Monthly Archives: August 2003

Aug. 28–We’ve all heard of Girl Power, but hedge fund supremo Stanley Fink would like to convert us to Man Power. The company he runs — Man Group — has metamorphosed from a small sugar broker to aFTSE 100 company. […]

Aug. 28–He’s been overlooked, but venture capitalist Garrett Gruener has rocketed into fourth place in fundraising among the many candidates for governor. As of Wednesday, the founder of popular Emeryville Web search engine Ask Jeeves had contributed $500,000 to his […]

FOR many entrepreneurs seeing a business they have built up fall through is one of the toughest experiences they will ever have. In the past the genuine entrepreneur has worried about the stigma that often goes with a business failure. […]

<body.content> <block> <p>SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ — The Golden Capital Network and its California partner organizations announced today a Statewide Conference inSacramento slated for Tuesday, September 23 in conjunction with the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Lifted by a wave of buying against the yen following verbal intervention from Japanese government officials overnight in Tokyo, the euro ended New York trading slightly strongeracross the board Wednesday. This rise against the yen also […]

NEW YORK (AP) – The euro ended New York trading slightly stronger across the board Wednesday, lifted by a wave of buying against the yen following verbal intervention from Japanese governmentofficials. This rise against the yen also supported the dollar […]

NEW YORK (Dow Jones News) – A sizable sell-off in U.S. gasoline futures Wednesday dragged the rest of the New York Mercantile Exchange crude futures trading complex lower. Since Monday’s settlement high of $1.1163 a gallon, the September gasoline futures […]

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 27, 2003–The Great Lakes Venture Capital Conference (GLVCC), the Midwest’s leading later-stage investment conference, has issued a call to high-growth companiesseeking a second or later round of investment to apply to present to a gathering of leading venture […]

Aug. 27–Retirement funds of city and state cops and firefighters may soon be tied to some of the wildest get-rich investments hatched on Wall Street. William Thompson, the city controller, and Alan Hevesi, the state controller, are both considering investing […]

HONG KONG Hang Seng drifts lower Prices on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange closed slightly lower yesterday on profit-taking. The key Hang Seng Index slipped 10.29 points, or 0.10 per cent, to 10,753.93. On Monday, the index edged up 3.49 […]

<body.content> <block> <p>RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ — BioScience Learning (BSL), a life sciences content and communications company, announced its move into largerfacilities after recently expanding its business development staff. There are plans to hire additional production staff in order […]

Deutsche fees stick to State State Street Corp. said yesterday that it has retained 88 percent of fees from the customers of the Deutsche Bank AG unit that it bought in January. The fees mean that State Street expects to […]