Archive for September, 2007

Babcock & Brown buys Bluewater wind power firm (Reuters)

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Reuters - Australian investment firm Babcock &
Brown Ltd bought offshore wind power developer
Bluewater, which is seeking to build a wind farm off the coast
of Delaware expected to cost about $1.6 billion.

SkyWest unit reaches tentative deal with pilots (Reuters)

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Reuters - Atlantic Southeast Airlines, a
subsidiary of SkyWest Inc has reached a tentative
labor contract with its nearly 1,700 pilots.

Pfizer faces $8.5 bln suit over Nigeria drug trial (Reuters)

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

A view of a Pfizer building in this file photo. A court case brought by Nigeria against Pfizer resumes on Wednesday with the U.S. drug maker saying it answered a call for help to save the lives of African children during a meningitis epidemic. (Francois Lenoi/Reuters)Reuters - A court case brought by Nigeria
against Pfizer resumes on Wednesday with the U.S. drug maker
saying it answered a call for help to save the lives of African
children during a meningitis epidemic.

VW commercial vehicles 9-mth deliveries up 11 pct (Reuters)

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Reuters - German carmaker Volkswagen's
deliveries of commercial vehicles increased 10.8
percent year-on-year in January-September to around 354,000
units, the company said in a statement on Sunday.

Hedge funds set to talk to Northern Rock: paper (Reuters)

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Reuters - The British Treasury has given two U.S.
hedge funds permission to start takeover talks with stricken
British mortgage lender Northern Rock Plc , the Sunday
Telegraph newspaper reported.

ThyssenKrupp aims to double China sales in 5 years (Reuters)

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Reuters - German industrial conglomerate
ThyssenKrupp aims to double its China sales to 2
billion euros ($2.85 billion) in the next five years, its chief
executive said on Sunday.