ABN AMRO listing more likely than sale-Dutch FinMin

Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:07am EST * ABN IPO likelier than sale to foreign, Dutch bank - FinMin * FinMin expects 3 candidates for central bank president (Adds comments, details) AMSTERDAM, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager said on Tuesday a sale of state-owned bank ABN AMRO [ABNNV.UL] to a foreign or domestic bank was less likely than a stock listing, which is expected in 2014 at the earliest. The Dutch government nationalised ABN AMRO in October Read more [...]

NS mom horrified baby listed for sale on Kijiji

A young Sydney, N.S., mother is horrified her two-month old son was listed for sale in an online classified advertisement. "I just felt disgusted that somebody would actually do that," Sharon MacLean told CBC News on Tuesday. "It's kind of sick, when you think about it." MacLean found out about the ad on Kijii when Cape Breton regional police visited her Friday night. Police hope to find out who put up the Kijiji ad. They received a call just after 10 p.m. local time Friday from someone who had Read more [...]

Fondul Proprietatea shares listed on Bucharest Stock Exchange. See opening price – Romania

Fondul Proprietatea shares listed on Bucharest Stock Exchange. See opening price The first transactions with the Fondul Proprietatea shares were held at a price of RON 0.602 per share this morning, when the fund was listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE). The fund was listed directly, without an Initial Public Offering (IPO). More about the evolution of the fund’s shares here. The BSE listing of Fondul Proprietatea, known as the restitution fund, has been awaited by shareholders Read more [...]

AIB to be de-listed from ISEQ

IMF urges bigger EU bailout fund - 25 Jan 2011 The International Monetary Fund has called on the EU to increase the size of its sovereign bailout fund. Cloud computing can create 8,600 jobs - Microsoft - 24 Jan 2011 A report commissioned by Microsoft has claimed that cloud computing could help create 8,600 jobs in Ireland by 2014. 2011 roads programme announced - 24 Jan 2011 Minister for Transport Pat Carey has announced details of the Government’s Read more [...]

Burns Night events and links in Edinburgh

Robert Burns | pic: public domainThe Guardian's Scotland correspondent Severin Carrell was at the opening of the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum last week. Let him take you on a tour in this post. The Burns feature starts around three minutes into the clip. Scotland's first minister Alex Salmond marked the anniversary of the bard's birth by calling for all schoolchildren to visit the museum. He said: "This new museum cost £21 million, and it is worth every penny even in these tough times. Read more [...]

Burr set to ring changes for Forest Green clash

Burr set to ring changes for Forest Green clash 3:00pm Tuesday 25th January 2011 Print Email Share Comments(0) HARRIERS boss Steve Burr is set to shuffle his small squad for tonight's Blue Square Bet Premier clash at Forest Green Rovers but the future of transfer-listed top scorer Chris McPhee is unclear. McPhee has been attracting interest from Hereford and Grimsby since the Aggborough outfit put him up for sale. It Read more [...]

Manufacturing exec lists in South Barrington

Thomas Migala listed for sale a four-bedroom, four-bath home at 1 Liberty Dr. in South Barrington for $639,900.Migala paid $655,000 for the property in June 2005. The 3,270-square-foot house was built in 1979 in South Barrington West. Lori Rowe of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage is the listing agent for the home. Migala is president and CEO of FANUC AMERICA Corporation, a subsidiary of FANUC Limited of Japan, which provides factory automation solutions and manufacturing technology. Prior to Read more [...]

Spain sees borrowing rates fall in bond sale

MADRID (AP) — Spain's borrowing costs dropped significantly in a heavily oversubscribed auction of euro2.2 billion ($3 billion) in short-term debt Tuesday, a day after the government announced reforms for its ailing savings bank sector. The Treasury said demand for the 3- and 6-month bills was about five times the amount sold. The average interest rate in the 3-month bill sale was 0.9 percent, down sharply from 1.8 percent in the last such auction Dec. 21. The Read more [...]

White iPhone 4 Soon To Go On Sale In The UK

White iPhone 4 Soon To Go On Sale In The UKYesterday we told you that the elusive white iPhone 4 had appeared in ATT’s inventory, now it looks like it will shortly be available in the UK as it has appeared on the websites of two mobile operators, Three and Orange.Both websites have the white iPhone 4 listed, although you can’t order them yet, so we suspect they will be available very soon.No doubt we will get an official announcement from Apple soon telling us that the white iPhone 4 is available, Read more [...]

NS baby listed for sale on Kijiji

A two-month-old baby was listed for sale in an online classified advertisement as a joke, say police in Cape Breton, N.S. Officers got a call just after 10 p.m. local time on Friday from someone who had seen a Kijiji for-sale ad for a two-month-old in Sydney, said Desiree Vassallo, a spokeswoman for the Cape Breton Regional Police. "Obviously it was a concerning issue to us and so we did follow up on it to make sure that there wasn't anything of concern happening there," Vassallo told CBC News Read more [...]