Hedge funds extend gains following upbeat economic data
Hedge Week.com
Resembling August’s pattern, all hedge fund strategies except dedicated short bias posted positive performance in September. Consolidating the positive trend since March, the best performing hedge fund strategy was emerging markets, returni...
CBA profits from recovery
Australian Broadcasting Corp.
AFP: William West, file photo) In the latest sign of improving business conditions, Australia's biggest home lender has today posted a stronger than expected profit of $1.4 billion for the September quarter. The Commonwealth Bank has put th...
Japanese Car Makers' Earnings Decline, But Outlooks Improve
Wall Street Journal
posted a 63% drop in net profit for the six months ended September, while Daihatsu Motor Co., the small-car manufacturing subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corp., said its net profit dropped 41% in its second quarter ended September. ...
Toyota surprises with profit, boosts forecast
Newsday
For the July-September quarter Toyota, the world's largest car company, posted better-than-expected net income of 21.8 billion yen ($242 million) after three straight losing quarters, defying some expectations of another loss. That marked a...
Traffic jammin'
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Detour posted. Dorrington Road, Collier -- Bridge closed over Robinson Run ... Armstrong County Route 422, East Franklin -- Long-term lane closures planned through September 2010 during rehabilitation of two bridges over Route 28. Beaver Co...
Case against Twitter users who posted police locations dropped
Tartan
The Allegheny County District Attorney has dropped all charges against two New York men accused of using social networking to inform the public of police locations during the G-20 summit in September. The two men, Elliot M. Madison and Mich...
Lee Kuan Yew sees 3.0pc growth for Singapore in 2010
YAHOO!
But key industrial output during September fell 7.7 percent year on year as declines were posted across every sector. The figure snapped two straight months of expansion and was worse than analysts' expectations. The central bank said last ...
Mass-Market Magazines Show Improved Ad Sales
New York Times
... year ago; it was also one of the only fashion magazines with a bump in the prominent September issue. For the year, InStyle’s pages were down about 16.5 percent from a year ago. People Style Watch also posted good numbers, though as a ....