Word: broker
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...Called To Account Shares in insurance broker Aon fell by almost 30% after it said it was the latest company to be questioned by the sec over accounting practices...
Unfortunately, the E.U. has a poor record of mediation in the Middle East. It's not for lack of trying, though. Javier Solana, the E.U.'s High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, has made several attempts to broker a cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians - to no avail. And in April German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer put forward proposals that could serve as a blueprint for fresh talks. Fischer's plan calls for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to appoint a caretaker prime minister until January, when newly elected officials would carry out the reforms necessary for the establishment...
...prudish could take offense. "Lorna" was not only big at "the ticket wickets," it pleased the rubes, not to mention the movie exhibitors who made money from them. "What a joy to see on a warm romantic Kansas City night," Bev Winter, a Kansas City film broker, wrote to Meyer - "a full drive-in with all those cars shakin' and breakin...
...spent 17 minutes on the phone with CEO Sam Waksal, records show. Waksal had just learned that the FDA would announce its negative decision on Erbitux in two days. Later that night Waksal drafted a note, marked "Urgent--Immediate Attention Required," to his Merrill Lynch broker, Peter Bacanovic, sources say. Stopped from trading by the firm's blackout, Waksal gave instructions to transfer $4.9 million in stock to the account of his younger daughter Aliza Waksal. At 8:30 the next morning, he called Aliza, phone records show. She called Bacanovic's aide at 9 a.m with orders to sell...
Phone records are also helping investigators pin down just how Stewart may have been tipped off to FDA plans before selling her shares Dec. 27. Sources say her assistant has signed an affidavit revealing that Bacanovic, who was also Stewart's broker, called Stewart's office between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Dec. 27, shortly after Aliza's shares were dumped, and left a message that "ImClone is going to start trading downward." Stewart called Bacanovic's office at 1:30 p.m. Her stock was sold 10 minutes later, sources say. Stewart has denied that she engaged...