THERE is no pleasing some folk. Just a day after BT Group released details of a 1.6 billion 10- year contract to act as a local service provider for the NHS’s IT programme, comes news of a downgrading for the […]

GREAT NECK, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 9, 2003–FlexTrade Systems today announced that New York-based Rosenblatt Securities went live in October on FlexTRADER. A quantitatively enriched equitytrading and order management system, FlexTRADER has a global client base of institutional users on the buy-side […]

HEDGE fund firm Lansdowne Partners, an active trader recently in Manchester United shares, has surfaced with a 3.3% holding in Punch Taverns following its 1.2 million purchase of Pubmaster. ThePubmaster deal made Punch Britain’s biggest pubs operator with 7600 outlets. […]

Maximum Dynamics, Inc. (OTC BB: MXDY), a technology solutions company that combines cutting edge technology with its back office and administration services to provide virtually any customized service to any company, announced today that Sindiswa Mzamo accepted an invitation to […]

NEW YORK (AP) – The Wall Street executive whose tip triggered the mutual fund investigation says she stepped forward because she was worried that small investors were being hurt – but had no idea somany companies were tainted by improper […]

Dec. 8–The recovery keeps chugging along. Orders are up. Earnings are up. Stocks are up, and, thanks to tax refunds, consumer spending is up. Everything is great, except for one small problem. Jobsaren’t coming back. When the weekly job numbers […]

SCOTLAND’S corporate accounting elite enjoyed an average increase in pay and bonuses of 26% in the last financial year – despite plummeting share prices. However, figures disclosed in a new survey ofthe FTSE-250 are distorted by the rises handed to […]

The chief executives of 20 leading fund managers will be summoned to the headquarters of the Financial Services Authority on Wednesday as the “market timing” scandal finally reaches the City ofLondon. The FSA has decided to act, three months after […]

Gives Company Three-Continent, 24-Hour Reach NEW YORK and LONDON, Dec. 8, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) — GlobeOp Financial Services (GFS), extending its global reach to better serve its growing international client base, today announced that it is opening an office in Mumbai, […]

SANTA ROSA, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Discovery Channel Canada’s program Daily Planet is scheduled to air a segment featuring a new electric car from ZAP (OTC Bulletin Board: ZAPZ – News) on Tuesday, December 9, 2003. According to Discovery […]

PITTSBURGH–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 8, 2003–Underground Solutions, Inc. (Pink Sheets:UGSI) announced today that it has been invited to present an overview of the Company at the New York Society ofSecurity Analysts 7th annual Investing in the Water Industry Conference on December 9, […]

Dec. 8–Successful investing is hard, but it doesn’t require genius. As much as anything else, it requires something perhaps even more rare: the ability to identify and overcome one’s ownpsychological weaknesses. Behavioral finance has become a cottage industry in recent […]