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July 23 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. , battling to keep its global sales crown, fell further behind Toyota Motor Corp. during the second quarter as a deteriorating U.S. market overshadowed gains overseas. GM dropped 5 percent to 2.29 million ...

F5 Networks Inc. , which creates network traffic management products, posted a fiscal third-quarter decline of 12.4 percent Wednesday as robust sales failed to overcome higher costs. For the three months ended June 30, net income fell to $19.1 ...

Alcon, Inc. ACL reported global sales of $1,735.2 million for the second quarter of 2008, an increase of 17.9 percent compared to the second quarter of 2007, or 11.2 percent excluding the impact of foreign exchange fluctuations. Net earnings for the ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ Profits posted Wednesday by Pfizer Inc. and Wyeth show a common theme among pharmaceutical companies — nearly all the growth they're seeing these days is overseas, driven by emerging markets and the weak dollar. U.K.-based ...

Raising prices and streamlining its production lines helped Hershey to dramatically higher second-quarter sales and profit, the nation's largest candy maker said Wednesday, even as it absorbs spiraling commodity costs and puts new emphasis on ...

July 23 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. , the world's largest Internet retailer, posted second-quarter profit that exceeded analysts' estimates after consumers bought more toys and electronics overseas. Full-year sales may exceed its previous forecast ...

July 23 (Bloomberg) -- Aflac Inc. , the world's largest seller of supplemental health insurance, said profit rose 16 percent as it benefited from a stronger yen and boosted sales through banks in Japan, its largest market. Second-quarter net income ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors (GM.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) trailed Japanese rival Toyota (7203.T: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) in global vehicle sales decisively through the second quarter and first half of the ...

SEOUL, July 18 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) is expected to report a small rise in quarterly profits thanks to higher sales and a weak currency, but South Korea's top auto maker faces a tough ...

LISBON, July 23 (Reuters) - Portugal's oil company Galp (GALP.LS: Quote , Profile , Research ) said on Wednesday its sales of refined products edged up about 1 percent in the second quarter of this year from a year earlier to reach 4.1 million tonnes ...

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For the most part, avoiding scams is easy, as long as one remains informed and defensive. The St. George area is not immune. One scam coerces buyers to invest $3,000 to $7,000 for a "coaching program." This issue begins with an initial unwise ...

"I could never imagine this," said Mario Thevis, head of a Cologne-based center for preventive doping research, on Tuesday, July 22. The documentary, entitled "Flying High in Middle Kingdom," broadcast on Monday night by Germany's state-run ARD ...

"Jeffrey, I’m new to sales. How do I get better?" "Jeffrey, I’ve been in sales two years. How do I get better?" Put your "big picture guidelines" in front of your face and keep them there. Salespeople can become fixed on making one sale at the ...

BURBANK, CA--(Marketwire - July 22, 2008) - As we all know, buying a car can be a trying experience. We also know that car salespeople can be a bit sneaky at times, telling you something is included when in actuality it isn't, or perhaps not the way ...

3. How important is widespread financial literacy to the health of a modern society? Before you answer the first question, take this little quiz, borrowed from the website of Annamaria Lusardi , a professor of economics at Dartmouth who knows and ...

Henry Swieca is Co-Founder and has served as the Chief Investment Officer of Highbridge since its inception in 1992. In 1984, Mr. Swieca, along with his partner, Glenn Dubin, founded HCM’s predecessor firm, Dubin & Swieca, an asset management ...

The announcement was made in the lobby of the Don Reynolds Performance Hall at the University of Central Arkansas. Welcoming those in attendance was a brass quintet composed of Professor Larry Jones and Bryan Light, trumpet; Jeff Jarvis, tuba; Denis ...

Published in the October 2001 issue. First and foremost: This is your time with the car—and it's often the time when the sales person is trying to close the deal. Therefore, take a friendly but firm position with the salesperson. It's reasonable to ...

Photo: #Mike Wisti, frontman of the band Rank Strangers, with his band's new album cover. Wisti regrets all the years Rank Strangers released its music on cd rather than vinyl. Photo: #A turntable at the Uptown Cheapo in Minneapolis. Younger buyers ...

My colleague Louise Lee’s new story digging into Dell’s customer-service challenges won’t come as a surprise to the many folks who commented on a post that asked for people’s experiences with the PC giant. (Thanks!) The story points up a ...

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Rock-star widow Courtney Love has been sued by a management firm for allegedly failing to pay commissions for the partial sale of her share of the Nirvana publishing catalogue. The suit was filed in Los Angeles ...

BANGALORE (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (LEH.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) is likely to make a sizable asset sale, which may include a sale of its investment management unit Neuberger Berger, in a move to address problems ...

Fiorentina insist Adrian Mutu will remain at the Stadio Artemio Franchi, despite reports that the striker is on the verge of sealing a move to Roma. Both Serie A clubs admitted on Wednesday that an offer had been made by the capital club for Mutu ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) quarterly net income doubled from a year ago and beat Wall Street targets, though much of the gain was related to the sale of European DVD rental assets ...

BANKERS and analysts yesterday claimed the odds are sharply narrowing on Royal Bank of Scotland shelving plans to sell its insurance arm. Commonwealth Bank of Australia, meanwhile, confirmed it was in exclusive talks to buy ABN Amro's Australian and ...

Glimcher Realty Trust signed off its second quarter in the black as the mall operator logged gains on a property sale and recorded a 9 percent boost in revenue. The Columbus real estate investment trust said after the markets closed Wednesday that ...

St Michael's Episcopal of Easley will be conducting its Fall children's consignment sale August 22 and 23. Consigners please contact Shannon (864 442-6505) or Anne 864 859-2407 as soon as possible. At the church at 1200 Powdersville Road in Easley ...

The problem with directly addressing rumors rather than using “no comment� is that the public then expects the same treatment each time. Thus is the predicament Digg’s chief executive Jay Adelson now finds himself in . During the last round of ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.— Electronics contract manufacturer Sanmina-SCI Corp. on Wednesday said it swung to a fiscal third-quarter profit following the sale of its personal computing business. For the three months ended June 28, Sanmina-SCI posted a profit ...

23-Jul-2008 - The sale of Tate & Lyle's international sugar trading business to US oilseed firm Bunge is now unconditional, removing the UK sweetener group from the volatile sugar market. The deal was first announced at the start of this month ...