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Low-profile Briton is new EU foreign policy chief

Catherine Ashton is not a very recognizable face even at home in Britain. She takes becomes the European Union's foreign policy chief with just a year in a big international job. Ashton, 53, trained as an economist and has never been elected to ...

From AOIFE WHITE, Taiwan News,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  House of Lords,  Catherine Ashton,  Gordon Brown,  Angela Merkel

Lloyds gets EU approval for UK bailout

BRUSSELS—Britain's Lloyds Banking Group PLC won EU approval Wednesday for its 17 billion pound ($28.6 billion) government capital injection in return for shrinking its operations. EU regulators said Lloyds' plan to sell off more than 600 retail banking ...

From AOIFE WHITE, Boston Globe,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Royal Bank of Scotland,  European Commission,  HBOS,  Halifax Corp

Merged AB InBev tackles flat demand

THE world's largest brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev SA said yesterday it made a US$1.546 billion profit in the third quarter but that revenue fell 10 percent from last year, when the company was created in a merger, as beer sales shrank during the period. ...

From AOIFE WHITE, Shanghai Daily,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: InBev

AB InBev makes $1.55B in Q3, revenue down 10 pct

The world's largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev SA, made $1.55 billion net profit in the third quarter as cost savings from last year's merger of Anheuser-Busch and InBev ran ahead of plan. But revenue fell 10 percent as the recession led to ...

From AOIFE WHITE, Taiwan News,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: InBev,  Carlos Brito (politician),  SABMiller

AB InBev makes 3Q profit, but revenue down 10 pct.

BRUSSELS — The world's largest brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev SA said Thursday it made a $1.546 billion profit in the third quarter but that revenue fell 10 percent from last year, when the company was created in a merger, as beer sales shrank. The maker ...

From AOIFE WHITE, Newsvine,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: InBev,  SABMiller

EU confirms 2011 economic exit strategy deadline

as tax breaks, major public spending projects and even cash-for-clunkers initiatives that are boosting the economy at the moment. BRUSSELS - European Union finance ministers confirmed Tuesday that they would start withdrawing billions of euros ...

From AOIFE WHITE, Daily Breeze,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  Anders Borg,  European Commission

EU calls Oracle's criticism of antitrust probe 'facile,' 'superficial'

world's biggest proprietary database company wanted to take over the world's leading open-source database provider. BRUSSELS — The European Commission and Oracle entered a war of words Tuesday after the company criticized EU regulators' objection to ...

From AOIFE WHITE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The San Jose Mercury News,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Oracle,  European Commission,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Carbon storage? Not under my house!

The people of this small Dutch town are not against pumping tons of carbon dioxide into the ground to fight global warming. They just wish it wasn't right beneath their houses. "Who wants to live in Barendrecht if one of these CO2 things is built?" ...

From AOIFE WHITE, San Diego Union-Tribune,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: European Commission,  European Union,  Royal Dutch Shell,  Greenpeace

EU probes Thomson Reuters codes

E U antitrust regulators said Tuesday that they are investigating whether Thomson Reuters Corp. TRI-T is breaking monopoly abuse rules by preventing customers from applying their own codes to financial market data feeds. Thomson Reuters said it would ...

From AOIFE WHITE, Globe and Mail,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomson Reuters,  European Commission

EU probes Thomson Reuters

E U antitrust regulators said Tuesday that they are investigating whether Thomson Reuters Corp. TRI-T is breaking monopoly abuse rules by preventing customers from applying their own codes to financial market data feeds. Thomson Reuters said it would ...

From AOIFE WHITE, Globe and Mail,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomson Reuters,  European Commission

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