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HSBC banks £12.2 billion profit
Banking giant HSBC has seen profits rise 10 per cent to £12.2 billion despite having to write off £8.7 billion from bad debts and investments linked to the credit crunch. The UK's largest banking business said it was "continuing to face challenges" in North America as a result of the housing market troubles and associated credit crunch. HSBC also warned that the credit outlook in the US may "get worse before it gets better". HSBC said overall performance during 2007 was bolstered by "exceptionally strong" results in the emerging market regions of Asia Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East. In the UK, profits from commercial banking topped the £1 billion mark for the first time. But the group's US consumer business - comprising mortgages, credit cards and personal loans - suffered from high bad debt charges, with write-offs in this area increasing 80 per during 2007 to £5.9 billion.
District solves glitch in report card GPAs
Parents with students in the Burlington School District likely noticed a notation on first semester report cards explaining a discrepancy in actual grade-point averages compared to what was shown. After encountering a software glitch during the initial printing of report cards, the district said the bug is fixed and shouldn't create problems in the future. In late October or early November, William Brackett, technology supervisor for the district, received an e-mail from ViPs, the Cedar Rapids-based company responsible for providing the district's data management software. The e-mail explained as of the middle of December, the company would no longer serve as regional supplier for the district. With the option available, the district then began a major switch to CIC of Denver. "(CIC) offers more features for down the road," Superintendent Lee Morrison said.
Giuliani's Florida strategy about to be put to test
In what many political strategists called a risky strategy, the former New York mayor essentially sat out the early contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Michigan, Nevada and South Carolina and focused on Florida and its January 29 primary. And as his rivals notched victories, Giuliani has mostly been out of the headlines, and his standings in the national polls slipped. He is banking on a win in Florida, with its 57 delegates, to propel him back into the thick of the race and restore his front-runner status. In the last month, Giuliani has seen three men pass him by in national polls, and they are working hard to upset Giuliani's Florida strategy. Sen. John McCain comes to Florida with momentum from his wins in South Carolina on Saturday and in New Hampshire earlier this month.
Don't let phishers hook you
In Montana, fishing involves luring trout with dry flies in the summer or jigging in winter with tackle and bait. On the Internet, phishers consider you to be the catch, and you might not recognize them for what they are.Botnets and scammers send out spam messages 24/7, trying to bait recipients into opening an attached file that will install malware that runs invisibly on PCs.But not all spam contains Trojan horses or spyware, or links to them; some appears to be genuine e-mail from your financial institution or an online store. They urge you to check your account or confirm your account information, playing on your fears by saying the account has has been "accessed" by someone else and will be locked if you don't take action. These e-mails are phishing scams, and the point is to get you to click on a link to an impostor Web site that will steal your information.
The Day of the Bull
Top-of-the-line formals, spiffy shoes and a shiny new laptop encased in a Hidesign leather bag. He is neither known to be corrupt nor run a business on the side. All it took Fernandes was a demat account with a prominent brokerage six years ago and rudimentary knowledge about the share market to rake in the moolah. Fernandes reaches office nearly an hour early so that he is ready and waiting when the markets open a little before 10 am. "I have a lot of friends who tip me off on shares that will move and we bet on those stocks," says Fernandes. Tips come from fellow commuters on Mumbais local trains, brokerage reports and analysts on television channels. "I have not lost money in the six years I have started trading," says Fernandes. Others would simply call him lucky because the stocks he picked Blue chips like Reliance Industries and Reliance Petroleum Ltd have fetched phenomenal returns.
BCE's shares climb
Shares of BCE Inc. bounced back yesterday after a week-long fall, easing fears that the massive buyout for the telecom might collapse. BCE's shares regained 91 cents to close at $34.91 in Toronto trading yesterday after upbeat analysts' reports buoyed confidence in the deal. BCE is to be taken private by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and private equity firms, including Providence Equity Partners Inc. and Madison Dearborn Partners LLC. .
Software colossus proves it can still be nimble
So Microsoft is making a hostile bid for Yahoo. Has it come to this? Is Microsoft's innovation engine so dead that the only way it can grow is to buy other companies? It's sad, in a way, because under the right circumstances, Microsoft, or pieces of it anyway, are still capable of fresh ideas and polished work. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the company's suite of online tools for small businesses, which reopened Monday in an improved 2.0 version (www.smallbusiness.officelive.com). What makes Office Live Small Business so compelling is its sharp focus on a single problem: that small businesses do not make full use of online tools like Web sites, e-mail newsletters, search-engine ads and online stores. Office Live Small Business, or OLSB, is a centralized Web site where you can set up all of those small-business things - a Web site, an online ad campaign, e-mail promotions, in-company communications - all by yourself, even if you're not very technical.
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