BOEING IS TAKING $994 MILLION WRITE-DOWN
Date: 11 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Boeing Co has written down value of its leased aircraft and its aircraft and space businesses by $994 million in first quarter to reflect decline in air travel (S)/
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DUKE ENERGY TO SHUT A TRADING BUSINESS
Date: 12 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Duke Energy Corp to close its speculative energy-trading business in North America to reduce collateral payments and preserve its credit rating; will cut about dozen trading jobs and transfer about eight workers within company (S)
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BAKER HUGHES LOWERS FIRST-QUARTER PROFIT FORECAST
Date: 12 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Baker Hughes Inc, oil field service provider, warns first-quarter profit probably fell (S)
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FIRST FEDERAL CAPITAL AGREES TO BUY LIBERTY BANCSHARES
Date: 11 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
First Federal Capital Agre
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CAMPBELL DROPS INTERIM FROM DIVISION PRESIDENT'S TITLE
Date: 11 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Campbell Drops Interim From
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NEWMONT MINING RESTATES RESULTS FOR LAST 2 YEARS
Date: 12 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Newmont Mining Corp, gold producer, restates results for part of last two years; reports losing $66.9 million for 2001 first nine months, up from previously reported $48.2 million; reports net income for corresponding 2002 period rose to $83 million from previously reported $81.9 million; restatements reflect accounting changes (S)
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A.I.G. TO CUT 211 JOBS IN CONSOLIDATION AFTER ACQUISITION
Date: 12 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
American International Group says its American General Corp life insurance unit will cut 211 support-staff jobs in Dallas during next eight months (S)
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TECO ENERGY, FLORIDA UTILITY, CUTS DIVIDEND BY 46%
Date: 12 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Teco Energy Inc, Florida utility company, cuts its quarterly dividend by 46 percent, to 19 cents a share from 35.5 cents (S)
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STATE STREET SAYS IT WILL ELIMINATE 1,800 MORE JOBS
Date: 11 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
State Street Corp will cut as many as 1,800 more jobs, bringing total to 13 percent of its work force this year (S)4
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The News We Kept To Ourselves
Date: 11 April 2003
By Eason Jordan
Eason Jordan
Op-Ed article by Eason Jordan, chief news executive of CNN, says now that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, world can expect to hear many gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about decades of torment; says he has tales as well, learned during 13 trips he made to Baghdad over last 12 years to lobby government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders; says he saw and heard awful things that he could not report because doing so would have jeopardized lives of Iraqis, particularly those on CNN's Baghdad staff; says secret police terrorized all Iraqis working for international press services; says some vanished forever, others disppeared and then surfaced later with tales of being tortured; says one of CNN's Iraqi cameramen was abducted, beaten and horribly tortured; says he is still haunted by story of woman captured by secret police after speaking with CNN on phone; says plastic bag containing her body parts was left on doorstep of her family's home; drawing (M)
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