<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>allvoices - News &gt;&gt; Business &gt;&gt; Recent</title> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/</link> <description></description> <language>en-us</language> <item> <title>New home sales drop in July</title> <description>HIA said total sales fell a seasonally adjusted 7.2% in July, more than reversing June's 4% bounce. Private detached house sales dropped by 7.5%, while sales in the volatile multi-unit sector fell 5.2%. ``What is a very weak update on sales volumes r</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1210105-sales-survey</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:57:43 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Esterline raises profit outlook for full year</title> <description>The Bellevue-based aerospace and defense company said it expects to earn $3.50 to $3.60 per share for the year, up from a previously expected range of $3.45 to $3.55. The company also reported on Thursday that it earned net income of $20.5 million, o</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1209978</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:27:25 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>San Jose Mercury News: Skid Row recruiter agrees to plead guilty</title> <description>A Los Angeles man who recruited homeless people from Skid Row to receive unnecessary medical treatment in a scheme to defraud government health programs says he will plead guilty to federal charges. Estill Mitts agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy t</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1209926-plead-guilty</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:21:09 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>BSP hikes rates further by 25 bps</title> <description>Aug. 29 (PNA) &#226;&#8364;&#8220; Another 25 basis points (bps) were added to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) rates Thursday, as widely expected by the market. Thus, central bank's borrowing rate is now six percent while lending rate is eight percent. BSP Gove</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1209899-neda-posts</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:15:18 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>International Herald Tribune: Japan inflation rises sharply in July</title> <description>Japan says its core inflation in July rose a sharp 2.4 percent from a year earlier due to soaring food and gasoline prices. The figure marks the 10th straight month of increase for the core consumer price index, which excludes fresh food prices but i</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1209860-japan-inflation</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:03:50 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Centro dives into the red</title> <description>Centro, which owns about 670 US shopping malls, had posted a profit of $470 million in the previous year. The group, which said it had total debts of $6.56 billion, warned on Monday it was unlikely to secure any equity investment by a December deadli</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1209837</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:03:00 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Allco posts massive loss</title> <description>Allco, whose share price has dived over 93% so far this year on concerns over debts, warned in May it faced losses in excess of $1.5 billion in fiscal 2008 due to writedowns, impairments, cheap asset sales and restructuring costs. It said it will con</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1209737</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:08 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Olympic gold boosted U.K. consumer confidence, survey says</title> <description>Cheaper fuel costs and Great Britain's better-than-expected showing in the recently completed Beijing Olympics saw U.K. consumer confidence post a small rebound in August, although the measure remains far below year-ago levels, according to the resul</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1209642-olympic-morale</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:28:04 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Viewpoint: Latest trends have that 1990s look</title> <description>One of the consolations in the current weak property market was meant to be the idea that, however bad things appear, the position is not as bleak as it was in the early 1990s...Repossessions are still running at historically low levels and the numbe</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1209512-blanchflower-misguided</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:19:19 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Sims posts 81% rise in annual profit</title> <description>Sims has posted net profit for the 2008 financial year of $433.162 million. Sims declared a final dividend of 75 cents, 23 per cent franked, up from 60c 51 per cent franked in 2007. Revenue from ordinary activities was up 38.2 per cent to $7.671 bill</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1209432</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:07:22 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>How to find the right ETF for your portfolio</title> <description>Paul Justice, exchange-traded fund specialist at investment researcher Morningstar Inc., says that investors need to be careful in using ETFs to find the right match between assets and portfolio needs. Justice noted that he tends to look to ETFs that</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1209269-mutual-funds</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:29:15 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Tui boosts NZOG profit, dividends</title> <description>New Zealand Oil and Gas is rewarding shareholders with an extra 5c final dividend after posting a bumper $97 million annual profit on the back of its huge success from the offshore Tui oil field...That was a huge leap from a net profit of $6.8 millio</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1209120-nzog-tui</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:00:59 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Grains and oil prices finish lower after some volatile trading, but Gustav remains a worry</title> <description>A hurricane in the Gulf could drive up oil prices and other commodities along with them, but "the remnants of the hurricane could bring a lot of rain into the Midwest, and that could be bearish for the grains," Lespinasse said. Energy prices initiall</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1208975-oil-prices</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:22:27 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Fortune Brands drops Absolut 3 years early</title> <description>Also, the Deerfield-based company announced it will buy the Cruzan Rum brand from Pernod Ricard SA for $100 million. Both deals stem from France-based Pernod's winning $8.3 billion bid in April to buy Sweden's Vin &amp; Sprit AB, maker of Absolut...Fortu</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1208945-absolut-fortune</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:15:00 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>FDIC adding space in Dallas office as it prepares for more bank failures 3:37 PM CT</title> <description>The Dallas Morning News bcase@dallasnews Girding for more bank failures, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...The agency&#8217;s Division of Resolutions and Receivership, which handles failed banks, is based in Dallas. Dallas operates on a national level, </description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1208863-dallas-bank</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:48:52 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>The Best Stocks for a Balanced Portfolio</title> <description>Everyone's heard of Cisco Systems and Coca-Cola , after all, and most know what they do to generate revenue. There's also a lot of analyst and news coverage for large caps, so we all have a good way of knowing what these firms are up to...Why you nee</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1208323-crushes-balanced</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:04:59 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>CNBC: South Jersey Industries sets quarterly dividend</title> <description>7 28 Aug 2008 LinksList Documentid: 23452598 Expiration DateTime: 8/28/2008 11:21:38 AM South Jersey Industries sets quarterly dividend updated 1:47 p.m. South Jersey Industries on Thursday said its board declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1208039</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:20:55 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Stock takes : Air New Zealand salaries in tailspin</title> <description>It's getting tougher at the top at Air New Zealand where profits plunged in the second half of the past financial year. The airline's chief executive Rob Fyfe said the 13-member executive had seen their pay fall by around 18 per cent in the past year</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1207951-new-zealand</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:01:57 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Clock ticking on Zoo's fate</title> <description>Gulf Breeze News news@gulfbreezenews.com Santa Rosa County Commissioners said Monday they need to do even more research on what can be done budget-wise for struggling The Zoo Northwest Florida. They all agreed to do some of that research prior to tod</description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1207869-zoo-ticking</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:54:26 -0500</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Lutz says no hybrid race between Toyota, GM</title> <description>GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz says Toyota's plug-in hybrid has a much shorter electric range than the Chevrolet Volt and must use a gasoline engine to go any farther. Toyota's president pledged on Thursday to bring his company's plug-in hybrid to market </description> <author>allvoices / news</author> <link>http://www.allvoices.com/news/1207852-hybrid-toyota</link> <category>Business News</category> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:53:50 -0500</pubDate> </item> </channel> </rss>
