HSBC's Bill Maldonado is a man who loves to mix science with art -- be that in running Halbis's hedge fund business, riding his high-power Ducati motorbike on a race track or piloting a light aircraft.
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co is preparing for an initial public offering for discount retailer Dollar General, a source said, and others are speculated to follow as it looks to take advantage of a recent rise in equity markets.
Las Vegas Sands, the world's largest casino firm, is seeking $400 million in short-term funding to help boost cash and restart construction of its stalled resort in Macau, local media reported on Saturday.
United Arab Emirates-based Dana Gas said on Saturday it had made two gas finds in Egypt with reserves totalling an estimated 76 billion cubic feet.
The downturn in the German car industry has bottomed out but it will take time before sales recover to the levels of recent years, the president of Germany's car industry association (VDA) said on Saturday.
South Africa's Communications Workers Union said scores of its members will strike for two days next week, in the latest industrial action to hit the country and pile pressure on President Jacob Zuma.
Kuwait Projects Co, the country's biggest investment company by assets, posted a second-quarter net profit decline of 56.5 percent, but said it was confident about progress for the rest of 2009.
The research arm of Dutch bancassurer ING has dropped coverage of about 60 major pan-European stocks after changes in research personnel, the company said.
The German state of Lower Saxony sees growing chances to wrest control in the merger of carmakers VW and Porsche from the Porsche and Piech families, a German magazine reported on Saturday.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier phoned GM's chief executive to underscore Germany's expectations for the sale of GM's Opel unit, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co is preparing for an initial public offering for discount retailer Dollar General, a source said, and others are speculated to follow as it looks to take advantage of a recent rise in equity markets.
The pension deficit of Britain's biggest 200 companies could leap to an unprecedented 110 billion pounds ($182 billion) in the next few months, consultant Aon said on Saturday.
Lender CIT Group, which recently obtained a $3 billion loan from its bondholders, said on Friday it will give $1 billion of that money to its trade finance unit.
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co is preparing up to six companies for initial public offerings (IPOs) in the next year, the Financial Times reported in its Saturday edition.
Oil and gas drilling company Rowan Companies Inc said on Friday the director designated by Steel Partners II LP had resigned from its board because the activist hedge fund's stake fell below 5 percent.
UBS AG's Chief Executive Oswald Grubel wants to run the Swiss bank's U.S. brokerage unit for at least three years and sell it later at some point, CNBC said on Friday.
In landing the first big mandate from Sanofi since the French drugmaker switched chief executives, U.S. boutique Evercore Partners gets some $13 million of fees and a league-table boost.
CDC Software Corp is hoping to ride the wave of well-received Chinese public stock offerings in the United States, but its estimated $57.6 million IPO could be hurt by weakness in the market for corporate software.
General Electric Co said on Friday it had renewed its agreement to provide Wal-Mart Stores Inc's private-label credit cards for the next six years, in a move the biggest U.S. conglomerate said signaled its commitment to the credit card business.
Southwest Airlines Co's bid for bankrupt Frontier Airlines could reignite growth at the airline, but questions remain about how smoothly the famously no-frills company can integrate the two carriers.
Honda is expanding a recall of three of its models to 440,000 vehicles because of a potential flaw in the airbag inflator, officials said Friday, adding that the recall started in November.
British oil major BP shut Europe's second largest oil refinery on Friday after a power outage, while gasoline units were closed in France and Germany by Total and a joint venture including Shell.
The worldwide economy is in the doldrums and jobless numbers are rising but it hasn't stopped people from taking cruises to get away from it all.
Americans flocked to auto dealerships this month to take advantage of government rebates for gas-guzzling
Ford Motor Co has seen a sharp increase in sales over the past week since its dealers began accepting trade-ins under the U.S. government's
The House of Representatives has quickly voted to allocate an additional $2 billion for the in demand ‘Cash for Clunkers' car rebate program just ahead of its summer recess.
Unity Media, Germany's No. 2 cable operator, is preparing for an initial public offering toward the end of this year, raising as much as 1 billion euros ($1.4 billion), people familiar with the matter said.
Top U.S. auto dealer chain AutoNation Inc posted a 29 percent drop in quarterly earnings, but forecast an improving market after slashing inventory costs and seeing a sharp gain in July sales.
Sources said that Apple Inc is to hug the huge Chinese market, leaking the pictures of new iPhone models for Unicom in China, NetEase reported on Friday.
A delegation of lawmakers from Michigan, home of the U.S. auto industry is seeking to keep alive the 'cash-for-clunkers' subsidy program for the auto industry after high demand.
