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...months of the year. "M&A alone is not a big enough businesses to swing the bank," says analyst Richard Bove, who follows bank stocks at Rochdale Securities. "But put them all together, along with the fact that Citi's business is positioned to benefit from the recent drop in interest rates, and it makes a difference...
...result of the scandals, several of Australia's biggest ISPs pulled out of the filtering-software trials and have urged the government to drop the plan. "It became increasingly clear that the trial was not simply about restricting child pornography or other such illegal material but a much wider range of issues, including what the government simply describes as 'unwanted material' without an explanation of what that includes," said Michael Malone, managing director of iiNet, an Australian ISP. He added that his company agreed to participate in the trial only to demonstrate that the policy was "fundamentally flawed, a waste...
...month after General Motors announced that it was preparing to spin off or drop Saturn as part of the effort to regain viability, the beleaguered automaker is now spending millions of dollars on ads for Saturn during the telecasts of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. "We're Still Here," one ad emphatically says, as if to squash rumors to the contrary. "It was an odd thing to see because it's a short-term fix. It's obviously part of a holding action," says Alan Baum, an analyst with The Planning Edge in Birmingham, Mi. (See the 50 worst cars...
...about to announce the conclusion of a comprehensive review of Afghanistan policy, and Congress is discussing massive new aid - worth $1.5 billion a year for five years - for Pakistan. For U.S. officials - a group that provided a substantial part of the Times's sourcing for its story - to drop their long reticence on the subject of the ISI's duplicity at this particular juncture suggests, to some observers, an effort to put some pressure on Islamabad. "It seems like a prelude to a new strategy, which may include asking Pakistan to do something" in the province of Baluchistan, where...
...years and is halfway through putting his three daughters through college, had also never seen so many personal appeals folded into the files. Setting aside his computer algorithms and thick-buttoned relic of a calculator, he absorbed every typewritten page. One family expected a 50% income drop; another planned to sell its home to help pay tuition. A note from a family nearly a year behind on its mortgage made Shorb chuckle. "Unfortunately," it read, "we have not been bailed out by the $700 billion government rescue." (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...