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10th of February 1999 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 10 februari 1999
Sports and TV Start-Ups Limit News Corp. Earnings
Date: 11 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
News Corp reports its fiscal second-quarter income fell 14 percent; income from operations fell to $339 million from $395 million in year-earlier period; revenue rose 15 percent, to $4.06 billion from $3.53 billion; Fox Entertainment Group says profit rose 52 percent; net income rose to $105 million from $69 million a year ago; News Corp says it will end its agreement to buy as much as 80 percent of Stream pay-television unit of Telecom Italia if Italian Government decree limiting soccer-rights ownership is not changed; British Sky Broadcasting, which is 40 percent owned by News Corp, says sales for its new digital service surpassed forecasts; profit for fiscal second quarter fell to 800,000 pounds--about $1.3 million--from 61 million pounds--about $100 million (M)
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Portsmouth Attracts Another Possible Buyer
Date: 11 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
News Communication and Media PLC, British regional newspaper publisher, says it is in talks to buy newspaper assets of Portsmouth and Sunderland Newspapers PLC, local retailer and publisher; graph (S)
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Judge Gags Press at Trial of Malaysia's Former Deputy Premier
Date: 11 February 1999
By Mark Landler
Mark Landler
Judge in corruption trial of Malaysia's ousted Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, bars news media from publishing Anwar's court statements about Prime Min Mahathir Mohamad and Police Chief Abdul Rahim Noor; has rejected Anwar's charges of political conspiracy (M)
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Audience Participation
Date: 11 February 1999
By Richard L. Fox
Richard Fox
Prof Richard L Fox Op-Ed article contrasts news media's stress on Monica Lewinsky scandal when reporters questioned Rev Jesse Jackson after his Black History Month speech at Union College with student interest in issues he raised (M)
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PLAYTEX HOPES TO EXPAND BUSINESSES WITH ACQUISITIONS
Date: 10 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Playtex Products Inc. wants to expand its infant-care and skin- care businesses and will consider additional acquisitions this year, Michael Gallagher, its chief executive, said yesterday. Playtex, based in Westport, Conn., and the maker of Playtex tampons, Chubs baby wipes and other goods, said it would also consider acquisitions to expand its largest business, which is feminine-care products. Infant-care products are expected to generate as much as 38 percent of Playtex sales this year, an increase from a third of sales in 1998 and 25 percent in 1997, the company said.
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MANULIFE TO BUY DAIHYAKU INSURANCE BUSINESS
Date: 10 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company of Canada said it would pay 80 billion yen, or $703.8 million (United States), for the business of the Daihyaku Life Insurance Company of Japan, becoming the second foreign insurer to buy into the world's largest life insurance market. Daihyaku will transfer most of its sales and support staff of 6,800 to a joint venture with Manulife, Canada's largest mutual life insurer. Manulife will own 75 percent of the venture, and Daihyaku will own the rest. Deregulation and Japan's weakening economy are providing opportunities for foreign companies to enter the Japanese insurance market, which, with annual premiums of $500 billion, is about twice the size of its counterpart in the United States. GE Capital Services, a unit of the General Electric Company, is already active there.
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REGULATION COULD DELAY THE PURCHASE OF BANKERS TRUST
Date: 10 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Deutsche Bank A.G.'s planned $10.1 billion acquisition of the Bankers Trust Corporation could be derailed if regulators in the United States delay approval, Rolf Breuer, chief executive of Deutsche, said. He commented to a German TV station on Monday after the bank, Jewish leaders, and American and German Government officials met in Washington to try to settle compensation claims by victims of the Nazi Holocaust and their heirs. The acquisition by Bankers Trust, based in New York, by Deutsche, Germany's largest bank, requires the approval of banking regulators in the United States Government and in New York State.
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MORGAN STANLEY TO PURCHASE SPANISH BROKERAGE FIRM
Date: 10 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, the third-largest United States brokerage firm, said it would buy Asesores Bursatiles, Spain's biggest independent broker, giving it $4.34 billion in managed funds in one of Europe's fastest-growing asset management markets. The purchase gives Morgan Stanley, based in New York, an entry into individual investor services in Europe, and the Spanish company's 420-branch private banking network could also help increase Morgan Stanley's share of securities underwriting for Spanish corporations. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Shares of Morgan Stanley fell $2.8125, to $85.75.
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DEUTSCHE BANK SEES NO ROADBLOCKS TO BANKERS TRUST
Date: 11 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Deutsche Bank AG chief executive Rolf Breuer says he is confident that his bank's acquisition of Bankers Trust Corp will be completed as planned this year (S)
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SEAGRAM DECIDES TO KEEP POLYGRAM FILM UNIT
Date: 11 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Seagram Co will keep international operations of Polygram Filmed Entertainment after talks to sell it to Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Bandur Abdul Aziz for as much as $600 million break down; Seagram's Universal Studios will integrate Polygram business (S)
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