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While you were sleeping Coca-Cola earnings sizzle

While you were sleeping Coca-Cola earnings sizzle

By Margreet Dietz April 17 (BusinessDesk) - Wall Street gained as investors opted to focus on American corporate earnings that surpassed expectations, while the latest economic data bolstered the case for the Federal Reserve to maintain its stimulus measures. Shares of Coca-Col...

16 Apr 2013
Chorus signs UFB build contracts; Govt to change security laws

Chorus signs UFB build contracts; Govt to change security laws

By Paul McBeth April 17 (BusinessDesk) - Chorus, the telecommunications network operator spun out of Telecom, has signed contracts with Visionstream and Downer worth some $1 billion for those firms to build the nation's ultrafast broadband network, and is still in talks with Tra...

16 Apr 2013
GPG to reap 92 mln pounds from latest round of asset sales

GPG to reap 92 mln pounds from latest round of asset sales

April 17 (BusinessDesk) - Guinness Peat Group, which expects to rebrand itself as UK threadmaker Coats later this year, anticipates it will reap 92 million pounds from its latest round of asset sales. The London-headquartered will have raised 129 million pounds from assets sale...

16 Apr 2013