Tuesday, April 14, 2009

World Buisness Highlights

New York, said the Bank understand the $ 3.39 per share, easily exceeded analysts' forecasts of earnings $ 1.64 per share. This compared with revenue $ 1.47 billion, or $ 3.23 per share a quarter ended in February 29 last year. Goldman's news, delivered days before that, as expected, came days after another top performance in the bank Wells Fargo & Co. announced that it expects the report to a record first-quarter profit for 3 billion dollars, which is well above the estimates, the Wall Street. Express Scripts buys Well Point Unit $ 4.68B Indianapolis (AP) - Express Scripts Inc., stands for a significant impact on his negotiations with $ 4.68 billion deal to purchase pharmacy benefits management companies health insurance company Well Point, Inc., and experts say that could mean savings for customers' purchase of prescription drug ads.
The state can not be pirates, we want not only to people who tried to hijack M / V Maersk Alabama and has been held hostage, said the American captain Erik L. Johnsen President of Mobile-based International Ship Holding Corp. for Alabama, that the owner, Maersk Line Limited, located in Norfolk, VA. He said that many of the seafaring peoples of the team, in order to combat the problem. Stocks end mostly higher than the profit reports NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks closed mostly higher Monday as a flurry before the earnings that could determine whether the economy is indeed better, as investors hope that the last month, as they drove the market higher.
Canada: Alcoa wage demand by 15%
Alcoa said it would reduce production and lay off 275 workers at a smelter in Canada, if employees do not agree on 15 percent of wages. Negotiations are still ongoing between Alcoa, which is located in Pittsburgh, and a union representing some 1,000 workers at the plant in Bécancour, Quebec, said the representative of Alcoa Kevin Lowery. Alcoa has told staff at the beginning of March, he wanted to reduce labor costs in the business and other operations in the province of Quebec. The company reduced the production of approximately 136,000 tonnes Bécancour.

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