GENERAL MOTORS EXPECTS HUGHES SALE TO BE APPROVED
Date: 23 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Motors Corp expects shareholders to approve sale of its 19.8 percent stake in Hughes Electronics to News Corp for $3.8 billion (S)
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Inquiry Shows How Blair's Inner Circle Made Case for Use of Force in Iraq
Date: 24 August 2003
By Warren Hoge
Warren Hoge
Hearings in London on suicide of British arms expert David Kelly lay bare process by which government of Prime Min Tony Blair assembled dossier of intelligence on which it would rest its case for war against Iraq; Alastair Campbell, Blair's powerful communications director, appears to have succeeded in turning aside inflammatory BBC charge that he personally intervened to 'sex up' dossier, but he is portrayed as intensely involved in shaping final document, even succeeding in having phrase 'may be' replaced with word 'are' in crucial sentence about Iraqis being able to deploy biological and chemical weapons in 45 minutes; photo; chronology of development of dossier (M)
Judge Orders Release of Trade Center Transcripts
Date: 23 August 2003
By Richard Lezin Jones
Richard Jones
Judge Sybil R Moses rules that Port Authority of New York and New Jersey must make public transcripts of radio transmissions among authority employees inside World Trade Center on Sept 11, 2001; is responding to court action by New York Times (S)
XCEL PHARMACEUTICALS REVIVES PLAN FOR INITIAL OFFERING
Date: 23 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Xcel Pharmaceuticals announces plans for initial public offering to raise as much as $75 million; withdrew similar plan in January (S)
U.S. INVESTIGATES LUCENT AFTER BRIBERY ACCUSATIONS
Date: 23 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lucent Technologies say it is being investigated by Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission after accusations company paid bribes to Saudi Arabia; is being investigated for possible violations of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; probes follow lawsuit against Lucent by National Group of Communications and Computers Ltd, Saudi company that claims Lucent won favorable treatment from nation's telephone agency by paying more than $15 million in bribes to office's minister Ali al-Johani (S)
IMPATH CONSIDERS FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY AMID INQUIRY
Date: 23 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Impath Inc is considering filing for bankruptcy protection and is in default of credit agreement after internal accounting probe; company's shares, which have not traded in almost month, will be delisted from Nasdaq stock market on Aug 27; Impath has received inquiry from Securities and Exchange Commission about its accounting (S)
INFOSPACE FOUNDER ORDERED TO PAY $247 MILLION
Date: 23 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Federal Judge Marsha J Pechman orders InfoSpace Inc founder Naveen Jain his wife Anuradha to pay $247.1 million for insider stock trades Naveen Jain made while running company (S)
AMAZON CHIEF SELLS SHARES IN COMPANY AS STOCK RISES
Date: 23 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Amazon.com Inc chief executive Jeffrey Bezos sells additional 50,000 shares in company, raising value of his shares sold in August to $34.8 million on 800,000 shares sold (S)
AES RECEIVES $890 MILLION IN FINANCING FOR POWER PLANT
Date: 23 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Electric power supplier AES Corp completes $890 million financing for new 1,200-megawatt plant in Cartagena, Spain (S)
World Business Briefing | Europe: The Netherlands: Telecom Profit
Date: 23 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Royal KPN earned 183 million euros ($200 million) in second quarter, reversing loss of 9.27 billion euros year earlier (S)