AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Close
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-106237584/business-briefs-point.html" title="Facts and information about BUSINESS BRIEFS.(TO THE POINT)">BUSINESS BRIEFS.(TO THE POINT)</a>
Close
Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from Investor's Business Daily are available.
Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds
BUSINESS BRIEFS.(TO THE POINT)
MEDICAL
Cigna earnings down 42% in Q2
The U.S. HMO earned $1.13 a share, a nickel above views. Revenue slid 2% to $4.6 bil. Total medical membership fell 8% to about 12 mil. Cigna expects to earn $1.15-$1.35 in Q3 and $5-$5.25 for the full year, above analysts' forecasts for $1.16 in Q3 and $4.92 in '03.
Positive FDA response for Biopure
The biotech said regulators asked for more information on its Hemopure blood substitute product, but didn't ask for additional clinical trials, which may bring it a step closer to FDA approval. Biopure's product is derived from cows' blood, then purified. Shares shot up 22% to a 52-week high of 7.30.
** Cardinal Health OK'd a $1 bil buyback plan. The ...
Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
For more facts and information, see all results
- Government aid to old pension funds till 2038: NIS 156.6b.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire August 22, 2005 700+ words
...Korin-Lieber and Eran Peer Cumulative government aid to cover the actuarial deficits of...manager Yael Andoren. The capitalized government aid total of NIS 78.3 billion was mandated...funds' actuarial deficit. Direct government aid to pension funds totaled NIS 1.2...
- Minneapolis city government aid cuts spur talk of overhaul.
- Newspaper article from: Finance and Commerce Daily Newspaper, MN March 13, 2009 700+ words
...Minneapolis city officials say their local government aid relationship with the state has become...and the biggest recipient of local government aid, or LGA, is considering ways to overhaul...exacerbated by [its] hacking away at local government aid, you wind up putting cities in ...
- STATE PAYS OUT $394 MILLION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AID AND CREDITS
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 20, 1994 700+ words
...include the first installment of local government aid to cities and towns, county criminal...last year. This is because the Local Government Aid and Homestead and Agricultural Credit...agricultural credit aid; $166 million local government aid; $4 million in county criminal justice...
- Minnesota's $70M increase in local government aid vetoed.
- Newspaper article from: St. Paul Legal Ledger June 18, 2007 700+ words
...saw $70 million in increased local government aid (LGA) disappear with one stroke of...we're stuck with the same local government aid formula and the dollar amount, I assume...t turn it around here. But local government aid is a major facet in trying to equalize...
- Airbus expects government aid despite freeze on subsidies.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire January 13, 2005 700+ words
...to establish a level playing field between Airbus and Boeing without removing all forms of government aid. Airbus had already applied for government aid to build the A350, a rival to Boeing's planned 7E7 Dreamliner, but the work on the aircraft...
- Determinants of government aid to Katrina survivors: evidence from survey...
- Magazine article from: Southern Economic Journal Chappell, William F. Forgette, Richard G. Swanson, David A. Van Boening, Mark V. October 1, 2007 700+ words
...Gulf Coast Survey. We use logistic regression to model government aid as a function of need while controlling for ascribed and...education. One interpretation of our regression results is that government aid is helpful in dealing with one- to two-month economic...
- YEMEN: GOVERNMENT AID PLAN TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES 2003-2005.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire August 12, 2003 700+ words
...June 2003 that his Ministry has organized a conference on government aid to local municipalities. The conference is organized with...Yemen. On the conference agenda is a discussion of the government aid plan to local municipalities during the period 2003-2005...
- EU approves government aid to help semiconductor chip makers.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 16, 2004 700+ words
...approved euro41.5 million (US$51 million) in Portuguese government aid to German computer-chip maker Infineon AG. The European...state aid. Separately, the Commission also approved French government aid worth about euro23.6 million (US$29 million) for Altis...
- Airbus launches A350 jet with government aid commitment on hold.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 6, 2005 700+ words
...plane to rival Boeing's 787 on Thursday but agreed to put government aid on hold as Europe and the U.S. try to resolve their trade...and filed a World Trade Organization complaint against EU government aid to Airbus. Brussels retaliated in a countersuit citing...
- Graft robs 25,000 Maluku refugees of government aid.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire January 29, 2003 700+ words
...sectarian clashes in the province of Maluku have never received government aid said a local councillor who claimed this was due to corruption...provincial capital of Ambon, 25,262 refugees had never seen government aid. This aid includes basic foodstuffs and money to buy food...