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Nike Profit Up on Strong U.S. Demand SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nike Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=NKE.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">NKE.N</A>, the world's largest athletic shoe company, on Monday reported a 25 percent rise in quarterly profit, beating analysts' estimates, on growing demand for its namesake products in the United States. | 2 |
Stocks Open Down, Oil Up, Colgate Warns NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks opened lower on Monday as oil prices rose above \$46 a barrel, increasing concern about corporate profits, while personal products maker Colgate-Palmolive Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CL.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CL.N</A> warned about earnings. | 2 |
Unilever Profit Warning Hits Shares LONDON/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Food and consumer goods giant Unilever cut its annual profit growth forecast by more than a half on Monday, blaming wet weather which hit ice cream sales and stiff competition in washing powders and soaps. | 2 |
NY Times Cuts '04 Profit Targets NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Times Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=NYT.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">NYT.N</A> on Monday forecast third-quarter and full-year earnings below Wall Street's average estimates, citing lower-than-expected revenue so far in September. | 2 |
Row over Bulgarian budget airline Bulgaria's first budget airline says that the government is driving it out of business. | 2 |
India launches learning satellite India launches its first learning satellite, aimed at revolutionising the country's educational network. | 3 |
September #39;s Rate Hike Won #39;t Be the Last Will it be a matter of quot;one-and-done quot; for Alan Greenspan amp; Co. at its Sept. 21 policy meeting? Since a quarter-point rate hike at the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on that date seems a fait accompli | 2 |
Nike Profit Up on Strong US Demand Nike Inc. (NKE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world #39;s largest athletic shoe company, on Monday reported higher quarterly profit on strong demand for its namesake products in the United States. | 2 |
US Stocks Slide; Shares of Colgate and PMC-Sierra Decline US stocks fell after Colgate- Palmolive Co., the world #39;s largest toothpaste producer, reduced its profit forecast and PMC-Sierra Inc. | 2 |
Manmohan praises contribution of Indian diaspora Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lavished generous praiseon the Indian diaspora, particularly in the US and Britain, calling them a quot;bridge quot; between their adopted land and India and said the country took quot;pride in their achievements quot;. | 2 |
Read Madrid coach Camacho steps down Real Madrid accepted the resignation of coach Jose Antonio Camacho on Monday, two days after a loss to Espanyol that was its second in four days. | 1 |
Winslow breaks leg in Browns #39; loss Kellen Winslow Jr. broke his right leg during the Cleveland Browns #39; loss against Dallas and is expected to miss a major portion of his rookie season. | 1 |
EU says no Turkey entry talks without penal code reform BRUSSELS - The European Union cannot start entry negotiations with Turkey unless Ankara adopts a reform of its penal code, a European Commission spokesman said on Monday. | 0 |
Yukos cuts oil exports to China MOSCOW The Russian oil giant Yukos has said that it would immediately reduce some of its rail exports of crude oil to China in what appears to be the first time that Yukos #39;s ability to transport oil has been affected by its tax dispute with the Russian | 2 |
Airline alliance downed in court Aviation industry analysts expect Qantas to head in a different direction now the Air NZ alliance is off. Picture:Reuters. Qantas #39; plans to take a 22. | 2 |
Lennar 3Q profit up by 12 Home builder Lennar Corp. reported a 12 percent rise in quarterly profit Monday, and a stable economy led it to raise its profit forecasts for the current and following year. | 2 |
SEC chairman hits out at reform critics The chief US financial regulator has hit back at critics of quot;over-regulation quot; and accused many US bosses of failing to provide quot;ethical quot; leadership for their companies. | 2 |
MCI said looking for buyers WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- MCI reportedly is looking for a buyer and has hired a trio of law firms to help the company explore its options. | 2 |
Microsoft #39;s Open Sesame Moment When you #39;re a company under the watchful eye of governments around the globe for being the 800-pound gorilla of the computer industry, it helps to play nice. | 3 |
Amazon offers 1.57 discount to A9 search users Online retailer Amazon.com is offering a 1.57 shopping discount to registered users of its new A9 Web search service as a way to increase A9 use and promote buying on Amazon, the company #39;s Web site showed Friday. | 3 |
