| Bank of America Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2007 Earnings Conference Call
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Bank of America Corporation today announced it will present fourth quarter and full-year 2007 financial results on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. EST. The presentation, live webcast and other earnings-related information will be available through the Bank of America Investor Relations Web site at http://investor.bankofamerica.com/ . Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving more than 57 million consumer and small business relationships with more than 5,700 retail banking offices, more than 17,000 ATMs and award-winning online banking with more than 23 million active users.
Jean-Marie Eveillard Buys Starbucks Corp., State Street Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., Sells Eagle Hospitality ...
Legendary value investor Jean-Marie Eveillard said "To be a value investor, you have to be willing to suffer pain." This is probably what a lot of value investors are experiencing. Being a lifetime value investor, he still wonders "Why discipline value investing is so difficult." This is his portfolio update for the third quarter. Jean-Marie Eveillard buys Starbucks Corp., State Street Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., Wells Fargo & Company, EDO Corp., Applebee's International Inc., Lyondell Chemical Company, DIRECTV Group Inc. The, Metal Management Inc., DresserRand Group Inc., Atlas Pipeline Partners L.P., Celanese Corp. Series A, Copart Inc., PRA International, WABCO HOLDINGS, UAL Corp., SLM Corp., Nucor Corp., LULULEMON ATHLETICA INC., Lockheed Martin Corp., The TJX Companies Inc., General Motors Corp., Whirlpool Corp., Companhia de Bebidas das AmricasAMBEV, Tronox Inc., Mercury General Corp., CocaCola FEMSA S.A.B.
Nigeria: Standard & Poors Rates Zenith Bank High
Zenith Bank Plc has been accorded the highest rating to any Nigerian bank by Standard & Poors. The agency is the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data and supplies investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. .
(AFX UK Focus) 2007-11-14 17:40 GMT: Euroshares end volatile day with gains, technology sector outperforms UPDATE
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Europe's leading exchanges ended a volatile session with gains today, with the technology sector impressing investors following fourth-quarter results from chip maker Infineon and a broker upgrade at JP Morgan for Alcatel-Lucent. The Dow Jones STOXX 50 closed 21.18 points or 0.57 pct higher at 3,733.05, while the STOXX 600 ended the session 1.94 points or 0.53 pct higher at 370.46. "We've seen an upbeat, but nervous market today," one Frankfurt-based trader said after investors followed Wall Street and the banking sector through several ups and down during the session. "The banking sector recovered a little, thanks to comments from Goldman, but every time we reach critical levels, new rumours arrive," he added, pointing to speculation surrounding Alliance & Leicester earlier today, which were promptly rebuffed as the bank confirmed its share buyback programme and said it continues to raise funds when needed.
Macquarie Group to Acquire CIT Systems Leasing (MQG.AX, 00785335, 20071121)
Macquarie Group announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the business and assets of CIT Systems Leasing. When merged with Macquarie's existing equipment leasing businesses in Europe, Canada and the Asia-Pacific, the new combined company will offer customers flexible, global technology equipment financing solutions for their business needs. The acquisition is subject to finalisation of the employment of certain CIT Systems Leasing employees by Macquarie and customary regulatory approvals. Financial close is expected to occur by the end of 2007 with the transition period expected to be completed by March 2008. More information about MQG.AX .
Carnegie Mellon algorithm identifies top 100 blogs for news
PITTSBURGH� Being among the first to pick up on Internet news and gossip and rapidly detecting contamination anywhere in a water supply system are similar problems, at least from a computer scientist�s point of view. Both can be solved with a versatile algorithm developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers. Using a problem-solving method called the Cascades algorithm, Carlos Guestrin, assistant professor of computer science and machine learning, and his students compiled a list of the best 100 blogs to read to find the biggest news on the Web as early as possible, http://www.blogcascades.org/. It includes well-known blogs, such as Instapundit and Boing Boing, but also some more obscure ones like Watcher of Weasels and Don Surber. �The goal of our system when looking at blogs is to detect the big stories as early on and as close to the source as possible,� Guestrin said.
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