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Frontier Air pilots ratify labor pact with wage concessions -
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TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc., the Denver carrier, said that members of its pilots union ratified a labor contract that extends through December 2011. The pilots voted 85% in favor of the new contract, ...
Frontier Airlines
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Nokia cut at WestLB, exchange-rate trends cited -
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- WestLB cut its rating on Nokia Corp. , the world's largest maker of mobile phones, to reduce from hold, saying it believes the next two quarters will not yield positive news for the shares. The broker also told clients ...
Nokia
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Eastern Europe's Russia gas imports plunge on Gazprom cuts -
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Eastern European countries saw deeper cuts in natural gas imports from Russia after energy giant OAO Gazprom reduced supplies transiting Ukraine and bound for Europe, companies said Tuesday. A top E.U. official said ...
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United Utilities cut at Goldman, regulatory threat cited -
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Goldman Sachs cut its rating on United Utilities to sell from neutral, saying it believes the U.K. water sector faces two significant threats in 2009. The first is posed by Ofwat's regulatory review, which ...
Goldman Sachs
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Lionsgate to pay $255 mln for Macrovision's TV Guide units -
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TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Lionsgate Entertainment, the Vancouver movie studio, agreed to acquire the TV Guide Network and TV Guide online from Macrovision Solutions for $255 million, the companies said late on Monday. In reaching ...
Macrovision Solutions
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Continental Air December load factor up 1.2 points to 79.9% -
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TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Continental Airlines, the Houston carrier, said late on Monday that its consolidated load factor, the percentage of seats filled with paying passengers, widened to 79.9%, 1.2 percentage points stronger ...
Continental Airlines
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Johnson Matthey cut to hold at Citi -
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Johnson Matthey , the specialist chemicals firm, was downgraded to hold from buy at Citigroup, with the broker citing a 75% rally on the back of better-than-forecast guidance the company issued in November, a bounce ...
Citigroup
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Next sales drop, sees FY results in line with expectations -
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- British fashion store chain operator Next said Tuesday that sales from Jul. 29 to Dec. 24 fell 1.9% compared to the same period a year ago. Comparable retail sales fell 7.0%, the firm noted. Still, Next expects ...
Retail Sales
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CRH sees fiscal-year profit drop, says outlook challenging -
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Irish building materials group CRH said Tuesday that it expects 2008 profit before tax of more than 1.6 billion euros, down from 1.9 billion euros it recorded a year ago. CRH said that this result would ...
Building Materials
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Shanghai Pudong Bank 2008 net profit more than doubles -
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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co., the Shanghai-listed bank in which Citigroup Inc. owns a stake, said net profit for 2008 more than doubled from a year earlier. Net profit totaled 12.5 billion yuan ($1.8 ...
Citigroup
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