Career Imperative: Get Inside The Boss #39; Head JP Morgan Chase #39;s decision to in-source the bulk of the IT operations it recently outsourced points to what could be one of the great career-planning hazards over the next couple years: Divining what direction IT strategy is headed. | 3 |
Russia may have to delay ISS crew launch Russia may have to delay October #39;s planned launch of the next International Space Station crew by up to 10 days to fix a problem on the spacecraft that is to carry them into orbit, Russian news agencies reported. | 3 |
Increase website traffic by giving away cars Oprah.com and Pontiac.com see quot;massive quot; website traffic as a result of the giveaway. If you ever want to increase traffic to your website, just try giving away 276 Pontiac G6 automobiles. | 3 |
Brian Clough dead at 69 A hospital spokeswoman said the European Cup winner, who was 69, had been suffering from stomach cancer. 1955: Makes his League debut in a game against Barnsley. | 1 |
Mello Steals First Career Title From Spadea at Delray Beach Unseeded Brazilian Ricardo Mello quot;Yello quot; won his first career title in his first career final Sunday at the ATP stop in Delray Beach, upsetting local favorite and No. | 1 |
Classic 5,000 metres in store at Helsinki A race for the ages is in prospect at next year #39;s Helsinki world championships if three of the world #39;s great runners stay fit, healthy and focused. | 1 |
Chinese leadership transition completed MARK COLVIN: In China, President Hu Jintao has now assumed control of the military, marking his rise to full power after a leadership change that began in late 2002. | 0 |
Beheadings of 3 on videotape Militants sawed off the heads of three hostages believed to be Iraqi Kurds in a grisly videotape that surfaced Sunday, hours after Iraq #39;s prime minister said January elections would be held on schedule. | 0 |
India Launches First Education Satellite India #39;s space agency said it successfully launched the nation #39;s first satellite for educational services on Monday, which is expected to boost distance learning in a country with a huge rural population. | 0 |
Unilever cuts profit forecast and shares tumble LONDON Unilever, the world #39;s largest maker of food and soap products, cut its profit forecast on Monday, sending its shares to their lowest level in four years. | 2 |
NY Times Cuts #39;04 Profit Targets New York Times Co. (NYT) on Monday forecast third-quarter and full-year earnings below Wall Street #39;s average estimates, citing lower-than-expected revenue so far in September. | 2 |
First trial offers window on intricate Enron deals As the first criminal trial stemming from the financial deals at Enron opened in Houston on Monday, it is notable as much for who is not among the six defendants as who is - and for how little money was involved compared with how much in other Enron | 2 |
SEC shouldn #39;t let fees go too far The Securities and Exchange Commission is closing in on the last of a series of reforms to protect mutual fund investors. One involves the fee charged to investors to pay for marketing and distribution of fund shares, called a 12b-1 fee. | 2 |
UK Man Held Over Cisco Source Code Theft Police said on Monday they have arrested a 20-year-old British man on suspicion of stealing Cisco Systems (CSCO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) source code, the basic instructions for the machines that direct Internet traffic across the | 3 |
Patriots-Cardinals highlights Running back Corey Dillon carried 32 times for 158 yards. His performance, blemished only by a fumble that led to three Arizona points, was especially important because Tom Brady did not have one of his better days. | 1 |
Did the rivalry mean more to Bears? The Bears looked like patsies coming into Lambeau Field Sunday, but they upset the Packers 21-10 in the home opener at Green Bay. Was it because the traditional rivalry meant more to the Bears? | 1 |
Tropical Storm Kills at Least 90 in Haiti GONAIVES, Haiti Sept. 20, 2004 - Raging floodwaters brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne killed at least 90 people in Haiti and left families huddled on rooftops as the storm pushed further out into the open seas, officials said. | 0 |
Latham the brawler should know better HOW can you argue against attacking groups and individuals who want to plant bombs and kill innocent Australian civilians? Mark Latham believes he can mount and argue such a position (though he has given no coherent reason). | 0 |
Musharraf and Singh meet Friday ISLAMABAD, Pakistan The eagerly awaited first meeting between President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India will be held Friday in New York, a Pakistani official said Monday. | 0 |
Execution Deadline Passes for US, UK Hostages BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An execution deadline for two Americans and a Briton kidnapped in central Baghdad by militants demanding the release of women prisoners by U.S. forces in Iraq expired Monday with no word on their fate. | 0 |
