Word: titanic
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...Asset Stripping A U.S. executive of insurance titan Swiss Re sued a New York City lap-dance palace, claiming the club's bogus charges left him with a bill for $28,000. He said he owed a mere...
...Best Man For the Job? If ever a company needed saving, it is Yukos. The troubled Russian oil titan, hit by the jailing last year of top shareholders Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, learned last week that the Kremlin allegedly favors the idea of France's Total taking 25% of Sibneft - the oil company in which Yukos says it has a 92% holding. (Total denied it was interested.) A group of foreign banks warned Yukos that with Russia having frozen its assets over a $3.5 billion tax claim, the company was in danger of defaulting on a $1 billion loan...
...INDICATORS Fashion A La Mode Luxury-goods group Gucci named ice-cream and frozen-food executive Robert Polet as its CEO. Polet, who has no professional fashion expertise, has spent his career at consumer-goods titan Unilever...
KRISH PRABHU Telecom Titan...
...Wong quickly sold her holding of 3,000 shares for a gain of about $250 - small change, sure, but not a bad return in less than 30 minutes. "It's like a gift," she said gleefully. While investors behaved as if the company is destined to be a global titan, China Green - which grows cabbages and other produce and sells packaged vegetables - is still tiny. It has about 150 employees and reported just $31 million in revenues and $14 million in profits in its last fiscal year. Other signs of overheating: shares of China Life Insurance, the country's largest...