scottsdale, Ariz....more... Pacific Buys Cinemas From Publishing & Broadcasting (Correct) (Bloomberg.com) (Corrects currency of CVC transaction in third paragraph.)...more... Aristocrat announces sharp EMEA rise (ATE On-line) Log in to remember this page. Email this Aristocrat Technologies Europe announced a sales rise across the European, Middle East and African regions of 55 per cent for the first six months of 2007 year-on-year....more... Names & News In Business (The Globe Gazette) * SCORE, Counselors to America?s Small Business, will conduct a small-business training seminar for anyone interested in starting or having a problem with a small business....more... European Stocks, U.S. Futures Decline; Deutsche Bank Leads Drop (Bloomberg.com) Sept. 20 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks fell for the first time in three days, led by banks, after Deutsche Bank AG said it will write down the value of leveraged loans and abandon hiring plans. U.S. index futures retreated....more... European Stocks, U.S. Futures Decline; Deutsche Bank Leads Drop (Bloomberg.com) Sept. 20 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks fell for the first time in three days after Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's biggest bank, said it will write down the value of leveraged loans and abandon hiring plans. U.S. index futures also retreated....more... Loonie hits par with U.S. dollar; Canadian dollar closes at 99.87 cents US (The St. Catherine Standard) For the first time since the 1970s, Frank Herman walked into a local gas station with American money and had to pay exchange....more... |