Afghan Vice President Survives Attack KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan vice president survived an assassination attempt Monday when a remotely controlled device was detonated near his convoy, while two soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition were killed in a separate gunbattle. | 0 |
Nike Profit Up 25 Percent on US Demand Nike Inc. (NKE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world #39;s largest athletic shoe company, on Monday reported a 25 percent rise in quarterly profit, beating analysts | 2 |
Mylan says Icahn doesn #39;t understand value of King deal Mylan Laboratories Inc. continued to insist Monday that its \$4 billion acquisition of King Pharmaceuticals Inc. was in the company #39;s best interest, following a meeting last week with Carl Icahn, who opposes the deal. | 2 |
CORRECTED: Berlin Bans Controversial Arab-Islamic Congress BERLIN (Reuters) - The Berlin state government said Monday it had banned an Arab-Islamic Congress due to be held in the German capital next month to rally support for "resistance and intifada" in Iraq and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. | 0 |
Football legend Clough dies Former Nottingham Forest and Derby County manager Brian Clough dies aged 69. | 0 |
Kerry Lays Out Plan for Peace in Iraq NEW YORK - Sen. John Kerry said Monday that President Bush's invasion of Iraq has created a crisis that could lead to unending war and raises questions about whether Bush's judgment is up to presidential standards... | 0 |
Oil Hits #36;46 as YUKOS Cuts China Supply (Reuters) Reuters - Oil prices hit #36;46 on Monday after\Russia's YUKOS suspended some oil exports to China and concern\lingered over storm-related supply disruptions into the United\States. | 2 |
Dulko Easily Beats Kapros at China Open (AP) AP - Sixth-seeded Gisela Dulko of Argentina beat Aniko Kapros of Hungary 6-4, 6-1 Monday in the first round of the China Open. | 1 |
Colgate Warns, Shares Hit 4-Year Low By Brad Dorfman CHICAGO (Reuters) - Colgate-Palmolive Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CL.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CL.N</A> on Monday issued its first formal profit warning in almost a decade, saying earnings will fall well short of Wall Street forecasts due to higher marketing spending, sending its shares down 11 percent to a four-year low. | 2 |
Merrill Cuts Citigroup Rating, Stock Down NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=C.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">C.N</A> shares fell more than 2 percent early Monday, after Merrill Lynch analyst Guy Moszkowski cut his stock rating to "neutral" from "buy," citing recent ethics problems. | 2 |
With anti-terror pledge Indonesian challenger set to win presidential election (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A former general who has pledged to get tough on terrorism and fix the economy was headed for a landslide win over incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia's landmark elections Monday, according to a nationwide sampling of votes. | 0 |
Stratus Unveils Low-End Fault-Tolerant Server (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - At half the price of its high-end system, the new ftServer W Series 2300 system offers users an alternative to clusters. | 3 |
Nike Profit Up 25 Percent on U.S. Demand SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nike Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=NKE.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">NKE.N</A>, the world's largest athletic shoe company, on Monday reported a 25 percent rise in quarterly profit, beating analysts' estimates, on strong demand for high-end running and basketball shoes in the United States. | 2 |
Abbas, Barghouthi Running Even in Palestinian Poll JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and jailed grassroots leader Marwan Barghouthi are neck-and-neck in the Palestinian presidential election race to replace Yasser Arafat, an opinion poll showed Monday. | 0 |
Lennar Profit Up 12 Pct, Shares Fall CHICAGO (Reuters) - Home builder Lennar Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=LEN.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">LEN.N</A> on Monday reported a 12 percent rise in quarterly profit and raised its forecasts for the current and following year, citing a stable economy. | 2 |
Space Station Crew Begins Preflight Exams (AP) AP - The replacement crew for the International Space Station started two days of preflight exams Monday, part of final preparations to relieve the two-man Russian-American crew finishing a six-month mission. | 3 |
UK Man Held Over Cisco Source Code Theft LONDON (Reuters) - Police said on Monday they have arrested a 20-year-old British man on suspicion of stealing Cisco Systems <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=CSCO.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">CSCO.O</A> source code, the basic instructions for the machines that direct Internet traffic across the globe. | 3 |
