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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Political Memo; Bush Tries to Put Focus on Domestic Policy, but Events Conspire Against Him
Date: 22 August 2003
By Richard W. Stevenson
Richard Stevenson
Pres Bush, stepping up promotion of his domestic agenda, visits Oregon to focus on his plan to expand logging as way to thin forests and reduce fire risk; but visit serves as reminder of how much his standing is hostage to international events, as media and public attention remain riveted by Mideast violence and growing terrorist threat in Iraq (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)
CEPHALON TOPS AAIPHARMA'S OFFER FOR CIMA LABS
Date: 22 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cephalon offers to buy Cima Labs for $376.6 million in cash; bid tops AaiPharma's offer in early August; Cephalon and AaiPharma are vying to acquire Cima technology that allows medicines to dissolve in mouth quickly so patients do not have to swallow pills with water (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)