<ul><li>Jan. 31–Pueblo City Council announced a deal with Black Hills Energy in December, touting that the utility had agreed to pay the city $4.6 million by Dec. 31, plus another $2.9 million this year — all as part of a plan to build a …
NEW YORK, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Peet’s Coffee & Tea Inc
plans to announce on Monday it will extend its tender
offer for shares of Diedrich Coffee Inc by 30 days, a
person with knowledge of the situation said, signaling its
anticipation that regulato…
<ul><li>A Russian-Norwegian consortium has been chosen to develop a massive southern Iraq oil field, officials say.</li><li>Lukoil, Russia’s largest independent crude oil producer, and Norway’s StatoilHydro Saturday signed a 20-…
<ul><li>It’s been nearly four months since the city quietly selected a New Jersey company as the leading contender to buy development rights for the planned $1.2 billion Victorville 2 power plant. </li><li>While city staff offic…
<ul><li>CSABA LASZLO will meet his lawyers tomorrow as he bids to take on Hearts for the final 18 months of his deal.</li><li>The Russian banker has balked in the past at squaring up to his victims with both George Burley and Gr…
The Fed met this week on monetary policy. It was a bit of a snoozer. What wasn’t a snoozer, however, was what they’ve included in their recent monetary policy statements regarding currencies.
<ul><li>Jan. 30–American Marine Bank was shut down by state regulators Friday evening, becoming the third Washington-based bank to fail this month — as many as went under in all of 2009. </li><li>Its operations were taken over…
<ul><li>SCBT Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: SCBT) announced that its bank subsidiary, SCBT, N.A., has entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with loss share arrangements with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("…
<ul><li>Jan. 29–Records show that a contract between the State Investment Office and an international law firm has been amended six times since 2005, boosting the original $30,000 cost to $5.8 million. </li><li>The deal — whic…
SANTIAGO, Jan 29 (Reuters) – U.S. bank Citigroup has
increased its stake in a Chilean financial firm that controls
the country’s No. 2 bank, Banco de Chile, in an operation worth
$513 million, the firm’s parent company said on Friday.