EA Sees Girl Power Boost with 'Sims 2' Sales LONDON (Reuters) - Video game giant Electronic Arts expects to sell 2 million units of the "Sims 2" video game this year in Europe, proving skeptics wrong that you can't build a market around female gamers. | 3 |
Microsoft's Open Sesame Moment When you're a company under the watchful eye of governments around the globe for being the 800-pound gorilla of the computer industry, it helps to play nice.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT> | 3 |
HP Repurchases \$1.3B of Common Stock Hewlett-Packard Co., a maker of computers, printers and information technology systems for businesses, said Monday that it bought back about \$1.3 billion worth of common shares from Merrill Lynch Co. in an accelerated repurchase program, while its board also approved the repurchase of an added \$3 billion in stock. | 3 |
Briefly: Firms bundle Web services wares roundup Plus: PMC-Sierra lowers forecast...WebSideStory cuts IPO to 4.4 million shares...BMC looks to simplify network operations. | 3 |
Systinet, AmberPoint bundle Web services wares The two companies are targeting customers that have invested in a services-oriented architecture. | 3 |
Oracle v. DOJ: Challenges for PeopleSoft special coverage Court ruling casts pall over software maker's customer bash. Also: How to boost employee morale? | 3 |
Arrest made in Cisco source code theft The arrest marks a major breakthrough in the case, which involves the posting of more than 800MB of source code from Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS) to a Russian Web site in May. | 3 |
Computerworld Data Points - CRM Designed to further enhance the value of our Special Report, these Powerpoint slides offer key data and statistics about the choices facing today's IT decision makers regarding CRM. | 3 |
ObjectStore keeps tabs on RFID data This week ObjectStore, a provider of technology designed to manage massive amounts of data in real time, will unveil RFID Accelerator. The company aims to give to supply chain capabilities similar to those used by financial institutions for executing programmatic trades on the stock exchange. | 3 |
Hynix involved in accounting fraud in 1999; has already corrected <b>...</b> SEOUL (AFX) - The Financial Supervisory Service has announced that Hynix Semiconductor Inc engaged in fraudulent accounting practices involving 1.98 trln won in 1999, but has already corrected this error. | 2 |
Fallout from Japan private-banking suspension cited NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Shares of Citigroup fell after a Merrill Lynch analyst downgraded the Dow Jones Industrial Average component early Monday. | 2 |
Profit Jumps at Homebuilder Lennar Lennar Corp., one of Florida #39;s largest home builders, Monday posted a 12 percent rise in profit for its latest quarter, despite the interruptions due to Hurricane Charley, as revenue surged. | 2 |
GM #39;s Lutz: Make it the best Bob Lutz, the 72-year-old vice chairman of General Motors (GM), is on a mission that he likens to pulling the world #39;s largest automaker out of a death spiral. | 2 |
Rogers Wireless to Purchase Microcell for C\$1.4 Bln (Update1) Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. agreed to buy Microcell Telecommunications Inc. for C\$1.4 billion (\$1.08 billion), beating a bid by Telus Corp. | 2 |
Hopkins #39; big punch was product of patience Bernard Hopkins #39; fights are studies in boxing #39;s subtleties. He deals in nuances. He doesn #39;t have to be hitting an opponent to be setting him up, as he was Oscar De La Hoya here Saturday night. | 1 |
Stewart down, but not out It was what every NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series driver competing in the Chase for the Championship feared - a DNF (Did Not Finish). A poor finish with the accompanying | 1 |
Saddam #39;s trial in October; Salem Chalabi resigns court presidency, The Iraqi prime minister Eyad Allawi said yesterday that the trial of the toppled Iraqi regime Saddam Hussein and his aides might start in October. | 0 |
Afghan Vice President Survives Attack An Afghan vice president survived an assassination attempt Monday when a remotely controlled device was detonated near his convoy, while two soldiers from the US-led coalition were killed in a separate gunbattle. | 0 |
Iraq's Yawar: 'Armies of Darkness' Won't Stop Vote BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's interim president told George W. Bush at the White House on Monday that the "armies of darkness" would not stop Iraqis voting next month, even though there is no let up in insurgents' efforts to wreck the election. | 0 |
Libya Tells Iran: Be Like us and Comply with IAEA (Reuters) Reuters - Libya, which last year renounced its\nuclear weapons program, Monday urged Iran to follow suit and\comply with the demands of the U.N. nuclear watchdog to stop\enriching uranium which can be used to make atomic bombs. | 0 |
Afghan Vice President Survives Attack, Troops Killed KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan vice-president survived an assassination attempt Monday in the north and two soldiers from U.S.-led forces were killed in a gunbattle in the southeast, as violence escalated ahead of an Oct. 9 election. | 0 |
