The Canadian Press May 30, 2008 - 12:53 a.m. MONTREAL - Henri-Paul Rousseau, one of the most influential figures in Quebec's financial community, is leaving Canada's largest pension fund manager to attach Power Corporation of Canada, one of Canada's best known conglomerates. As the president and chief executory of the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec since September 2002, Rousseau has doubled the fund's assets, which now stand at $155 billion. He'll associate one's self with the boards of both ...
Environment minister says Turkey ready to join Kyoto Protocol
May 31 2008
May 30, 2008 - 1:01 p.m. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - The environment minister says Turkey is ready to join the Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Veysel Eroglu sent a letter to the Foreign Ministry adhering Friday, aphorism "joining and approving the Kyoto Protocol is appropriate." Turkey had antecedently rejected signing the U.N. protocol on global warming, saying it needed to complete its industrial development first. But the unrefined is under EU distress to improve ...
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Esterline Technologies shoots to all-time high after 2nd-quarter profit zooms past estimates
May 31 2008
May 30, 2008 - 12:38 a.m. NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of Esterline Technologies Corp. happy remark an all-time high on Friday after the aerospace and martial components maker uttered its fiscal second-quarter profit jumped 27 percent, breezing past analyst estimates. The reserve climbed $2.97, or 5 percent, to $61.85 in midday trading, after setting an all-time high of $62.70 earlier in the session. After the closing bell Thursday, the Bellevue, Wash.-based company said it earned ...
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Airline stocks decline as oil prices waver and prospects for United-US Airways deal dim
May 31 2008
May 30, 2008 - 12:38 a.m. NEW YORK (AP) - Airline public securities mostly vandalic Friday as oil prices fluctuated and investor hopes for a merger betwixt United Airlines and US Airways deflated. The Amex Airline Index sank 1.6 percent to 19.07 in midday trading. The broader market advanced modestly. Oil prices held steady Friday afternoon as traders gauged whether Thursday's decline in the price of crude signaled a longer-term trending. Light, sweet crude for of ...
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Pittsburgh home improvement company agrees to pay $100,000 to settle race discrimination suit
May 31 2008
May 30, 2008 - 10:45 a.m. PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Pittsburgh-based home improvement company has settled a lawsuit involving accusations that it fired an African-American employee because he complained about race discrimination. Champion Window of Pittsburgh has agreed to pay $100,000 in the suit filed by dint of. the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The operation says the visitor failed to give Martell Waite the same tools, benefits and assistance it gave to white workers in ...
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