Archive for November, 2008

Pastor Hintze EADS Will Offer Paroli

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Since the change of government is the post of aviation coordinator in Berlin vacant - an absurd, especially since the discussions on the Airbus-run rehabilitation. Meanwhile, Chancellor Merkel's candidate for the job chosen. It is an old friend from days of Helmut Kohl.
Berlin - The Economic State Secretary Peter Hintze, the Office as a government coordinator for the Aerospace. This should be the CDU politician still be ordered by the Cabinet, reports the news agency Reuters, referring to Berlin's government circles convene.
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Hintze: No profile in aviation - but good wires in European policy The Ministry of Economic Affairs Personnel wanted to officially neither confirm nor deny. The post has since the start of the grand coalition more than a year ago vacant.
Hintze would in the new office played an important role in the talks on the Airbus remediation responsible. The Airbus parent company EADS is planning a tough austerity program. German politicians are concerned, domestic locations could be compared to French disadvantage.
Hintze on Tuesday had already participated in the talks, the German Economics Minister Michael Glos (CSU) with the two Heads of EADS, Louis Gallois and Thomas Enders, had, reports the Financial Times Deutschland. Confidant of the Chancellor Hintze was at the time of the Kohl government CDU Secretary-General. In the air-and space policy, the politicians, the pastor by profession, has not excelled. However, the former CDU Secretary-General, as an intimate knowledge europapolitischer operations. When pan Airbus his contacts might be useful. The 56-year-old is also considered one of the confidants of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The post ofAerospace coordinator has been the change of government in autumn 2005 vacant. Economics Minister Michael Glos, after taking office his first Parliamentary State Secretary Dagmar Wöhrl entrust with the item. The advanced technology policy CSU politician, however, was not enforceable, since the wife of aviation and textile entrepreneur Hans Rudolf Wöhrl. Glos critics had accused her husband could Wöhrl Regierungsinsiderin as a competitive advantage. itz / dpa-AFX / Reuters

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Saudis Beat Texan

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

If it were up to the value of the stock market, then the Texas Exxon Ölmulti the most expensive and most powerful group in the world. In fact, however, a company from Saudi Arabia, the most valuable global, McKinsey reckons now.
Hamburg / London - the business advice, according to the Saudi Arabian state oil group Saudi Aramco 781 billion U.S. dollars worth, and therefore the currently most valuable companies worldwide. The listed American rival Exxon Mobil
However, on a market capitalization of 454 billion U.S. dollars last.
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Ölanlage in Saudi Arabia: State but topmodern and world leaders The McKinsey consultants have in their study together with the "Financial Times" is trying to determine the value of grßten unlisted companies to identify. It went from a fictitious IPO of companies in 2005 and calculated how much the stock today probably would. Also represented Sparkassen The results of the study, according to McKinsey, the big influence significantly the unlisted and state-owned enterprises over large areas of the world economy. In the top ten land equal to nine state oil companies - such as Pemex from Mexico (415 billion dollars) in second place and Petróleos de Venezuela (388 billion dollars) to rank three of the non-listed giants.
Also participating companies such as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) - through the participation in the takeover of ProSiebenSat.1 in the headlines - land far forward. KKR, according to McKinsey 83 billion U.S. dollars worth of rival Carlyle Group brings to 71 billion. From Germany made it the Sparkassen Group (14) and the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim (ranked 35) to the list of börsenfernen heavyweights.
The consultants stressed the high value of Saudi Aramco was covered by the reforms to declare the company in recent years have gone through. It now belongs to the most advanced oil companies ever. itz

Less Worthy, But Exceeded Expectations

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

The Internet retailer Amazon has in the third quarter, a decline in profits, while the market expectations but exceeded them. Charged was the result of higher technology investments.
Los Angeles - The weltgrßte online retailer Amazon earned in the third quarter of 19 million U.S. dollars, or 5 cents per share compared with 30 million U.S. dollars or 7 cents per share in the relevant section of the previous year. This, the Seattle-based company today, after close of the market. The company justified the high profit decline of investment in technology and online content.
Sales roseopposed by 24 percent, from 1.86 to 2.31 billion U.S. dollars, which was above analysts' estimate of 2.25 billion. Since Amazon.com also the profit of Wall Street expectations by three cents per share exceeded clearly has appealed the shares of the company nachbörslich strongly by eleven percent to 37.33 U.S. dollars.
For the fourth quarter, Amazon sales from 3625 to 3950 billion dollars in view. When operating profit, the online merchants the bar at 145 to 235 million dollars. For the full year will Amazon 10350 to 10675 billion dollars and operationally implement 339 to 429 million dollars earned. After a profit slump in the second quarter had reduced seineJahresprognose Amazon.
In the third quarterAmazon wrapped around half of the business in North America. Sales there rose by 21 percent to 1.26 billion U.S. dollars. The foreign business, consisting of Japan, Germany, Britain, France and China expanded its sales by 29 percent to 1.05 billion U.S. dollars. With electronic equipment Amazon continued to 699 million U.S. dollars, 43 percent more than a year ago.
New customers willAmazon with the offer for auto parts finden.Das company offers one million car-10.000verschiedene products for car and truck models and competes so mitMassenmarkt providers. kai / dpa / Reuters / E / Reuters

