The following companies may have unusual price changes in trading today, say Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters. Share prices are from the previous close. Singapore’s Straits Times Index was little changed at 2,912.02.
Asian stocks are expected to open higher today, as European shares gained on the back of higher commodity prices, with trade to be thinned by a US holiday that kept Wall Street closed last night.
A federal grand jury in Dallas accused 19 people of taking part in a scheme to use shell companies to defraud companies ranging from AT T to Wells Fargo.
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A federal grand jury in
Dallas
indicted 19 people Jan. 8 in a complex fraud scheme that allegedly used a series of shell companies to defraud banks, telecommunications providers and others out of $15 million.
The 19 defendants were each charged with conspiracy to commit …
Nineteen miners were killed in a mine that collapsed Thursday after a gas explosion in the Bursa province, Turkish officials said, Huriyyet reported. Six bodies had been recovered from the site on Friday morning, with the rescue operation continuing, the report said.
19 people have been killed in a explosion in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, according to the latest reports. A bomb ripped through a hotel that was hosting a graduate ceremony. Hundreds of people and many state officials were there.
A suicide bomber has killed at least 19 people and wounded many others in northwestern Pakistan. Such attacks have increased in the country, in recent weeks, and have killed scores of people since the military launched an anti-Taliban offensive in October to uproot terrorist bases in the South Waziristan tribal region, near the Afghan border.
The EU Council of Ministers has harmonized its position to cancel visas imposed on the citizens of Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia on Dec. 19, Beta reports. The news agency is quoting its sources in Brussels who said that this was a unanimous position taken by EU states’ ambassadors with the Permanent Representatives Committee.
Twin car bombs near government buildings and an apparently co-ordinated suicide attack at a hospital killed 19 people and wounded 80 in western Iraq on Sunday, shattering a relative lull in violence.
The two car bombs exploded in quick succession in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, near the offices of the provincial governor while [...]
T-Mobile USA says it will begin selling Motorola’s Cliq smartphone, running the Android mobile OS, on Oct. 19 to existing customers at $199 plus a two-year service contract. Sales to the general public will begin Nov. 4. The Cliq comes with Motorola’s Motoblur syncing solution.
– T-Mobile USA announced Sept. 29 it will begin selling Motorola’s Cliq
slider smartphone Oct. 19 to existing customers, with sales to the general
public starting Nov. 4. T-Mobile put a $199 price with a two-year contract on
Motorola’s first phone based on Google’s Android operating system.
Moto…
An official says the Philippine coast guard has rescued 15 Filipinos and 4 South Koreans who abandoned a Panamanian-registered cargo ship that stalled then lost power in rough seas in the central Philippines. Coast guard commandant Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo says the M/V Hera, which was en
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Saturday adjourned the hearing into the trial of five Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants, including the outfit’s operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, till September 19.
Sources said that Judge Baqir Ali Rana adjourned the case till September 19 following today’s proceedings.
However, details about the proceedings were not available following the [...]
At least 19 people were killed Friday in a riot that erupted in a prison in northern Mexico, a top security official said. The rioting that was sparked by rivalries among prison gangs also left 26 others injured, according to Jorge Torres, the public security secretary in the Mexican state of Durango.
Google enjoys a small rebound in the second quarter, posting a profit of $1.48 billion on $4.66 per share, a 19 percent growth over the second quarter of 2008. Google CEO Eric Schmidt says Google is focused on innovation with the Google Chrome OS and the core search engine; these are two big weapons the search engine giant is wielding against Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Bing search engine.
– Rebounding from a lackluster first quarter, on July 16 Google reported a second-quarter profit of $1.48 billion on $4.66
per share, a 19 percent growth over $1.25 billion in profit on $3.92 per share
from the second quarter of 2008.
The search engine giant, which is fending off renewed competiti…
