By Jeremy R. Cooke The county, which owns McCarran International Airport in Las
Vegas, is offering about $125 million in tax-exempt debt and $453 million of
taxable Build America Bonds. Officials plan to return with another issue in
April or May to achieve a goal of selling about $1.8
OVER the past decade, Greece took full advantage of a strong euro and
rock-bottom interest rates to fuel a debt binge by its consumers and
government. This year, if Greece can't persuade investors to buy 53 billion
($A83.5 billion) of its government debt, it may have to seek a bailout from its
In good news for Biota shareholders, GlaxoSmithKline reported overnight that
flu anti-viral Relenza was a major contributor to the pharmaceutical giant's
December quarter performance. Pandemic response planning saw Relenza sales soar
almost 2000 per cent to £256 million ($462 million) in
It has been an eventful week for the small end of the telco sector, iiNet
successfully defending court action brought by the Australian Federation
Against Copyright Theft, and TPG Telecom tucking away one of the first
substantial placements of the year, a $70 million raising. These were
Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Kraft Foods Inc. , the world’s second- largest food
company, plans to issue debt to pay for its takeover of Cadbury Plc as
borrowing costs for companies rise. Kraft is marketing its debt as yields on
investment-grade corporate bonds rose to 4.623 percent on average
U.S. DOLLAR: TURNING TO LEADING INDICATORS FOR NFP EUR/USD: STRONGER ECONOMIC
DATA BRINGS REPRIEVE GBP/USD: TRADERS STILL WEARY OF BUYING GBP USD/CAD:
FLAHERTY SAYS ECONOMISTS RAISE GDP FORECASTS AUD/USD: RBA SURPRISES THE MARKET
BY LEAVING RATES
