International Business News - February http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Discount brokerage Charles Schwab Corp. said Friday daily average trades in February rose 5 percent to 289,400. The company, which competes against TD Ameritrade and E-Trade, said it added $12.5 billion in net client assets in the month and finished February with 10 percent higher client assets of $1.39 trillion. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080314/schwab-february-volume-up-5-percent.htm Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:36:45 EDT Nymex Holdings Inc., which operates the New York Mercantile Exchange, said Friday average daily trading volume in February rose 20 percent to 1.85 million contracts. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080314/nymex-feb-trading-volume-up-20-percent.htm Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:53:17 EDT Knight Capital Group Inc.'s average daily trading volume 36 percent in February as market volatility led to an increase in activity versus a year ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080314/knight-capital-feb-trading-volume-rises.htm Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:12:06 EDT Basic Energy Services Inc. said Monday that demand for its rigs has risen since the beginning of the year and it expects further improvement through 2008. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080310/basic-energy-says-rig-demand-is-rising.htm Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:24:36 EDT Mesa Air Group Inc. said Thursday its traffic fell sharply in February, as it continued to face weather-related and operational issues. Mesa's traffic dropped 11.6 percent to 447.9 million revenue passenger miles last month from 506.8 million a year earlier. Capacity fell 8.1 percent to 627.8 million available seat miles. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080307/mesa-feb-traffic-down-sharply.htm Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:39:00 EST Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. said Thursday it posted higher mainline unit revenue in February, with increased traffic and fuller planes. Frontier's mainline statistics excludes flights under subsidiary Lynx Aviation. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080307/frontier-mainline-unit-revenue-rises.htm Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:18:36 EST American Airlines said Tuesday its traffic rose in February, as strong demand for international trips offset domestic weakness. AMR Corp.'s flagship airline report 2.5 percent growth in traffic, to 9.97 billion revenue passenger miles from 9.74 billion a year earlier. A revenue passenger mile is an industry unit that represents one paying passenger flown one mile. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080304/american-airlines-traffic-rises-in-feb.htm Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:27:17 EST Continental Airlines Inc. said Monday its traffic rose in February though it flew emptier planes because of capacity increases. The airline company's traffic rose 4.5 percent to 6.77 billion revenue passenger miles from 6.48 billion a year earlier. It lifted capacity 5.8 percent to 8.91 billion available seat miles from 8.42 billion in February 2007. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080303/continental-traffic-rises-in-february.htm Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:57:23 EST