More than 100 Rome flights canceled by protest - International Herald Tribune

ROME : More than 100 flights at Rome's main Leonardo da Vinci airport have been canceled by a ground workers protest against job cuts that are part of Alitalia's imminent relaunch. The new, streamlined Alitalia starts operations next week. The new ...

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Wall Street Scandal: Madoff ‘victims’ do math, realize they ... - WSLS

NEW YORK (AP) - The many Bernard Madoff investors who withdrew money from their accounts over the years are now wrestling with an ethical and legal quandary. What they thought were profits was likely money stolen from other clients in what ...

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Merrill’s investment banking chief quits - Financial Times

Greg Fleming, the head of investment banking at Merrill Lynch, is leaving scarcely a week after it was acquired by Bank of America. His departure comes three days after Robert McCann, head of Merrill’s “thundering herd� of 16,000 financial ...

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Lehman Private-Equity Arm Gains New Investment - Wall Street Journal

Lehman Brothers's private-equity arm has reached an agreement with its collapsed parent to spin out into an independent firm, while taking in new investment from luxury-goods billionaire Johann Rupert, according to two people familiar with the deal ...

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Banks borrow more, investment firms less from Fed - Beaufort Gazette

Story highlights Commercial banks borrowed more, while investment firms drew less over the past week from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program. The Fed report, released Thursday, showed commercial banks averaged $87.9 billion in daily ...

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TCW Chief Global Strategist Komal Sri-Kumar to Discuss Key Investment ... - PR Inside

The TCW Group, Inc., invites you to participate in a conference call Friday with Chief Global Strategist Komal Sri-Kumar, who will offer his views on the key opportunities and risks for investors heading into 2009. "U.S. equities opened the new year ...

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Legacy Reserves LP to Present At the IPAA Oil and Gas Investment ... - MSN MoneyCentral

MIDLAND, Texas, Jan. 8, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Legacy Reserves LP ("Legacy") (Nasdaq:LGCY), today announced that Steven H. Pruett, President and CFO, will present at the IPAA OGIS MLP Conference in Houston on Thursday, January 15, 2009. The ...

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