AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Canadian carrier WestJet Airlines Ltd (TSX:WJA) on Wednesday announced that its board of directors has approved a 20% increase in its quarterly dividend per common voting share and...
M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Canadian carrier WestJet Airlines Ltd (TSX:WJA) on Wednesday announced that its board of directors has approved a 20% increase in its quarterly dividend per common voting share and...
Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SureWest Communications, at a price of $23 per share in cash and shares. The transaction is valued at approximately $340.9 million,...
Qatar's bourse has done all it needs to secure an upgrade to emerging market status from index compiler MSCI and the onus is now on individual companies to address the main foreign ownership...
Enhanced Investment Products Limited (EIP), a Hong Kong based asset management firm, has confirmed the launch of seven new ETF products, authorised by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission at the beginning...
Trading volume during at the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) during January 2012 totalled 811,283 contracts, an increase of four per cent from the 778,157 contracts traded in January 2011. This was the busiest...
Dear Mark Zuckerberg, Congratulations on your IPO filing. We understand that you are faced with a difficult decision soon on where to list your stock. You have probably heard from your bankers that...
Last year proved to be difficult to describe. The economy didn't experience a double-dip recession as some had feared, though recovery is too strong a word to describe it. The Eurozone did not...
Two Wall Street groups asked a federal appeals judge to delay the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) recently passed position limits rule, saying it already is causing irreparable harm. The Securities Industry and...
The volatility that marked energy markets over the past year is almost guaranteed to continue in 2012. Geopolitical factors, such as Europe's financial crisis and conflicts with Iran and other regions, make long-range...
In mid-December 2011, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) surprised the energy markets by deciding to increase oil production with a new output target of 30 million barrels a day. Bloomberg reported...
The reality is, at least according to one analysis of the stock market, most returns come from dividends, and over long periods stocks do not perform better than inflation (see "How to get...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Recently, there has been substantial growth in mutual funds utilizing managed-futures-based strategies. The number of distinct managed futures mutual funds doubled to 24 in 2011, according to Morningstar Inc. The funds...
2011 was the year of people power; whether it was the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, recall elections or MF Global customers fighting against the big banks, people demanded to be heard and...
Chinese real estate companies are looking for new investment opportunities in the mining industry. The Chinese government's tight restrictions on property investments and capital for real estate companies have caused more developers to...
Muscat is spending over $6.7bn to 2016/17 to raise power generation capacity from about 4,200 to over 5,500MW in 2012 and 6,400MW by 2017. The head of the General Electricity & Water Authority...
Tokyo, Jan 30, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO INC., Japan's leading mobile operator and provider of integrated services centered on mobility, LAWSON INC., one of the largest Japanese convenience store chains,...
The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) announced that five new members have been elected to its Commercial Board of Directors, which oversees the organization's commercial brokerage division. The new members are:...
KIRKLAND, Wash., Jan. 24, 2012 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Christopher Gardner, played by Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness" (Columbia Pictures, 2006), was jobless and homeless with a baby boy to support. He...
MANAVIGATOR-January 23, 2012-M&A Navigator: Deal pipeline - 23 January The following is a list of deals covered in detail by M&A Navigator this week: - CABOT CLOSES SALE OF SUPERMETALS UNIT TO GAM...