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Funding Status of U.S. Pensions Falls to 74.0 Percent in June, According to BNY Mellon Asset Management (Popularity:  )
http://www.bnymellon.com/
A combination of U.S. stock market declines and lower interest rates in June resulted in the lowest-funded status for the typical U.S. corporate pension plan since February 2009, according to monthly statistics published by BNY Mellon Asset Management. The funded status in June declined 6.0 percentage points to 74.0 percent. Through the end of June, the funded status of the typical U.S. corporate plan is down 9.5 percentage points for ...
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MedQuist Announces Establishment of Revolving Credit Facility and Payment of Special Cash Dividend (Popularity: )
http://www.medquist.com
MedQuist Inc. (Nasdaq: MEDQ) today announced it has entered into a five-year $25 million revolving credit facility. The credit facility provides committed revolving funding through August 2014 and includes an option whereby the Company may increase its maximum credit up to $40 million, based on certain terms and conditions. The credit facility is a working capital facility that may be used for general corporate purposes. The Company does not currently ...
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Infinity Bio-Energy Ltd. Completes Private Offer to Redeem Warrants From Certain Warrantholders (Popularity: )
Infinity Bio-Energy Ltd. ("Infinity" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the purchase of an additional 1,113,334 warrants consistent with the private offer to certain warrantholders announced on December 31, 2007. In said private offer, the Company offered to a limited number of its holders of outstanding warrants the opportunity to sell said warrants to the Company at a price equal to $1.05 per warrant. As a result of said ...
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Fairtheworld Uses 'Digital River' to Send Talents to Enterprises (Popularity: )
According to the latest statistics released by the U.S. Department of Labor (BLS), American's unemployment rate hit 9.5% in June, a record high in the past 26 years. With this, the U.S. and European stocks slumped further since their opening on Thursday, and the price of bulk commodities dropped drastically. The price of crude oil was down to $66.7 per barrel.According to analysis, this unemployment surge was due to the ...
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ATFL Laments Cluster Bomb Death of Belgian UNIFIL Soldier in Lebanon (Popularity: )
http://www.atfl.org
The American Task Force for Lebanon (http://www.atfl.org) laments the death of a Belgian United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeeper in Lebanon last week. ATFL extends its regrets to the Government and people of Belgium and its condolences to the soldier's family. The soldier was killed in the line of duty while clearing unexploded ordnance Israel left behind when it fired deadly cluster bombs into Lebanon during the 2006 ...
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Voters Become Obama, Hillary, Debate in Virtual Reality as Latest Technology Leap in Historic Election! (Popularity: )
http://www.fix8.com
FIX8, a division of Mobinex, Inc., a leader in virtual communications technology, is taking the Presidential Race to Cyberspace, allowing voters to "dress up" as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or John McCain, and debate in virtual reality. FIX8 avatars move when users move, speak when they speak, and all anyone needs to join in the fun is a webcam. "This is a historic race. We have the first African American ...
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Cameron Approves 2-for-1 Stock Split and Renews Stockholder Rights Plan (Popularity: )
http://www.c-a-m.com
Cameron's board of directors has approved a 2-for-1 stock split to be effected in the form of a stock dividend. The stock split is subject to stockholder approval of a proposed amendment to the Company's Certificate of Incorporation that would authorize the issuance of up to 400 million shares of common stock, instead of the 150 million currently authorized. The stock split will increase the Company's total shares outstanding from ...
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Tri-anim and Bound Tree Medical Merge to Create Nation's Leading Specialty Health Care Distributor (Popularity: )
http://www.wshp.com
Tri-anim, the largest U.S. specialty distributor of respiratory products and a leading distributor of emergency medical services (EMS) products, and Bound Tree Medical, the largest national supplier of EMS products, announced today that they have merged to create the nation's leading specialty distributor of health care products. Water Street Healthcare Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm focused exclusively on the health care industry, brought the two companies together and has ...
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Petroleum & Resources Corporation Surpasses One Billion Dollars in Net Assets (Popularity: )
http://www.peteres.com
Petroleum & Resources Corporation (NYSE: PEO), a Baltimore-based investment company with a broadly diversified exposure to energy and natural resources stocks announced that the Fund's net assets surpassed the one billion dollar mark on October 10. Net assets as of the market close on October 16th were $1,015,732,908. The Fund was incorporated under the name Petroleum Corporation of America in January 1929 and raised approximately $110 million in its IPO ...
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Arab World Embraces Adventure Tourism (Popularity: )
http://www.cmpiuae.com
Adrenaline Sports Live! to showcase world's playgrounds to thousands in Abu Dhabi between 13th and 15th November. Everything in the United Arab Emirates is booming. Whilst the rest of the world enters uncertain times, record oil prices fuel an unrelenting construction and property boom and residents -- some 70% are expats -- look for ways to spend their petro-dollars. And now CMP, one of the world's leading publishing and events ...
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