London mayor Boris Johnson, an outspoken advocate of protecting the City from over-regulation, will take the fight to protect Britain’s hedge fund and private equity industry to Brussels this Wednesday. More
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General Motors may postpone a decision on the sale of its Opel division until after the German federal elections in 30 days time, The Globe and Mail reported. More AEI, the energy company and former Enron unit, has filed for an initial public offering that seeks to raise as much as 2.5 million. More American International Group and Steven Udvar-Hazy, head of its International Lease Finance unit, are weighing several options for the aircraft leasing business, including breaking up the company, sources told Reuters. More In a letter to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, Sen. Christopher Dodd said mortgage servicers were concerned that the terms for the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility advances were not “economically viable” and asked Mr. Bernanke for his “views on the matter,” Forbes reported. More R.S.A., the British insurer, is planning a rights issue of up to .6 billion in what could be the first of many F.T.S.E. 100 stocks to raise money in the coming weeks after the summer rally. More The roughly 370,000 employees of Volkswagen and Porsche are striving initially to acquire a stake of up to 5 percent in the automotive group, VW’s labor chief told a German newspaper. More Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s report on the war in Afghanistan could form the basis on which President Obama makes a decision about raising troop levels. More International election observers who have been working for months in Afghanistan said the problem was systemic and institutional corruption. More The profits, about billion, have come from eight of the biggest banks that have fully repaid their bailout obligations to the government. More The blaze has more than doubled in size since Saturday, scorching 85,700 acres and threatening 12,500 homes. More In the deal, Disney will acquire more than 5,000 Marvel characters, such as Spider-Man and Captain America. More As news organizations cut back on their legal budgets, fewer battles are being waged to keep courtrooms open. More The Shanghai composite index plunged 6.75 percent on Monday to close out the worst performance for the month among the world’s major exchanges. More A Tamil journalist was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor after being convicted of using racially divisive language under the country’s tough anti-terrorism laws. More TOKYO, Aug. 31 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTING WITH NEW INFO, QUOTES) Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama said voter frustration with the current administration has led to a… More (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) Typhoon Krovanh is expected to approach Tokyo and surrounding prefectures around noon Monday, with the Japan Meteorological Agency warning Sunday of heavy… More (Kyodo) _ Ibaraki Gov. Masaru Hashimoto is heading for a fifth term after defeating five other candidates Sunday, including a former national bureaucrat backed by the Liberal Democratic… More Israeli authorities indicted former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on corruption charges Sunday, the first criminal indictment ever filed against a current or past Israeli prime minister. … More (Kyodo) _ ———- DPJ to wrest power from LDP with landslide victory TOKYO – The main opposition Democratic Party of Japan won a landslide victory in Sunday’s hotly contested… More Police scuffle with demonstrators as Dalai Lama arrives at Taiwan train station. More (Kyodo) _ (EDS: INCORPORATING STORIES HEADLINED “NEW KOMEITO’S KITAGAWA PROJECTED TO LOSE DIET SEAT,” “KOMEITO’S FUYUSHIBA CERTAIN TO LOSE DIET SEAT,” “NPN’S TANAKA SET TO WIN” AND “NEW… More (Kyodo) _ Following is a list of the numbers of seats won by each party’s candidates in Sunday’s House of Representatives election as of midnight, according to Kyodo News projections. … More President Barack Obama spent his last day on a Martha’s Vineyard vacation buying ice cream treats at a general store and a cookie at a nearby deli. Obama and his daughters took a quick… More (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING, ADDING INFO) With Sunday’s House of Representatives election taking an enormous toll on the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party, many of its heavyweights… More (Kyodo) _ Liberal Democratic Party candidate Shinjiro Koizumi, a son of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, is certain to win in the Kanagawa No. 11 single-seat constituency in… More The Dalai Lama has arrived in Taiwan to comfort the island’s storm victims in a trip that has drawn China’s ire. The Tibetan spiritual leader smiled as he greeted Buddhist followers… More document.write(“”); (Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTING WITH FRESH INFO) The main opposition Democratic Party of Japan won a landslide victory in Sunday’s hotly contested general election, knocking the long-ruling … More |
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