Capacity for 4,000 MP3 Files Samsung Electronics announced on September 20 that it has succeeded in developing a 1/2000, hair-thin (60 nm) 8-gigabyte NAND flash memory module. | 2 |
AMD Keeps Its Mobile #39;Thin And Light #39; AMD (Quote, Chart) expanded its portfolio of mobile Athlon chips in its quest to debunk Intel #39;s Centrino dominance, the company said Monday. | 3 |
Microsoft launches validation program Microsoft last week quietly launched a pilot program to tackle the increasing problem of software piracy. Windows Genuine Advantage is the first trial of a validation scheme operating on Microsofts Download Center. | 3 |
Airlines remain as rivals AIR New Zealand #39;s future is uncertain after the country #39;s High Court yesterday ended the long awaited nuptials with Qantas. | 2 |
Lennar Profit Up 12 Pct, Shares Fall Home builder Lennar Corp. (LEN.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday reported a 12 percent rise in quarterly profit and raised its forecasts for the current and following year, citing a stable economy. | 2 |
First Enron criminal trail gets under way The first criminal trial against any former Enron Corp. employees is scheduled to begin today in Houston. The case is against two ex-Enron workers and four former Merrill Lynch amp; Co. | 2 |
PMC-Sierra lowers forecast With the economy slowly turning up, upgrading hardware has been on businesses radar in the past 12 months as their number two priority. | 2 |
Judge rejects campaign finance rules WASHINGTON With just weeks before the election -- there #39;s concern that the rules on political fund-raising could be quot;in chaos. | 2 |
Haiti: Tropical storm Jeanne kills dozens Dozens of people were killed in floods throughout Haiti after tropical storm Jeanne lashed the Caribbean nation during the weekend. | 0 |
Global mobile users to approach two billion by 2006: Ericsson chief (AFP) AFP - The world will have almost two billion mobile telephone users by 2006 due to growth in emerging markets such as India and China, the head of Swedish giant Ericsson revealed. | 3 |
Irrepressible Monty Again Flourishes in Cup Arena BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - Britain's Colin Montgomerie has always played like a man possessed in Ryder Cup matches against the United States. | 1 |
Kerry Questions Bush's Judgment on Iraq NEW YORK - Sen. John Kerry said Monday that mistakes by President Bush in invading Iraq could lead to unending war and that no responsible commander in chief would have waged the war knowing Saddam Hussein didn't possess weapons of mass destruction and wasn't an imminent threat to the United States... | 0 |
Colgate-Palmolive, Unilever warn of disappointments Two consumer products giants - Colgate-Palmolive (CL) and Unilever (UL) warned Monday of disappointing outlooks as consumer goods firms across the world struggle with a slowdown in spending by shoppers. | 2 |
India deserves to be represented in UN Security Council, G-8 <b>...</b> quot;India with 1.3 billion population ought to be represented in the UN Security Council and involved in the G-8 process, said Tony Blair. | 2 |
US deficit cuts needed as Japan, Europe target growth WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- The world #39;s leading economies should take advantage of a benign global economic outlook to strengthen their domestic economies, said a senior official of the International Monetary Fund. | 2 |
AMD Launches Mobile Athlon 64 processor 3000 The Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000 is designed for thin and light mobile PCs, thanks to its reduced thermal design power and low operational voltage. | 3 |
MS Windows besieged by hackers The number of cyber attacks on Windows operating system rose by 400pc between January June of this year, computer security company Symantec said today. | 3 |
Ryder-Irrepressible Monty again flourishes in Cup arena Britain #39;s Colin Montgomerie has always played like a man possessed in Ryder Cup matches against the United States. A talismanic figure | 1 |
South African cricket reeling under another debacle Durban, Sep 20 (PTI) South African cricket has been thrown into further public scrutiny after the national team crashed out of the ICC Champions Trophy by going down to the West Indies yesterday. | 1 |
Ransacked Bills 0 for 2 in sloppy loss (September 20, 2004) - OAKLAND, Calif. -ike Mularkey had his back against a cement block wall deep inside Network Associates Coliseum late Sunday. | 1 |
Adultery law stops Turkey at EU gates TURKEY #39;S 40-year campaign to join the European Union is on the verge of collapse after its Islamist Government scrapped a package of reforms aimed at stamping out quot;honour killings quot; and torture. | 0 |
French judges order terror trial Judges in France have ordered six people to stand trial in connection with an alleged plot to attack the United States embassy in Paris in 2001. | 0 |
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