Euro Notes Crumble In The Hand

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

It sounds crime novel: In Germany, notes emerged that are mysteriously dissolve itself. The police standing in front of a mystery. Possibly it is a blackmail attempt, reported the "Bild"-Zeitung.
Hamburg - The zerbröselten simply notes in hand, the newspaper reported today. Especially often come to see it at 50-euro notes resolution to this strange phenomena. An official police report, according to the paper that exists, sulphuric acid was the reason for the phenomenon. That process could not be explained. Even in their search for the perpetrators tappten officials still in the dark. Several Landeskriminalämter such as Berlin and Rhineland-Palatinate now identified in the case.
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50 euro Flowers: The certificates that are simply crumble, but really For the first time was on 21 June in Berlin destroyed a 20-euro bill in the state bank has been, says the report. On 14 July were the remains of two five-euro notes at Dresdner Bank in Potsdam have been submitted.
The police had initially expected of individual cases, from August, however, especially in the vicinity of Berlin and Potsdam increasing number of "broken notes" have emerged as the destroyed notes would be officially called.
The tickets had finally spread throughout Germany. Affected were Karlsruhe, Wurzburg, Frankfurt an der Oder, Magdeburg, Kiel, Bad Mergentheim, Dusseldorf, Giessen, Munich, Cottbus, Rostock, Leipzig, Erfurt, Koblenz and Freiburg.
chemists suspect according to the report that the decomposition process of banknotes only through contact with the hand is triggered. Possibly, the notes with a sulfate salt powdered, in conjunction with moisture - for example, by show of hands sweat - to develop sulphuric acid. To speak, that the notes only after some time had dissolved. Because the note numbers and the record numbers, which has been printed, would ensure that the notes from a federal printing came. A manufacturing error will be definitely excluded. Investigators fear according to the report that a blackmailer may want to prove that he could destroy the euro. ASE / AFP

BenQ Employees Disrupt Staging Brecht

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

To access the mass layoffs to draw the attention have terminated employees of BenQ Mobile a theatrical premiere in Oberhausen disrupted. Also behind the scenes to do something, said CDU politician Rüttgers: The hive could be financially better equipped.
Oberhausen - Gekündigte employees of the insolvent mobile phone manufacturer BenQ Mobile on Friday evening premiere presentation of the Oberhausen production "The Holy Johanna slaughterhouses" interrupted. They verlasen a text, with on the release of 1000 workers in Kamp-Lintfort "wanted attention, as the Theater Oberhausen on Saturday.
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employees of BenQ Mobile: First rallies in front of the plant in Kamp-Lintfort (here on October 12), now also in the theatre "At this stage you see a play about the shortcomings of capitalism. It is also our cause, at this stage is being negotiated," said a spokesman for the secondment. The interruption has, according to the theatre ten minutes. The idea was then continued.
mid-September, the insolvency administrator of BenQ Mobile, Martin Prager, announced that in 1900 the 3000 points in the former Siemens mobile phone division should be deleted:
Jobs in 1100 should plant in Kamp-Lintfort away, where 1800 people worked so far, 850 jobs would be deleted in the Munich plant, where so far 1300 employees.
Meanwhilehinted the North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU) that the hive for the BenQ Group will be financially better equipped. "In recent days there has been a large number of talks and negotiations, the cause for cautious optimism," said Rüttgers the "Rheinische Post". "It happens behind the scenes a lot."
The Munich Siemens group appeared ready to make concessions. "My impression is that, in particular, Siemens in recent weeks has recognized that its own responsibility," said the CDU politician. Apparently the company wants that responsibility now be aware of this. fba / AP / dpa