Seenews: news report of 06.01.2009 (Girodivite)

Albanian Banks’ End-Nov Deposit Portfolio Rises 5.8% Y/Y to 349 Bln Leks (2.8 Bln Euro) Jan 06, 2009, 11:57 CET | Story | SeeNews TIRANA (Albania), January 6 (SeeNews) - The deposit portfolio of commercial banks operating in Albania totalled 349 billion leks ($3.85 billion/2.82 billion euro) at the end of November, down by 1.4% from a month earlier but 5.78% higher on the year, the central bank ...

Sellers Capital Believes Premier Exhibitions' Earnings Release Shows Continued Deterioration of Financial Condition ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

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Micrel Updates Fourth Quarter 2008 Outlook (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Micrel, Incorporated , an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today announced that it has revised its revenue and profit outlook for its fourth fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2008.

CA-BUSINESS Summary (The Globe and Mail)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices rose nearly 2 percent on Monday after an Iranian military commander reportedly called for an oil boycott over Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, and on concerns over the deepening Russian gas supply row.

CA-BUSINESS Summary (The Globe and Mail)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil jumped more than 3 percent on Monday after an Iranian military commander reportedly called for an oil boycott over Israel's ground offensive in the Gaza Strip and on concerns over the deepening Russian gas supply row.

All News... Medway at Large - Reporters' Notebook (The Kent Messenger)

Writing this remotedly from from home up northish in the hood. Didn't have time to update today but just wanted to write a few lines to keep up appearances before this blog returns with a proper regular flourish in the New Year.

No More Bragging Rights (San Diego Reader)

The San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System always likes to brag about its investment performance. It endlessly points out that among its peers (other municipal employees’ funds) and among benchmarks by which various funds are measured, it is in the top 5 percent, or 3 percent, or whatever.

Nigeria: Financial Resolutions for 2009 (1) (AllAfrica.com)

In the next four days, the world will bring the curtain down on 2008 and be ushered into the New Year, 2009.

The Internet ate my business (CNET)

We thought it was a brave, new world of Web 2.0. But on closer examination, it seems like a lot of 1.0 value being distributed in 2.0 ways.

The threatening shadow of debt (Haaretz Daily)

Today the question isn't who'll earn the most. It is who will survive. Nasty surprises lurk in some balance sheets In days of yore, shareholders and corporate executives were naturally preoccupied mainly with how to increase profits, free cash flow and return on equity. That sort of thing.