SCHERING-PLOUGH IS SUBPOENAED IN PRICING INQUIRY
Date: 11 March 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Schering-Plough Corp receives grand jury subpoena in Justice Department probe into whether it and Wyeth conspired to lower drug broker's commissions (S)
Full Article
HSBC TO BUY BRAZILIAN UNIT OF BANK OF AMERICA
Date: 11 March 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
HSBC Holdings will take over Bank of America's
Full Article
BLYTH AGREES TO BUY MILES KIMBALL, INTERNET RETAILER
Date: 11 March 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Blyth Inc agrees to buy Miles Kimball Co, Internet and catalog retailer of cards and gifts, for $65 million (S)
Full Article
ALLEGHENY ENERGY SAYS IT WILL MISS DEADLINE FOR REPORT
Date: 11 March 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Allegheny Energy Inc will not meet March 31 deadline to file its annual report with securities regulators because of accounting errors (S)ï
Full Article
WEYERHAEUSER TO SELL LAND FOR $185 MILLION TO CUT DEBT
Date: 11 March 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Weyerhaeuser To Sell Land For $185 Million To Cut Debt**
Full Article
Nasdaq Earns $300,000 in Fourth Quarter
Date: 11 March 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Nasdaq stock market earnedÿ
Full Article
AstraZeneca's Marketing Of Drugs Is Investigated
Date: 11 March 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
AstraZeneca says in filing with Securities and Exchange Commission says US prosecutors and Federal Trade Commission officials are investigating their marketing of ulcer drugs Prilosec and Nexium; Federal prosecutors in Boston subpoena AstraZeneca documents about Prilosec from New England Medical Center as well as service and purchase agreements with pharmacy benefits company AdvancePCS; SEC also issues demand for documents tied to advertising and marketing of Nexium; AstraZeneca is cooperating with probes (M)
Full Article
THREATS AND RESPONSES: Briefly Noted; ALERT NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE
Date: 10 March 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Security alert is set off near White House after Secret Service officer spots unidentified barrel on sidewalk about two blocks away (S)
Full Article
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 11 March 2003
INTERNATIONAL A3-8 White House and Britain Try to Build Support in U.N. The White House declared that the United Nations Security Council's failure to act against Iraq would not only compound mistakes of the 1990's but would encourage North Korea and Iran as they race to build nuclear arsenals. President Bush dialed around the world and Britain raced to offer compromises to uncommitted members to try to build support for a new Security Council resolution authorizing force if Iraq fails to disarm. President Jacques Chirac of France stated unequivocally that he would veto any new resolution, and Russia echoed that view. A1 Secretary General Kofi Annan warned that if the United States fails to win approval from the Security Council for an attack on Iraq, Washington's decision to act alone or ''outside the council'' would violate the United Nations Charter. A10
Full Article